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 3. Awed by the beauty.
Glory. Both now.
The one uncircumscribed in his Divinity, now circumscribed by body’s matter, is about to approach the streams of Jordan to be baptised. Let us receive him with purity of thought, for he wishes to work the refashioning of all. To him now let us cry in fear: Glory, O Christ, to your Appearing!
**Same melody.**
When you appeared in the Jordan, O Saviour, to be baptized in the flesh by the waters, the hosts of Angels were amazed as they looked on the Master of creation standing with a slave; from above the Father without beginning proclaimed you; and so with gladness we cry to you, Glory, O Christ, to your Appearing!
Tone 5. The Word without beginning.
The Word, equal in honour with the Father and the Spirit, incarnate through pity and baptised, the Angels looking on him trembled; and the river Jordan, with reverence and with fear, was turned back, as it led us, who flowed with passions, to the height of salvation.
**Same melody.**
The Word without beginning with the Father and the Spirit, now taking a strange form through his compassion, is already hastening to be baptised for us; let us go to meet him with pure thought, as we cry, \`Blessed are you, Christ Saviour and Benefactor, who come to sanctify us’.
Three Canons: of the Forefeast to 6, of the Prophet to 4 and of the Martyr to 4.
Of the Forefeast, of which the acrostic is the Alphabet:
Translated by Ephrem Lash. Edition lash.en.anastasis.