Thou didst descend from on high, O Merciful One! Thou didst accept the
three-day burial to free us from our sufferings! O Lord, our Life and
Resurrection: glory to Thee!
Glory to the Father.... Now and ever....
By rising from the tomb, Thou didst raise the dead and resurrect Adam.
Eve exults in Thy Resurrection, and the world celebrates Thy rising from
the dead, O greatly Merciful One!
_NOTE: On the eve of Great Feasts of the Lord or the Theotokos, the
Troparion and Kontakion of the Feast are read._
_After the Troparia, the Reader continues:_