Ode 1
It is the day of Resurrection, let us be radiant, O ye peoples;
Pascha, the Lord's Pascha; for Christ God hath brought us
from death unto life, and from earth unto heaven as we sing the triumphal hymn.
Christ is risen from the dead!
Let us purify our senses and we shall behold the unapproachable light,
radiant in the Resurrection of Christ, and we shall clearly hear Him say:
Rejoice! as we sing the triumphal hymn.
Christ is risen from the dead!
For meet it is that the heavens should rejoice, and that the earth
should be glad, and that the whole world, both visible and invisible,
should keep the feast; for Christ God, the everlasting Joy, hath risen.
Ode 3
Come let us drink a new drink, not one marvelously brought forth
from a barren rock, but the Source of incorruption, which springeth
forth from the grave of Christ, in Whom we are established.
Christ is risen from the dead!
Now are all things filled with light; heaven and earth, and the
nethermost regions of the earth. Let all creation, therefore, celebrate
the arising of Christ, whereby it is established.
Christ is risen from the dead!
Yesterday I was buried with Thee, O Christ, and today I arise with
Thine arising. Yesterday I was crucified with Thee; do Thou Thyself
glorify me with Thee, O Saviour, in Thy kingdom.
Hypakoe
They who were with Mary forestalled the dawn and found the
stone rolled away. They heard from an angel: Seek not, as though
He were but a man, Him Who abideth in everlasting light. Behold
the grave-clothes. Go quickly and proclaim to the world that the Lord
is risen, and hath put death to death; for He is the Son of God,
Who saveth the race of man.
Ode 4
Let the Prophet Habakkuk, the proclaimer of divine things, keep
the divine watch with us, and show forth the radiant angel who with
resounding voice hath declared: Today doth bring salvation to the world,
for Christ is risen as omnipotent.
Christ is risen from the dead!
Christ was of the make sex when He opened the Virgin's womb, and
as a mortal was He called the Lamb. Thus, without blemish is our Pascha,
for He tasted not corruption, and He revealed Himself as true and perfect
God.
Christ is risen from the dead!
Christ, our blessed Crown, like a yearling Lamb, of His own good will
did sacrifice Himself for all, a Pascha of purification: and from the grave the
beautiful Sun of Righteousness, shone forth again upon us.
Christ is risen from the dead!
David, the ancestor of God, danced with leaping before the symbolic
Ark of the Covenant. Let us also, the holy people of God, beholding
the fulfillment of the symbols, rejoice in godly wise: For Christ
is risen, as omnipotent.
Ode 5
Let us arise in the deep dawn, and instead of myrrh, offer praise
to the Master; and we shall see Christ, the Sun of Righteousness,
Who causeth life to dawn for all.
Christ is risen from the dead!
When those held captive in the bonds of Hades beheld Thy
boundless compassion, O Christ, they hastened to the light
with joyful step, exalting the eternal Pascha.
Christ is risen from the dead!
Bearing lights, let us go forth to meet Christ, Who cometh forth
from the grave like a Bridegroom. And with the ranks of them
that love and keep this festival, let us celebrate the saving
Pascha of God.
Ode 6
Thou didst descend into the deepest parts of the earth, and
didst shatter the everlasting bars that bound those nether
regions, O Christ. And on the third day, like Jonah from the
whale, Thou didst arise from the grave.
Christ is risen from the dead!
Having kept the seals intact, O Christ, Thou didst rise from
the tomb, O Thou Who didst not break the seal of the Virgin
by Thy birth; and Thou hast opened unto us the gates of
Paradise.
Christ is risen from the dead!
O my Saviour, the living and unslain Sacrifice, as God, Thou
didst of Thine own will offer Thyself unto the Father. Thou
didst raise up with Thyself the whole of Adam when Thou
didst rise from the grave.
Kontakion
Though Thou didst descend into the grave, O Immortal One,
yet didt Thou destroy the power of Hades, and didst arise
as Victor, O Christ God, announcing jow to the myrrh-bearing
women, and giving peace to Thine Apostles, O Thou Who
dost grant resurrection to the fallen.
Oikos
The myrrh-bearing maidens anticipated the dawn, seeking,
as it were day, the Sun Who was before the sun and Who
had set in the tomb, and they cried out one to another:
O friends! Come, let us anoint with sweet-smelling spices
the life-bringing and buried Body, even that Flesh that raiseth
Fallen Adam, who lieth in the grave. Let us go hence, let us
make haste, like the Wise Men, and let us adore and offer
before Him myrrh as it were a gift to Him, Who is no longer
wrapped in swaddling bands, but in a winding-sheet.
and let us cry aloud with lamentations: Arise; O Master,
Thou Who dost grant resurrection to the fallen!
Ode 7
The only blessed and most glorious God of our fathers,
who hath redeemed the children from the furnace, is become
man, and, as a mortal doth offer, and through suffering doth
clothe mortality with the grace of incorruption.
Christ is risen from the dead!
The godly-wise women followed after Thee in haste with
myrrh. But Him Whom they sought with tears as dead, they
joyfully adored as the living God, and they announced unto
Thy disciples, O Christ, the glad tidings of the mystical Pascha.
Christ is risen from the dead!
Truly sacred and supremely festive is this saving night,
radiant with light, the forerunner of the bright-beaming
Day of Resurrection, whereon the Timeless Light in bodily
form shone from the grave for all.
Christ is risen from the dead!
We celebrate the death of death, the destruction of Hades,
the beginning of an everlasting life. And with leaps of joy
we praise the Cause thereof, the only blessed and most
Glorious God of our fathers.
Ode 8
This chosen and holy day is the first of the Sabbaths,
the king and lord, the feasts of feasts, and the festival
of festivals, wherein we bless Christ unto the ages.
Christ is risen from the dead!
Come ye children of the new vine, on this singular day of
the Resurrection, let us partake of the divine gladness of
the Kingdom of Christ, praising Him as God unto the ages.
Christ is risen from the dead!
Cast thine eyes about thee, O Sion, and behold! For lo, like
divinely-radiant luminaries, from the West, the North, the
sea and the East have thy children assembled unto Thee,
blessing Christ unto the ages.
Most Holy Trinity our God, glory to Thee!
Father Almighty, the word and the Spirit, one Nature in
three Hypostases united, transcending essence and
Supremely Divine! In Thee have we been baptized, and
Thee will we bless unto all the ages.
Ode 9
Shine, shine, New Jerusalem, for the glory of the Lord
is risen upon theee. Exult now, and be glad, O Sion; and
Thou, pure Mother of God, rejoice in the rising of thy Child.
Christ is risen from the dead!
O Thy divine and beloved and sweet voice; Thou hast truly
promised that Thou wouldst be with us unto the end of
the world, O Christ; and we faithful rejoice, having this as
a mighty hope.
Christ is risen from the dead!
O great and most sacred Pascha, O Christ; O Wisdom and
Word and Power of God. Grant that we partake of the Thee
fully in the unwaning day of Thy Kingdom.
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