Alleluia, alleluia!
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Christos anesti!
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6 responses to “Christos anesti!”
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Alithōs anesti!
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Hallelu Yah! Hallelu Yah!
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Resurrexit sicut dixit!
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The Orthodox Service for Easter begins at midnight with Paschal Matins, used for Morning Prayer during the whole week. This website has an excellent edition.
http://www.anastasis.org.uk/pascha.htm
They, of course, constantly repeat the Paschal Troporian
Christ has risen from the dead, by death he has trampled on death, and to those in the graves given life.
The verses on the Magnificat (Ode 9) emphasize Mary as Model of the Church
Shine, shine, O New Jerusalem, for the glory of the Lord has risen upon you. Dance now and be glad, O Sion, and you too rejoice, pure Mother of God, at the arising of him to whom you gave birth.
The Angel cried to her that is full of grace: Pure Virgin, rejoice! And again I say: Rejoice! For your Son has risen from the tomb on the third day.
O divine! O beloved! O sweetest voice! You have truly promised that you will be with us unto the end of time, O Christ. And we the faithful rejoice, having this as an anchor of hope.
O great and most sacred Pascha, Christ! O Wisdom and Word and Power of God! Grant that we may partake of you fully in the day that has no evening of your Kingdom.
The Paschal Stichera (verses) occur after Psalms 148, 149 and 150, the psychological equivalent in exuberance of our Exultet/
A sacred Pascha has been revealed to us today, a new and holy Pascha, a mystic Pascha, an all-venerable Pascha, a Pascha that is Christ the Redeemer, an unblemished Pascha, a great Pascha, a Pascha of the faithful, a Pascha that has opened for us the gates of Paradise, a Pascha that makes all the faithful holy.
and ends with
The day of Resurrection; let us be radiant for the festival, and let us embrace one another. Let us say, brethren, even to those that hate us, ‘Let us forgive all things on the Resurrection’, and so let us cry, ‘Christ has risen from the dead: by death he has trampled on death, and to those in the graves given life’.
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The following Hymn which is often used in the Byzantine Liturgy even outside Paschal time emphasizes the interrelationship of the Cross and Resurrection
Having seen the Resurrection of Christ, let us worship the Holy Lord Jesus, the only sinless one. We worship your Cross, O Christ, and we hymn and glorify your holy Resurrection.
For you are our God, we know no other but you, we name you by name.
Come all the faithful, let us worship the holy Resurrection of Christ; for behold through the Cross, joy has come in all the world.
Ever blessing the Lord, we hymn his Resurrection. For having endured the Cross for us, he has destroyed death by death.
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I love the image of an angel weighed down by quanta…
From John Updike’s “Seven Stanzas at Easter”
Let us not mock God with metaphor,
Analogy, sidestepping, transcendence,
Making of the event a parable, a sign painted in the faded
Credulity of earlier ages:
Let us walk through the door.….
And if we have an angel at the tomb,
Make it a real angel,
Weighty with Max Planck’s quanta, vivid with hair, opaque in
The dawn light, robed in real linen
Spun on a definite loom.
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