{"id":523,"date":"2007-04-06T21:16:15","date_gmt":"2007-04-06T21:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/redletters\/2007\/04\/good-friday-eve.html"},"modified":"2007-04-06T21:16:15","modified_gmt":"2007-04-06T21:16:15","slug":"good-friday-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/redletters\/2007\/04\/good-friday-eve.html","title":{"rendered":"Good Friday Evening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing the journey on this Special Christian holiday&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The Following Explanation of the Good Friday Evening Service is written by Rev.<br \/>\nAlkiviadis Calivas, and can be found in his book entitled, &quot;Great Week<br \/>\nand Pascha in the Greek Orthodox Church.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>On Good Friday evening Church celebrates the Orthros Service for Holy and Great Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>On<br \/>\nGreat Saturday the Church contemplates the mystery of the Lord\u2019s<br \/>\ndescent into Hades, the place of the dead. Death, our ultimate enemy,<br \/>\nis defeated from within. \u201cHe (Christ) gave Himself as a ransom to death<br \/>\nin which we were held captive, sold under sin. Descending into Hades<br \/>\nthrough the Cross . . . He loosed the bonds of death\u201d (Liturgy of Saint<br \/>\nBasil). The hymnographer of the Church describes the mystery with these<br \/>\nwords:<\/p>\n<dl>\n<dd>Come, let us see our Life<br \/>\nlying in the tomb, that He may give life to those that in their tombs<br \/>\nlie dead. Come, let us look today on the Son of Judah as He sleeps, and<br \/>\nwith the prophet let us cry aloud to Him: Thou hast lain down, Thou<br \/>\nhast slept as a lion; who shall awaken Thee, O King? But of Thine own<br \/>\nfree will do Thou rise up, who willingly dost give Thyself for us. O<br \/>\nLord, glory to Thee. <\/dd>\n<dd>\n<\/dd>\n<dd>Today a tomb holds Him who<br \/>\nholds the creation in the hollow of His hand; a stone covers Him who<br \/>\ncovered the heavens with glory. Life sleeps and hell trembles, and Adam<br \/>\nis set free from his bonds. Glory to Thy dispensation, whereby Thou<br \/>\nhast accomplished all things, granting us an eternal Sabbath, Thy most<br \/>\nholy Resurrection from the dead. <\/dd>\n<dd>(Hymns of the Ainoi)\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing the journey on this Special Christian holiday&#8230; The Following Explanation of the Good Friday Evening Service is written by Rev. Alkiviadis Calivas, and can be found in his book entitled, &quot;Great Week and Pascha in the Greek Orthodox Church.&quot; On Good Friday evening Church celebrates the Orthros Service for Holy and Great Saturday. 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