Fifth tone

The troparion of the Resurrection

Let us, the faithful, praise and adore the Word, co-eternal with the Father and the Spirit, Who for our salvation was born of a virgin. For He was pleased to ascend the cross in the flesh and to endure death and to raise the dead by His glorious resurrection.

The kontakion of the Resurrection

Thou didst descend into hell, my Savior, and having shattered its gates, as all powerful, Thou didst raise the dead with Thyself, as creator, and didst deliver Adam from the curse, O lover of men. Therefore, we all cry to Thee: Save us, O Lord.

The prokeimenon

Thou, O Lord, shall keep us and shall preserve us from this generation and for evermore. Stichos: Save me, O Lord, for a righteous man there is no more. Alleluia: Of Thy mercies, O Lord, will I sing for ever. Unto generation and generation will I declare Thy truth with my mouth. Stichos: For Thou hast said: Mercy shall be built up for ever. In the heavens shall Thy truth be established.

Verses on the beatitudes

The thief on the cross believing Thee to be God confessed Thee earnestly from his heart, crying aloud: O Lord, remember me in Thy kingdom.

Let us with one accord praise as Savior and creator Him Who made life flower for our kind by the wood of the cross and Who withered the curse coming from the tree.

By Thy death, O Christ, Thou hast destroyed the might of death and hast raised with Thyself those dead from the ages praising Thee as our true God and Savior.

The holy women having come to the tomb, O Christ, sought to anoint Thee, giver of life, with myrrh, and an angel appeared to them crying aloud: The Lord is risen.

Thou hast been crucified, O Christ, between two condemned thieves and one of them blaspheming Thee was rightly sentenced, while the other, confessing Thee, went to dwell in Paradise.

The holy women coming to the choir of the apostles lifted their voices crying; Christ is risen; Worship ye Him as master and creator.