Ode 9. Irmos.

Exapostilarion of Easter.

Of the Mother of God. The same Irmos.

At Lauds we insert 8 stichera, 4 of the Resurrection in Tone 3 and the 4 of Easter with their verses.

**Theotokion.**

Megalynarion:

Of the Paralysed Man. The Irmos.

Come all you nations, know the power of the dread mystery; for Christ our Saviour, the Word in the beginning, was crucified for us and willingly buried and arose from the dead to save the world. Let us worship him.

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

The guards related all the marvels, Lord; but the Sanhedrin of folly filled their hands with bribes and thought to hide your Resurrection, which the world glorifies. Have mercy on us.

‘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’.

All things are filled with joy, having received proof of the Resurrection; for Mary Magdalen came to the tomb, found an angel, dazzling in white, sitting on the stone, and he said: ‘Why do you seek the living with the dead? he is not here, but he has risen as he said, and goes ahead to Galilee.’

Megalynarion:

In your light, Master who love mankind, we shall see light; for you have risen from the dead, giving life to the human race, that all creation may glorify you, the only sinless one. Have mercy on us.

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

Tone 5.

‘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’.

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

Megalynarion:

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 great Pascha, a Pascha of the faithful, a Pascha that has opened to us the gates of Paradise, a Pascha that hallows all the faithful.

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

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

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.

Come from the sight, 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.

Megalynarion

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

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

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.

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.

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

Now 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.

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.

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.

O Lord, the pool did not cure the Paralysed Man, but your word renewed him, nor did his sickness of so many years hinder it, for the force of your voice was shown to be sharper; and he cast off the weight so hard to carry and carried the burden of his bed as a witness to the multitude of your mercies; glory to you.

esu, lifted up upon the tree, you lifted us up with you; and placed willingly in a tomb, you raised from the graves all the dead, who praise your incomprehensible might and your invincible power.

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.

Word most fair, you dawned most fair from the grave as a bridegroom from his chamber; you abolished the gloom of Hell, and delivered the prisoners, who sang in consort: Glory to your glory! Glory, Jesu our God, to your Rising!

Great Doxology and Dismissal.

wiftly the women came to the all-holy grave bringing sighs and tears with sweet spices, and they were taught in faith Christ’s Rising, which we celebrate, rejoicing in gladness of soul.

Before the 1st Hour the Eothinon. Tone 5.

nergy of body followed your order, O Christ, and the man formerly Paralysed was seen going by in haste, bearing the bed on which he had lain for many years, and praising your great power.

How wise are your judgements, O Christ! How did you let Peter understand your Resurrection from the grave clothes alone; but, as you walked with Luke and Cleopas, talked with them, and as you talked did not at once reveal yourself? And so you were reproached as being only a stranger in Jerusalem and not one who had shared to the end in her counsels. But disposing all things for the advantage of the creature you had fashioned, you both unfolded the prophecies concerning yourself and in the blessing of bread made yourself known to them, whose hearts before this were on fire for knowledge of you, and who were already proclaiming clearly to the assembled Disciples your Resurrection, through which have mercy upon us.

lead for enlightenment for us, great Chief Captain, who always stand in the great light, and give peace to our life forever shaken by the assaults of the serpent and by life’s difficulties, O holy one.

Note that the office of the Paralysed Man is sung for three days: on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday.

oly, Holy, Holy, I cry with the powers above, as with all reverence I glorify you, light and lights, life and lives, Father, Word and Holy Spirit, three-personned Unity, inseparable might, unconfused Godhead.

e came from your light-bearing womb, Christ the great Sun, and enlightened the world, O immaculate, with his bright rays, and he removed the darkness of the transgression; therefore we hymn you as cause of all good, O bride of God.

Shine, shine.

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.

Another of the Paralysed Man. Women hear.

The Lord who loves mankind and is full of pity came to the Sheep Pool to heal diseases; he found a man who had been lying there for many years and cried out to him: Take your bed, go, towards the ways of justice.