Easter Matins is the shortest and most solemn matins of the year. This matins begins immediately after the religious procession, and the beginning takes place on the porch, and only after the so-called “Easter beginning” do believers enter the temple.
So, on the porch at the end of the procession rector solemnly, representing the cross with a censer, he pronounces the initial exclamation of Matins:
"Glory to the Holy Ones and Consubstantial...".
Choir: "Amen".
Easter start.
The set of initial prayers (up to the peaceful litany) is called the Paschal beginning, with which all 3 main daily services begin on Easter and Bright Week: Matins, Liturgy and Vespers.
Clergy: “Christ is risen from the dead, trampling down death by death and giving life to those in the tombs”- Easter troparion 3 times
Choir: 3 times.
Clergy sings verses, during which the abbot censes: “May God rise again, and may His enemies be scattered, and may those who hate Him flee from His face.”.
Choir: "Christ is risen from the dead...".
Clergy: “Like smoke disappears, let them disappear like wax melts before the fire.”.
Choir: "Christ is risen from the dead...".
Clergy: “So let sinners perish at the face of God, and let righteous women rejoice.”.
Choir: "Christ is risen from the dead...".
Clergy: “This is the day that the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad”.
Choir: "Christ is risen from the dead...".
Clergy: "Glory to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit".
Choir: "Christ is risen from the dead...".
Clergy: “And now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen".
Choir: "Christ is risen from the dead...".
Abbot: Christ is Risen! People: He is truly risen! 3 times
Clergy: (troparion to half)
Choir: “And to those in the tombs he gave life.”
Peaceful Litany.
And immediately after the exclamation “As it befits...” the Irmos of the 1st song of the canon is sung.
Canon.
The canon is the most solemn and, in its own way, specific gravity, the main part of Easter Matins. According to the Rules, the canon should be sung at 16: irmos 4 times, troparia at 12, but let us immediately say that in parish practice almost everywhere (except monasteries) irmos and all troparions are sung once. The chorus to all troparions is “Christ is risen from the dead.” Although, according to the Charter, all canons should be sung in singing (that is, not only irmos, but also all troparia should be sung), the Easter canon is the only one in which both irmos and troparia are sung in parish practice.
All songs in the canon have the same structure (the 9th canto differs only in the presence of special choruses). At each song of the canon, the priest, preceded by the deacon, censes the altar, iconostasis and believers from the pulpit; on the 8th song, the deacon performs censing. After each song there is a small litany with a special exclamation; all exclamations are indicated in the Typikon and fully printed in the Triodion.
Separately, it is worth mentioning the singing of the Irmos of the canon by the rector (clergy). The Typicon actually contains the following injunction: “It is always the primate who creates the beginning of the canon for every hymn.” Therefore, in some manuals the sequence of Easter Matins is outlined taking this feature into account. However, one must keep in mind that in church use there are several different chants of the Easter canon, and for some of them this course of action is difficult to accept. In particular, the Moscow chant of the Easter canon is fully consistent with the fact that the beginning of each irmos will be sung by a priest, and the choir will immediately pick up his words. However, in other chants, such a transition from the solo introduction of the priest to the singing of the choir will not go so smoothly. In addition, if the priest does not have musical ability, the discrepancies between his singing and the singing of the choir will be noticeable to everyone. In this regard, it should be considered completely acceptable for a choir to sing Irmos in its entirety in those cases where singing together with the priest creates more problems than will decorate the Easter service.
Here is a diagram of each song of the Easter canon:
Choir sings: Irmos
troparia (2 or 3 troparia).
confusion.
the priest censes the altar and iconostasis
The priest crosses Christ three times with the people:
priest: Christ is Risen! People: He is truly risen! 3 times
We pay special attention to the inadmissibility of Christening “before the time”,
that is, during the singing of troparions or catavasia (unfortunately, such a phenomenon is very
often occurs in practice). For when the priest shares Christ with the people and the people respond, the singing of the choir is “muffled” and thus, on the one hand, an obstacle is created for the singers, on the other hand, those praying in the temple cannot hear the words of the chant being performed. As a result, the impression arises that the priest is inattentive to the words of the canon and is only concerned with his own actions (censing and congratulating the people). And such behavior should not be justified as “excessive” Easter joy(as some do), because no joy or other “good motive” can serve as an excuse for outrage, disruption of the normal course of worship. In this regard, the priest, if he has at least some degree of reverence for church hymns, should, if he nevertheless completed censing before the choir sang the katavasiya, simply wait a little and then, when the choir falls silent, christen himself with by the people.
Choir: "Christ is risen from the dead..."“final” (sung in a special fast chant) 3 times.
The deacon pronounces the small litany.
The priest says the appropriate exclamation and the choir sings the irmos of the next song.
By 3rd song(after the small litany) the choir sings ipakoi “Preceding the morning...”
By the 6th song choir sings kontakion “Even to the grave...”, ikos "Even before the sun...", “Having seen the Resurrection of Christ...” 3 times And "Jesus has risen from the grave..." 3 times.
9th Canto sung with megalinarias. Before Irmos, as usual, chorus “My soul magnifies the Risen One...” the deacon proclaims (sings), then before each troparion and katavasia the choir sings the corresponding choruses.
By the 9th song choir the luminary sings “Having fallen asleep in the flesh...” three times.
Although the Typikon does not exactly say about the manner of singing of this lamp, there is every reason to believe that the scheme should be the same as at the services of Holy Week, where a similar three-time singing of one festive lamp takes place, that is, as follows: “Having fallen asleep in the flesh...” “Glory”: “Having fallen asleep in the flesh...”, “And now”: “Having fallen asleep in the flesh...”. However, in practice, “Glory” and “And Now” are often omitted between the singing of the lamp.
“Every breath…” and psalms of praise (although the Rules require the singing of all verses of these psalms, in practice the choir sings only the first two verses and immediately proceeds to singing stichera).
While singing the stichera of praise, the priest, if he serves alone, dresses in red robes. If the service is performed by a council of clergy, then on the laudatory stichera only the priest who will perform the proskomedia is dressed, while others complete the Matins sequence in white robes and dress in red at the hours.
Stichera of praise 1 tone to 4 + stichera of Easter with their refrains.
"Christ is risen from the dead..." 3 times (together with the final phrase of the last stichera there will be 4 times).
If the service is performed by a council of clergy, then the choir sings “Christ is risen from the dead...” repeatedly, while at this time the clergy, according to ancient tradition, christen each other in the altar.
Abbot reads “The Catechetical Word...” of St. John Chrysostom.
Choir sings the troparion to St. John Chrysostom: “Thy lips...”
Deacon pronounces a solemn and pleading litany (as at an ordinary festive morning). Next to “Confirm, O God...” the scheme is normal.
After singing “Confirm, O Holy God...” the transition to dismissal immediately takes place (such a short transition is another feature of the Easter rite):
Clergy: “Christ is risen from the dead, trampling down death by death”(troparion to half)
Choir: “And to those in the tombs he gave life”.
Abbot says a short holiday dismissal (holding a Cross with a three-candlestick in his hand): “Christ, risen from the dead, trampling death by death and giving life to those in the tombs, our True God, through the prayers of His Most Pure Mother and all the saints, will have mercy and save us, for He is Good and Lover of humanity."
Abbot: Christ is Risen! People: He is truly risen! 3 times
Choir: "Christ is risen from the dead...""final" ( three times). “And we have been given eternal life...”.
Easter service: what happens in the church on Easter
We come to Easter Matins, but before it they serve the Midnight Office, which dates back to the Lenten Triodion, and even earlier you can catch the reading of the Acts of the Holy Apostles. The fact is that the arrangement of the liturgical day of Holy Saturday is extremely capacious, it contains many different aspects and difficult issues. The liturgy of this day should be celebrated at Vespers, which begins in the afternoon, at 3-4 o'clock; The liturgy of St. Basil the Great ends in the evening, and the Charter prescribes not to leave the church, therefore, after the liturgy, bread and wine are blessed so that everyone who is in the church can refresh themselves.
The chapter of the Typikon, which is dedicated to Holy Saturday, contains a very alarming instruction that everyone should monitor their feelings; it says that this time on the border of the two Triodea, on the threshold of Easter, is very dangerous spiritually. The Charter assigns the reading of the Acts of the Holy Apostles between the Liturgy of Basil the Great and the Midnight Office and provides this instruction with the following remark:
“Let all the brethren listen diligently, and let not a single one of them go to sleep and betray himself, fearing the defilement of the tempting enemy; in such times and places the enemy strives to desecrate careless and sleepy monks.”
So, everyone sits, eats and listens to the Acts of the Holy Apostles, which must be read in full. The Rule, naturally, does not set an exact time (for example, exactly at midnight) for the Midnight Office and then Matins, because in fact no one knows exactly at what time the Lord rose from the dead.
So, midnight office. This is the Easter Midnight Office, the Sunday Midnight Office, and usually at the Sunday Midnight Office the Trinity Canon is read from the Octoechos. But on this day, at the Midnight Office, the canon of Great Saturday is sung or read “By the Wave of the Sea...” According to current practice, during the singing of Irmos 9 of the song Do not weep for Me, Mother, the clergy are supposed to already be in the middle of the temple, lift the Shroud and bring it into the altar, where she will remain on the throne until Easter is celebrated.
The Midnight Office has ended, and Easter Matins begins with a procession of the cross, which is performed with the singing of the Sunday stichera of the 6th tone of Thy Resurrection, O Christ the Savior. There is nothing specific in the Charter about procession it is not said, but the entire clergy is instructed to go out into the vestibule with icons of the Resurrection of Christ, with a cross, with a censer, in full vestments, and close the doors to the temple. The icons should be facing west, i.e. worshipers must see the icons, and Easter Matins begins in front of the western doors of the temple. It begins with the exclamation Glory to the Saints, and at the same time the question does not even seem to arise, where is the double psalm? It's actually quite interesting; After all, Easter Matins is extremely festive, is perceived by us as a “holiday holiday,” and at the same time does not have any ordinary, regular signs of a festive divine service: there is no doxology sung at it, there is no polyeleos - all that is usually an integral part of a festive matins. From Wednesday of Holy Week, the reading of ordinary kathismas has already been cancelled, and on Bright Week the Psalter almost completely disappears from the service, remaining only in very small parts: prokemeny, exalted and laudatory psalms. The double psalm is canceled not only on Bright Day, but also until the Feast of the Ascension itself.
After the exclamation of Glory to the Saints, a moment comes that everyone is really looking forward to: the troparion of Easter Christ is risen from the dead is sung three times by the clergy, and then the choir sings it three times (the Charter says “we”, because the face is only the mouth of the community, and, of course, the troparion everyone should sing). Then the clergy sing the Easter verses “May God rise again...” and others, including Glory, and now, to each of which the choir sings Christ is Risen once. It would seem that everything is completely clear, but more than once I had to witness how in joy the rites are forgotten and Christ is Risen are sung in the wrong way and not as many times as prescribed. On the one hand, you shouldn’t be upset on a holiday, but on the other hand, why not do everything right, as indicated in the Typikon? After singing the troparion of Easter, the doors open and everyone enters the church, and there is usually a crowd, some kind of rush, as if we are all late for something. In fact, the Charter does not provide for anything hasty or urgent at this moment: you need to enter the temple with repeated singing of Christ is Risen, and that’s all.
When everyone has entered the temple and taken their places: the ministers in the altar, the choir on the choir, and the church people in the space of the temple, the Easter Matins begins with the Great Litany. After the Great Litany, the Paschal Canon of St. Petersburg immediately follows. John of Damascus. It would seem that something was missed. And in fact, the Psalter is skipped: six psalms and kathismas with sedals.
During Holy and Easter Week, biblical songs are canceled, so at Easter Matins, strictly according to the Rule, we sing the canon with the refrain for each troparion, “Christ is risen from the dead.” In addition, our worship is a song service, and almost everything must be sung. And we can say that this is so, because even temple reading on one sound, recte tono, is also singing; in our worship there is no ordinary, simple speech, not colored by a musical element; in church they even chant and chant exclamations. There are different gradations of the singing element in the service: there is reading, there is an exclamation (for example, prokeimna), there is an exclamation from the priest, which also belongs to the musical element (in some manuscripts there is a musical marking for exclamations), and there is singing, be it singing “quickly” or melismatically developed singing, which the Charter speaks of “with sweet singing...” In our worship there is no word that is not colored by sound, but many parts of the service over time seem to be lowered in musical gradation, and the canon is one of them. The canons, of course, should always be sung, but we very rarely have the happiness of hearing the canon sung, which is why the singing of the canon on Easter is so significant.
So, the canon of St. John of Damascus with chorus. Everyone probably noticed that in each song of this canon there are very few troparions: irmos and two or three troparions. And the Rules say this: “Sing the irmos in four (antiphonally - 1st lyric and 2nd lyric), and the troparia in twelve (each troparion must be sung 6 times).” The typikon says that the first words of each irmos are necessarily sung by the primate in the altar, i.e. The most festive and inspired performance of this text is assigned. You see how many times the troparia of the Paschal Canon must be sung, and this constant repetition of the text teaches us something important and significant. Of course, the Easter Canon of John of Damascus belongs to the best canons of Orthodox worship. The Charter teaches us to rejoice, endlessly repeat these jubilant words that we all know very well, and calls us to deep and meaningful joy.
After each song of the canon there is a katavasia, a repetition of the irmos, then Christ is risen three times and a small litany, i.e. the execution of the canon is as solemn as possible. A small litany for each song (there are eight in total) is something completely unheard of in our worship. 3 hymns each - ipakoi of Easter, and 6 hymns - kontakion of Easter, ikos and the Resurrection of Christ three times. The canon ends with the famous exapostilary of Plotius falling asleep, which is sung three times. After it, the singing of stichera of praise immediately begins, although according to the Rule, every breath and psalms of praise are supposed to precede this. For some reason, we skip this and the stichera begin immediately.
What do these stichera on praise represent? If we turn to Vespers, at which the Liturgy of St. Basil the Great was celebrated on Most Blessed Saturday, we will remember that on the Lord, having cried out, three stichera from the Sunday service of the 1st tone were sung there, because Saturday evening already begins the Sunday day. So, at Easter Matins the Sunday stichera of the 1st tone are also sung, but not “exclaiming” stichera, but praise stichera. Subsequently, for each day of Bright Week, Sunday hymns of the Octoechos in a certain voice will be assigned. On the first day of Easter - 1 tone, on Monday - 2, etc. This is a kind of “parade of voices,” but not eight, but only seven, because 7th voice is skipped. This begins on Holy Saturday at Vespers, continues at Easter Matins and then every day during Bright Week. To these Sunday stichera of the 1st tone are added the stichera of Easter, which everyone knows very well, with the chants “May God rise...”, etc.
The last stichera of Easter includes the text Christ is Risen. After the stichera ends, you need to sing Christ is Risen three more times. It's pretty difficult moment, and you should stop there. At the conclusion of these Easter stichera, Christ is risen is sounded either once or four times, but is never sung three times, because the text of the Easter troparion is the final line of the last stichera; then the troparion itself is performed three times, and thus Christ is risen... sounds four times in a row. This only happens on Bright Week. In the subsequent weeks of Pentecost, the threefold singing of the troparion is no longer added to these stichera.
After the stichera for praise and the stichera for Easter are sung, it is necessary to kiss - to make Christ, congratulating each other on the holiday of the Holy Resurrection of Christ. Here the Typikon indicates a very interesting form of congratulation, which, unfortunately, is familiar to us only from the rite of forgiveness on Forgiveness Sunday, when the rector, priests, deacons, and altar boys come out and stand in front of the pulpit in accordance with their rank, and all parishioners approach them one by one. In the same order, according to the Charter, the Easter kiss should be performed, everyone should share Christ with everyone else.
After the kiss, the famous catechetical Word of John Chrysostom is read, repeating the dazzlingly joyful words of St. Paul: “Where is your sting, O death? Where the hell is your victory? (1 Cor. 15:55) and the end of Easter matins follows, after which the first hour should take place.
The Easter hours are completely special kind hours, and in the strict sense of the word can hardly be called hours: it would be more accurate to call them “instead of an hour,” because the same sequence is assigned on Bright Week for all minor services. Both the Midnight Office, and Compline, and all the hours (the first, third, sixth and ninth) have the same appearance for Bright Week: this is a sequence of Easter hymns (namely hymns, not readings), which are placed in the Colored Triodion entitled “O the hour of Holy Pascha and all Bright Week.”
Christ is risen three times, the Resurrection of Christ three times are sung, and then the hypakoi, kontakion and some Easter troparia. This sequence must be sung three times: during the first, third and sixth hours. Thus, the Easter hours, firstly, are psalmless, like the whole of Bright Week, and secondly, they are no different from each other and coincide with the sequence of the Easter Midnight Office and Compline. In the strict sense, the hours should be called thripsalm hours, and the Easter observance is instead of an hour, to be completely precise.
After Easter hours, the Divine Liturgy begins. On the first day of Easter, the Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom is scheduled to be celebrated. It begins, naturally, with the cry Blessed is the Kingdom... and then follows the special beginning of all the services of Bright Week: the clergy Christ is risen three times, the face of Christ is risen three times, then the clergy sing verses and for each verse the face sings Christ is risen once. All services on Bright Week begin in this way. Then the great litany and festive antiphons. The first antiphon is sung, the Only Begotten Son, as always, joins the second antiphon, and the third antiphon is verses, to each of which the troparion of the holiday is chanted, in this case Christ is Risen. At the entrance, “Come, let us worship” is not sung, but the entrance verse is recited. Then the choir sings the troparion of Easter - Christ is risen, hypakoia and kontakion of Easter. Instead of the Trisagion, we hear Elitsa being baptized into Christ, because in ancient times, on this great day, baptism was performed in the Church large quantity catechumens. Then the prokeimenon is proclaimed, the Apostle, Hallelujah and the Gospel are read. The Gospel is read on this day not about the events associated with the Resurrection, but 1 Conception from John is read, but it is this reading that puts special emphasis on the worship of this day, deepening our joy, making it more serious. It speaks of the Eternal Word and its incarnation. This concept is supposed to be read in all languages that the servants of the temple know, and in the Typikon there is still an not explicit, but vague indication of this. The minimum that has developed in our practice is Church Slavonic and Russian texts, and where they can, they read in other languages.
The Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom according to his rank. Naturally, there is no funeral litany on this day. The Cherubic Hymn, the Eucharistic Canon and the Worthy of Easter are sung, which consists of the chant “The Angel Cries...” and Irmos 9 of the song of the canon “Shine, shine, O New Jerusalem...” All this is sung instead of It is Worthy to Eat before Easter is celebrated.
Then follows the usual litany and after the exclamation “Holy of Holies” and the response of the choir “One is Holy...” the sacramental verse of Easter is sung. The text of this verse is familiar to everyone and is a kind of answer to the question that existed until recently, whether it is possible to receive communion on Easter. The sacrament verse for Easter goes like this:
“Receive the Body of Christ,
taste the immortal source.”
It is customary for us to sing Christ is Risen on Easter and Bright Week during the communion of the laity, but in fact we should sing the Body of Christ, because this is exactly the case, this is the sacramental verse of the entire period before the celebration of Easter.
the last part Divine Liturgy, as always, joyful and jubilant; Almost instead of all the usual texts, Christ is risen is sung, sometimes three times, sometimes once - this can be read in the Typikon or the Tsvetnaya Triodion. Easter holiday is pronounced; On the first day of Easter, it is supposed to sign the cross over the entire flock and congratulate it: “Christ is Risen!”, to which everyone responds: “Truly He is Risen!”. This is the end of the Divine Liturgy for Easter.
Vespers on the first day of Easter is a completely exceptional service, because we know from the Gospel that on the first day after the Resurrection in the evening, Christ appeared to the disciples, and Thomas was not there, which is why he had to be separately assured of the Resurrection of Christ. At this Vespers the Gospel is read, so the entrance is also made with the Gospel. This service is unusually solemn, it is performed in full vestments, and at it the great prokeimenon is proclaimed: “Who is the great God, even as our God...” We will not talk in detail about the follow-up of this Vespers, we will only say that in almost everything except the entrance and reading of the Gospel , it is an example of vespers on any day of Bright Week. Moreover, every day at Vespers there will be its own special great prokeimenon. The great prokeimenon has, in addition to the text of the prokeimenon itself, three more verses (and not one, like the usual one), therefore the ordinary prokeimenon is sounded three times during the service, and the great one - five times. The Great Prokeimenon is appointed only for special days of the year.
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CHRIST IS RISEN!
P Here is an audio recording of the Easter Service, recorded in the Sretensky Monastery on Easter night.
T For those of you who cannot attend this solemn and grace-filled service, we invite you to join the praying parishioners of the Sretensky Monastery:
Below is the entire text of the Easter service
BRIGHT EASTER MAINTENS
ABOUT At the morning hour, the paraecclesiarch, taking the blessing from the abbot, comes out and strikes at the great, and slanderes enough. And, having entered the temple, he burns all the candles and candila: he arranges two vessels with burning coals and puts a lot of fragrant incense into them, and places one vessel in the middle of the church, the other in the holy altar, so that the church will be filled with all the incense. The same rector, having entered the holy altar with the priests and deacons, will be clothed in all the most illustrious dignity. And he distributes candles to the brethren, and takes off Honest Cross: The deacon takes up the censer: the priest takes the Holy Gospel, and the priest the image of the Resurrection of Christ: and they are placed facing the west. And they will close the gates of the church to the west. The rector proceeds from the priest into the vestibule, by the northern doors, the deacon preceding him with two lights, and both faces singing the stichera, voice 6:
Thy Resurrection, O Christ the Savior, the angels sing in heaven, and grant us on earth to glorify Thee with a pure heart.
T They even hit hard and hard, and rivet quite a bit. And having entered the porch, they stand with the Gospel and the image, facing west, as indicated before. The rector will also take the censer from the deacon in his right hand, the Cross in his left and cense the images and choirs, and the brethren according to custom. I present the deacon with a burning candle before him. The brethren all stand holding their candles, praying attentively within themselves, and thanking us for the sake of the suffering and risen Christ our God. At the end of the incense, the rector comes to the great gate of the church and cites the deacon standing before him with the candle. Then the deacon will take the censer from the hand of the abbot, and incense the abbot himself. And again the rector will take the censer, standing in front of the church doors, in vain to the east, and mark the great gates of the church, (the closed being), with the censer crosswise, three times, holding the Honorable Cross in his left hand, and with a lamp standing with both the country.
AND will loudly proclaim:
Glory to the Holy, and Consubstantial, and Life-Giving, and Indivisible Trinity: always, now and ever, and unto ages of ages.
AND answering us: Amen.
N The rector, with the rest of the ministers, begins the present troparion in voice 5:
Christ is risen from the dead, trampling down death by death, and giving life to those in the tombs.
AND We sing in the same way, with sweet singing. This troparion is sung three times by the abbot, and three times by us.
T Even the abbot speaks verses:
First verse: May God rise again, and may His enemies be scattered, and may those who hate Him flee from His Face.
AND for each verse we sing a troparion: Christ is risen: all at once.
IN second verse: As smoke disappears, let them disappear as wax melts in the presence of fire. Christ is risen: once.
T third verse: Thus, let sinners perish from the Face of God, and let righteous women rejoice. Christ is risen: once.
H fourth verse: This day, which the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad. Christ is risen: once.
Glory: Christ is Risen: once.
And now: Christ is Risen: once.
T Even the rector sings in a highest voice: Christ is risen from the dead, trampling down death by death. And opens the gates.
The abbot enters with By the Honest Cross, preceding him with two lamps, and to the brethren singing: And to those in the tombs he gave life. They also hit the whole campaign and ring quite loudly, three times.
The rector entered the holy altar with the priest. And the deacon says the great litany: Let us pray to the Lord in peace. Exclamation: For all glory is due to You:
And the primate begins the canon, the creation of Mr. John of Damascus. Tone 1. Irmos: Resurrection day: Irmos at 4: and troparia at 12, with choruses: Christ is risen from the dead. And again, follow every face of Irmos. Follow at the gathering of katavasia, the same irmos: Resurrection day: And according to it Christ is risen: all three times. The beginning of the canon is always created by the primate of each song, in the right or left country that happened to begin. And at the beginning of the canon he censes the holy icons and both faces and the brethren according to their rank. And for each song there is a small litany outside the altar, like a rekhom, on this holy day. An exclamation from the priest inside the altar. According to the 1st song, the gum country sings. On the 3rd, the left one sings. We sing Sitsa and other songs.
CANON, Voice 1
Song 1
Irmos: Resurrection day, let us enlighten ourselves, people: Easter, the Lord's Easter! For from death to life and from earth to heaven, Christ God has led us, singing in victory.
Chorus: Christ is risen from the dead.
Let us purify our senses and see the shining light of the Resurrection of Christ, and rejoice, let us hear clearly and sing victoriously.
Let the heavens rejoice with dignity, let the earth rejoice, let the world celebrate, all visible and invisible: Christ has risen, eternal joy.
The same litany and exclamation: For Thine is the dominion, and Thine is the Kingdom, and the power, and the glory of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, now and ever, and unto ages of ages.
Song 3
Irmos: Come, we drink new beer, it is not from the barren stone that the miracle works, but from the incorruptible source, from the tomb that rained Christ, we are established in Nemzhe.
Now everything is filled with light, heaven and earth and the underworld: let all creation celebrate the rise of Christ, in which it is established.
Yesterday I was buried with You, Christ, today I am resurrected with You, I was crucified with You yesterday. Glorify me Yourself, O Savior, in Your Kingdom.
The same litany and exclamation: For You are our God, and to You we send glory, to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, now and ever, and unto ages of ages.
Ipakoi, voice 4:
P Having foretold the morning of Mary, and having found the stone rolled away from the tomb, I hear from the Angel: In the ever-present light of Him who is with the dead, what are you looking for, like a man? You see the graveclothes, preach to the world that the Lord has risen, the slayer of death, as the Son of God, saving the human race.
And the reading in Gregory the Theologian, its beginning: I will stand on my guard:
After reading, the brethren light candles again.
Song 4.
Irmos: On the Divine guard, may the God-speaking Habakkuk stand with us and show us a luminous Angel, clearly saying: today is salvation for the world, for Christ has risen, for He is Omnipotent.
The male sex, as if Christ had opened the virgin womb, was called: like a man, He was called Lamb: and blameless, for the taste of filth is our Passover, and for the true God is perfect in His words.
Like the one-year-old lamb, Christ, the blessed crown for us, was slain for all, the cleansing Passover, and again from the tomb the red sun of righteousness rose for us.
God-father David, galloping before the hay ark, but the holy people of God, seeing the images of the event, rejoice divinely, as Christ is risen, as Omnipotent.
Litany, and exclamation: For You are a Good and Lover of Mankind, and to You we send glory, to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, now and ever, and unto ages of ages.
Song 5
Irmos: Let us morning the deep morning and instead of peace we will bring a song to the Lady, and we will see Christ, the Sun of truth, life shining for all.
Your immeasurable compassion, seeing through the bonds of hell, I walk toward the light, O Christ, with merry feet, praising the eternal Easter.
Let us, O luminaries, come to Christ as he emerges from the tomb, like a bridegroom, and let us celebrate God’s saving Pascha with lustful rites.
Litany, and exclamation: For sanctified and glorified is Your most honorable and magnificent name, the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, now and ever, and unto ages of ages.
Song 6
Irmos: Thou hast descended into the underworld of the earth and shattered the eternal faiths that contain those who are bound, O Christ, and thou hast risen from the grave for three days, like Jonah from the whale.
Having preserved the signs intact, O Christ, Thou hast risen from the grave, the keys of the Virgin not harmed in Thy Nativity, and Thou hast opened for us the doors of heaven.
My Savior, the living and non-sacrificial slaughter, as God Himself brought to the Father by His own will, You resurrected the all-begotten Adam, You rose from the grave.
Litany, and exclamation: For You are the King of the world and the Savior of our souls, and to You we send glory, to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, now and ever, and unto ages of ages.
Same kontakion, tone 8:
Even though you descended into the grave, Immortal, you destroyed the power of hell and rose again as a conqueror, Christ God, saying to the myrrh-bearing women: Rejoice, and grant peace to your apostles, grant resurrection to the fallen.
Ikos: Even before the sun, the Sun sometimes set into the tomb, leading to the morning, looking for the Myrrh-Bearing Virgin like the day, and crying out to friends: O friends, come, let us anoint with stinks the Life-Giving and Buried Body, the flesh of the Resurrected fallen Adam, lying in the tomb. We come, sweating like wolves, and let us worship, and bring peace like gifts, not in swaddling clothes, but wrapped in a shroud, and we weep and cry: O Master, arise, grant resurrection to the fallen.
Sunday Carol
Having seen the Resurrection of Christ, let us worship the Holy Lord Jesus, the One Sinless One. We worship Your Cross, O Christ, and we sing and glorify Your holy Resurrection: for You are our God, do we know no other to You, we call Your name. Come, all you faithful, let us worship the Holy Resurrection of Christ: behold, through the Cross joy has come to the whole world. Always blessing the Lord, we sing His Resurrection: having endured the crucifixion, destroy death by death. [Thrice.]
Jesus rose from the grave, as He prophesied, to give us eternal life and great mercy. [Thrice.]
Song 7
Irmos: Having delivered the youths from the furnace, having become Man, he suffers as if he were mortal, and with the passion of death he clothes the mortal in incorruptibility with splendor, God alone is blessed and glorified by the fathers.
Wives from the world of God-wise follow in Your footsteps: Who, as if dead, I seek with tears, bowing, rejoicing to the Living God, and Your secret Pascha, O Christ, disciple of the gospel.
We celebrate the mortification of death, the hellish destruction, of another life, the eternal, the beginning, and playfully sing of the Guilty One, the One blessed of the fathers of God and the most glorified.
As truly sacred and all-celebratory this saving night is, and the luminous, light-bearing day, the herald of the rising of beings: in it the flightless Light from the grave rose carnally to all.
Litany and exclamation: May the power of Your Kingdom be blessed and glorified, Father, and Son, and Holy Spirit, now and ever, and unto ages of ages.
Song 8
Irmos: This appointed and holy day, One of the Sabbaths is the King and Lord, the feast of feasts and the triumph of celebrations: let us bless Christ forever.
Come, new vine birth, divine joy, in the deliberate days of the Resurrection of the Kingdom of Christ, let us join in, singing Him as God forever.
Lift your eyes around, O Zion, and see: behold, your children have come to you like a divinely luminous light, from the west and the north, and the sea, and the east, blessing Christ in you forever.
Trinity: Father Almighty, and Word, and Soul, three united in Hypostases Nature, the Most Essential and the Most Divine, in Thee we are baptized and we bless Thee forever.
The same litany and exclamation: For Thy name is blessed, and Thy Kingdom is glorified, the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, now and ever, and unto ages of ages.
Choruses for the 9th song
My soul magnifies Christ the Giver of Life, who rose three days from the grave.
And the irmos: Shine: And the second face sings the same chorus and irmos. The first face also sings the second chorus:
My soul magnifies the will of the one who suffered and was buried, and who rose from the grave for three days.
And the irmos: Shine: And the second face sings the same chorus, and the irmos. The first face also sings the third chorus:
Christ is the new Passover, living Sacrifice, Lamb of God, take away the sins of the world.
And verse. And the second face sings the same chorus and verse. The first face also sings the fourth chorus:
The angel cried out with the Most Grace: Pure Virgin, rejoice, and again the river, rejoice: Your Son is risen three days from the grave, and having raised the dead, people, rejoice.
And verse. And the second face sings the same chorus and verse.
And the other eight choruses are chanted once to the verse:
Thou hast awakened, having fallen asleep, dead from eternity, royally roaring like a lion from Judah.
Magdalene Mary came to the tomb and, having seen Christ, asked questions like a heli-grader.
The angel washed over the women, crying: stop crying, for Christ is risen.
Christ is risen, trampling down death and raising up the dead, people, rejoice.
Today every creature rejoices and rejoices: for Christ is risen and hell has been captivated.
Today is the Lord of the captivity of hell, who has erected the enemies, even from the ages known as the fiercely possessed.
My soul magnifies the power of the Trinitarian and Indivisible Divinity.
Rejoice, Virgin, rejoice, rejoice, Blessed One, rejoice, Most Glorified One: Your Son has risen three days from the grave.
Then the first face sings again the first chorus and irmos.
Also, both faces, having come together, sing the irmos and troparion: Christ is risen: three times.
Song 9
Irmos: WITH Rejoice, shine, new Jerusalem: for the glory of the Lord is upon you, rejoice now and be glad, O Zion. You, Pure One, show off, O Mother of God, about the rise of Your Nativity.
O Divine, O dear, O Thy sweetest voice! You have truly promised to be with us until the end of the age, O Christ: Who is faithful, the affirmation of hope, we rejoice.
O great and most sacred Easter, Christ! About wisdom and the Word of God, and power! Grant us the opportunity to partake of You in the eternal days of Your Kingdom.
Litany, and exclamation: For all the powers of heaven, the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, praise You, and they send up glory to You, now and ever, and to the ages of ages.
Exapostilary
Having fallen asleep in the flesh as if dead, Thou art the King and Lord, who rose for three days, raised Adam from aphids and abolished death: Easter is incorruptible, the salvation of the world. [Thrice.]
On praise, every breath: on tone 1. Let’s put verses 4, and sing the resurrection stichera, tone 1:
Verse: Praise Him according to His strength, praise Him according to the abundance of His majesty.
We sing Your saving passion, O Christ, and glorify Your Resurrection.
Verse: Praise Him with the voice of the trumpet, praise Him with the psaltery and the harp.
Having endured the cross and abolished death, and risen from the dead, reconcile our lives, O Lord, as One is Omnipotent.
Verse: Praise Him in the tympanum and face, praise Him in the strings and organ.
You who have been taken captive by hell and who have been resurrected by Your Resurrection, Christ, make us worthy to sing and praise You with a pure heart.
Verse: Praise Him with cymbals of good accord, praise Him with cymbals of shouting, let every breath praise the Lord.
Your divine condescension is glorifying, we sing to You, O Christ: you were born of the Virgin and you were inseparable from the Father: you suffered like a man and willingly endured the Cross, you rose from the grave as if you came from a palace, and save the world, O Lord, glory to You.
Stichera of Easter. Voice 5
Verse: May God rise again and His enemies be scattered.
The sacred Easter has appeared to us today: the new holy Easter: the mysterious Easter: the all-honorable Easter: the Easter of Christ the Deliverer: the immaculate Easter: the great Easter: the Easter of the faithful: the Easter that opens the doors of paradise to us: the Easter that sanctifies all the faithful.
Verse: As smoke disappears, let them disappear.
Come from the vision, wife of the good news, and cry to Zion: receive from us the joys of the annunciation of the Resurrection of Christ: rejoice, rejoice and rejoice, Jerusalem, seeing the King Christ from the tomb, like a bridegroom taking place.
Verse: So let sinners perish at the face of God, and let righteous women rejoice.
The myrrh-bearing women, in the deep morning, appeared at the tomb of the Life-Giver, having found an Angel sitting on a stone, and having preached to them, said to her: Why are you looking for the Living One with the dead? Why are you crying into the aphids? Go, preach as His disciple.
Verse: This day which the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it.
Red Easter, Easter, Lord's Easter! Easter is an all-honorable blessing for us. Easter! Let us embrace each other with joy. Oh Easter! Deliverance of sorrow, for from the grave today, as from the palace, Christ has risen, filling the women with joy, saying: preach as an apostle.
Glory, and now, voice 5:
Resurrection day, and let us be enlightened by triumph, and embrace each other. We say: brethren, and we will forgive all those who hate us through the Resurrection, and thus we will cry out: Christ is risen from the dead, trampling down death by death and giving life to those in the tombs.
Christ is also risen: three times. And we sing this many times, until the brothers kiss each other.
Like the saints of our father John, Archbishop of Constantinople, Chrysostom, the Catechetical Word on the holy and luminous day of the glorious and saving Christ our God of the Resurrection.
A If anyone is pious and God-loving, let him enjoy this good and bright celebration. If anyone is a prudent servant, let him enter rejoicing into the joy of his Lord. If anyone has labored by fasting, let him now receive a denarius. If anyone has eaten since the first hour, let him accept righteous debt today. If anyone comes after the third hour, let him celebrate with thanks. If anyone has reached the sixth hour, he will doubt nothing, for he will gain nothing. If anyone has lost even the ninth hour, let him approach without hesitation or fear. If anyone has reached the point even at the eleventh hour, let him not be afraid of delay: for this Lord is loving, and accepts the last as he did the first: he rests in the eleventh hour the one who has come, as he did from the first hour. And he has mercy on the last, and pleases the first, and gives to this, and grants to this, and accepts deeds, and kisses the intention, and honors the deed, and praises the proposal. Therefore, let all of you enter into the joy of your Lord: both first and second, accept the reward. Riches and wretches, rejoice with each other. Temperance and laziness, honor the day. Those who have fasted and those who have not fasted, rejoice today. The meal is complete, enjoy it all. The well-fed calf, let no one come forth hungry, all of you will enjoy the feast of faith: you will all receive the riches of goodness. Let no one weep in misery, for the common Kingdom has appeared. Let no one weep for sins, for forgiveness has come from the grave. Let no one fear death, for the death of Savior will set us free. Extinguish you, those who are kept from her, take captivity to hell, descend into hell. Grieve him by tasting His flesh. And Isaiah, when he was undertaking this, cried out: hell says, grieve, he will shit thee: grieve, for you are made void: grieve, for you are desecrated: grieve, for you are dead: grieve, for you are cast down: grieve, for you are bound. You accepted the body, and fell into God: you accepted the earth, and you saw the sky: you accepted the hedgehog, seeing it, and falling into the hedgehog, not seeing it. Where is your sting, death? Where the hell is your victory? Christ is risen, and you are cast down. Christ is risen, and the demons have fallen. Christ is risen, and the Angels rejoice. Christ is risen, and life lives. Christ is risen, and not one is dead in the tomb. Christ, having risen from the dead, became the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. To him be glory and power forever and ever. Amen.
The troparion of the saint is also spoken. Voice 8:
U Thy grace, like the lordship of a fire, has arisen, enlightened the universe: do not win the treasures of the world through the love of money, show us the height of humility, but chastise with your words, Father John Chrysostom, pray to the Word, Christ God, to save our souls.
Therefore, the deacon says the litany: Have mercy on us, O God: and Let us fulfill morning prayer our Lord.
And at the cry, the deacon: Wisdom. We: Bless. Abbot: Blessed be Christ our God, always, now and ever, and unto ages of ages. And we: Amen. Establish, O God: Therefore, the rector, holding the Cross, instead of: Glory to Thee, Christ God: sings: Christ is risen from the dead, trampling down death by death. And we sing: And having given life to those in the tombs. And the abbot says: Christ is risen from the dead, trampling death by death and giving life to those in the tombs: our true God, through the prayers of His Most Pure Mother and all the saints, will have mercy and save us, for He is Good and Lover of Mankind. Also, raising the Cross, he says: Christ is risen. Three times. We answer: He is truly risen. Three times. We also sing the final: Christ is risen: three times, the entire troparion. And we will end by singing: And we have been given eternal life, we worship His three-day Resurrection. Therefore, we are perennial, and we kiss the Honorable Cross, held in the hand of the abbot.
About the hours of Holy Pascha and all Bright Week.
It is appropriate to know that from this day on, the holy and great Week of Easter, even until Saturday, the hours are sung.
I will begin with the priest: Blessed is our God: Face: Amen. Christ is risen from the dead, trampling down death by death, and giving life to those in the tombs. three times.
We also say the verb three times:
Having seen the Resurrection of Christ, let us worship the Holy Lord Jesus, the One Sinless One. We worship Your Cross, O Christ, and we sing and glorify Your holy Resurrection: for You are our God, do we know no other to You, we call Your name. Come, all you faithful, let us worship the Holy Resurrection of Christ: behold, through the Cross joy has come to the whole world. Always blessing the Lord, we sing His Resurrection: having endured the crucifixion, destroy death by death.
Also ipakoi, voice 4, united:
Having anticipated the morning of Mary, and having found the stone rolled away from the tomb, I hear from the Angel: in the ever-present light of the One who is with the dead, what are you looking for, like a man? You see the graveclothes, and preach to the world that the Lord has risen, the one who put to death death: for he is the Son of God, who saves the human race.
Same kontakion, tone 8, unanimous:
Even though you descended into the grave, Immortal, you destroyed the power of hell, and you rose again as the Conqueror, Christ God, saying to the myrrh-bearing women: Rejoice, and grant peace to your apostles, grant resurrection to the fallen.
This troparion is also united:
In the tomb carnally, in hell with the soul like God, in paradise with the thief, and on the Throne you were Christ, with the Father and the Spirit, fulfilling all the Indescribable.
Like the Life-Bearer, like the reddest of Paradise, truly the brightest of all royal palaces, Christ, Thy tomb, the source of our resurrection.
And now, Mother of God:
Highly consecrated Divine village, rejoice. For you have given joy, O Theotokos, to those who call: blessed art thou among women, O All-Immaculate Lady.
Also, Lord, have mercy, 40. Glory, and now: Most honorable Cherub: Bless in the name of the Lord, father. Priest: Through the prayers of the saints, our fathers: We say: Amen. And again we say something similar: Christ is risen: three times. Glory, and now: Lord, have mercy. Three times. Bless. And the first hour is released.
Following the Liturgy can hurt.
I will say to the deacon: Bless the master. I exclaimed to the abbot: Blessed is the Kingdom of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, now and ever, and unto ages of ages. And we: Amen. The rector sings with the other ministers in the holy altar: Christ is risen from the dead, trampling down death by death, and giving life to those in the tombs. Three times. And the faces the same way, three times.
The abbot says the refrains: 1st. May God rise again: Face: Christ is risen: once. 2nd. Like smoke disappears: Christ is risen: once. 3rd. Thus let sinners perish: Christ is risen: once. 4th. This day: Christ is risen: once. Glory: Christ is risen: once. And now: Christ is risen: once. The rector also sings in a higher voice: Christ is risen from the dead, trampling down death by death. We: And to those in the tombs we have given life.
Therefore the deacon says the great litany.
According to the litany and exclamation
Antiphon 1, Psalm 65, tone 2.
Verse 1: Shout to the Lord, all the earth. Chorus: Through the prayers of the Mother of God, Savior, save us.
And another face verses the same verse: Shout to the Lord, all the earth, sing to His name, give glory to His praise. Through the prayers of the Mother of God, Savior, save us.
Verse 2: Cry to God: since Thy works are terrible, in the abundance of Thy strength Thy enemies will lie to Thee. Through the prayers of the Mother of God, Savior, save us.
Verse 3: Let all the earth worship You and sing to You, and let the Most High sing praises to Your name. Through the prayers of the Mother of God, Savior, save us.
Glory, even now: Both faces are united in the highest voice: Through the prayers of the Mother of God, Savior, save us.
Also, small litany.
Second Antiphon, Psalm 66, same voice.
Verse 1: God be gracious to us and bless us. Chorus: Save us, Son of God, risen from the dead, singing Ti: Alleluia. once.
Another country, the same verse: God, be gracious to us, and bless us, make Thy face shine upon us, and have mercy on us. Save us, Son of God:
Verse 2: Let us know Your way on earth; Let us know Your salvation in all nations. Save us, Son of God:
Verse 3: Let men confess to You, God, let all men confess to You. Save us, Son of God:
Glory, even now: two faces together: the Only Begotten Son:
Also, litany.
Antiphon 3rd, Psalm 67, tone 5.
Verse 1: Let God rise again, and let His enemies be scattered. Troparion: Christ is risen from the dead:
Another country, the same verse: May God rise again, and may His enemies be scattered, and may those who hate Him flee from His presence. Christ is Risen:
Verse 2: As smoke disappears, let them disappear as wax melts before the fire. Christ is Risen:
Verse 3: So let sinners perish from the presence of God, but let righteous women rejoice and rejoice before God. Christ is Risen:
And there is an entrance. And the deacon exclaims, whether there is or not, the priest: Wisdom, forgive. We are the entrance: In the churches bless God, the Lord from the fountain of Israel. And we sing the troparion: Christ is risen: ipakoi: Having preceded the morning: Glory, and now: kontakion: Even if thou didst descend into the grave:
Instead of the Trisagion: Eliza was baptized into Christ, put on Christ: alleluia.
It is appropriate to know that this is the beginning of the Liturgy, and the antiphons, and the Elitsa, to be baptized into Christ: we sing throughout Bright Week, even until New Week: and so does the communicant.
Prokeimenon, tone 8: This is the day the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad. Verse: Confess to the Lord that His mercy endures forever.
Apostle, reading of Acts, conception 1. [Acts. 1, 1 – 8.]
| I spoke the first word about everyone, O Theophilus, even as Jesus began to create and teach | I wrote the first book for you, Theophilus, about everything that Jesus did and taught from the beginning. |
| Even to the very bottom, having commanded the Apostle by the Holy Spirit, whom he chose, he ascended: | Until the day on which He ascended, giving commands by the Holy Spirit to the Apostles whom He had chosen, |
| Before them, set Yourself alive through Your suffering in many true signs, appearing to them for forty days and speaking about the Kingdom of God: | To whom He revealed Himself alive, through His suffering, with many true proofs, appearing to them for forty days and speaking about the Kingdom of God. |
| With them, the poisonous one commanded them not to leave Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which you heard from Me: | And having gathered them together, He commanded them: Do not go away from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which you have heard from Me, |
| For John already baptized with water, but you have not been baptized in the Holy Spirit for many of these days. | For John baptized with water, but a few days after this you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit. |
| They then came together to ask Him, saying: Lord, will you establish the kingdom of Israel in this year? | Therefore, they came together and asked Him, saying: Are you at this time, O Lord, restoring the kingdom to Israel? |
| He said to them: You cannot understand the times and years that the Father has laid down in His power: | He said to them, “It is not your business to know the times or seasons which the Father has appointed in His power; |
| But you will receive the power that the Holy Spirit has brought upon you, and you will be My witness in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the last of the earth. | But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the ends of the earth. |
Alleluia, voice 4: You have risen, having spared Zion. Verse: The Lord looked down from Heaven to earth.
Gospel of John, conception 1. [John. 1, 1 – 17.]
| In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was to God, and God was the Word. | In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. |
| This from time immemorial to God: | It was in the beginning with God. |
| Everything was by Him, and without Him nothing would have happened. | Everything began to be through Him, and without Him nothing began to be that began to be. |
| In Tom there was life, and there was light in man: | In Him was life, and life was the light of men. |
| And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness does not embrace it. | And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness does not overcome it. |
| There was a man sent from God, his name was John: | There was a man sent from God; his name is John. |
| This one has come as a witness, so that he may testify about the Light, so that everyone may have faith in him. | He came as a witness, to testify about the Light, so that through him all might believe. |
| Not without light, but let it testify to the Light: | He was not light, but was sent to testify to the Light. |
| Be the true Light that enlightens every person coming into the world: | There was the true Light, which enlightens every person coming into the world. |
| In the world there was no, and the world was, and the world did not know Him: | He was in the world, and the world came into being through Him, and the world did not know Him. |
| He came to his own people, but did not receive him from his own people. | He came to his own, and his own did not receive Him. |
| The little ones received Him, and gave them the realm to become children of God, believing in His name, | And to those who received Him, to those who believed in His name, He gave the power to become children of God, |
| Who was born not of blood, nor of carnal lust, nor of manly lust, but of God. | who were born neither of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. |
| And the Word became flesh and dwelt in us, and we saw His glory, the glory of the Only Begotten from the Father, filled with grace and truth. | And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth; and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten of the Father. |
| John testifies about Him and calls out the verb: He who died, who came after me, was before me, as if he were before me. | John testifies of Him and, exclaiming, says: This was He of whom I said that He who came after me stood before me, because He was before me. |
| And from His fulfillment we all received grace and received grace: | And from His fullness we have all received and grace upon grace, |
| As the law was given by Moses, grace and truth came into being by Jesus Christ. | for the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. |
At the time of reading the Holy Gospel, the initial deacon, although the Gospel of honor, says: Bless the master of the evangelist: The rector also says: God through the prayers of the glorious saint: and so on, as indicated in the liturgiary. And the deacon goes out, and at the usual place, right at the royal gates, facing the east, he first exclaimed to the abbot before the throne: Wisdom forgive us, let us hear the holy Gospel. Likewise, all the priests and elders are servants, and the deacons also say that they have stood in various places, from the holy throne to the western gates of the church, one after another. In the middle of all stands the archdeacon, and everyone is honored by the abbot, one by one according to the articles, as the abbot orders. And the rector begins: Reading the Gospel from John the Holy. Others too. Abbot: Let's go. Others too. The rector, standing before the throne, facing east, reads: In the beginning was the Word: and so on. Others too. And at every exclamation, or article of the Gospel, in the church they strike one on the candy. The paraecclesiarch is outside the church on the great bell, and on the great kampan: at the last exclamation they strike the whole kampana, and on the great bell, and the Divine Liturgy of Chrysostom takes place according to the order.
Instead of Worthy: we sing:
The angel cried out with more grace, Pure Virgin, rejoice, and again the river, rejoice: Your Son is risen three days from the grave, and having raised the dead, people rejoice.
The same irmos: Shine, shine, new Jerusalem:
Participant: Receive the Body of Christ, taste the immortal source, alleluia. three times.
When the abbot says: Come with the fear of God and faith. We instead, Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord: we sing: Christ is risen: once. The abbot says: God save your people: And we: Christ is risen: once. When the priest says: Always now and ever: And we: Christ is risen: once. Let's do the litany. Instead, Be the name of the Lord: and instead of the psalm, I will bless the Lord: we sing: Christ is risen: twelve, and multiplying: until the anaphora from the abbot will be heard. Also abbot, The blessing of the Lord is upon you: Face: Amen. Therefore, the rector instead, Glory to Thee, Christ God: sings: Christ is risen from dead by death death corrected. And the face: And giving life to those in the tombs. Therefore, the abbot says dismissal with the Cross according to custom, as indicated at Matins.
Bright Matins
Before the start of Easter Matins, a censer is lit and fragrant incense is placed in it to fill the room with incense. A censer here means any vessel in which burning hot remains of charred wood and incense are placed.
Arrival bows. Then the eldest: For the prayers of the saints, our fathers...
Singers: A min.
The eldest: fencing himself with the sign of the cross, he sings twice:
Christ is risen from the dead, step upon death, and give life to the grave.
The elder reads:
Verse 1. May God rise again, and His enemies will be scattered.
Verse 2. When the smoke disappears, let it disappear.
Verse 3. So let sinners perish from the face of God, and let righteous women rejoice.
Verse 4. With her the day that the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad.
Glory... Christ is risen from the dead.
And now... Christ is risen from the dead.
Those praying after each verse and after Glory..., and after And now..., sing three times X RISTOS IS RISEN FROM THE DEAD...
The elder sings: Christ is risen from the dead... (up to half), the worshipers then continue to sing: and the belly is given to the grave.
Lord have mercy (12 times). Glory, even now.
Canon of Holy Pascha
Voice 1st
On Easter night Iirmos we sing each song four times. Then we sing troparia for 12 in total (which song has 2 troparions - we sing each 6 times, where there are three troparions - we sing each 4 times). We sing the troparia ten times with chorus X Christ is risen from the dead . For the eleventh time I sing with the lead: C lava .., twelfth time - with the chorus: And now ... (each hymn of the canon consists of an irmos and two or three troparia. The troparia begin after the word: “Chant”). Katavasia after each song there is an irmos of the same song, which we sing 2 times.
Song 1. Irmos
On the day of resurrection, people will be enlightened, Easter of the Lord, Easter; from death to life and from earth to heaven, Christ God brought us, singing in victory (4 times).
Chorus: Christ is risen from the dead (bow).
Let us purify our feelings and see, with the unapproachable light of the Resurrection of Christ, shining and rejoicing, let us hear clearly, singing victoriously (6 times).
For it is fitting that the heavens rejoice, let the earth rejoice, let the world celebrate, all visible and invisible, Christ God has risen, there is eternal joy (6 times).
Confusion. On the day of resurrection... (2 times).
Song 3. Irmos
Come, we drink new beer, not from a barren stone that works miracles, but from an incorruptible source that brought forth Christ from the grave; We establish ourselves in Him (4 times).
Now everything is filled with light, the heavens and the earth and the underworld; Let all creation celebrate the rise of Christ, and they affirm Him (6 times).
Yesterday Christ was crucified, yesterday I was buried, today I am resurrected with You, I Himself glorified the Savior in His kingdom (6 times).
Confusion. Come on, let’s drink beer... (2 times).
Lord have mercy (three times).
Glory, even now. Ipakoi, voice 4. P When the morning dawned with Mary, and the stone was rolled away from the tomb, I heard from the Angel, Who in the ever-present light shall not look for Him with the dead, as for a man. You see the grave linens, preach to you and to the world: for the Lord has risen, you who have put to death; for He is the Son of God, saving the human race.
Song 4. Irmos
May Habakkuk, the God-speaking guardian of God, stand with us and reveal a luminous Angel, saying in a loud voice: Today is salvation for the world, for Christ is risen, for he is omnipotent (4 times).
The female sex was opened like a virgin womb, and Christ became like a man; The Lamb is called blameless, because he did not taste filth; Ours is Easter, for God is true and perfect, having appeared (4 times).
I am the one and only Lamb, blessed is the crown of Christ, who willingly was slain for all, the cleansing Passover, and the red and righteous Sun rose from the tomb for us (4 times).
God's father Davyd, galloping in front of the ark of hay; But God's holy people, seeing things happen, rejoice divinely: for Christ is risen, for he is omnipotent (4 times).
Catavasia. God's guardians... (2 times)
Song 5. Irmos
We train deeply in the morning, and instead of peace, we will bring a song to the Lady, and we will see Christ the righteous Sun, life shining for everyone (4 times).
Thy innumerable mercy, who seeth the bonds of hell, walk towards the light, O Christ, with cheerful feet; Easter is praised eternally (6 times).
Let us approach the luminous coming of Christ from the tomb, like the Bridegroom; and let us celebrate idly with kindly chinmi, God's saving Easter (6 times).
Confusion. We train the morning deep... (2 times)
Song 6. Irmos
From below to the underworld of the earth, and crushed the faiths of the eternal underworld bound by Christ, and for three days, like Jonah from the whale, he rose from the grave (4 times).
Having preserved the sign of Christ intact, He rose from the grave, Who did not harm the Virgin Key in His birth, and You opened the doors of heaven to us (6 times).
With my shepherd is a living, and not a sacrificial slaughter, as God, by His own will, brought to the Father, and resurrected all of Adam, rose from the grave (6 times).
Confusion. From below to the underworld... (2 times).
Lord have mercy (three times). Glory, even now.
Kontakion, tone 8. And even as He descended into the grave, Immortal, You destroyed the power of hell and rose again as a conqueror, O Christ God, having proclaimed joy to the myrrh-bearing women, and bestowing peace upon His apostles, giving resurrection to those who had fallen.
Ikos. And before the sun, sometimes the sun went into the grave; having anticipated the morning in a demanding manner, as in the days of the myrrh-bearing virgin, and crying out to friend to friend, O friend, come, let us anoint the life-giving and buried Body with stinks, the flesh of the resurrected fallen Adam, lying in the tomb; let us go and sweat, like wolves, and let us worship and offer myrrh, like gifts, not in swaddling clothes, but in a shroud, to Him entwined, and with weeping we cry, O Master, arise, Who has given resurrection to the fallen.
Having seen the resurrection of Christ, let us worship the Holy Lord Jesus, the only Sinless One (bow). We worship Your Cross, Christ (bow), and we sing and glorify Your holy resurrection. For you are our God, do we know no other to you, we call your name. Come, all the faithful, let us worship the Holy Resurrection of Christ (bow), for behold the Cross has come for the joy of the whole world; Let us always bless the Lord and sing of His Resurrection: you endured crucifixion, and destroyed death by death (three times).
Jesus was resurrected from the tomb, as He prophesied, and He gave us eternal life, peace and great mercy (three times).
Song 7. Irmos
O troki, having delivered from the cave, having become Man, he suffers as if he were mortal, and with passion he clothes what was mortified into incorruptibility with splendor; God alone is blessed by the Father and glorified (4 times).
Wives with the world of God-wise, following You; I seek Him as if dead with tears, bowing down and rejoicing in the living God, and Thy secret Passover, O Christ, disciple of the gospel (4 times).
I am truly sacred and all-celebratory, this saving night and luminous, luminous day, preacher of the rising of existence; in it is the flightless Light, shining from the grave carnally to all (4 times).
From death we celebrate mortification, hellish destruction, the beginning of another eternal life; and playfully we sing Guilty, the only one blessed by the Father of God and glorified (4 times).
Confusion. Having delivered the youths from the oven... (2 times).
Song 8. Irmos
With her we have named a holy day, one Saturday is King and Lord, a holiday is a holiday and a triumph is a triumph, but let us bless Christ forever (4 times).
Come, children of the new grapes, divine joy, in the deliberate days of the resurrection, let us partake of the kingdom of Christ, singing to Him as God forever (4 times).
Turn your eyes around Zion, and see, behold, your children have come to you like a God-bright luminary, from the west and the north and the sea and the east, blessing Christ in you forever (4 times).
Trinity: To the Most Holy Trinity, our God, glory to Thee.
O Father Almighty and the Word and Soul, the three united nature, the pre-essential and the pre-divine, in You we are baptized and we bless You forever. (4 times) .
Confusion. Those who are already betrothed to her... (2 times).
Song 9. Irmos
Shine, shine, new Jerusalem, for the glory of the Lord is upon you; rejoice now and be glad, O Zion; You, the Pure One, show off to the Mother of God, about the rise of Your Nativity (4 times).
Chorus (bow). O divine, oh dear, oh sweet voice of Ti, for you unfaithfully promised to be with us, until the end of the age, Christ; We rejoice in his return to power and hope (6 times).
O great and sacred Easter, Christ; O Wisdom, Word of God and power, grant us the opportunity to partake of You, in the unfading days of Your kingdom (6 times).
Catavasia. Shine, shine... (2 times).
After the last chaos, bow to the ground. Lord have mercy (three times).
Glory, even now. Luminous. P Lotya fell asleep as if he were dead, the King and Lord, who rose for three days, raised Adam from ashes, and abolished death. Easter incorruptibility, salvation for the world (2 times). Glory, even now. And one more time we will eat the same luminary.
Psalm 148. Praise the Lord from heaven, praise Him in the highest. Praise Him, all His angels; praise Him, all His might. Praise Him sun and moon. Praise Him all the stars and light. Praise Him, the heavens of the heavens, and the waters above the heavens, that they may praise the name of the Lord. As it was He who spoke, He commanded and was created. Let me put it in the age, and in the age of the century. Give the command, and it will not go unnoticed. Praise the Lord from the earth, serpents and all the deeps. Fire, hail, snow, blast, stormy spirit, those who do His word. Mountains and all the hills. The tree is fruitful, and all are cedars. The beast and all the beasts. Reptiles and birds are birds. The kings of the earth, and all people. The prince and all the judges of the zemstia. Boys and maidens. Let the old men and the young men praise the name of the Lord. For the name of the One has been exalted. His confession on earth and in heaven. And he will exalt the horn of his people. A song to all His saints. I eat the sons of the people of Israel who are approaching.
Psalm 149. Sing a new song to the Lord, His praise in the church of the saints. Let Israel rejoice in Him who created Him. And the sons of Zion will rejoice in their King. Let them praise His name in person, in the tympanum, and in the psalms, and sing to Him. For the Lord delights in His people, and will lift up the meek to salvation. The saints will be praised in glory, and will rejoice on their beds. The praises of God are in their throats, and two sharp swords are in their hands. Bring vengeance to the nations, reproof to the people. Bind the king with their fetters, and their glorious hand with iron shackles. Create judgment in them is written. Glory to all His saints.
Psalm 150. Praise God in His saints, praise Him in strengthening His powers. Then the reader says: Praise Him for His strength.
Singers sing in tone 1. Praise Him according to His great greatness.
Stichera: We sing Your saved passion for Christ, and glorify Your resurrection.
Reader: Praise Him with a trumpet voice.
Singers: Praise Him with the psaltery and the harp.
Stichera: Having endured the Crucifixion, and having abolished death, and rose from the dead, pacify our lives, Lord, for one is Omnipotent.
Reader: Praise Him in tympanum and face.
Singers: Praise Him with strings and organs.
Stichera: Having captured hell and raised man, by His resurrection Christ, grant us with a pure heart to sing and praise You.
Reader: Praise Him with the cymbals of good will, praise Him with the cymbals of shouting.
Singers: Let every breath praise the Lord.
Stichera. Your divine gaze is glorious, we cry to You Christ, born of the Virgin, and inseparable from the Father, suffering like a man. And by will I endured crucifixion, rose from the grave, like a bridegroom who came from the palace, and saved the whole world, Lord, glory to You.
Stichera Pasce, tone 5.
Elder: May God rise again.
Singers on the 5th tone. And His enemies will burst out.
Everyone sings: The sacred Easter has appeared to us today. New Holy Easter, Mysterious Easter, All-Honored Easter, Easter of Christ the Deliverer. Easter is immaculate. Great Easter, Easter for the faithful, Easter opening the doors of heaven for us, Easter sanctifying all the faithful.
Senior: The smoke disappears.
Singers: Let them disappear.
Everyone sings: Come from the vision of the woman who brought good news, and cry to Zion, receive from us the joy of the Annunciation, the Resurrection of Christ. Show off and rejoice, and rejoice in Jerusalem, having seen the King Christ from the tomb, like the Bridegroom.
Elder: So let sinners perish from the face of God.
Singers: And let the righteous rejoice.
Everyone sings: The myrrh-bearing women, very early, appeared at the tomb of the Life-Giver, and found an angel sitting on a stone and told them, saying to them, “Seek the Living One with the dead.” Why are you crying into the aphids. Go and preach as His disciples.
Elder: This is the day the Lord has made.
Singers: Let us rejoice and be glad.
Everyone sings: Easter is red, Easter is the Lord's Easter, Easter is all-honorable to us, Easter, let us receive each other with joy. O Easter, deliverance of sorrow, for from the grave this day, as from this Palace, Christ, fill the women with joy, saying, preach as an apostle.
Senior: Glory. Singers: And now. Resurrection day, let us be enlightened by triumph, and we will accept each other, and the brethren, and those who hate us. Let us forgive all by the resurrection, and thus we cry, Christ is risen from the dead, trampling down death by death, and free life to those in the tombs.
In church after this, with repeated singing Christ is Risen… the believers kiss the Holy Gospel, the Cross, icons, and then a festive kiss with the clergy and among themselves with the words: Christ is Risen! - He is truly risen!
Then in the temple the priest, standing at the royal doors, reads, turning his face to the worshipers, the Word of St. John Chrysostom for Holy Easter. At home, this word is read by the elder.
Paul's mouth, Christ's mouth, Christ's mouth, Paul's mouth. Chrysostom's mouth and Pavlov's mouth. Like our holy father John Chrysostom, Archbishop of Constantinograd. The word for Holy Easter is instructive. And about those who are late for the Lenten feat, bless the father.
If anyone loves God, is faithful and pious, let him accept this good bead and enjoy this most honorable celebration. If anyone is prudent from a well-behaved servant, let him enter rejoicing into the joy of his Lord. If anyone has fasted and eaten, let him now receive a piece of silver. If anyone has eaten from the first hour, let him accept righteous debt today. If anyone comes after the third hour, let him celebrate with thanks. If anyone has reached the sixth hour, he will doubt nothing, for he will gain nothing. If anyone has missed even the ninth hour, let him begin without a doubt, fear nothing. If anyone comes even at the eleventh hour, let him not be afraid because he is delayed. For the Lord is humane and accepts the latter, just as he consoles the first, who came at the eleventh hour, as he did from the first hour. And he has mercy on the last, and he comforts the first. And he gives to one, and to this he bestows. And he honors the work, and praises the proposal, and loves the haste of those who hesitate. Therefore, let all of you enter into the joy of your Lord, first and second and last, and receive the reward. Rich and poor and poor, rejoice with each other. Honor the day of abstinence and laziness. Those who have fasted and those who have not fasted, rejoice today. The church meal is ready, everyone can enjoy it. A well-fed Taurus is presented. No one is greedy, everyone will enjoy the church feast, everyone will receive the riches of goodness. But no one weeps in poverty when the common Kingdom appears. Let no one weaken, let no one weep for sin, forgiveness is greater and leaving us from the tomb, let no one fear death, for the death of the Savior will set us free. Extinguish her, those who are kept from her. Die hell and go to hell. Woe to him if he tasted His flesh. And behold, having preceded Isaiah with a cry, hell was grieved with his speech, he will shit thee. Be upset, for you will soon be scolded. Accept the body and admire God. Receive the earth and destroy the sky. It is pleasant to see, but to fall into ignorance. Where is the sting of death, where is the victory in hell? Christ has risen and hell has been cast down. Christ has risen and the demon has fallen. Christ is risen and the angels rejoice.
Christ is risen, and life lives throughout the world. Christ is risen, and not a single dead man is in the tomb. Christ has risen from the dead, and has become the firstfruits of those who have died. To him be glory and dominion, forever and ever, amen.
After this we will sing the troparion of St. John Chrysostom.
From your lips, like a radiant dawn shining, your God-given grace, enlighten the universe. It is not for money that you lay down the treasure of the world, but show us the height of humility of mind, and punishing with your words, Father John Chrysostom, pray to the Word of Christ God, to save our souls. Lord have mercy (40 times). Glory, even now. Lord have mercy (12 times). Glory, even now.
Elder: Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on us.
Singers: Amen.
God strengthen the Christian faith, Lord preserve and have mercy on the Russian state, Lord save and have mercy on our Archbishop (name of the rivers) and the father of our spiritual ones who are in Christ with our brethren, and God save all Christians.
Christ is Risen… (3 times with a bow). Senior: Christ is risen (up to half). The singers sing: ...and the life of the grave is given freely. The elder says leave: Risen from dead Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, prayers for the sake of Thy Most Pure Mother, by the power of the Honest and Life-Giving Cross, the glorious and all-praised Apostle Saints and all for the sake of the saints, have mercy and save us, as you are Good and Lover of Mankind.
Singers: Amen.
Senior says: Christ is Risen!
The worshipers answer: Truly risen!
And this is repeated three times, while everyone protects themselves with the sign of the cross.
The singers sing: And we have been given eternal life and worship His three-day resurrection.
After this the first hour begins.
X Christ is risen (3 times). Having seen the Resurrection of Christ, let us adore (bow) the Holy Lord Jesus, the One Sinless One. We worship Your Cross, Christ (bow) , and we sing and glorify Your holy Resurrection. For You are our God, do we know no other to You, we call Your name. Come, all the faithful, let us worship (bow) the Holy Resurrection of Christ. Behold, having come to the Cross for the sake of joy to the whole world, let us always bless the Lord, we sing His Resurrection, He endured the crucifixion, and destroyed death with death (3 times).
Having anticipated the morning that was with Mary, and having found the stone rolled away, I heard from the angel, who in the ever-present light does not look with the dead like a man. You see the graveclothes, preach to the world that the Lord has risen, having put to death, that He is the Son of God, saving the human race (1 time).
And He also descended into the grave Immortal, but having destroyed the power of hell, and rose again as the Victorious Christ God, proclaiming joy to the myrrh-bearing women, and by His apostle bestowing peace, giving resurrection to those who fell (1 time).
In the grave with the flesh, in hell with the soul like God, in paradise with the thief, and on the Throne, Christ is with the Father and the Spirit, fulfilling everything indescribable.
Glory. Like the Life-Bearer, like the most beautiful of Paradise, truly, and every royal palace, the most luminous Christ of Your Sepulcher appeared, the Source of our Resurrection.
And now. Rejoice in God's most sanctified dwelling, for You have given joy to the Theotokos, crying out to You, blessed are You among women, the Most Immaculate Lady. Lord have mercy (40 times). Glory, even now. The most honest Cherub... Bless you in the name of the Lord, father.
For the prayers of the saints, our Father... Christ is Risen (3 times).
Let go: Risen from the dead, Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, prayers for the sake of Thy Most Pure Mother, our reverend and God-bearing fathers and all for the sake of the saints, have mercy and save us, as you are Good and Lover of Mankind. Amen. Lord have mercy (3 times).
Easter hours.
The 3rd, 6th, 9th hours are sung in the same way as the first hour.
Start of each hour: For the prayers of the saints... Amen. Christ is Risen…(3 times). And so on, just like the first hour.
There is no vacation at the end of each hour, but immediately after Most honorable Cherub… And For the prayers of the saints... let's start the next hour.
The beginning of lunch.
After the 9th hour (in home prayers, where there is no Liturgy) Christ is Risen(3 times), Resurrection of Christ... (written in the first hour) - 1 time, Anticipating the morning ... (1 time). Glory..., Even to the grave... (written in the first hour) - 1 time, And now...
The Only Begotten Son and the Word of God, Immortal. For the sake of our salvation, it is our will to become incarnate from the Holy Mother of God, and the ever-Virgin Mary, immutably human. Christ God will be crucified, advancing death upon death, One and the Holy Trinity. O glorified Father and Holy Spirit, save us.
Whenever you come to this Kingdom, remember us, Lord.
Blessed are the poor in spirit, for to them is the Kingdom of Heaven.
Blessed are those who cry, for they will be comforted.
Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be satisfied.
Blesseds of mercy, for there will be mercy.
Irmos of the 3rd canto: Come, let us drink new beer; it is not from the barren stone that miracles work, but from the incorruptible source that brought forth Christ from the tomb, and in Him we rely.
Blessed are those who are pure in heart, for they will see God.
Now everything is filled with light, heaven and earth and the underworld, so that all creation celebrates the rise of Christ, in Him we are affirmed.
Blessed are the peacemakers, for these shall be called sons of God.
Repeat the stichera: Now everything is fulfilled...
It is blessed to expel the truth for the sake of them, for those are the Kingdom of Heaven.
Yesterday Christ was crucified, yesterday I was buried, and today I stand with the resurrection of thee, glorifying the Savior Himself in His Kingdom.
Blessed are those who revile you, and destroy you, and say all sorts of evil things against you for lying to Me.
Canto 6th. Having preserved the signs of Christ intact, He rose from the tomb of the Virgin Key unharmed at His Nativity, and You opened the doors of heaven to us.
Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is in heaven.
Repeat the stichera: Keeping it intact...
Glory... My Savior, alive, and not a sacrificial slaughter, as God, by His own will, brought you to the Father. Co-resurrect Adam, the one who has risen from the grave.
And now...
Repeat the stichera: My savior...
All of the above stichera for the Blessed are taken from the Easter canon. They are sung to the tune of the Easter canon.
Then the prayer of Jesus: Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on us. Singers: Amen. And they sing: Elites were baptized into Christ, put on Christ, hallelujah (3 times). Glory, even now. Put on Christ, hallelujah.
The singers sing one more time Elitsy in Christ... (1 time).
The reader says: Prokeimenon, Psalm of David: This is the day that the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad.
The reader says: Confess to the Lord that He is good, for His mercy endures forever.
The singers sing: This day...
The reader says: Let the house of Israel say that He is good, for His mercy endures forever. The singers sing: This day...
The reader proclaims: From the Acts of the Apostle, readings (and the apostle reads):
I spoke the first word about everyone, O Theophilus, and Jesus began to create and teach about them. Before Him, the Apostle commanded the day by the Holy Spirit to choose them, and ascended. Before them, set yourself alive because of Your suffering in many true signs, appearing to them for forty days and speaking about the Kingdom of God. With them are the poisonous ones, who commanded them not to leave Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which they heard from Me: for as John baptized, eat with water, but you are to be baptized with the Holy Spirit, not many of these days. They then came together to ask Him, saying: Lord, if in this summer you will establish the kingdom of Israel. Speech to them: you cannot understand the times and years that the Father has made His domain. But you will receive the power that the Holy Spirit has come upon you: and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the last of the earth.
The reader proclaims: Psalm of David, alleluia.
The singers sing: hallelujah.
The reader says the verse: You have risen to the mercy of Zion.
Verse 2: The Lord looked down from heaven to see all the sons of men.
Verse 3: Receive the Body of Christ, and taste the immortal Source.
The singers sing after each verse- hallelujah. Reader - hallelujah and the singers also sing Alleluia (Alleluia is sung five times in total).
The elder will make three bows and say: From John, Holy Gospel, reading.
The singers sing: Glory to Thee, Lord (bow).
Then he reads the Gospel:
In the beginning was the word, and the word was to God, and God was the word from the beginning to God. All that was: and without Him nothing came to be. In that belly and belly is the light of man: And the light shines in the darkness, and His darkness is not embraced. There was a man sent from God, his name was John. This One has come as a testimony, to testify to the light, so that all may have faith in Him. There is light in that sky, but let it testify to the light. Be the light of the true, which enlightens every person coming into the world. In the world there was no, and the world was, and His world was not known. He came to his own, and did not receive his own. The little ones received Him and gave them the power to become children of God, believing in His name. Who was born not of blood, nor of carnal lust, nor of manly lust, but of God. And the word became flesh, and dwelt in us, and we saw His glory. Fill the glory of the Only Begotten from the Father with grace and truth. John testifies of Him, and cries out, saying: He has killed Him who came before me, because He was before me. And from His fulfillment we all receive and receive grace. For the law was given by Moses: and true grace was made by Jesus Christ.
The singers sing: Glory to Thee, Lord (bow).
The reader reads: Remember us, Lord, when you come to this Kingdom (bow).
Remember us, Master, when you come to this Kingdom (bow).
Remember us, Saints, when you come to this Kingdom (bow).
The face of heaven sings to You and says: Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord of hosts, fill heaven and earth with Your glory.
Verse: Come to Him and be enlightened, and your faces will not be ashamed. The face of heaven sings to You and says: Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord of hosts, fill heaven and earth with Your glory.
Glory. The assembly of saints, angels and archangels, with all the heavenly powers, sings to Thee and says: Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord of hosts, fill heaven and earth with Your glory.
And now. I believe in One God, the Father Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth, visible to all and invisible. And in one Lord Jesus Christ the only begotten Son of God, who was born of the Father before all ages. Light from Light, True God, from True God, born, not created, Consubstantial with the Father, by Him all things were. For our sake, man, and for our salvation, came down from heaven, and became incarnate from the Holy Spirit, and the Virgin Mary became human. Crucified for us under Pontius Pilate, suffering and buried, and resurrected on the third day according to the scriptures. And ascended into heaven, and sits at the right hand of the Father. And again the one who comes with glory will be judged by the living and the dead, but His Kingdom has no end. And in the Holy Spirit of the Lord, True and Life-Giving, who proceeds from the Father, who with the Father and the Son is worshiped and glorified, who spoke the prophets. And into one Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church. I confess one baptism for the remission of sins. I hope for the resurrection of the dead. And the life of the next century, amen.
Forgive us, God forgive our sins, voluntary and involuntary. Even in word and in deed. Both in control and not in control. And even in the mind and in thought. Even in days and nights. Forgive me all, as you are Good and Lover of Humanity.
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name, Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, as it is in heaven and on earth. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors. And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.
Jesus Prayer: Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on us. Amen. Reading the Easter kontakion:
Even though He went down into the grave Immortal, but destroyed the power of hell, and rose again as the Victorious Christ God, He brought joy to the myrrh-bearing women, and His apostle bestowed peace, giving resurrection to those who fell. Lord have mercy (40 times).
There is one Holy One, one Lord Jesus Christ, to the glory of God the Father, amen.
The singers sing: Christ is risen (three times with bows).
I will bless the Lord at all times; I will make His praise in my mouth. My soul will glory in the Lord, that the meek may hear and rejoice. Magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt His name together. Seek the Lord, and hear me, and deliver me from all my sorrows. Come to Him and be enlightened, and your faces will not be ashamed. Behold, the poor cried, and the Lord heard, and saved him from all his sorrows. The angel of the Lord will encamp around those who fear Him and deliver them. Taste and see that the Lord is good. Blessed is the man who trusts in Nan. Fear the Lord, all your saints, for there is no hardship for those who fear Him. Those who are poor and hungry are rich, but those who seek the Lord will not be deprived of any good. (For the celebration of the great Feast, it is advisable to sing in singing, starting after the Gospel).
Zadostoynik singers sing: Shine, shine... Then: Christ is risen (3 times with bows).
The elder sings: Christ is risen... (to half).
The singers sing the end:... and the belly is given to the grave.
The elder reads the leave: Risen from the dead, Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, prayers for the sake of Thy Most Pure Mother, by the power of the Honest and Life-Giving Cross and the glorious and all-praised apostle saints and all for the sake of the saints, have mercy and save us, for He is Good and Lover of Mankind. Singers: Amen.
The elder, protecting himself with the sign of the cross, says: Christ is Risen! The worshipers, also protecting themselves with the sign of the cross, answer: Truly risen! And so on up to three times.
The singers sing: And we have been given eternal life, we worship His three-day resurrection (bow). Sing three times: Christ is risen... Lord have mercy (3 times).
Initial bows.
Usually, during such a service, Easter eggs are also brought, and they stand here all Easter night, and thereby are, to some extent, sanctified by the Easter service itself.
