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Octoechos
Mode I
MATINS
Apolytikion. Original Melody.[1]
T he stone had been secured with a seal by the Judeans, * and a guard of soldiers was watching Your immaculate body. *
You rose on the third day, O Lord * and Savior, granting life unto the world. * For this reason were the powers of
heaven crying out to You, O Lifegiver: * Glory to Your resurrection, O Christ; * glory to Your [eternal] rule; * glory to
Your dispensation, only One who loves mankind.
Theotokion. Same Melody.
W hen Gabriel had uttered “rejoice” to you, O Virgin, * then with the voice was the Lord of all becoming incarnate * in
you whom the holy Ark [of old * prefigured], as righteous David said. * You carried Your Creator and proved to be
more spacious than the heavens. * Glory to Him who dwelt inside of you; glory to Him who came forth from You; glory be
to Him who through your childbirth has set us free.
After the first reading from the Psalter
Resurrection Kathismata
Tone One. Original Melody.[2]
T he soldiers keeping watch at Your sepulcher, O Savior, * became as dead for fear of the Angel appearing * as lightning
and proclaiming unto the women that You arose. * O Destroyer of corruption, we glorify You, * and we worship You
who from the tomb resurrected, * for You are our only God.
Glory. Same Melody.
Y ou willingly were nailed to the Cross, loving Master; * as mortal You were laid in a tomb, O Lifegiver. * By Your
own death did You destroy death’s dominion, O Mighty One. * For the sentries of Hades in fear of You shuddered. *
With yourself You raised those who were dead from the ages, * for You alone love mankind.
Both now. Theotokion. Same Melody.
A ll we who run to you and with longing take refuge * in your benevolence, know that you are the Mother * of God and
after giving birth are a virgin in very truth. * For we sinners have you as our only protection. * In temptation we rely on
you for salvation, * O only allblameless one.
After the second reading from the Psalter
Resurrection Kathismata
The had been secured[3]
T he women to the gravesite went early in the morning * and when they beheld the appearance of an angel they trembled.
* The sepulcher radiated life; the wonder filled them with astonishment. * Hence they went away, proclaiming the
resurrection unto the Disciples. * “Christ has despoiled Hades, as the One * mighty and only powerful, * and He raised up
all who were corrupted, * and dispelled the fear of condemnation, by the power of the Cross.”
Glory. Same Melody.
W hen You the Life of the universe were nailed unto the Cross, * and You were reckoned among the dead, O Lord, the
Immortal One, * O Savior, on the third day You arose, * and resurrected Adam from decay. * For this reason were the
powers of heaven crying out to You, O Lifegiver: * Glory to Your sufferings, O Christ; * glory to Your Resurrection; *
glory to Your condescension, only One who loves mankind.
Both now. The soldiers keeping watch.
Mary who became the Master’s hallowed vessel, * O raise us up, for we have fallen into the chasm * of awful
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O despondency, and transgressions and suffering. * For you have indeed become salvation for sinners, * and their help in
need and their prevailing protection; * and also you save your slaves.
After Psalm 118 and the Evlogetaria
Hypakoë
T he repentance of the robber plundered Paradise, while the lament of the myrrhbearing women revealed the joy. For
You had risen, O Christ our God, bestowing on the world the great mercy.
The Hymns of Ascent
1st Antiphon
When I am afflicted, hearken to my distress; Lord, to You I cry out.
Ceaseless does divine longing become in those who dwell in the wilderness, * outside of the futile world as they are.
Glory. Both now.
To the Holy Spirit do both honor and glory belong, as to the Father and the Son. Let us therefore sing in praise to the
Trinity and one dominion.
2nd Antiphon
Having lifted me up to the mountains of Your laws, * brighten me with virtues, O God, that I may praise You.
With Your right hand embracing me, O Logos, * be my keeper, shelter me, so that the fire of sin not burn me.
Glory. Both now.
By the Holy Spirit all creation is renewed, and thus returns unto its first state. For He is equal in power to the Father and
the Logos.
3rd Antiphon
Because they said to me, Let us journey to the courts of the Lord, * my spirit has been cheered, and my heart rejoices
also.
On the house of David there is great fear; * for there, when thrones have been placed, all the tribes and tongues of the
earth will be judged.
Glory. Both now.
To the Holy Spirit honor, worship, glory and dominion, * as befit the Father and the Son, must also be offered. * For the
Trinity is a Monad, in nature but not in persons.
Prokeimenon
Now will I arise, says the Lord; I will set them in salvation; * I will speak boldly thereof.
Verse: The words of the Lord are pure words.
Let every breath. Gospel reading. Having seen the Resurrection.
Psalm 50, etc.
Canon of the Resurrection
Ode One. Mode I. The Heirmos.[4]
A s befits Divinity, O Lord, * so Your victorious right hand was glorified. * For it shattered adversaries, as it is
allpowerful, Immortal One, * opening a new way across the deep for the Israelites.
Troparia
Y ou, who with Your undefiled hands * in the beginning from dust of the earth as God * fashioned me, extended hands
upon the Cross, thereby recalling from the earth * my corrupted body, which from the Virgin You had assumed.
H e who set in me a living soul * through his divine insufflation, did for my sake * suffer being slain and gave over His
soul to death. Loosing eternal bonds, * with himself He raised me; with incorruption He glorified me.
Theotokion
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O rejoice, the fountainhead of grace. * Rejoice, O heavenly ladder and gate. Rejoice, * lampstand and the golden jar.
Rejoice, O mountain that was quarried not. Rejoice, * you who have delivered Christ the lifegiver into the world.
Another Canon, of the Cross and Resurrection
Christ is born[5]
C hrist incarnate makes me divine. * Christ humiliated is exalting me. * The Lifegiver Christ is making me * passionless
by suffering Passion in the flesh. * Therefore I am singing Him a song of gratitude. * For He is glorified.
C hrist on the Cross is exalting me. * In dying, Christ is raising me with himself. * To me Christ is freely granting life. *
Therefore I clap my hands in gladness of heart * and unto the Savior sing a song of victory. * For He is glorified.
Theotokion
O Virgin pure, you conceived our God * and gave birth in virginity unto Christ * who took flesh from you the undefiled.
* Onlybegotten Son is He who is known * in His twofold natures, while in person being one. * For He is glorified.
Canon to the Theotokos
As befits Divinity
W hich other anthem worthy of you * in our infirmity shall we present to you, * if not the most joyful song into which
Gabriel initiated us: * Virgin Theotokos, unwedded Mother of God, rejoice.
S piritually let us cry aloud * with a most purified heart, O believers all, * to the evervirgin Mother of the King of the
angelic hosts on high: * Virgin Theotokos, unwedded Mother of God, rejoice.
F athomless indeed is the abyss, * pure Maid, of your inconceivable childbirth. * Therefore with undoubting faith, we
offer you this anthem and sincerely say: * Virgin Theotokos, unwedded Mother of God, rejoice.
Ode Three. The Heirmos.[6]
A s You are the only One who knows * our mortal nature’s frailty * and with compassion took on the form
thereof, * gird me about with the power from above, * to cry out that Holy is the animate temple of * Your
immaculate glory, O Lover of man.
Troparia
O good One, in that You are my God, * You pitied me the fallen one, * and You were even pleased to come down to me.
* Through crucifixion You have exalted me, * to cry out: Holy are You, only Lord of glory, * and incomparable in
Your benevolence.
O Christ, being hypostatic life, * and as my sympathetic God * You clothed yourself with me the corrupted one. * O
Lord, descending into the earth of death, * You destroyed mortality; and in three days rising up, * with incorruption
You thereby clothed the dead.
Theotokion
O Virgin, you remained unconsumed * conceiving God within your womb * by the allholy Spirit’s overshadowing. *
For unto Moses the giver of the Law * clearly the unscorchingly burning bush foreshadowed you * who received in
yourself the unbearable fire.
Another Canon, of the Cross and Resurrection
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To the Son begotten
U nto Him who took up * on His shoulders the wandering sheep that was lost, * Who put an end to the sin thereof *
through a cross made of lumber, * to Christ our God let us cry aloud: * You who exalted the horn of our strength, *
holy are You, O Lord.
T he allholy Spirit * who led up out of Hades the great Shepherd Christ, * and who wisely pastured the nations * in truth
through the Apostles * by His own divine authority: * come, O believers, and let us adore, * worshipping and serving
Him.
Theotokion
T o the Son, incarnate * of the Virgin without seed and of His own will, * who did preserve by godly power * His Mother
pure and virgin * even after she gave birth to Him, * and who is God over all, let us cry: Holy are You, O Lord.
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Canon to the Theotokos
As You are the only One
O Virgin, we faithfully adhere * to sayings in the prophecies * and call you swift and light cloud unerringly. For, being
carried by you, the Lord came down * with a purpose to destroy Egyptian idols of deceit * and enlighten the people
who worshipped them.
T he chorus of Prophets truly called * you fountain that is sealed and gate * that has been closed, O Maiden alllaudable, *
and thus did clearly for us delineate * the symbols prefiguring your complete virginity, * which you even preserved
after childbirth.
G abriel whose privilege is to see, * as far as is permissible, * the Mind surpassing essence, declared to you, * all
blameless Virgin, the message full of joy * and plainly announced to you the conception of the Word * and proclaimed
the ineffable childbirth.
Odes Four, Five and Six
Kontakion
Y ou arose from the sepulcher in glory as God, and with yourself resurrected the world. And mortal nature extolled You
as God, and death was obliterated, and Adam is dancing, O Master; and Eve, now redeemed from the bonds, rejoices
crying out: O Christ, You are He who grants resurrection to all.
Oikos
L et us extol, as omnipotent God, the One who rose on the third day, and who smashed the gates of Hades, and who raised
from the tomb those who were there from all time, and who was seen by the myrrhbearing women as He so willed,
uttering to them first of all the greeting, Rejoice, and to the Apostles declaring the joy, as the only Giver of life. Wherefore
in faith the women announce to the Disciples the tokens of victory. And Hades groans, and Death laments, and the world
exults and all people rejoice together. For You, O Christ, are He who grants resurrection to all.
Odes Seven and Eight
Ode Nine. The Heirmos.[8]
B urning, yet remaining unconsumed, * the bush disclosed a type of your virgin childbirth. * And now we entreat
that you extinguish the furnace of * fierce temptations, for it is besetting us; * that we, O Theotokos, * may
praise you ceaselessly and magnify.
Troparia
O h, how could that disobedient * and lawless people, who had deliberated vice, * justify a man who was an impious
criminal, * while to the tree condemning the Righteous One * who is the Lord of glory * and whom befittingly we
magnify.
S avior, as the blameless Lamb of God * who has taken away all the sins of all the world, * we glorify You who
resurrected on the third day, * and Your Father and allholy Spirit too. * And thus theologizing, * the Lord of glory do
we magnify.
Theotokion
S ave, O Lord, Your people that You love * and that You purchased dearly with Your most precious blood, * granting
might against our every foe to the Emperor * and on all of Your churches bestowing peace, * in Your great love for
mankind, * at the entreaties of the Mother of God.
Another Canon, of the Cross and Resurrection
[9]
I see here a strange
Y our allholy Cross, O Master, has been glorified * by Your own ineffable power. * For unto all men Your weakness *
was shown to be power * surpassing all other, through which mighty men * have been thrown down to earth, while the
poor * are being brought into heaven above.
O Master, our grievous death has been put to death. * For You have appeared and granted * resurrection from the dead,
O Christ, * to those who were in Hades. * And thus, as the resurrection and the life * and hypostatic light, * we extol
You and we magnify.
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T he Nature that has no beginning and is limitless * is experienced in three single, * divine and sovereign hypostases: *
one Godhead in the Father, * the Son and the Spirit, Holy Trinity, * on whom having put his trust * our godly minded
king is saved.
Canon to the Theotokos
Burning, yet remaining unconsumed
Y ou, O Virgin, did prophetically * spring from the root of David, the ancestor of God. * And David himself by you has
truly been glorified, * for you gave birth to Him of whom he prophesied, * Who is the Lord of glory * and Whom
befittingly we magnify.
A ll conventions of encomium * are overturned, O Maid, by your glory’s magnitude. * But, O wholly pure Mother of
God, in your graciousness, * still accept the laudation of supplicants * who, though they are unworthy, * yet from
devotion now present it to you.
Y our wonders stupefy the intellect. * For only you, O Virgin, gave all to understand * the only newest thing under, or
rather above, the sun, * O pure maiden, the incomprehensible * wonder of your birthgiving. * And therefore you do we
al magnify.
Holy is the Lord our God. The Exapostilarion of the Resurrection, and from the Menaion.
At the Praises, Resurrection Stichera
Resurrection Stichera
O Christ, we praise in song Your saving Passion,
and Your resurrection do we glorify.
Y ou endured crucifixion and abolished death and resurrected from the dead. Do therefore now bring peace into our life,
O Lord, as the only Almighty One.
Y ou stripped Hades of plunder, and humanity You resurrected by Your resurrection, O Christ. Do therefore now account
us worthy with a pure heart to praise You and glorify.
W e glorify Your divine condescension, and we sing Your praise, O Christ. You were born of a Virgin, and from the
Father You remained inseparable. You suffered as a man and voluntarily endured the Cross. As one emerging from a
bridal chamber, You rose from the sepulcher, in order to save the world. Glory to You, O Lord.
Other Stichera by Anatolios
W hen You were nailed to the tree of the Cross, then was the might of the enemy put to death. All creation trembled in
fear of You, and Hades was despoiled by Your own might. You raised the dead from the graves, and for the robber
You opened Paradise, O Christ our God. Glory to You.
T he loyal women earnestly came unto Your grave lamenting. And finding that the sepulcher had been opened, and from
the Angel learning of the novel and paradoxical wonder, they brought these tidings to the Apostles, that the Lord is
risen, bestowing on the world His great mercy.
T he divine stripes that You suffered at Your Passion we adore, O Christ our God, as well as the dominical sacrifice in
Zion that was divinely manifested toward the end of the ages. For You, the Sun of Righteousness, have illuminated
them that lay in darkness, leading them to the illumination that never wanes. Glory to You, O Lord.
L isten, O troubleloving race of Judeans. Where are the men who went to Pilate? Let the soldiers who were guarding
answer. Where, pray tell, are the seals that were on the tomb? Where was the buried corpse removed? How was He who
is priceless sold? How was the treasure stolen? Why are you discrediting the Resurrection of the Crucified, O unlawful
Judeans? He arose, as the One free among the dead, and He grants to the world the great mercy.
Glory. The Eothinon of the Sunday.
Both now
In the short melody in the Mode of the week
Y ou are supremely blessed, O Virgin Theotokos. For through Him who from you became incarnate has Hades been taken
prisoner, and Adam has been summoned back, and the curse has been neutralized, and Eve has been released; death has
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been put to death, and we have been brought to life. Wherefore extolling we cry out: Blessed are You, O Christ our God,
who were thusly well pleased. Glory to You.
Great Doxology
Then the following troparion in Mode IV, or in the Mode of the week
T oday is salvation come unto the world. Let us sing to Him who resurrected from the tomb and is the Author of our life.
For, destroying death by death, He gave us the victory and the great mercy.
[1] Τού λίθου σφραγισθέντος
[2] Τόν τάφον σου Σωτήρ
[3] Τού λίθου σφραγισθέντος
[4] Σού η τροπαιούχος δεξιά
[5] Χριστός γεννάται
[6] Ο μόνος ειδώς
[7] Τώ πρό τών αιώνων
[8] Τύπον τής αγνής
[9] Μυστήριον ξένον
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