Ode 9. Irmos.

Exapostilarion of Easter.

Of the Mother of God. The same Irmos.

At Lauds we insert 8 Stichera and we sing 7 of the Resurrection. Tone 5.

**Megalynarion: Magnify, O my soul, him who suffered willingly, and was buried, and arose from the grave on the third day.**

Of the Blind Man. The Irmos.

Lord, while the grave was sealed by transgressors, you came forth from the tomb as you had been born from the Mother of God. Your bodiless Angels did not know how you had become incarnate; nor did the soldiers who were guarding you know when you arose: for both are sealed for those who enquire; but the wonders have been revealed to those who in faith worship the mystery: grant us as we praise it joy and your great mercy.

Shine, shine, O New Jerusalem, for the glory of the Lord has risen upon you; dance now and be glad, O Zion, and you too rejoice, O pure Mother of God, at the arising of him to whom you gave birth.

Lord, having smashed the eternal bars and torn apart the chains, you rose from the tomb, leaving behind the grave-clothes as proof of your true burial for three days; and while being guarded in a cave, you went ahead into Galilee. Great is your mercy, Saviour beyond understanding! Have mercy upon us.

**Megalynarion:** Magnify, O my soul, Christ the Giver of life, who arose from the grave on the third day.

Lord, the women ran to your tomb to see you, the Christ who had suffered for ours sakes; and as they approached they saw with fear an Angel sitting on the stone which had been rolled away; and he cried out to them, saying: ‘The Lord has risen. Tell his Disciples that he who saves our souls has risen from the dead’.

Shine, shine, O New Jerusalem, for the glory of the Lord has risen upon you; dance now and be glad, O Zion, and you too rejoice, O pure Mother of God, at the arising of him to whom you gave birth.

Lord, as you came out while the grave was sealed, so you came in to your Disciples while the doors were shut, and showed them the bodily sufferings which you had accepted, O long-suffering one. As sprung from the David’s seed, you endured stripes, but as Son of God you freed the world. Great is your mercy, Saviour beyond understanding! Have mercy on us.

**Megalynarion:** Christ is the new Passover, the living sacrificial victim, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world.

Stichera by Anatolios.

O your divine and beloved and sweetest voice; you have truly promised that you will be with us unto the end of the world, O Christ; and we faithful rejoice, having this as an anchor of hope.

Lord, King of the ages and maker of all, who accepted crucifixion and burial in the flesh for our sakes, that you might free us all from Hell, you are our God and we know no other but you.

**Megalynarion:** To-day the whole creation is glad and rejoices, for Christ has risen and Hell has been despoiled.

Lord, who will recount your dazzling wonders? Who will declare your dread mysteries? For incarnate for our sakes, as you willed, you manifested the might of your power; for by your Cross You opened Paradise to the Thief; by your burial you smashed the bars of Hell; and by your Resurrection you enriched the universe. Compassionate one, glory to you.

O great and most sacred Pascha, Christ; O Wisdom and Word and Power of God! Grant that we may partake of you fully in the unwaning day of your Kingdom.

The Myrrhbearing women, coming very early to your grave, were seeking to anoint you, the immortal Word and God; and instructed by the words of the Angel they turned back with joy, declaring openly to the Apostles that you, the life of all, had risen and granted the world pardon and your great mercy.

ow in harmony, O Virgin, we faithful call you blessed: Hail gate of the Lord: Hail living city: Hail through whom to-day the light of the Resurrection from the dead of him who was born from you has shone for us.

Look on me and have mercy on me: for I am alone and poor. ****

Rejoice, be glad, divine gate of the light; for Jesus, who set in the tomb, has dawned shining more brightly than the sun, and shedding his rays on all the faithful, O Sovereign Lady full of God’s grace.

And of the Blind Man. Idiomel. Tone 8.

oined to the gallows of the Cross, Christ Saviour, you triumphed over all the hostile forces of the foe, and abolished the former curse; therefore as is right we magnify you.

Christ our God, who took flesh through your compassionate mercy and taking pity in your ineffable compassion on one who had been deprived of light from the womb, you granted him divine brilliance, touching with soil his pupils with your moulding fingers. Do you now, O provider of light, illumine too the senses of our souls, as you alone are provider without stinting.

n seeing you below with your soul, O Word, Hell groaned aloud and in fear released all the dead, who recognised the might of your authority; with whom as is right we magnify you.

**Same Tone.**

eeing him accomplishing signs and dread wonders the people of the Hebrews in jealousy slew him who plundered Hell by his Resurrection, and as powerful raised all with him.

Who will recount your powers, O Christ? Who number the multitudes of your wonders? For twofold you appeared on earth through your goodness, twofold also the healings you bestow: for you opened not only the bodily eyes of one who was maimed from the womb, but also those of his soul. Therefore he confessed you the hidden God, who grant to all your great mercy.

ven as you said, you rose from the dead, O Giver of Life, and appeared to the holy Disciples after your Rising, you who did signs and gave sight to the blind; with them to the ages we magnify you.

Both now. You are most blessed.

raise I give to Light, the Father, glory to Light, the Son, a hymn to Light, the ‘upright Spirit’: one undivided Light, recognised in three Persons, God, King of all creation.

Great Doxology and Dismissal.

oly Virgin, you appear wider then the heavens for you contained and bore in a body God, the uncircumscribed, for the redemption of all those who sing your praise with undoubting faith.

Before the 1st Hour, the Eothinon. Tone 8.

O Mother of God, since beyond speech or thought you bore in time, in marvellous manner, him who is timeless, with one mind we the faithful magnify you.

Mary’s hot tears did not flow in vain, for she was granted Angels to teach her and the sight of you, O Jesu. But, as a weak woman, she still had earthly thoughts, and therefore she was debarred from touching you, O Christ; but still she was sent as a herald to your Disciples, to whom she spoke the good tidings, announcing your ascent to your Father’s realm. With her make us also worthy of your appearing, O Master and Lord.

Holy is the Lord our God. ****

Having fallen asleep in the flesh as a mortal, O King and Lord, you rose again on the third day, raising up Adam from corruption, and abolishing death. O Pascha of incorruption, O salvation of the world.

Of the Blind Man. The same melody.

Give sight, O Lord, to the eyes of my soul, maimed by gloomy sin, by grafting in humility, O merciful, and cleansing me with tears of repentance.

As he passed by, our Saviour found a blind man without sight; spitting upon the ground and making clay he anointed him and sent him to Siloam to go and wash; when he had washed he came seeing your light, my Christ.