2026-04-10: Good Friday 11th Hour

Events of Good Friday

• 3 Religious (Jewish) Trials: Annas, Caiaphas, Sanhedrin
• 3 Civil (Roman) Trials: Pilate, Herod, Pilate
• 6th Hour: Crucifixion
• 9th Hour: Death of Christ
• 11th Hour: Taking Down from the Cross
• 12th Hour: Burial of Christ

Order of the 12th Hour

1. Opening the Curtain and changing the curtains to red
2. Prophecy from Lamentations of Jeremiah 3
3. Doxology of Pascha
   • One group inside, one group outside
4. Psalm Pekethronos
5. Four Gospels
   • Read quickly because the Lord was buried quickly
6. Exposition
7. 400 Kirie Eleyson
   • 100 East, West, North, South
8. Procession
   • 3 Altar, 3 Nave, 1 Altar
   • 12 Long Lord have mercy
9. Golgotha
10. 150 Psalms
    • First three psalms out loud
    • The rest inaudible

Theme of the 12th Hour

• Christ’s body is in the Tomb… sad
• But his death was life-giving… happy
• And his soul went to Hades to take the righteous out of darkness… happy