• The prayer “Heavenly King, Comforter” is not read.
• Prostrations to the ground are cancelled.
On Bright Week (7 days from Easter to Saturday morning inclusive):
• Instead of evening and morning prayers (prayer rule), the Easter Hours are sung or read. The Hours of Easter are also sung instead of Compline and Midnight Office.
• The Rule for Holy Communion is changed; it begins with the Hours of Easter, after which the Easter Canon follows. This is programmed on our corresponding page.
All prayers are preceded by three readings of the Easter troparion: “Christ is risen from the dead...”. Then the Trisagion is read...
The prayer “It is worthy to eat” is replaced by the prayer “An angel crying with grace.”
All prayers begin with the Trisagion. The Troparion of Easter is not read.
The prayer “It is worthy to eat” begins to be read again (it was not read for the previous 40 days).
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2) At the all-night vigil, “Christ is risen from the dead...” (three times) is sung, according to tradition, instead of “Come, let us worship...” and after “The blessing of the Lord be upon you...”, before the start of the six psalms (cf.: paragraph 5).
3) At the Sunday all-night vigil, at the end of the Easter stichera at the vespers stichera, the troparion “Christ is risen from the dead...” is sung (once): it is included in the last stichera, being its conclusion.
4) At the Liturgy, “Christ is risen from the dead...” (three times) is sung after “Blessed is the Kingdom...”.
Note. Usually, at the beginning of the all-night vigil and Liturgy, the clergy sing the troparion 2 times in its entirety, and the 3rd time, ending with the words: “... trampling death upon death,” and the singers finish: “And to those in the tombs he gave life.” In some churches, the troparion “Christ is Risen...” is sung (once) by the clergy, and then (once) by both choirs. Before the Six Psalms, “Christ is Risen...” is usually sung by the choir all three times.
5) “Christ is risen from the dead...” (three times) is read at the beginning of the hours, Vespers, Compline, Midnight Office and Matins: at the 3rd, 9th o’clock, Compline and Midnight Office - instead of “Heavenly King...”, and at the 1st, 6th o’clock and Vespers (if the 9th hour is read immediately before its start), according to tradition, instead “Come, let’s worship...”
Note. In addition to this, the most common practice, there are also the following traditions regarding the performance of the Easter troparion at daily services in the post-Easter period. According to one of them, at the 1st, 6th hours and Vespers, the troparion of Easter does not cancel the text “Come, let us worship...”, but precedes it. According to another tradition, “Christ is Risen...” is not said at the beginning of the associated services (for example, Vespers, 1st and 6th o’clock), only “Come, let us worship...” is read at them.
6) At the Liturgy, “Christ is risen from the dead...” is sung (once) instead of “We have seen the True Light...”. Entrance: “Come, let us worship... risen from the dead...”.
7) At the end of the Liturgy, at the exclamation: “Glory to Thee, Christ our God, our Hope, glory to Thee,” the singers sing: “Christ is risen from the dead...” (three times). At all other services, after the exclamation: “Glory to Thee, Christ our God, our Hope, glory to Thee,” the ending is as usual. Dismissal at all services begins with the words: “Risen from the dead...”.
8) On Sunday, after the dismissal of the Liturgy, according to ancient custom, the priest overshadows the people with the Cross three times and proclaims: “Christ is risen!”, as in the days of Bright Week. The singers sing the final “Christ is risen from the dead...” (three times), “And we have been given eternal life, we worship His three-day Resurrection” (once). On weekdays there is no overshadowing of the Holy Cross.
9) The troparion “Christ is risen from the dead...” is also sung at the beginning of prayers, memorial services, Baptism, funeral services and other services.
10) “To the Heavenly King...” is not read or sung until the day of the Holy Trinity.
11) The services of the saints who happened on all Sundays of Holy Pentecost (except for Martyr George, the Apostle John the Theologian, St. Nicholas, the Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Constantine and Helen, temple and polyeleos feasts) are not combined with the Sunday service, but are performed at Compline along with the canon of the Theotokos from Octoechos and the three canticles of the Colored Triodion (located in the Triodi appendix).
12) “Having seen the Resurrection of Christ...” at Sunday matins is sung three times, and on other days at matins, before the 50th Psalm, once.
13) The Canon of Easter is sung at Sunday matins on the Sunday of the Myrrh-Bearing Women, the paralytic, the Samaritan and the blind man, with all the troparia and the Theotokos, without the final “Christ is risen from the dead...” for each song and without choruses for the 9th song of the canon. On weekdays (at weekday services), the Easter canon is not supposed to be sung. On the Sunday of Antipascha and on holidays, with great doxology, it is necessary to sing the irmos of Easter (except for Midnight and its celebration).
14) In all the Weeks (i.e. Sundays) before the celebration of Easter, “The Most Honest” is not sung at Sunday Matins. Every church ceremony takes place on the 9th song of the canon.
15) Exapostilary “Having fallen asleep in the flesh...” is sung at Sunday matins in the week when the canon of Easter is due.
16) At the 1st hour on all days from the Week of St. Thomas until the Ascension, it is customary to sing instead of “The Chosen Voivode...” the kontakion of Easter, tone 8: “Even to the grave...”.
17) At the Liturgy, on all days before the Ascension, except for the Feast of the Midsummer and its giving, the venerable hymn is sung: “The angel cried out...” and “Shine, shine...”.
18) Communicated with Easter “Receive the Body of Christ...” is sung on all days before the celebration of Easter, except for the Week of St. Thomas and Midsummer with the afterfeast.
19) Prostrations to the ground before the day of the Holy Trinity are canceled by the Charter.