Paschal Hours
Paschal Hours (used as the morning and evening prayer of Orthodox Christians in all of Bright Week) If a presbyter is present, he proclaims:
Blessed is our God...[and the rest]
Otherwise a Reader or Christian may say: Through the prayers of our holy fathers, Lord Jesus Christ our God, have mercy on us.
And we say: Amen.
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And we say or chant the Paschal troparion:
Christ is risen from the dead, trampling down death by death and on those in the tombs bestowing life. (thrice)
Having beheld the resurrection of Christ, let us worship the holy Lord Jesus, the only sinless one. We worship Thy cross, O Christ, and Thy holy resurrection we hymn and glorify; for, Thou art our God, and we know none other beside Thee, we call upon Thy name. O come, all ye faithful, let us worship Christ's holy resurrection, for, behold, through the cross joy hath come to all the world.Ever blessing the Lord, we hymn His resurrection; for, having endured crucifixion, He hath destroyed death by death. (thrice)
Hypakoe in the 8th tone:
Forestalling the dawn, the women came with Mary, and found the stone rolled away from the sepulcher, and heard from the angel:
Why seek ye among the dead, as though He were mortal, Him Who liveth in everlasting light? Behold the graveclothes. Go quickly and proclaim to the world that the Lord is risen and hath slain death. For He is the Son of God Who saveth mankind.
Kontakion: Though Thou didst descend into the grave, O Immortal One, yet didst Thou destroy the power of Hades. And didst arise as victor, O Christ God, calling to the myrrh-bearing women: Rejoice! And giving peace unto Thine apostles: Thou Who dost grant resurrection to the fallen.
And these troparia:
In the grave bodily, but in Hades with Thy soul as God; in paradise with the thief, and on the throne with the Father and the Spirit wast Thou Who fillest all things, O Christ the inexpressible.
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit.
How life-giving, how much more beautiful than paradise, and truly more resplendent than any royal palace was Thy tomb shown to be, O Christ, the source of our resurrection.
Now and ever, and unto the ages of ages.
Amen.
O sanctified and divine tabernacle of the Most High, rejoice! For, through thee, O Theotokos, joy is given to them that cry: Blessed art thou among women, O all-spotless Lady.
Lord have mercy! ( X40 )
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto the ages of ages. Amen.
More honorable than the cherubim, and beyond compare more glorious than the seraphim, who without corruption gavest birth to God the Word, the very Theotokos, thee do we magnify.
--------------- If a presbyter (or bishop) is present, we say:
In the name of the Lord, father (master), bless!
And the presbyter (bishop) says: Through the prayers of our holy fathers, Lord Jesus Christ our God, have mercy on us.
And we say: Amen.
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Before sleep we may say also:
Blessed art Thou almighty Master, Who hast enlightened the day with the light of the sun and hast illumined the night by the rays of fire, Who hast deemed us worthy to pass through the length of the day and draw nigh to the beginning of the night. Hearken unto our supplication, and that of all Thy people. Forgive all of us our sins, voluntary and involuntary, accept our evening entreaties, and send down the multitude of Thy mercy and compassions upon Thine inheritance. Encompass us with Thy holy angels; arm us with the armor of Thy righteousness; surround us with Thy truth; protect us by Thy might; deliver us from every grievous circumstance and from every conspiracy of the adversary. And grant unto us that this evening together with the coming night and all the days of our life may be perfect, holy, peaceful, sinless, without stumbling and vain imaginings; by the intercessions of the holy Theotokos and of all the saints who, from ages past have been well-pleasing unto Thee.
Amen.
And again, we say or chant the paschal troparion: Christ is risen...
( X3 )
Glory... Now ... Lord have mercy ( X3)
But, a Reader or Christian may say:
O Lord Jesus Christ our God, for the sake of the intercessions of Thy most pure Mother, of our holy and God-bearing fathers and all the saints, have mercy on us. Amen.
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