Paschal Hours

• Compline
• The Midnight Office
• The First Hour
• The Third and Sixth Hours
• The Ninth Hour

Outline

• Opening blessing
• Troparion of Pascha
• Having beheld the Resurrection of Christ, let us worship the holy Lord Jesus, the only sinless One. We venerate your Cross, O Christ, and we praise and glorify your holy Resurrection; for you are our God and we know no other than you and we call upon your Name. Come all you faithful, let us venerate Christ's holy Resurrection, for behold through the Cross joy has come into all the world. Let us ever bless the Lord, praising his Resurrection, for enduring the Cross for us, he has destroyed death by death.
• Hypakoe of Pascha: Before the dawn the Mary and the women came and found the stone roled away from the tomb. They heard the angel's voice, "Why do you seek among the dead as a man, the One who is everlasting Light? Behold, the clothes in the grave. Go and proclaim to the world: The Lord is risen, he has slain death as he is the Son of God, saving the human race.
• Kontakion of Pascha: You descended into the tomb, O Immortal, you destroyed the power of death. You arose in, O Christ God, proclaiming, "Rejoice" to the myrrh-bearing women, granting peace to your apostles and giving resurrection to the fallen.
• Troparia:
• *In the tomb with the body and in Hades with the soul, in Paradise with the thief and on the throne with the Father and the Spirit, were You, O boundless Christ filling all things.
• *Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit
• *Bearing life and more fruitful than Paradise, brighter than any royal chamber, Your tomb, O Christ, is the fountain of our resurrection.
• *Both now and ever and unto the ages of ages. Amen.
• *Rejoice, O holy and divine abode of the Most High, for through you, O Theotokos, joy is given to those who cry: Blessed are you among women, O all-undefiled Lady.
• Lord, have mercy
• Blessing by priest
• Troparion of Pascha
• Lord, have mercy
• Dismissal