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. Also the saving confession on the cross of the grateful Robber who was crucified with Him.

Verses for the Crucifixion
Even dead on the Cross, You as God are living,
O naked corpse and living God’s Logos.

For the grateful Robber
The Robber opened the locked gates of Eden
Using the key of his “Remember me” confession.

By Your enormous and all-infinite compassion for us, O Christ God, have mercy on us. Amen.