[Announce] Friday of the Lord's Passion and Death

[Robert Waldrop]

from the Matins of the Twelve Gospels, Great and 
Holy Friday, Byzantine  Lenten Triodion:

The One who is clothed with light as with a cloak
stood naked before His judges;
He receives slaps on His cheeks from hands He had 
created;
the unjust nail to the cross the God of glory and 
their Lord.
The veil of the Temple is torn in two;
the sun is covered with darkness
so that it does not see the humiliation of the 
Creator,
before whom the world trembles.
Let us bow in worship before Him.

As the disciple denied You,
the thief then cried out:
Remember me, O Lord,
when You shall come into Your kingdom!

Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy 
Spirit,
both now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.

O Lord, who deigned to take flesh from the Virgin
for the salvation of Your servants,
grant peace to the world,
that with one voice, we may glorify You!