Fourth Tone

The troparion of the Resurrection

When the women disciples of the Lord learned from the angel the glad tidings of the resurrection and cast off the ancestral curse, they exultingly told the apostles; Death is despoiled, Christ our God has risen and is giving the world the great mercy.

The kontakion of the Resurrection

My Savior and deliverer from the grave, as God, raised the earth-born from their chains, and shattered the gates of hell; and He rose as Lord on the third day.

The prokeimenon

How magnified are Thy works, O Lord. In wisdom hast Thou made them all. Stichos: Bless the Lord, O my soul; O Lord my God, Thou hast been magnified exceedingly. Alleluia: Bend Thy bow, and proceed prosperously, and be king, because of truth and meekness and righteousness. Stichos: Thou hast loved righteousness and hated iniquity.

Verses on the beatitudes

Through a tree, Adam was deprived of his home in Paradise; while through the wood of the cross, the thief went there to dwell. For the one by tasting set aside the commandment of the Maker, while the other, crucified with Him, confessed the hidden God crying aloud: Remember me in Thy kingdom.

Lifted upon the cross, Thou, O Lord, as God, hath both destroyed the power of death and blotted out the handwriting against us. Do Thou Who alone lovest mankind, grant us the repentance of the thief as we serve Thee with faith, O Christ our God, and cry to Thee: Remember us also in Thy kingdom.

Crucified and rising from the tomb in power on the third day, with Thyself hast Thou, only Immortal, raised Adam, the first-formed man. Make me also worthy, O Lord, to turn to repentance with my whole heart and with warm faith ever to cry to Thee: Remember me, O Savior, in Thy kingdom.

Thou hast torn to pieces on the cross, the handwriting against, us and counted among the dead, Thou hast bound yonder tyrant, delivering all from the bonds of hell by Thy resurrection. Through it we have been enlightened and cry aloud to Thee, Lord who lovest mankind: Remember us also in Thy kingdom.

For our sake He Who is without passion, became a suffering man and nailed upon the cross of His own will, He raised us with Himself. Therefore with the cross we glorify the passion and the resurrection through which we have both been made anew and through which we have been saved, crying: Remember us also in Thy kingdom.

Let us entreat with faith Him rising from the dead despoiling the power of hell, Who was seen by the women bearing myrrh and said to the: Rejoice! for our souls always to be delivered from corruption, crying at all times to Him with the gracious voice of the thief: Remember us also in Thy kingdom.