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[FOR] PASCHA

Christ is risen from the dead; by death he trampled down death, and by his resurrection he granted life unto us. To him [be] glory forever. Amen.

RUBRIC: Of the Fifty Days [of Eastertide, *Yinankʿ*].

Awful and wondrous is the mystery of our salvation: He who is without beginning from the Father was ineffably incarnate of the Virgin; by enduring the cross and by His voluntary death, He bestowed upon us the gifts of life. For Christ arose from the dead, the eternal God, the Creator, and the resurrection of humankind, whom the hosts of angels and all the heavenly intelligences ceaselessly praise. With them, crying aloud, we say: Glory to Your awesome resurrection, O Lord!

[FOR THE] ASCENSION

The heavenly hosts were astonished seeing You seated upon the fiery chariot; trembling, they said: "Who is this that comes surging from Edom, and having come, enters from glory into glory? Lord, glory to You."