Events

This is the day of Resurrection. On Holy Saturday evening the people gradually reassemble in the darkened church while the Acts of the Apostles are read and then the Midnight Office is sung. As twelve o ’clock approaches, the lights in the body of the church are extinguished. All wait in silence for the moment when the priest will come out from the sanctuary with the burning candle that symbolizes the light of the Risen Christ. So the period of the Lenten Triodion closes in a spirit of intense and eager expectation. ‘ Surely I am coming quickly’ , the Savior says to us (Rev. 2 2 : 20), and in our hearts we make ready to reply to the risen Christ: ‘ Amen. Come, Lord Jesus!’

(K. Ware, The Lenten Triodion).