On Great and Holy Friday evening, the clergy and faithful of our parish gathered to continue our devotion to Christ as we commemorated His Blessed Sabbath (Matins of Holy Saturday), in which He laid in the Tomb. Psalm 119 and the lamentation hymns were sung by the choir and clergy, in which we hear the profound anguish of the Mother of God, in seeing her Son dead and in the Tomb. A procession around the Church allowed us to participate in Christ's harrowing of Hades, especially as we passed under the Plaschenista and heard Ezekiel's prophecy of the Resurrection of the dead, as well as other liturgical elements which showed us the first signs of what Christ was accomplishing in Hades during this Blessed Sabbath.