Ode 9. Irmos.

Another, of Cross and Resurrection. Irmos.

At Lauds. Resurrection Stichera.

Heaven was amazed at this and the ends of the earth astounded: that God had appeared to mankind in bodily form, and that your womb had become far wider than the heavens. And so, Mother of God, the ranks of Angels and of humans magnify you.

Another, of the Mother of God. Irmos.

Tone 8. Model Melody.

Begotten simple in your divine nature that is without beginning, you became compound by assuming flesh, giving it substance in yourself, O Word of God, and having suffered as man, you remained beyond suffering as God, and so in two natures inseparably and unconfusedly we magnify you.

Lord, though you stood at the judgement seat being judged by Pilate, yet seated with the Father you were not absent from your throne; and risen from the dead you freed the world from the slavery of the stranger, as you are full of pity and love mankind.

Your Father according to your divine nature, O Most High, when you became man, coming down to your servants, you addressed as God; having risen from the dead you made the One who is by nature God and Master, Father by grace of those born of earth. You with him we magnify.

Lord, though Jews had laid you as a corpse in a grave, yet soldiers were guarding you as a sleeping king, and they sealed you with a seal as treasure-house of life; but you arose and granted incorruption to our souls.

You appeared as Mother of God, O Virgin, when beyond nature you gave birth in the body to the good Word, whom the Father uttered from his own heart before all ages, as he is Good. Him we now understand to be beyond bodies, even though he is clothed in a body.

Lord, you have given us your Cross as a weapon against the devil; for he quails and trembles, unable to contemplate your power; for you raise the dead and made death of no effect: therefore we worship your Burial and your Rising.

We know that you are Son of God by nature, conceived in the womb of the Mother of God, that you became man for our sake, and, as we see you on the Cross, that you suffer in your human nature, while as God you remain untouched by suffering.

Your Angel, Lord, proclaiming your Resurrection, filled the guards with fear, but he cried to the women and said: Why do you seek the living with the dead? Being God he has risen and given life to the whole world.

Murky darkness has been abolished, for from Hell Christ, the sun of justice, has dawned enlightening all the ends of the earth, shining with the rays of his godhead, man from heaven, God on earth, whom in two natures we magnify.

Others by Anatolios.

Bend your bow, prosper and reign, Son of the Mother of God, subduing the people of Ishmael who war against us, granting to our devout King the Cross as an invincible weapon,

You suffered through the Cross, who are impassible in your Godhead; to free us from the slavery of the foe you accepted burial for three days, and, having made us immortal, to give us life through your Resurrection, Christ God, lover of mankind.

The thought of you is full of joy and gladness, overflowing with healings for those who approach you and devoutly proclaim you Mother of God.

I worship, I glorify and I praise your Resurrection from the tomb, O Christ, through which you have freed us from the unbreakable bonds of Hell and as God granted the world eternal life and your great mercy.

With psalms we sing your praise, O Full of grace, and never silent offer you our ‘Hail!’; for you are a fount of rejoicing for all.

Lawless men, watching over your grave, which had received life, sealed it; but you, as immortal and all-powerful God, rose on the third day.

Fair is your fruit, Mother of God, no cause of corruption for those who partake, but of life for those who magnify you with faith.

When you entered the gates of Hell, Lord, and smashed them, the prisoner cried out: Who is this, for he is not condemned to the lowest parts of the earth, but has torn down death’s prison-house like a tent? I received him as a mortal, and I tremble at him as God. All-powerful Saviour have mercy on us.

Great Doxology and then the Resurrection Troparion,

**The Eothinon of the Sunday.**

Both now. You are most blessed.

Having risen from the grave.