According to the order of the Lenten Triodion, the Matins service for Holy and Great Saturday is served Friday night. This service includes what are called the Lamentations of the Theotokos.

Our Lord Jesus Christ has been taken down from the cross, and His Most Pure Mother laments and grieves over His lifeless Body, but theologises concerning the mystery of His death and our redemption. The Burial Shroud (Epitaphios) remains in the centre of the church to symbolise Jesus’s burial in the new tomb of Joseph of Arimathea.

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