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AT MATINS After the 1st reading from the Psalter, Resurrection Kathismata. Tone 6 With the tomb opened and Hell lamenting, Mary cried to the Apostles in hiding: Come out, you workers of the vineyard, proclaim the word of the Resurrection: The Lord has risen, granting the world his great mercy! Verse: Arise, O Lord my God, lift up your hand: do not forget your poor for ever.Mary Magdalen stood by your tomb, Lord, and she wept and cried aloud, and taking you for the gardener she said: Where have you hidden eternal Life? Where have you placed the One who rides on the Cherubim? Those who were guarding him have died through fear. Either give me my Lord or with me cry out: O you who were among the dead and raised the dead, glory to you! Glory. Both now. Theotokion.Gideon foretells your conceiving, and David reveals your child-bearing, O Mother of God; for the Word descended like rain upon a fleece into your womb, and you, the holy earth, without seed budded forth salvation, Christ God, O Virgin full of grace. After the 2nd reading from the Psalter, others. Life was laid in the tomb and a seal was laid on the stone; soldiers were guarding Christ like a sleeping King; and having invisibly struck his foes the Lord arose. Verse: I will praise you, Lord, with my whole heart: I will tell of all your marvellous works.Jonas foretells your tomb, and Symeon reveals your divine Rising, immortal Lord; for you descended as a corpse into the tomb, and destroyed the gates of Hell; but you arose without corruption as Master for the salvation of the world, Christ our God, and enlightened those in darkness. Glory. Both now. Theotokion.Virgin Mother of God, implore your Son, Christ our God, who was willingly nailed to a Cross and who raised the dead, Christ our God, that our souls may be saved. After Psalm 118, the Ypakoï. By your voluntary and life-giving death, O Christ, you smashed the gates of Hell, as God, and opened to us the Paradise of old; and by rising from the dead, you delivered our life from corruption. The Anavathmi - 1st Antiphon To heaven I raise my eyes, to you, O Word; have pity on me, that I may live for you. Have mercy on us who are filled with contempt, repairing your vessels to be useful, O Word. Glory. Both now In the Holy Spirit is the cause of all salvation, if he see fit to breathe on one of these, he swiftly raises him from things of earth, gives him wings, makes him grow and ranges him on high. 2nd Antiphon If the Lord had not been among us, none of us could have withstood in the contest with the foe; for those who are victorious are exalted from here. Let not my soul be taken like a sparrow by their teeth, O Word; alas! How shall I, lover of sin, be delivered from the foe? Glory. Both now. In the Holy Spirit is divinisation for all, good-will, understanding, peace and blessing; for he is equal in action to the Father and the Word. 3rd Antiphon Those who trust in the Lord are fearful to their foes and wondrous to all; for they look on high. The inheritance of the just, having you, O Saviour, as helper will not stretch out their hands in iniquities. Glory. Both now. In the Holy Spirit is might over all things; him the armies above worship with everything that has breath below. Prokeimenon. O Lord, raise up your power: * and come to save us. Verse: O Shepherd of Israel, give ear; you that lead Jacob like a flock.Let everything that has breath, the dawn Gospel, Having seen the Resurrection etc., as usual.[The translation of the Canons for Sunday Matins has not yet been completed. I hope that in two months time, when Tone 6 comes round again, they will be ready] At Lauds. Stichera of the Resurrection. Your Cross, O Lord, is life and resurrection for your people, and trusting in it we sing your praise, our risen God. Have mercy on us. Your burial, Master, has opened Paradise to the human race, and delivered from corruption we sing your praise, our risen God. Have mercy on us. With the Father and the Spirit let us hymn Christ risen from the dead, and let us cry out him: You are our life and resurrection. Have mercy on us. On the third day you rose from the tomb, O Christ, as it is written, and you raised our Forefather with you; therefore the human race both glorifies you and hymns your Resurrection. Other Stichera by Anatolios. Lord, great and fearful is the mystery of your Resurrection; for you came from the tomb like a bridegroom from his marriage chamber, having abolished death by death, that you might free Adam; therefore Angels dance in heaven and humankind on earth glorifies your compassion towards us, O Lover of mankind. Lawless Jews, where are the seals, and the money you gave the soldiers? The treasure was not stolen, but he has risen, as a mighty one; you have been put to shame, you who denied Christ, the Lord of glory, who suffered and was buried and rose on the third; let us worship him. While the stone was sealed, how were you robbed, O Jews? You set guards and placed seals. While the doors were shut the King came forth. Either produce him as a corpse, or worship him as God, along with us who sing: Glory, Lord, to your Cross and Resurrection! The Myrrh-bearing Women came to your grave, source of life, O Lord, and carrying spices they were seeking to anoint your immaculate Body; but they found a light-bearing Angel seated on the stone, and he addressed them and said: Why do you weep for the One who poured out life for the world from his side? Why do you seek the Immortal as a mortal in a grave? Rather run, and tell his Disciples the universal joy of his glorious Resurrection; with which enlighten us also, O Saviour, and grant us pardon and your great mercy. Glory. The Eothinon. Both now. You are highly blessed… After the Doxology, the Resurrection Troparion etc.AT THE LITURGY Typika and Beatitudes. Remember me, God my Saviour, when you come in your kingdom, and save me, for you alone love humankind. 7. Through a tree Adam was deceived; through the tree of the Cross you saved him again, a Thief who cried, ‘Remember me, Lord, in your kingdom’.6. You smashed the gates and bars of Hell, O Giver of life, and you raised all the dead, O Saviour, as they cried, ‘Glory to your Rising’.5. You despoiled death by your burial and filled all things with joy by your Resurrection. Remember me, as you are compassionate.4. Myrrhbearing women came to the grave and heard an Angel cry aloud, ‘Christ has risen, enlightening all things’.3. Let us all with one accord praise Christ, who was nailed to the tree of the Cross and delivered the world from error.Glory.
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Apolytikion of the Resurrection. Angelic Powers were at your grave, and those who guarded it became as dead, and Mary stood by the tomb, seeking your most pure Body. You despoiled Hell, and emerged unscathed by it; you met the Virgin and granted life. Lord, risen from the dead, glory to you! [ Ypakoï.By your voluntary and life-giving death, O Christ, you smashed the gates of Hell, as God, and opened to us the Paradise of old; and by rising from the dead, you delivered our life from corruption.] Kontakion of the Resurrection. [See Ascension]With his life-bestowing hand Christ God, the Giver of life, raised all from the murky vaults below, and gave resurrection as the prize to mortal clay; for he is the Saviour of all, Resurrection and Life, and the God of all that is . |
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