Your Cross is Life and Resurrection: Holy Friday and the Crucifixion of Christ
Even dead on the Cross, You as God are living, O naked corpse and living God's Logos. -Synaxarion of Holy Friday Orthros Icon of the Crucifixion Holy Friday is the day on which the creator of all things willingly accepted death for the salvation of his creation. It is on this day that the Word of God "for whom and by whom all things exist" (Hebrews 2:10) offered his own life to us in the ultimate act of self-empyting. The Synaxarion reading for the Orthros service of Holy Friday tells us the gravity of this day: "On this day, Holy and Great Friday, we celebrate the awesome, holy, and saving Passion of our Lord and God and Savior Jesus Christ: the spitting, the blows, the buffeting, the mockery, the reviling, the purple robe, the reed, the sponge, the vinegar, the nails, the spear, and above all, the Cross and Death which He condescended to endure willingly for our sakes." The Orthros service, often referred to as the 'Twelve Passion...