Share this link to share the podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-agpeya-book-of-hours — Direct Links to all our podcasts: https://anchor.fm/orthodox-christian-teaching — The Twelfth Hour commemorates the laying down of the body of the Lord Jesus Christ in the grave. It corresponds to the last hour of the day before retiring, since sleep is likened to a temporary death (Psalm 62:6).

Read by Fr Peter Farrington of the Midlands diocese of the Coptic Orthodox Church in the United Kingdom, from the text supplied in the Coptic Reader app.

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