The Katavasia of Pascha
Ode 1: It is the Day of Resurrection, let us be
radiant, O ye people; Pascha, the Lord's Pascha: for from death to life, and
from earth to heaven, Christ God hath brought us, as we sing the song of
victory.
Ode 3: Come, let us drink a new drink, not one
miraculously brought forth from a barren rock but the Fountain of Incorruption,
springing forth from the tomb of Christ, in Whom we are strengthened.
Ode 4: On divine watch let the God-inspired Habakkuk
stand with us, and show forth the light-bearing angel clearly saying: Today
salvation is come to the world, for Christ is risen as Almighty.
Ode 5: Let us awake in the deep dawn, and instead of
myrrh, offer a hymn to the Master, and we shall see Christ, the Sun of
Righteousness, Who causeth life to dawn for all.
Ode 6: Thou didst descend into the nethermost parts
of the earth, and didst shatter the eternal bars that held the fettered, O
Christ, and on the third day, like Jonah from the whale, Thou didst arise from
the tomb.
Ode 7: He Who delivered the Children from the furnace, became man, suffereth
as a mortal, and through His Passion doth clothe mortality with the beauty of
incorruption, He is the only blessed and most glorious God of our fathers.
Ode 8: This chosen and holy day is the first of the
sabbaths, the queen and lady, the feast of feasts, and the festival of
festivals, wherein we bless Christ unto the ages.
Ode 9: Shine, shine, O new Jerusalem, for the glory
of the Lord is risen upon thee; dance now and be glad, O Zion, and do thou
exult, O pure Theotokos, in the arising of Him Whom thou didst bear.
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