At the Aposticha, the Resurrection Sticheron.

Then the following of the Mother of God

Tone 5.

Resurrection Apolytikion with its Theotokion, as at Great Vespers.

Glory. Both now.

O Christ our Saviour, incarnate, yet not parted from heaven, with sounds of praise we magnify you; for, as the Lord who loves mankind, you accepted Cross and death for the sake of our race; you despoiled the gates of Hell, rose on the third day, and saved our souls.

Then the Easter Stichera with their verses.

Tone 5. Hail of ascetic struggles.

I shall remember your name in every generation and generation.

Hail, seal of the Prophets, proclamation of Apostles inspired by God; for beyond understanding and reason you bore the one who is truly God become incarnate for our sake. Having regained our ancient nobility and enjoying the Paradise of delight, in hymns we honour you, O All-holy, as cause of such splendour and as acceptable advocate, we who are enriched with your everlasting entreaty that we may share the life of your Son, who richly apportions his great mercy.

Listen, daughter, and see, and incline your ear; and forget your people and your father’s house.

Hail, rational heaven, in which God incarnate made his dwelling; jar of the divine Manna; lamp of the Son; shadowed mountain of God; bridal chamber that contained God; table that provides life; golden lampstand; life-bearing Paradise; bush unburned; ark of sanctification; heavenly ladder; living cloud; rod from Jesse’s root that budded. Implore Christ, O Virgin, to grant our souls his great mercy.

The rich among the people of the land will entreat your favour.

Hail, All-unblemished, who conceived the Son of God beyond all explanation, and gave to birth him who had truly taken flesh for our sake from your blood, and had a soul with mind and freewill. For having put on Adam whole and entire, he saved him , refashioning humankind. Therefore Christ is proclaimed by us in two natures, displaying in himself the properties of both. Implore him to grant to those who sing your praise his great mercy.

Christ our God, spiritual Sun of justice, by your pure touch you enlightened the one who had been deprived of light from his mother’s womb; by shedding your rays on the eyes of our souls, show us to be sons of the day, that we may cry to you with faith, ‘Great and ineffable is your compassion for us. Lover of humankind, glory to you!‘

Tone 5.

O Christ our Saviour, incarnate, yet not parted from heaven, with sounds of praise we magnify you; for, as the Lord who loves mankind, you accepted Cross and death for the sake of our race; you despoiled the gates of Hell, rose on the third day, and saved our souls.

Let God arise and let his enemies be scattered: and let those that hate him flee before his face.

A sacred Pascha has been shown forth to us to-day, a new and holy Pascha, a mystic Pascha, an all-venerable Pascha, a Pascha that is Christ the Redeemer, a spotless Pascha, a Pascha of the faithful, a Pascha that has opened to us the gates of Paradise, a Pascha that hallows all the faithful.

As smoke vanishes, so let them vanish: as wax melts before the fire.

Come from the scene, O women bearers of good tidings, and say to Zion: Receive from us the tidings of joy, of the Resurrection of Christ. Exult, dance and be glad, O Jerusalem, for you have seen Christ the King as a bridegroom come forth from the tomb.

So let sinners perish at the presence of God: and let the righteous be glad.

The Myrrhbearing women at early dawn came near the tomb of the Giver of life; they found an Angel sitting on the stone, and he, addressing them in this manner, said, ‘Why do you seek the living among the dead? Why do you mourn the Incorruptible amid corruption? Go, proclaim it to his Disciples!’

This is the day that the Lord has made: let us be glad and rejoice in it.

A Pascha of delight, Pascha, the Lord’s Pascha, an all-venerable Pascha has dawned for us, a Pascha on which let us embrace one another with joy. O Pascha, ransom from sorrow! To-day Christ has shone forth from the tomb as from a bridal chamber, and has filled the women with joy, saying: Proclaim it to the Apostles.

Christ our God, spiritual Sun of justice, by your pure touch you enlightened the one who had been deprived of light from his mother’s womb; by shedding your rays on the eyes of our souls, show us to be sons of the day, that we may cry to you with faith, ‘Great and ineffable is your compassion for us. Lover of humankind, glory to you!‘

Both now. **Tone 5.**

It is the day of Resurrection; let us be radiant for the festival, and let us embrace one another. Let us say, O brethren, even to those who hate us: let us forgive all things at the Resurrection, and so let us cry: Christ has risen from the dead; by death he has trampled on death, and to those in the graves given life.

Resurrection Apolytikion. Model Melody. Tone 5.

Let us believers praise and let us worship the Word who like the Father and the Spirit is without beginning, born from a Virgin for our salvation; for he was well pleased to ascend the Cross in the flesh and undergo death, and to raise those who had died, by his glorious Resurrection.

Hail gate of the Lord, through which none may pass; hail wall and protection of those who flee to you; hail haven without storms, and who did not know wedlock; who bore in the flesh your maker and God. Do not cease to intercede for those who praise and worship your offspring.