Ανάστασιν Χριστού θεασάμενοι, προσκυνήσωμεν Άγιον, Κύριον, Ιησούν τόν μόνον αναμάρτητον. Τόν Σταυρόν σου, Χριστέ, προσκυνούμεν, καί τήν αγίαν σου Ανάστασιν υμνούμεν καί δοξάζομεν, Σύ γάρ εί Θεός ημών, εκτός σού άλλον ουκ οίδαμεν, τό όνομά σου ονομάζομεν, Δεύτε πάντες οι πιστοί, προσκυνήσωμεν τήν τού Χριστού αγίαν Ανάστασιν, ιδού γάρ ήλθε διά τού Σταυρού, χαρά εν όλω τώ κόσμω, Διά παντός ευλογούντες τόν Κύριον, υμνούμεν τήν Ανάστασιν αυτού, Σταυρόν γάρ υπομείνας δι" ημάς, θανάτω θάνατον ώλεσεν.
History
The chant has ancient origin and has a counterpart in the text of the Western Liturgy of Good Friday: " We bow to Your Cross, O Christ, and St. We praise and glorify Thy Resurrection, behold, through the Cross, joy has come to the whole world". Initially, the song belonged to the Easter service, but already in the Easter Jerusalem "Following" of the 9th century, this song is given as a Sunday song after reading the Gospel. The chant is clearly of Jerusalem origin (“Let us bow to the Holy Christ's resurrection"- an indication of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, frequent references to the Cross, kept in the temple).
The song "The Resurrection of Christ" is already mentioned in liturgical monuments of the Studio period. However, in the oldest handwritten Studio Rules, it is present as a Sunday morning hymn, but not after the gospel reading (immediately after the reading, according to the Studio Rule, a prokeimenon is laid).
Known are the author's works on the text of the chant “The Resurrection of Christ who saw ...”: the everyday version of A. A. Arkhangelsky, the chant of P. G. Chesnokov, the original compositions of A. L. Vedel, A. T. Grechaninov, S. V. Rachmaninov, P. I. Tchaikovsky and others.
liturgical use
The hymn "Seeing the Resurrection of Christ" is used during worship:
- Easter Matins according to the 6th ode of the canon;
- daily during the period from Easter to Ascension (inclusive);
- Sunday Matins (except for the Matins of the Week of Vay (Palm Sunday));
- Matins of Lazarus Saturday;
- feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross.
In the modern liturgical practice of the Russian Orthodox Church, the chant "The Resurrection of Christ who saw ..." is usually performed by all believers in the 6th voice.
Notes
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Prayer to the Holy Spirit
Heavenly King, Comforter, Soul of Truth, Who is everywhere and fills everything, Treasury of the good and Giver of life, come and dwell in us, and cleanse us from all filth, and save, O Blessed, our souls.
Prayer to the Holy Trinity
Holy Trinity, have mercy on us; Lord, cleanse our sins; Lord, forgive our iniquities; Holy One, visit and heal our infirmities, for Your name's sake.
Lord's Prayer
Our Father, Who art in heaven! Hallowed be Thy name, Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, as in heaven and on earth. Give us our daily bread today; and forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.
Symbol of faith
I believe in one God the Father, Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth, visible to all and invisible. And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the Only Begotten, who was born of the Father before all ages; Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, uncreated, consubstantial with the Father, Whom all was. For us for the sake of man and for our sake of salvation, he descended from heaven and became incarnate from the Holy Spirit and Mary the Virgin, and became human. Crucified for us under Pontius Pilate, and suffered, and was buried. And resurrected on the third day according to the Scriptures. And ascended into heaven, and sits at the right hand of the Father. And the packs of the future with glory to judge the living and the dead, His Kingdom will have no end. And in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the Life-Giving One, Who proceeds from the Father, Who with the Father and the Son is worshiped and glorified, who spoke the prophets. Into one Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church. I confess one baptism for the remission of sins. I look forward to the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the age to come. Amen.
Virgin Virgin
Virgin Mother of God, rejoice, Blessed Mary, the Lord is with you; Blessed are You in women and blessed is the Fruit of Your womb, as if the Savior gave birth to our souls.
Worthy to eat
It is worthy to eat as truly blessed Thee, the Mother of God, the Blessed and Immaculate and Mother of our God. The most honest Cherubim and the most glorious without comparison Seraphim, without the corruption of God the Word, who gave birth to the real Mother of God, we magnify Thee.
Sunday Hymn for the Gospel Reading
Having seen the Resurrection of Christ, let us worship the Holy Lord Jesus, the only sinless one. We worship Thy Cross, O Christ, and we sing and glorify Thy Holy Resurrection: Thou art our God, unless we know Thee otherwise, we call Thy name. Come, all faithful, let us worship the Holy Resurrection of Christ: behold, the joy of the whole world has come through the Cross. Always blessing the Lord, let us sing of His Resurrection: having endured the crucifixion, destroy death by death.
Song of the Blessed Virgin Mary
My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior.
Chorus: The most honest Cherubim and the most glorious Seraphim without comparison, who without the corruption of God the Word gave birth to the present Mother of God, We magnify Thee.
As if looking at the humility of His servant, from now on, all will please Me.
Yako do me greatness, O Strong One, and holy is His name, and His mercy from generation to generation to those who fear Him.
Create power with Your arm, squander their hearts with proud thoughts.
Depose the strong from the throne, and exalt the humble; fill the hungry with good things, and let go of the rich.
He will accept His servant Israel, remember mercy, as if speaking to our fathers, Abraham and his seed, even to the age.
Prayer righteous Simeon God-bearer
Now let your servant go, Master, according to your word in peace; for my eyes have seen your salvation, if you have prepared before the face of all people, a light in the revelation of tongues, and the glory of your people Israel.
Psalm 50, repentant
Have mercy on me, O God, according to Thy great mercy, and according to the multitude of Thy mercies, cleanse my iniquity. Wash me most of all from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin; for I know my iniquity, and my sin before me is taken out. I have sinned against you alone and done evil before you; as if you were justified in your words, and conquered when you judge Ty. Behold, I was conceived in iniquity, and in sins give birth to me, my mother. Behold, thou hast loved the truth; the unknown and secret wisdom of Thy revealed to me. Sprinkle me with hyssop, and I will be cleansed; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. Give joy and joy to my hearing; the bones of the humble will rejoice. Turn Your face away from my sins and cleanse all my iniquities. Create a pure heart in me, O God, and renew a right spirit in my womb. Do not cast me away from Your presence, and do not take Your Holy Spirit from me. Give me the joy of Your salvation and confirm me with the Sovereign Spirit. I will teach the wicked in Your way, and the wicked will turn to You. Deliver me from the blood, O God, God of my salvation, my tongue will rejoice in Your righteousness. Lord, open my mouth, and my mouth will proclaim your praise. As if you would have desired sacrifices, you would have given them: you do not favor burnt offerings. Sacrifice to God the spirit is broken; a contrite and humble heart God will not despise. Please, O Lord, with Thy favor Zion, and let the walls of Jerusalem be built. Then be pleased with the sacrifice of righteousness, an offering and a burnt offering; then they will offer bullocks on your altar.
Sunday hymn for reading the Gospel.Having seen the Resurrection of Christ, let us worship the holy Lord Jesus, the only sinless one. We worship Thy Cross, O Christ, and we sing and glorify Thy Holy Resurrection: Thou art our God, unless we know Thee otherwise, we call Thy name. Come, all faithful, let us bow down to the holy resurrection of Christ: behold, the joy of the whole world has come by the Cross. Always blessing the Lord, let us sing of His resurrection: having endured the crucifixion, destroy death by death.
Prayer for Holy Easter
Oh, Most Holy and Greatest Light of Christ, Resplendent throughout the world more than the sun in Your Resurrection! In this bright and glorious and saving laziness of Holy Pascha, all the angels in heaven rejoice, and every creature rejoices and rejoices on earth, and every breath glorifies Thee, its Creator. Today, the gates of paradise are opened, and the dead I am freed into hell by Your descent. Now all is filled with light, heaven is earth and the underworld. May Your light also come into our gloomy souls and hearts, and may it enlighten our existing night of sin there, and we will shine with the light of truth and purity in the bright days of Your Resurrection, like a new creature about You. And thus, enlightened by Thee, we will come forth enlightened in meeting Thy, who proceeds to Thee from the tomb, like the Bridegroom. And as thou hast rejoiced on this most bright day with the appearance of Your holy virgins in the morning from the world to Your tomb who came, so now enlighten the night of our deep passions and shine on us the morning of dispassion and purity, so that we can see Thee with the hearts of the eyes red more than the sun of the Bridegroom and let us hear still your longed-for voice: Rejoice! And having tasted the Divine joys of Holy Pascha while still here on earth, may we be partakers of Thy eternal and great Pascha in heaven in the non-evening days of Thy Kingdom, where there will be unspeakable joy and unspeakable voice of celebrating and unspeakable sweetness of those who see Thy Face inexpressible kindness. Thou art the true light, enlightening and illuminating every one, Christ our God, and glory befits you forever and ever. Amen.
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The Experience of Divine Thought (2010)
Divine Thought for Sunday Hymn
"Seeing the Resurrection of Christ"Oh my wonderful Lord
and my God bless!This marvelous Sunday hymn - a hymn to the Resurrection of Christ - is sung on all-night vigil on the eve of Resurrection after reading the Sunday Gospel at Matins. We have established a good custom in the Church to sing it after the end of the Sunday Liturgy, after the dismissal, and before the kissing of the Cross of the Lord.
My Lord wakes me up at night. I lie in bed and with a clear, pure mind I say a blessed prayer with the sweetest and divine name of Jesus Christ: "Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on us" . I have no other purpose than to repeat His all-powerful and dearest name to my heart. I reverently and quietly repeat it with my thought, peer into it and see it. There are no extraneous thoughts and no extra sensations. I do not need to make any effort to keep my mind in the words of this prayer, inexpressible and mysterious in its effect. Nothing scatters my mind and no one shakes it. Quiet and blessed. In the simplicity of my heart, I repeat the dear words of this wonderful prayer, the whole essence and power of which is in the name of the named Jesus Christ! So I, listening to the words of prayer, invisibly imbibe its grace-filled power, not looking for anything and not leaning anywhere. I stand with my mind before my God with one realization that there is He and I, and my spiritual children, whom I remember before Him in the words "have mercy on us." I'm quiet, calm, peaceful, good! What else does? But suddenly comes the One who is my Lord and of all that He has created! He powerfully, but very gently, takes my mind and opens another understanding to it. There is no possibility and no desire to resist this! My mind, like an obedient servant, is drawn after His Lord and sees what He is pleased to show it. This time He was pleased to show me what is hidden in the Sunday song “Seeing the Resurrection of Christ”.
Many times I sang this beautiful and very beloved song both at church services and for myself. Extraordinary power pours into the soul with its singing or prayer! But I could not even imagine that in this hymn to the Resurrection of Christ, where, it would seem, everything is so directly and unambiguously written, there is a place for the mind to work and a mystery. I will try to convey what I saw and felt under the influence of the grace of God in the words of this wondrous and great song, singing the mystery of Christ's Resurrection.
Here is the text of this wonderful song, which I will break into points according to how they will be interpreted by me:
- Worship the Holy Lord Jesus
- the only sinless
- You are our God
- don't you know otherwise
- we call your name
- Come all faithful
- sing of his resurrection
- having endured the crucifixion
- destroy death by death.
- Seeing the Resurrection of Christ
Saying or reading this line, we realize that none of us witnessed that greatest and most salutary event in the history of mankind, when our Lord Jesus Christ, who died on the cross and buried in a stone cave, was resurrected by the power of His Divinity. We learn about this event from reading the Gospel, but we accept it by faith. Why do we sing “seeing” and not “hearing” or “believing” in relation to this resurrection? What resurrection of Christ could we personally see? After all, it is not by chance that the Church used the word “seeing” in this song.
We are talking here about the resurrection that each of us can see in ourselves, in our inner man! This resurrection manifests itself in us in two ways. On the one hand, as deliverance from the power of Satan and his demons, from the power that captivated us and mortified us before that sin. After all, in the baptismal font we died to sin and renounced Satan and everything connected with him. On the other hand, as a feeling of a qualitatively new, previously unknown and true life, life with God, life by His grace! After all, for this we rise (resurrection) with Christ in the font of baptism, so that from now on we will live only with Him and for His sake! This is our resurrection, at the same time, there is also our birth from above, from God. Thus, leaving the font, we become the children of God and, by human nature, small Christs. However, this resurrection of ours, which we see and feel in ourselves, was brought to us by the merits of our Savior Jesus Christ, which apparently, most clearly and fully manifested in His resurrection from the dead.
- Worship the Holy Lord Jesus
Seeing in ourselves these wonderful changes that we observe in our resurrection for life with God, we are filled with good thoughts and feelings for our Resurrector, Savior and Benefactor Jesus Christ, which we express by our worship of Him as the Lord God, worship in spirit and truth. . But in this worship, we not only give Him due honor and thanksgiving for deliverance from death, but we also confess His incomparable Holiness, from which all other holiness in the Church and the people of God originates and has strength.
- the only sinless
The indescribable Holiness of the Holy and unattainable for us God, through Christ attainable by faith, passes according to His immeasurable merits through the Holy Spirit and to every faithful one who reveres His Holiness. Receiving this holiness as a gift, observing and feeling it in ourselves, we are amazed at its actions, and above all, at the tasting of life and enjoyment of the peace of the heart. Holiness makes us bright, pure and luminous! After all, God is Light! And in this Light, which manifests itself in us as our spiritual light, we clearly see all our insufficiency, weakness and imperfection. Moreover, we see an incomprehensible combination of holiness and sin in us. Alas, sin still remains in us, but now as a hated and unwanted filth, sickness and infirmity. The more we are sanctified, the more and more clearly we see in ourselves the sin that clings to us in every possible way and fiercely resists the holiness that gradually conquers it. And in this struggle, again and again we look to our Firstborn and the sinless winner of our sin, the Lord Jesus Christ. That is why, in this contrast, we confess with all our hearts that He is in His human nature the only sinless! Sinless, not as one who did not commit sin or fought with it in Himself and won, but as not at all involved in it! Absolutely sinless in all parts and manifestations of human nature! And for us, who find something else in ourselves, this is a miracle and, at the same time, an incentive to fight against the remnants of sin living in us. Thus, in the words “only sinless,” we confess His unique sinlessness, and our hatred of sin, and our zeal to fight it until it is completely delivered from it, so that by grace we can become like our Firstborn and Model Jesus Christ!
- We worship Your Cross, O Christ
Having hated sin and determined to fight it, we need support for this fight and help to win. And here we, turning our gaze to the Conqueror of sin, see that He accomplished this victory with His Cross and on His Cross. The Cross of Christ is revealed to us as a great God-sanctified weapon against the devil, his demons and sin in all its manifestations. At the same time, the Cross of Christ is revealed to us as the Great Altar of God, on which, for the sake of our salvation, the incarnate Son of God deigned to suffer and die. For all of us, people, and for each of us individually, God the Father offered His Only Son as a Sacrifice and Himself accepted this Sacrifice, having reconciled Him with people! With the realization of this Mystery of the Cross revealed to us by God, we worship it as the Cross of Christ!
- and thy holy resurrection we sing and glorify
But the Sacrifice offered on the Cross by Christ was not the annihilation of Christ, and His death was not His loss! He returned to us with His Divine Resurrection! The joy of this return, and more than any of our hope of finding Christ, we express with our singing and doxology of His joyful resurrection for us. Hooray! We are saved, redeemed, but we are not alone! Christ has returned to us with His resurrection! And therefore this is His resurrection for us a great Holy thing! It is for us holy Sunday! And we happily sing it and praise it every seventh day of every week! This is the day of our holiday, rest from labors, rest from struggles. This is the happiest day for us!
- You are our God
Glorifying Christ's resurrection and rejoicing as His children to return to us, we do this for ourselves. But rightly rejoicing and celebrating His glorious victory over death and sin, we cannot be satisfied with this joy alone. We want to aspire to the Source and Cause of this incomparable joy, to the Risen Christ! Turning to Him, we marvel at the greatest miracle of His resurrection revealed to us, understanding that He Himself, by His Divinity, resurrected His humanity! At the same time, we realize that He did this for us and that He is now forever ours! That's why we confess Him our God!
- don't you know otherwise
In the joy of this realization and confession, we do not know how we can repay Him for all that He has done for us. His gifts are so great, so wonderful, so inexpressible that we are perplexed in the choice of expression of the feelings that have embraced us. Here we find in ourselves only one thing that we can confess to Him as a sign of great gratitude for all His mercy and good deeds to us - this is loyalty and devotion to Him forever! That is why we tirelessly lift up the song “Do you not know and do not want to know another God, King and Master”!
- we call your name
But the confession of fidelity is not enough for us, for we want to express not only a feeling of gratitude, but also love for the risen Christ. To express our love for Him, we find nothing better than tirelessly repeating the name of the Beloved: "Jesus Christ ... Jesus Christ ... Jesus Christ."
- Come all faithful
- Let's bow to the holy resurrection of Christ
Inviting all the faithful to rejoice with us in Christ our God found in His resurrection, we again wish to express our feelings by our common worship of the holy Resurrection of Christ, to which we call all the faithful.
But this repeated and filled our worship is supplemented by a new awareness! Our holy God Christ has returned to us in our human nature in its even better and most perfect quality – resurrected! But this resurrection of His was not the simple return of the life that had departed from the body, as it was, for example, with His friend Lazarus. The resurrection of Christ brought human nature to the highest possible perfection! This perfection has reached that ineffable state that the resurrected Christ returned in His resurrected flesh to Heaven and sat down at the right hand of His Heavenly Father! Oh, the unspeakable miracle! Oh, amazing glory! This is where we are lifted up by the resurrected Christ!
- Behold, the joy of the whole world has come by the Cross
From this heavenly height, we again descend to earth, look at the whole world created by God and confess the basis of the joy brought by the Resurrection of Christ to the whole world - the Cross of Christ! Oh, marvelous marvel! Oh, great mystery! An instrument of death and sorrow has become an instrument of life and joy!
- always bless the Lord
From realizing and experiencing all this, what else can we do, how not to always bless our Lord Jesus Christ!
- sing of his resurrection
And to sing of His glorious and most necessary resurrection, by which He took us away from death and hell, opened the Kingdom of Heaven to us and gave us our resurrection, which makes us capable of eternal and blessed life with Him and the Most Holy Trinity!
- having endured the crucifixion
For for the sake of this, He, the eternally blessed, humbled himself for us to the point that he suffered death through the crucifixion, shameful among people, which became the highest glory of His economy!
- destroy death by death.
But even this taste of death He accepted voluntarily and only for us, for the sake of the final and complete destruction of our main enemy - death!
Deliverance from death and the gift of eternal life with God - this is the greatest work of Christ and His greatest gift to us!The end, and glory, honor and worship to our God in Christ risen, to the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, now and forever and forever and ever. Amen!
Having seen the Resurrection of Christ, let us worship the holy Lord Jesus, the only sinless one. We worship Thy Cross, O Christ, and we sing and glorify Thy Holy Resurrection: Thou art our God, unless we know Thee otherwise, we call Thy name. Come, all faithful, let us bow down to the holy resurrection of Christ: behold, the joy of the whole world has come by the Cross. Always blessing the Lord, let us sing of His resurrection: having endured the crucifixion, destroy death by death.
In Russian, Sunday got its name due to the Great event for all people - the Resurrection of Christ crucified on the cross. It is difficult for a person to perceive the Wisdom of God, which declares a terrible death a victory. In honor of the miraculous resurrection of the Son of Man from the dead, the Orthodox Church joyfully sings “Seeing the Resurrection of Christ” during the service:
- on the pre-holiday Easter night (three times);
- all 40 days from Easter to Ascension (the first week is sung three times);
- at Matins before Sunday during the year (except Palm Sunday);
- on the eve of Lazarus Saturday;
- on the day of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross.
If there is a funeral service for a person who died on Easter, the anthem is included in the service. There is a legend that these days the doors of Paradise are open, however, we cannot insist on this. The death of a Christian is not as gloomy as that of people who have no hope in the Lord. What happened, why do we have fun on this holiday?
Death tramples death
How to understand the joyful exclamation at the Easter service: “Christ raised from the dead, trampled down death by death, and bestowed life (life) on those in the tomb”. Those who read the Bible know that Jesus Christ resurrected three people, including his friend Lazarus, who had already begun to decompose. But their resurrection does not cause joyful rejoicing, although they also came to life miraculously. The difference between these Sundays is huge.
Those lived and will die again, but the Lord has found an immortal body. Moreover, the whole of humanity has changed since that moment. All people will be resurrected and will live forever. Death has no power over us. We are left with the freedom to choose a posthumous eternal fate. Those who believe in Christ will dwell with Him in Paradise. Those who trust in God have a bright hope in the Savior, who:
- delivers from hellish torment for sins;
- for he forgives;
- cleanses;
- illuminates the person.
Note: The hymn “Seeing the Resurrection of Christ” is dedicated to this event. How dogmatic teaching is contained in the Creed Orthodox Church, so this song highlights the circumstances that served our immortality, which we worship, glorifying them.
Baptism is the ticket to eternal life
The Lord said that only those who have faith and are baptized with water and the Holy Spirit will enter the Kingdom of God. At this moment, a person is completely cleansed from the original sin of Adam (bringing death), and a new one is born - a co-heir of Christ and His Resurrection. No one saw how the process of transfiguration of the dead body of the Lord took place. But we sing "having seen", because we can:
- Communicate with Him in prayer.
- Feel and see His help.
- Unite with Him in Communion, approaching the Eucharistic Chalice.
- To be cleansed of the sinful component in the Sacraments given by the Church.
- To perceive Grace, to acquire the Holy Spirit.
- To see His Power, which is inherent in the saints.
About 150 people were witnesses of the ascension of Christ, including 11 apostles, who gave their lives to carry the good news of the Resurrection to all peoples. Will a person (and more than one) die for the Truth, preaching it, if he has not seen Him with his own eyes? No. Therefore, we believe them, many are convinced by experience and irrevocably of the veracity of their words.
Rev. Maxim the Confessor:“He who knows the mystery of the cross and the tomb will also know the essential meaning of all things ... He who will penetrate even deeper than the cross and the tomb, and will be initiated into the mystery of the resurrection, will know the ultimate goal for which God created all things meant.”
Why do Christians honor the Cross?
The hymn contains the words "We worship Thy Cross, O Christ." It would seem why so exalt the shameful instrument of execution? Such it was before the Resurrection of Christ. Then it turned into a symbol of victory over death. Christians wear a cross like:
- a sign of belonging to faith in the Son of God;
- a symbol and instrument of protection from devilish machinations;
- preaching evidence.
During the time of the persecution of Christians, in Rome there was a kind of execution: the prisoners, in the circus arena, were given to be eaten by hungry lions. Being on the verge of death, they fearlessly preached faith in Christ, the Resurrection and eternal life. Going to torment, they testified that they were dying for the Truth, not fearing death, for they would come to life anyway. Seeing such determination, many pagans followed their example, becoming Christians.
Then those doomed to a terrible execution began to cut off their tongues. Confessors of Christ, so as not to be confused with murderers, who were subjected to the same punishment, being unable to speak, showed with signs why they were going to death. They depicted the symbol of the Cross: crossing their arms over their chest or above their heads; they depicted him from sticks that were found under their feet. Thus the sermon "sounded" anyway.
Note: Miracle with the acquisition of the Life-Giving Cross of the Lord by the mother of the Roman Emperor Constantine, St. Helena, when the deceased was resurrected, there is no doubt that Christians do not worship the instrument of death, but the triumph of victory over it.