(2) From there <i.e. the church at the place of Agony> all of them, including the smallest children, now go down with singing and conduct the bishop to Gethsemane. There are a great many people and they have been crowded together, tired by their vigil, and weakened by their daily fasting — and they have had a very big hill to come down — so they go very slowly on their way to Gethsemane. So that they can all see, they are provided with hundreds of church candles. (3) When everyone arrives at Gethsemane, they have an appropriate prayer, a hymn, and then a reading from the Gospel about the Lord's arrest. By the time it has been read everyone is groaning and lamenting and weeping so loud that people even across in the city can probably hear it all.
(transl. Wilkinson)
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