AT MATINS

Four Troparia, including the Irmos, from the Canon of the Resurrection and two from the Canon to the Mother of God, in the Tone of the week from the Oktoichos; and then the Canon of the Triodion by St. Theodore the Studite, with eight troparia.

After the usual readings from the Psalter, the Kathismata of the Resurrection in the Tone of the week. After the Polyeleos and the Evlogitaria, the following Kathisma of the Cross:

Glory. Both now.

Tone 8.

Then the Anavathmi and the Prokeimenon in the Tone of the week and the appointed Morning Gospel. We then sing

In Paradise of old the enemy stripped me naked by a tree, for by my tasting it he brought in death. But now the Tree of the Cross, that bears the clothing of life for mortals, has been fixed on the earth, and the whole world filled with every joy. Seeing it worshipped, you peoples, let us with one accord raise our cry to God with faith, ‘His house is full of glory!’

**The same again.**

Having seen the Resurrection of Christ**, followed by Psalm 50, and then, as on previous Sundays,** Open to me, O Giver of Life. ****