Holy and Great Saturday Resource Page

On Holy and Great Saturday, we celebrate the Burial of the Divine Body of our Lord and God and Savior Jesus Christ, and His descent into Hades, through which our race was recalled from corruption, and was transplanted to eternal life.

Verses

In vain you watchmen guard the tomb,

No grave can contain the Source of Life.

 

Synaxarion for Holy and Great Saturday 

 

Holy and Great Saturday: Scripture Readings 

 

Holy and Great Saturday (Elder Epiphanios Theodoropoulos) 

 

A Lesson for the Soul on Holy Saturday: Be Courageous (Archimandrite Athanasios Mitilinaios)

 

Journey Through Holy Week: Holy and Great Saturday

Christ and the Binding of the Strong Man (Origen of Alexandria)  

 

Concerning the Burial of the Lord (St. Cyril of Alexandria) 

 

On the Lord's Passion, Death and Descent into Hades (St. John of Damascus) 

 

The Homily on Holy Saturday by St. John of Damascus: A Summary 

 

On the Burial of Our Savior (St. Amphilochios of Iconium) 

 

The Lord's Descent Into Hades (St. Epiphanios of Salamis)

 

Juxtaposing the Birth and Rebirth of Christ (St. Epiphanios of Salamis) 

 

First Holy Saturday Homily of Saint Photios the Great

 

How Christ Buries Himself In Us In Order To Raise Us (St. Symeon the New Theologian) 

 

Christ's Divine Strategy in Defeating the Devil (St. Gregory Palamas) 

 

Great Saturday - Godly Sorrow Precedes Heavenly Joy

 

Homily for Holy Saturday (Archpriest Rodion Putyatin)

 

Reflection for Holy and Great Saturday (St. Theophan the Recluse)

 

The Lord In Hades 

 

Homily on Holy and Great Saturday (St. John of Kronstadt) 

 

Homily on the Burial of Jesus and the Courage of Joseph (Saint Chrysostomos of Smyrna)

  

Homily Spoken Before the Holy Shroud of Great Saturday (St. Luke of Simferopol)

 

The Descent of Christ Into Hades (St. Nikolai Velimirovich)  

 

Homily on Holy Saturday: At Last Death Has Been Trampled (Archimandrite Kirill Pavlov)

  

The Mystery of the Tomb of Christ (Metr. Hierotheos of Nafpaktos)

 

Great and Holy Saturday: The Forgotten Feast  

 

On Leaving Church Early On Pascha After "Christ is Risen!"  

 

The Liturgical Theme of Holy Saturday 

 

Holy Saturday in Fourth Century Jerusalem According to Nun Egeria 

 

Who Wrote the Lamentations of Holy Saturday? 

 

A Lamentation of the Lamentations 

 

One of the Most Beloved and Most Beautiful Hymns of Holy Week That is Rarely Chanted 

 

Ezekiel's Prophecy of the Resurrection (Metr. Hietrotheos of Nafpaktos)

 

Jesus In Hades and the Sign of Jonah 

 

Prophet Jonah Resource Page  

 

"Lift Up Your Gates": A Powerful Paschal Custom

   

Church of the Holy Sepulchre Resource Page

 

Holy Light of Jerusalem Resource Page 

 

A Prayer Before the All-Holy Sepulchre 

 

Akathist to the Life-Bearing Tomb of Christ 

 

The Holy Sepulcher, a 3D Journey Back in Time  

 

Documentary: The Guardians of the Holy Sepulchre (Greek) 

 

The Miraculous Wax Holy Seal of the Holy Sepulchre  

 

One Door and No Fire Exit at Holy Sepulchre Church 

 

Why the Shroud of Turin is Fake 

 

Why the Shroud of Turin is a Forgery 

 

Holy Saturday Morning In Kerkyra (Corfu)

 

The Paschal "Photikia"

  

2011 Paschal Messages of Orthodox Leaders 

 

Protestants To Join Orthodoxy on Holy Saturday 

 

Holy Week Resource Page 

 

Pentecostarion Resource Page