Материалы 24 апреля 2011 г.

ПАСХА. Тропарь: Христос воскресе из мертвых, смертию смерть поправ и сущим во гробех живот даровав.

11 / 24 апреля 2011 г. Светлое Христово Воскресение. Пасха. Сретенский монастырь. Пасхальная заутреня, Литургия. Хор Сретенского монастыря. (MP3 файл. Продолжительность 169:08 мин. Размер 81.2 Mb)

Христос восстал из мертвых, — восстаньте с Ним и вы; Христос во славе Своей, — восходите и вы; Христос из гроба, — освобождайтесь из уз греха, — говорим мы сегодня вместе со святителем Григорием Богословом. Радость Воскресения Христова, духовное торжество победы над смертью пусть согреют ныне сердце каждого из нас и озарят светом Божественной благодати наши души. Будем вместе нести победное Пасхальное благовестие!

With each year the Church testifies through this Paschal exclamation to the event of universal significance which happened almost two thousand years ago. It was then that early in the morning the myrrh-bearing women came to the burial site of their Teacher and saw that the tomb was empty. The divine power of Christ had triumphed over the law of death. He had risen, testifying to all of humanity that death was not the end of life, that death was overcome by the power of God.

Expectation and presentiment of joy fixes everyone’s limbs, and only their eyes look toward the holy doors. Now, quiet singing can be heard from the altar, and as if with an unbelievable effort, the curtain is pulled aside, the holy doors open, and a flood of light and sound streams out of the altar into the church, from the church into the nocturnal darkness, then spreads out commandingly over all the earth. Fr. Archimandrite and clergy proceed from the altar in gleaming festal garments that multiply the Paschal rays, and following the marked path, go forth from the church.