In the hour that the wood of your cross was fastened, you shook the foundations of death, O Lord. And those whom Sheol had swallowed in their sins, it released while trembling -- your command quickened them, O Lord. Because of this, we also glorify you, O Christ the King: Have mercy on us!
[From the Basilica Hymn for Monday of the Week of Weeks and the Memorial of the Disciples of Emmaus, in The Book of Before and After: The Liturgy of the Hours of the Church of the East, Fr. Andrew Younan, ed. and tr., The Catholic University of America Press (Washington, DC: 2024), p. 505.]
