T
HE
P
ASCHAL
V
ESPERS
(Agape Service)
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áL1999, 2000 Spruce Island Foundation
D
EACON
:
Calling to remembrance our most holy, most pure, most blessed, glorious Lady
Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary with all the saints, let us commit ourselves and
one another and all our life unto Christ our God.
C
HOIR
:
To Thee, O Lord.
P
RIEST
:
For a good God art Thou, and the Lover of mankind, and unto Thee do we send
up glory: to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, now and ever and
unto the Ages of Ages.
C
HOIR
:
Amen.
P
RIEST
:
Peace be unto all.
C
HOIR
:
And to thy spirit.
D
EACON
:
Let us bow our heads unto the Lord.
C
HOIR
:
To Thee, O Lord.
(Slowly, if there be no deacon.)
P
RIEST
:
Blessed and most glorified be the dominion of Thy Kingdom: of the Father, and
of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, now and ever, and unto the Ages of Ages.
Aposticha
(Second tone)
C
HOIR
:
Thy Resurrection, O Christ our Savior, / enlightened the whole world, / and recalled
Thine own creation, / Almighty Lord, glory to Thee..
(First Plagal Tone Á-? Tone 5)
R
EADER
:
Let God arise, and let His enemies be scattered; let them also that hate Him flee before
Him.
C
HOIR
:
A sacred Pascha has been today shown forth to us. / A new and Holy Pascha; a mystic
Pascha. / An all-venerable Pascha; a Pascha which is Christ the Redeemer. / A
spotless Pascha, a great Pascha, a Pascha of the faithful. / A Pascha which has
opened to us the gates of Paradise. / A Pascha which hallows all the faithful.
R
EADER
:
Like as the smoke vanisheth, let them vanish, and like as wax melteth before the fire.