O blessed Joseph, I took down Your most pure body from the tree, wrapped it in a clean shroud, and covered it with smells in a new tomb.
After the great doxology, proverb, Eze.37:1-14, Apostle 1Cor.5:6-8; Gal.3:13-14, Gospel Matthew 27:62-66.
Come, let us please the ever-memorable Joseph, who came to Pilate in the night and asked for the life of everyone: give me this strange one, who has nowhere to lay his head: give me this strange one, whose evil disciple betrayed to death: give me this strange one, whose mother saw him on the cross hanging, crying, crying and motherly exclaiming: alas for Me, My Child! alas for Me, My Light and My beloved womb! Simeon foretold in the church today will happen: My heart has passed through the weapon, but I have given up my tears for the joy of Your resurrection. We worship Your Passion, O Christ (three times), and the Holy Resurrection.
The liturgy on Holy Saturday is celebrated later than on other days of the year. It connects with Vespers. After the evening entrance, 15 proverbs are read, which contain all the most important prophecies and events that transformed the redemption of the human race through the death of the Son of God.
After the proverbs and reading of the Apostle (Rom. 6:3-11), the verse is sung before the shroud:
Arise, O God, judge the earth, for You have inherited in all nations.
Arise, O God, judge the earth, for You will inherit all nations (Ps. 82:8).
While singing this verse, the clergy change their mourning vestments to light ones; The vestments throughout the church are also changed. A deacon in a shining robe, like an Angel, appears in the middle of the church with the Gospel - to preach the good news of the resurrection of Christ (Matthew 28: 1-20).
Instead of the Cherubic Song, the following song is sung:
Let all human flesh remain silent, and let it stand with fear and trembling, and let nothing earthly think in itself: the King of kings and Lord of lords comes to sacrifice and give food to the faithful. And before Him came the faces of angels with all principality and power, many-eyed cherubim and six-faced seraphim, covering faces and crying out the song: Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia.