At Lord I Have Cried, 10 Stichera: 7 of The Resurrection:: Tone 3
At Lord I Have Cried, 10 Stichera: 7 of The Resurrection:: Tone 3
At Lord I Have Cried, 10 Stichera: 7 of The Resurrection:: Tone 3
Vespers
The Blessing and ‘Christ is Risen’ thrice. The celebrant sings the first 2 1/2 verses, and
the choir finishes with ‘And on those in the tombs bestowing life!’, as always during the
Paschal season, and Vespers continues as usual.
At Lord I have cried, 10 stichera: 7 of the resurrection:
Tone 3:
By Thy Cross hast Thou destroyed the might of death, /
O Christ our Savior, /
and hast set at nought the deception of the devil. /
And the human race, saved by faith, //
ever offereth a hymn unto Thee.
Tone 1:
O compassionate Christ, /
Who by Thine immaculate hand didst fashion man, /
Thou didst come to heal the sick. /
By Thy word Thou didst raise up the paralytic by the Sheep's Pool. /
Thou didst cure the ailment of the blood-streaming woman. /
Upon the tormented daughter of the Canaanitish woman /
didst Thou have mercy, /
and the request of the centurion Thou didst not disdain. /
For this cause we cry unto Thee: //
O Almighty Lord, glory be to Thee. Twice.
Glory… Tone 5:
Jesus went up to Jerusalem to the Sheep's Pool, /
which by the Hebrews is called Bethesda, /
having five porches. /
Therein lay a multitude of the ailing; /
for an Angel of God went down at a certain season /
and troubled the water, /
and granted healing unto those who drew nigh in faith. /
And the Lord, on seeing a man who had been there for many years, said unto him: /
Dost thou wish to be made whole? /
And the sick man replied: /
Sir, I have no man, /
when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool. /
I have wasted all my wealth on physicians /
and was not deemed worthy of mercy. /
But the Physician of both souls and bodies said unto him: /
Take up thy bed and walk, //
proclaiming My might and great mercy unto the ends of the earth.
At the Aposticha, one sticheron of the Resurrection in Tone III, and the stichera of
Pascha with their verses:
A Pascha sacred today hath been shown unto us; * Pascha new and holy, * a Pascha
mystical, * a Pascha all-venerable! * A Pascha that is Christ the Redeemer; * a Pascha
immaculate, * a great Pascha; * a Pascha of the faithful; * a Pascha that hath opened the
gates of Paradise to us; * a Pascha that doth sanctify all the faithful.
Come from the vision, O ye women, bearers of good tidings, * and say ye unto Zion: *
Receive from us the good tidings * of the Resurrection of Christ; * adorn thyself, exult,
* and rejoice, O Jerusalem, * for thou hast seen Christ the King, * like a bridegroom
come forth from the tomb.
So let sinners perish at the presence of God, and let the righteous be glad.
The myrrh-bearing women * in the deep dawn * stood before the tomb of the Giver of
life; * they found an angel sitting upon the stone, * and he, speaking to them, said thus:
* Why seek ye the Living among the dead? *Why mourn ye the Incorruptible amid
corruption? *Go, proclaim unto His disciples.
This is the day which the Lord hath made, let us rejoice and be glad therein.
Pascha the beautiful, * Pascha, the Lord's Pascha, * the Pascha all-venerable hath
dawned upon us. * Pascha, with joy let us embrace one another. * O Pascha! * Ransom
from sorrow, * for from the tomb today, * as from a bridal chamber, * hath Christ shone
forth, * and hath filled the women with joy, saying: * Proclaim unto the apostles.
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Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit.
Both now and ever, and unto the ages of ages. Amen.
It is the Day of Resurrection, * let us be radiant for the feast, * and let us embrace one
another. * Let us say, Brethren, even to them that hate us, * let us forgive all things on
the Resurrection, * and thus let us cry out: *Christ is risen from the dead, trampling
down death by death, and upon those in the tombs bestowing life.
Matins
After the reading from the Psalter, The Sessional hymns of the Resurrection.
Arise, O Lord my God, let Thy hands be lifted on high; forget not Thy paupers
to the end.
Hymns of Ascent.
Antiphon I
Prokimenon, in Tone 3:
Say among the nations that the Lord is king, * for He hath established the world, which
shall not be shaken.
Matins Gospel 4.
After the Gospel, ‘Having beheld the Resurrection’ thrice, and the rest as usual.
At the canon: 6 troparia from the Paschal canon, including the theotokia, and 8
troparia from the canon from the Pentecostarion. Katavasia of Pascha.
ODE I
Working signs and doing wonders, O only King, Thou didst willingly endure the
Cross, since Thou art compassionate; and having put death to death by death, Thou
didst quicken us.
Of old an Angel came down to the Sheep’s Pool and healed one man every year;
but now Christ doth cleanse endless multitudes by divine Baptism.
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit.
With the Bodiless, let us unceasingly praise the Beginningless God, Who is in
three Persons and one Nature, even the Father, Word, and Spirit, Who hath a Kingdom
and indivisible power.
Both now and ever, and unto the ages of ages. Amen.
Do thou save from dangers, conquest of Barbarians, civil war and the sword, and
every other danger, this thy flock, which doth ever honor thee faithfully, O pure one.
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ODE III
When of old the sun beheld Thee hanging upon the Tree, O Word, the light
withdrew and all the earth was troubled; the dead arose when Thou becamest one dead,
O Almighty One.
Do Thou, O supremely good One, heal my soul, which hath been ailing
grievously for many years, even as Thou didst heal the paralytic aforetime, that I may
walk in Thy way, which Thou didst show unto them that long for Thee.
Together with the Hosts on high, O Archangel of God, make supplication for us
who praise thee with faith, preserving and protecting us from falling into the passions of
life.
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit.
Let us cry: Glory to the Father, the Son, and the Spirit, for by nature God is one,
Whom all the powers of the Heavens glorify in fear, crying: Holy, Holy, Holy.
Both now and ever, and unto the ages of ages. Amen.
Seedless was thy conception, and surpassing understanding was thy childbirth, O
immaculate Virgin Mother; an awesome deed, an exceeding great wonder, honored by
the Angels and glorified by mortal men, O Lady and Maiden.
After Ode III, the kontakion and ikos of Pascha, and the sessional hymns from the
Pentecostarion.
Kontakion, Tone 8:
Thou didst descend into the tomb, O Immortal, /
Thou didst destroy the power of hell. /
In victory didst Thou arise, O Christ God, /
proclaiming “Rejoice!” to the myrrh-bearing women; /
granting peace to Thine apostles, //
and bestowing resurrection on the fallen.
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Ikos: The myrrh-bearing women forestalled the dawn, seeking, as it were day, the Sun
that was before the sun and Who had once set in the tomb, and they cried out one to
another: O friends! come, let us anoint with spices the life-bringing and buried Body,
the Flesh that raised up fallen Adam, that now lieth in the tomb. Let us go, let us hasten,
like the Magi, and let us worship and offer myrrh as a gift to Him Who is wrapped now
not in swaddling clothes but in a shroud. And let us weep and cry aloud: O Master,
arise, Thou Who dost grant resurrection to the fallen.
ODE IV
Irmos, Tone 1: On divine watch let the God-inspired Habakkuk stand with us, /
and show forth the light-bearing angel clearly saying: /
Today salvation is come to the world, /
for Christ is risen //
as Almighty.
Consumed by envy, the multitude of the Hebrews crucified Thee on the Tree, O
Lord; and having annulled the condemnation of death, Thou didst arise as One mighty,
raising up the world together with Thyself.
Glory to Thee, our God, glory to Thee.
An Angel of the Lord at a certain season came down and troubled the water in the
Sheep’s Pool, making whole one person only. But Christ saveth endless multitudes by
divine baptism.
Holy Archangel of God, Michael, pray to God for us.
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O Leader of the Angels and guide for the erring, O Supreme Commander of the
Lord, come into our midst at this hour, and bear the prayers of us all unto the only
Creator and Master.
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit.
United in nature, divided in Persons, is the Holy Trinity; even the super-essential
Father, the co-eternal Son, and the Holy and Only Almighty Spirit.
Both now and ever, and unto the ages of ages. Amen.
How is it that thou sucklest a babe, O pure one? How dost thou give birth to a
child more ancient than Adam? How carriest thou in thine arms a Son, Who is upon the
shoulders of the Cherubim? As He alone knoweth, as He understandeth, even He that
gave existence to all things.
Katavasia, Tone 1: On divine watch let the God-inspired Habakkuk stand with us, /
and show forth the light-bearing angel clearly saying: /
Today salvation is come to the world, /
for Christ is risen //
as Almighty.
ODE V
Thou wast lifted upon the Tree of the Cross and didst raise the whole world
together with Thyself; and becoming One among the dead, O God, Thou dost raise up
them that were dead from the ages past.
Even as Thou didst raise up the paralytic, O Christ, so also do Thou make whole
my soul which is palsied by transgressions, and grant that I may fare well as I walk in
Thine upright ways.
O Michael, Leader of the Angels, do thou save the people who are gathered today
in thy temple, and who proclaim the mighty deeds of God.
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit.
Of equal honor is the threefold Unity: divided piously in hypostases, but united in
nature is the Father, the Son, and the Divine Spirit.
Both now and ever, and unto the ages of ages. Amen.
Thy seedless childbearing, O pure one, and thine incomprehensible giving of birth
do we praise, while blessing thee as the Mother of the Creator and Master of all.
ODE VI
Irmos, Tone 1: Thou didst descend into the nethermost parts of the earth, /
and didst shatter the eternal bars that held the fettered, O Christ, /
and on the third day, /
like Jonah from the whale, //
Thou didst arise from the tomb.
Of Thine own will Thou wast lifted up upon the Tree, and laid as one dead in the
sepulchre, and having quickened together all them that were dead in Hades, O Christ,
Thou didst raise them by Thy divine power.
When he that aforetime lay for many years upon a bed of affliction was made
whole by Thy command, O Christ, he glorified and praised Thy compassion, O Giver of
life.
Holy Archangel of God, Michael, pray to God for us.
O Michael, thou leader of the Angels, as thou standest before the throne of the
Master, be thou present in our midst, guiding toward the paths of life those who possess
thee as a fervent protector.
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Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit.
Together with the awesome Hosts on high I reverence Thee, Who art a Trinity in
Persons; I proclaim Thee, Who art a Unity in essence, O beginningless Father, Son, and
Upright Spirit, God of all things.
Both now and ever, and unto the ages of ages. Amen.
He that sustaineth all things by His divine command is held in thine arms, O
Virgin Theotokos, and since He is compassionate He doth rescue us from the enslaving
hand of the evil one.
Katavasia, Tone 1: Thou didst descend into the nethermost parts of the earth, /
and didst shatter the eternal bars that held the fettered, O Christ, /
and on the third day, /
like Jonah from the whale, //
Thou didst arise from the tomb.
After Ode VI, the Kontakion, & Ikos from the Pentecostarion:
Ikos: O Thou Who holdest the ends of the earth in the palm of Thy hand, O Jesus our
God, Who art co-beginningless with the Father, and Who, together with the Holy Spirit
dost rule over all things: Thou didst appear in the flesh, healing infirmities, driving
away passions, and giving sight to the blind. And, by a divine word, Thou didst raise up
the paralytic, commanding him to walk straightway and to take up upon his shoulders
his bed, which had carried him. Wherefore, together with him we all praise Thee and
cry: O Compassionate Christ, glory to Thy dominion and might.
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ODE VII
Irmos, Tone 1: He Who delivered the Children from the furnace, /
became man, suffereth as a mortal, /
and through His Passion /
doth clothe mortality with the beauty of incorruption, /
He is the only blessed and most glorious //
God of our fathers.
Refrain: Christ is risen from the dead.
The godly-wise women with myrrh /
followed after Thee in haste; /
but Him Whom they sought with tears as dead, /
they worshipped joyfully as the living God, /
and they brought unto Thy disciples, O Christ, //
the good tidings of the mystical Pascha.
Refrain: Christ is risen from the dead.
We celebrate the death of death, /
the destruction of hades, /
the beginning of another life eternal, /
and leaping for joy, /
we hymn the Cause, //
the only blessed and most glorious God of our fathers.
Refrain: Christ is risen from the dead.
For truly sacred and all-festive is this saving night, /
and this shining, light-bearing day, /
the harbinger of the Resurrection, /
whereon the Timeless Light bodily //
from the tomb upon all hath shined.
On seeing Thee stretched out upon the Tree, the sun withdrew its light, not having
the strength to shine upon the world when Thou, O King of all, wast setting, so that all
the nations might be enlightened.
Having, by Thy word, made whole the paralytic who had been bedridden for
many years, Thou didst cry: Take up thy bed and walk, praising God’s mighty deeds.
Holy Archangel of God, Michael, pray to God for us.
O Michael, Supreme Commander of the Lord, by thy mediation do thou guide
and shelter from all manner of evil them that are gathered in thy temple with faith unto
the praise of God.
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit.
O Trinity, since Thou art the God and Master of all, do Thou save from diverse
perils us who praise Thee with faith, and make us partakers of Thy good things.
Both now and ever, and unto the ages of ages. Amen.
After ineffably bearing Him Who without change was begotten of the
beginningless Father before all ages, thou remainest a virgin; for this cause we bless
thee, O pure one.
Katavasia, Tone 1: He Who delivered the Children from the furnace, /
became man, suffereth as a mortal, /
and through His Passion /
doth clothe mortality with the beauty of incorruption, /
He is the only blessed and most glorious //
God of our fathers.
ODE VIII
The veil was rent when Thou wast crucified, O our Savior, and death gave up the
dead which it had devoured; and Hades was stripped bare when it saw Thee coming into
the nethermost parts of the earth.
Having lain bedridden for many years, the paralytic cried: Have mercy on me,
who am oppressed by need, O Redeemer. And He commandeth him to take up his bed
in haste and walk upright.
With one accord let us praise the uncreated, undivided Essence, the Godhead of
three hypostases, the beginningless God the Father, the Son, and Holy Spirit, as we cry
out the awesome melody of the Seraphim.
Both now and ever, and unto the ages of ages. Amen.
Of old Isaiah beheld thee as a book, O Ever-virgin, wherein, by the finger of the
Father, the timeless Word was inscribed, Who doth save from all irrationality us who
praise thee with sacred words.
We do not sing the Magnificat, but continue immediately with Ode IX.
ODE IX
When Thou wast lifted up upon the Tree, O Jesus, Thou didst raise us up together
with Thyself. And when of Thine own will Thou wast laid in the tomb, Thou didst raise
from the tombs all the dead who praised Thine incomprehensible power and thine
invincible might.
Health of body followed Thy command, O Christ, and the former paralytic was
seen walking with haste and bearing his bed whereon he had lain for many years, and he
praised Thy great might.
Pray for our enlightenment, O Great Supreme Commander, who dost ever stand
in the presence of the great Light, and make peaceful our life, which is ever troubled by
assaults of the serpent and by the circumstances of life, O renowned one.
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit.
Most reverently do I glorify Thee, O Light and Lights, O Life and Lives, O
Father, Word, and Holy Spirit, tri-hypostatic Unity, indivisible Dominion, unmingled
Godhead; and together with the Hosts on high, I cry out: Holy, Holy, Holy.
Both now and ever, and unto the ages of ages. Amen.
Christ, the great Sun, came forth from thy light-bearing womb, and with brilliant
rays enlightened the world, O immaculate one, and dispelled the darkness of our
transgressions. Wherefore, we praise thee, since thou art the cause of all good things, O
Bride of God.
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Glory…
The sovereign man-befriending Lord, /
He that is all-compassionate, /
drew nigh and stood at the Sheep's Pool /
that He might heal men's diseases; /
and there He found a man that lay abed, /
enfeebled many years. /
And unto him, He cried aloud: /
Take up thy bed now, /
and go forth; //
walk in the upright and straight paths.
To do among them the judgment that is written * This glory shall be to all His saints.
Tone 3:
Come, all ye nations, /
and understand the power of the dread mystery; /
for Christ the Savior, Who in the beginning was the Word, /
was crucified for our sake and buried, /
and rose from the dead, that He might save all. //
Let us worship Him.
Praise ye God in His saints, * praise Him in the firmament of His power.
Praise Him for His mighty acts, * praise Him according to the multitude of His
greatness.
All were filled with joy, experiencing the resurrection; /
for Mary Magdalene went to the tomb /
and found an angel seated upon the stone, clad in shining raiment, who said: /
“Why seek ye the Living among the dead? /
He is not here, but is risen as He said, //
going before you to Galilee!”
Praise Him with the sound of trumpet, * praise Him with the psaltery and harp.
In Thy light do we behold light, O Master Who lovest mankind; /
for Thou didst rise from the dead, granting salvation to the human race. /
Let all creation glorify Thee Who alone art sinless. //
Have mercy upon us!
Praise Him with timbrel and dance, * praise him with strings and flute.
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With tears the myrrh-bearing women offered Thee a morning hymn, O Lord; /
for, taking sweet-smelling spices, they went to Thy tomb, /
intending to embalm Thine all-pure body. /
But an angel, seated upon the stone, announced to them: /
“Why seek ye the Living among the dead? /
For He is risen as God, trampling down death //
and granting great mercy unto all!”
Praise Him with tuneful cymbals, praise Him with cymbals of jubilation. * Let every
breath praise the Lord.
Arise, O Lord my God, let Thy hands be lifted high; * forget not Thy paupers to the
end.
Arriving on the first day of the week, /
Mary Magdalene sought Thee in the tomb; /
and not finding Thee, she lamented, weeping and crying aloud: /
“Woe is me, O my Savior! /
Thou hast been stolen, O King of all!” /
But the two life-bearing angels within the tomb cried out: /
“Why weepest thou, O woman?” /
“I weep,” said she, “because they have taken the Lord from the tomb, /
and I know not where they have laid Him!” /
But turning around, she straightway cried out as she saw Thee: //
“O my Lord and my God, glory be to Thee!”
I will confess Thee, O Lord, with my whole heart, * I will tell of all Thy wonders.
The Jews closed Life within the tomb, /
but the thief opened up delight with his tongue, /
crying aloud and saying: /
“He Who was crucified with me for my sake hath joined me on the Tree, /
and hath revealed Himself to me, seated on the throne with the Father; //
for He is Christ our God, Who hath great mercy!”
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Glory… Tone 8:
O Lord, not the pool, but Thy word /
healed and renewed the paralytic; /
nor was he hindered by his infirmity of many years; /
for the might of Thy voice proved to be more effective. /
And he cast off his heavy burden and carried the weight of his bed /
as a testimony to the abundance of Thy compassions. //
Glory be to Thee.
Revised 5/19/2016