At the Aposticha, Resurrection Sticheron. Tone 3.

Then the Easter Stichera with their Verses.

By your passion, O Christ, you darkened the sun, and by the light of your Resurrection you made the whole universe radiant. Accept our evening hymn, O Lover of mankind.

Tone 5.

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 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.

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 just be glad.

The Myrrh-bearing 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.

**Tone 8***.*

In Solomon’s Porch a great crowd of sick was lying, and at the mid-point of the Feast, Christ, finding a paralytic who had been lying there for thirty eight years, said to him with the voice of the Master, ‘Do you want to be made whole?’ The sick man answered him, ‘Sir, I have no man to put me in the pool when the water is stirred up’. But he said to him, ‘Take up your bed. See, you have been made whole. Sin no more.’ At the prayers of the Mother of God, O Lord, send down upon us your great mercy.

It is the day of Resurrection; let us be radiant for the festival, and let us embrace one another. Let us say, 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.

Apolytikion. Tone 3.

Let everything in heaven rejoice, let everything on earth be glad, for the Lord has shown strength with his arm; by death he has trampled on death; he has become the first-born from the dead; from the belly of Hell he has delivered us, and granted the world his great mercy.

Virgin Mother of God, we praise you as the means of the salvation of our race; for your Son and our God, who through the Cross accepted suffering in the flesh he had taken from you, has redeemed us from corruption, for he loves humankind.

And Dismissal.