The Divine Drama culminates – On the morning of Good Friday the Deposition and in the evening the Epitaph
On Good Friday – a day of mourning and fasting for all of Christianity – the Divine Drama of Christ’s Passion culminates. Due to the mournful nature of the day, no Divine Liturgy is celebrated, not even the consecration Liturgy of Consecrated Holy Gifts.
On the morning of Good Friday, the sequence of the Great Hours and the Vespers of the Immobilization take place, when Christ is also immobilized and placed on the Epitaph.
From the early morning of the same day, the epitaph is being prepared.
In the evening, the Service of the Epitaphion of the Lament takes place, i.e. the Orthros of Great Saturday, followed by the procession of the epitaph.
During the service, the so-called Eulogies, small tropes, very dear to the people, by an unknown poet, are sung in three stops (parts).
The most famous ones are: “Life in the grave…”, “Axion estii magleynin…”, “Ai geneai pasei…” and “Oh my sweet Ear…”
Then there is the Epitaph Procession, outside the church and within the boundaries of the parish.
After the return of the Epitaph to the church, a passage from the Gospel of Matthew is read (cf. 62-66):
Chief priests and Pharisees go to Pontius Pilate and ask him to seal the tomb, because they remember that the Lord in an abomination of his words had said that in three days he would rise again. Pilate gives them permission.
Source: Skai
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