AT MATINS

**After the 1st Psalter reading, Kathismata of the Resurrection.**

Prokeimenon.

Then the Ypakoï. Tone 3.

**Theotokion. Model melody.**

Let us purify our senses, and we shall see Christ shining forth, in the unapproachable light of the resurrection, and we shall clearly hear Him saying ‘Rejoice!’, as we sing the triumphal song.

Tone 3.

Then the Anavathmi of the Tone. Antiphon 1.

Let the heavens as is fitting rejoice, and let the earth be glad, let the whole world, both seen and unseen, keep the feast: for Christ has risen, our eternal joy.

Christ has risen from the dead, the first fruit of those who sleep; the first born of creation, and creator of all that has come into being; he has renewed in himself the nature of our race that had perished. Death, you no longer lord it, because the Master of all has abolished your might.

Glory. Both now.

Having tasted death in the flesh, Lord, you cut out the bitterness of death by your Rising, and you strengthened mankind against it, revoking the defeat of the ancient curse. O Protector of our life, Lord, glory to you.

Glory. Both now.

Awed by the beauty of your virginity, and by the splendour of your purity, Gabriel cried aloud to you, O Mother of God, ‘How can I praise you as I should? By what name shall I address you? I am troubled and amazed. Therefore as I was commanded I cry to you: Hail, full of grace!’

Glory. Both now.

After the 2nd Psalter reading, Kathismata.

Tone 3. Awed by the beauty.

Having accepted all that is human, having made your own all that is ours, you were well-pleased, my Maker, to be nailed on a cross; having chosen to endure death as man, that you might redeem humanity from death as God; therefore as Giver of life we cry out to you: Glory, O Christ, to your compassion!

All things in heaven rejoiced with longing, all those on earth stood amazed with fear, when the immaculate voice came to you, O Mother of God: for one festival shone on both, because he delivered the First-formed from death: therefore with the Angel we cry out to you: Hail, pure Virgin-mother!

After Psalm 118, the Evlogitaria.

Terrifying them by his appearance, calming them by his words, the dazzling Angel said to the Myrrh-bearing women: ‘Why do you seek the living in the grave? Know that the Changer of corruption is the Unchangeable; say to God: How fearful are your works! For you have saved the human race.’

You rescued from Babylon the captivity of Zion: snatch me too from the passions into life, O Word.

Those who sow in the south with God-given tears will reap in joy ever-living sheaves.

From the Holy Spirit the giving of all good things shines out as from the Father and the Son, in whom all things live and move.

If the Lord does not build the house of the virtues, we labour in vain: but when he protects the soul, no one sacks our city.

From the fruit of the womb the Saints are ever by the Spirit made sons to you, O Christ, as to the Father.

By the Holy Spirit are seen all holiness and wisdom, for he gives existence to all creation. Let us worship him, for he is God, with the Father and the Son.

Those who fear the Lord are blessed, they walk in the paths of his commandments: for they eat every fruit which has life.

Be glad, Chief Shepherd, seeing your offspring around your table: bearing branches of good works.

With the Holy Spirit is all the wealth of glory, from whom comes grace and life to all creation: for he is hymned with the Father and the Word.

Say among the nations that the Lord is king: he has made the world so firm that it can never be moved.

Sing to the Lord a new song: sing to the Lord all the earth. ****

Let everything that has breath**, Resurrection Gospel 5.** Having seen the Resurrection**. Psalm 50 etc. The Canons of Easter, with the Irmi, and of the Mother of God to 8, and that of the Paralysed Man to 6.**

Easter Canon. Tone 1. Ode 1.

The day of Resurrection, let us be radiant, O peoples: Pascha, the Lord’s Pascha; for Christ God has brought us from death to life, and from earth to heaven, as we sing the triumphal song.