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PASCHAL HOURS
PRIEST: Blessed is our God, always, now and ever, and unto the ages of ages
But a layman sayeth: Through the prayers of our holy fathers, O Lord Jesus
Christ, our God, have mercy on us.
Amen. Christ is risen from the dead, trampling down death by death, and on
those in the tombs bestowing life. Thrice. Then we chant:
Having beheld the resurrection of Christ, let us worship the holy Lord Jesus, the
only Sinless One. We worship Thy cross, O Christ, and Thy holy Resurrection
we hymn and glorify; for Thou art our God, and we know none other beside
Thee, and we call upon Thy name. O come, all ye faithful, let us worship
Christ's holy Resurrection, for behold, through the Cross joy hath come to all the
world. Ever blessing the Lord, we hymn His Resurrection; for, having endured
crucifixion, He hath destroyed death by death. Thrice.
The Hypakoe, eighth tone, once:
Forestalling the dawn, the women came with Mary, and found the stone rolled
away from the sepulchre, and heard from the angel: why seek ye among the dead,
as though He were a mortal, Him Who liveth in everlasting light? Behold the
grave-clothes. Go quickly and proclaim to the world that the Lord is risen and
hath slain death. For He is the Son of God Who saveth mankind.
The Kontakion, eighth tone, once:
Though Thou didst descend into the grave, O Immortal One, yet didst Thou
destroy the power of hades. And didst arise as victor, O Christ God, calling to
the myrrh-bearing women: Rejoice! And giving peace unto Thine apostles: Thou
Who dost grant resurrection to the fallen.
And these Troparia, eighth tone, once:
In the grave bodily, but in hades with Thy soul as God: in Paradise with the thief,
and on the throne with the Father and the Spirit wast Thou Who fillest all things,
O Christ the Inexpressible.
Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit.
How life-giving, how much more beautiful than Paradise, and truly more
resplendent than any royal palace was Thy tomb shown to be, O Christ, the
source of our resurrection.
Both now and ever, and unto the ages of ages. Amen
.
O sanctified and divine tabernacle of the Most High, rejoice! For through thee,
O Theotokos, joy is given to them that cry: Blessed art thou among women, O
all-spotless Lady.
PASCHAL HOURS
PRIEST: Blessed is our God, always, now and ever, and unto the ages of ages
But a layman sayeth: Through the prayers of our holy fathers, O Lord Jesus
Christ, our God, have mercy on us.
Amen. Christ is risen from the dead, trampling down death by death, and on
those in the tombs bestowing life. Thrice. Then we chant:
Having beheld the resurrection of Christ, let us worship the holy Lord Jesus, the
only Sinless One. We worship Thy cross, O Christ, and Thy holy Resurrection
we hymn and glorify; for Thou art our God, and we know none other beside
Thee, and we call upon Thy name. O come, all ye faithful, let us worship
Christ's holy Resurrection, for behold, through the Cross joy hath come to all the
world. Ever blessing the Lord, we hymn His Resurrection; for, having endured
crucifixion, He hath destroyed death by death. Thrice.
The Hypakoe, eighth tone, once:
Forestalling the dawn, the women came with Mary, and found the stone rolled
away from the sepulchre, and heard from the angel: why seek ye among the dead,
as though He were a mortal, Him Who liveth in everlasting light? Behold the
grave-clothes. Go quickly and proclaim to the world that the Lord is risen and
hath slain death. For He is the Son of God Who saveth mankind.
The Kontakion, eighth tone, once:
Though Thou didst descend into the grave, O Immortal One, yet didst Thou
destroy the power of hades. And didst arise as victor, O Christ God, calling to
the myrrh-bearing women: Rejoice! And giving peace unto Thine apostles: Thou
Who dost grant resurrection to the fallen.
And these Troparia, eighth tone, once:
In the grave bodily, but in hades with Thy soul as God: in Paradise with the thief,
and on the throne with the Father and the Spirit wast Thou Who fillest all things,
O Christ the Inexpressible.
Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit.
How life-giving, how much more beautiful than Paradise, and truly more
resplendent than any royal palace was Thy tomb shown to be, O Christ, the
source of our resurrection.
Both now and ever, and unto the ages of ages. Amen
.
O sanctified and divine tabernacle of the Most High, rejoice! For through thee,
O Theotokos, joy is given to them that cry: Blessed art thou among women, O
all-spotless Lady.