AT MATINS
Anastasis liturgical translations — translated by Ephrem Lash
Glory. Both now.
After the 1st Reading from the Psalter, Kathisma.
After the 2nd Reading, Kathisma.
Tone 4.
Glory. Both now.
Inspired by God let creation to-day be glad; for Christ the Lord, the Son of our God, is born of a pure Maiden, so making the whole human race immortal and abolishing the curse of the foremother Eve; and so as to our benefactor let bring a song.
Then Psalm 50 and the Canons. Canon of the Forefeast, of which the Acrostic is:
**The same.**
Tone 3. Today the Virgin.
Joseph the just, as he hymned the Virgin who bore the pre-eternal Word, cried out: I see you, who have become the Temple of the Lord, bearing the One who has come to save all mortals, and who shows those who praise him to be temples through pity of the divine.
**The same.**
I sing a great hymn on Great Thursday. ****
Translated by Ephrem Lash. Edition lash.en.anastasis.