AT MATINS
Anastasis liturgical translations — translated by Ephrem Lash
After the 1st Reading from the Psalter.
Kathisma. Tone 4. Joseph was amazed.
Glory. Both now.
The armies of the Angels as they watched your Translation, immaculate Mother of God, blessed, all-praised All-holy, having the counsel of the One born from you they gathered the band of Disciples and with joy bore your honoured body to Paradise as they sang the praise of Christ, the Giver of life, to the ages.
Glory. Both now.
**The same.**
After the 2nd Reading, Kathisma to the same melody.
As your Fashioner and God he translated to perfect joy your soul that had been placed in the hands of the One who had become man from you for our sake; therefore we reverently call you blessed, the only pure and undefiled, and as we all acknowledge you to be in deed Mother of God we cry: Implore Christ, to whom you have passed over, to save our souls.
**The same.**
Psalm 50. Then the Canons of the Feast, the Holy Icon and the Saint.
Translated by Ephrem Lash. Edition lash.en.anastasis.