Burial Vespers and Lamentations - 04/30/21

An impious and transgressing people – why do they imagine vain things? Why do they condemn to death the Life of all? O great wonder! The Creator of the world is betrayed into the hands of lawless men. He Who loves mankind, is lifted up upon the Wood, that He might free those bound in Hell, who cry: “O long-suffering Lord, glory to Thee!”