Ode 9. Irmos.

**Exapostilarion of Pascha. Tone 2.**

Of the Mother of God. The same Irmos.

Glory. **Eothinon 4. Tone 4.**

At Lauds we insert 8 stichera, 4 of the Resurrection and 4 of Anatolios.

Both now. **Theotokion.**

Megalynarion:

**Of the Myrrhbearers. Irmos.**

Tone 2.

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

Let everything that has breath and every creature glorify you, O Lord, for through the Cross you have abolished death, that you might show the peoples your Resurrection from the dead, as you alone love mankind.

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

Let the Jews say how the soldiers lost the king they were guarding. For why did the stone not guard the Rock of life? Let them hand over the buried one, or worship the Risen One, saying with us: Glory to the multitude of your mercies, our Saviour, glory to you.

Megalynarion:

Rejoice you peoples and be glad. The Angel sat on the stone of the grave: he brought you the good news, saying: Christ has risen from the dead, the Saviour of the world, and filled the universe with fragrance. Rejoice you peoples and be glad.

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

An Angel before your conception brought the greeting ‘Hail’ to her that was full of grace. An Angel rolled away the stone of your glorious grave at your Resurrection. The one instead of grief revealed signs of joy; the other instead of death proclaimed to us a Master, giver of life. Therefore we cry to you, ‘Benefactor of all mankind, Lord, glory to you!’

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

Other Stichera of Anatolios.

Megalynarion:

The women sprinkled sweet spices with their tears upon your grave, and their mouths were filled with joy as they said, ‘The Lord has risen!’

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

Let nations and peoples praise Christ our God, who willingly endured the Cross for us and spent three days in hell; and let them worship his Resurrection from the dead, through which all the ends of the world have been filled with light.

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.

You were crucified, you were buried, O Christ, as you willed; you despoiled death as God and Master, granting the world eternal life and your great mercy.

Megalynarion:

In truth, lawless ones, by sealing the tomb you have granted us a greater marvel; the guards have the knowledge; today he came from the grave, and they said: You said that while we slept the Disciples came and stole him. And who steals a corpse, especially one that is naked? But he has risen by his own authority as God, leaving behind his grave-clothes in the tomb. Come, O Jews, see how he did not burst the seals the One who trampled on death and grants the human race life without end and his great mercy.

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

It was early dawn and the women came to your grave, O Christ, but the body which they longed for was not found; therefore they were much perplexed. Then those in dazzling garments came to them and said, ‘Why do you seek the living with the dead? He has risen as he foretold. Why have you forgotten his words?’ Convinced by this they proclaimed what they had seen. But the good tidings seemed an idle tale, so dull were the disciples still. But Peter ran, and having seen, glorified your wonders to himself.

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.

Both now. **Tone 5.**

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

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 is risen from the dead; death he trampled down by death, and to those in the tombs he has given life.

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.

******Great Doxology and Dismissal******

The thief who acknowledged you on the Cross as God, All-powerful Saviour, you made heir to the spiritual Paradise when he cried, ‘Remember’.

You were struck, you were spat upon by the lawless for our sake, O Jesu, who traced the tables of the law on Sinai for your servant Moses.

You were given vinegar and gall to drink for our sake, O Saviour, who give us your Body and your precious Blood as the food and drink of your eternal life.

When your life-giving side was pierced by the lance, O Christ, you poured out your immaculate Blood and precious Water as an ever-living spring for the world.

You, who brought the dead to life, were numbered among the dead. You, who emptied the tombs, were laid in a tomb. You despoiled Hell in raising Adam.

You arose, O Jesu. The foe was bound, Hell despoiled, tombs stripped bare, those below raised, as they worshipped you, O Christ.

Who stole the dead body? And moreover naked? Why are you deceived, O Jews? Christ has risen and the bonds and bars of hell have been unloosed.

Glory to you, Christ Saviour, who poured out life, made light dawn for those in the darkness of ignorance, and shone over all the earth by your Rising.

Let the noble counsellor Joseph be praised with the Myrrhbearers and the godly Disciples, as he too is a herald of Christ’s Rising.

You are without beginning, O Father; you are uncreated, O Son; you are equal in rank, O Holy Spirit; the three one in nature and three in persons, one true God.

Let Jesse rejoice and David dance, for see, the Virgin, the stem of God’s planting, has blossomed with the flower, Christ the ever-living.

Shine, shine.

Holy is the Lord our God ** .****

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

Another, of the Myrrhbearers. Model Melody.

Women hear a voice of gladness, ‘Trampling on the tyrant Hell, I have raised the world from corruption. Run, tell my friends the good tidings, for I wish joy to shine on what I fashioned from the source from which came grief’.