Tone I

Hymns for: Lord, I have cried unto thee.

Accept our evening petitions, O holy Lord, and grant us remission of our sins: For thou only revealest Resurrection unto the world.

Go ye round about Zion, ye people, and encompass her, and give glory therein to him who is risen from the dead: For he is our God who delivered! us from our sins.

O come, ye people, let us sing praises and worship Christ, glorifying his Resurrection from the dead: For he is our God, who delivereth the world from the wiles o-f the enemy -

Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, now, and ever, and unto ages of ages. Amen.

Hymn to the Birth-giver of God (Dogmdtik). Let us sing the praises of Mary, Virgin, Door of heaven, Glory of all the world, sprung forth from man, who also bare the Lord; the Song of the Bodiless Powers, and the Enriching of the faithful. For she revealed herself as Heaven and the Temple of the Godhead. She destroyed the bulwarks of enmity, ushered in peace, and threw open the kingdom. Wherefore, in that we possess this confirmation of our faith we have a defender, even the Lord who was born of her. Be bold, therefore, be bold, ye people of God, for he, the All-Powerful, will vanquish your foes.

Hymn (Tropar). While the stone was sealed by the Jews, and soldiers stood on guard over thy body undefined, thou didst rise on the third day, O Saviour, who givest life unto the world. For which cause the Heavenly Powers cried aloud unto thee, O Giver of Life: Glory to thy resurrection, O Christ! Glory to thy kingdom! Glory to thy providence, O thou who alone lovest mankind!

Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, now, and ever, and unto ages of ages. Amen.

Hymn to the Birth-giver of God (Bogoroditchen). As Gabriel proclaimed unto thee, O Virgin: Hail! With that cry did the Lord of all become incarnate in thee, the Holy Tabernacle, as spake the righteous David: Thou hast manifested thyself more spacious than the heavens, in that

thou hast borne thy Creator. Glory to him who abode in thee! Glory to him who came forth from thee! Glory to him who through thy birth-giving hath set us free!

Collect-Hymn (Konddk). As God thou didst arise from the grave in glorv, and with thee didst raise the world; and the race of men singeth praises unto thee as God; and Death hath vanished; and Adam leapeth for joy, O Lord; and Eve, now released from her bonds, exulteth, crying: Thou art he who giveth Resurrection unto all men, O Christ.

Canticle I. (Founded on Exodus xv. 1-20.)

Theme-Song (Irmos). In godlike wise hath thy victorious right arm been glorified in strength; for in that it was all-powerful, O Immortal One, it shattered the adversaries, and made for the Israelites a new path through the deep.

Refrain. Glory to thy holy Resurrection, O Lord.

Hymns (Tropari). Thou who, with hands most pure, in the beginning, in that thou art God, divinely created me out of the dust, didst stretch forth thine arms upon the cross, summoning from the earth my corruptible body, which thou thyself also didst accept from a Virgin.

Unto dissolution thou didst subject thyself for my sake, and didst yield up thy soul unto death, O thou who with thy divine in-breathing didst infuse into me a soul. And when thou hadst rent asunder the bonds which were from everlasting, and with thee didst raise up the dead, thou wert glorified in incorruption.

Hymn to the Birth-giver of God (Bogoroditchen). Hail, O Fount of Grace! Hail, O Ladder, and Gate of Heaven! Hail! O Candlestick and Golden Jar, and Mount Unhewn, who gavest birth to Christ, the Life-giver of the world!

(Canticle II. is generally omitted.) Canticle III. (Founded on I Samuel ii. i-n.y

Theme-Song (Irmos). O thou who alone knowest the frailty of man's nature, and in tender compassion didst transform thyself into his likeness: Gird me with might from on high, that I may cry aloud unto thee, O Holy One: Inspired is the temple of thine ineffable glory, O thou who lovest mankind.

Refrain. Glory to thy holy Resurrection, O Lord.

(And the other Hymns (Tropari), appointed, as after the first Theme-Song.)

Canticle IV (Founded on Habakkuk Hi. 2.)

Theme-Song (Irmos). When Habakkuk, with vision prophetic, beheld

thee as a Mount overshadowed by the grace of God, he proclaimed in

anticipation that from thee should come forth the Holy One of Israel,

for our salvation and regeneration.

(Refrain as before, and the appointed Hymns.')

Canticle V. (Founded on Isaiah xxvi. g-20.)

Theme-Song (Irmos). Thou who, by the brightness of thy coming,

hast illumined, and by thy Cross hast enlightened the uttermost parts of

the universe, O Christ: Enlighten with the light of thy wisdom divine the

hearts of true believers who hymn thy praises.