Heavenly Father, I am silenced at the gave of Your Son, who knew no sin, yet was made sin for us.  You permitted Him to die, exchanging His innocence for our guilt.  In love He came to save us, but He was rejected by hate.  He taught us obedience, but men rebelled against Him.I confess that a great mystery confronts me at this tomb of sin and death.  He was buried behind the great seal of my sin and my death.  By faith I know also that He who dies is also the one who unlocked the great secret of Your love.  His tomb is my tomb.  He carried with Him to the grave my sin and my death, that He might break their hold on me.Trusting in the Lord's promise that He would rise again on the third day, I come not to mourn Him but to confess the sin that He would leave burried.  Have mercy on me, O God!  Have mercy on me.  Amen.

O God, Creator of heaven and earth:  Grant that, as the crucified body of Thy dear  Son was laid in the tomb and rested on this holy Sabbath, so we may await with him the coming of the third day, and rise with him to newness of life; who now liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.  Amen.