Easter service at the church begins at midnight and lasts until morning. Its beginning marks the beginning of the holiday. Easter service is special - it is festive and light. After her visit, the soul is light and somehow especially solemn.
Christ Sunday, Green Christmas, Bright Day - all these are synonyms for Easter. Christians especially honor this holiday - the main Sunday of the year when Jesus rose from the dead. Easter is the personification of the victory of Love and Life. The church service on this day is joyful and radiant, as well as the mood of all parishioners visiting it. The main part of the service lasts from half past eleven to four in the morning. The temples on this solemn night are usually crowded. Parishioners who wish to attend worship should leave the house in advance in order to have enough space. The temple is decorated with white flowers, priests are dressed in formal robes, the rest of the ministers are also dressed smartly. Singing on this night is joyful and light, there are a lot of candles in the church and the salaries of icons mysteriously gilded in their light. The service is accompanied by the Annunciation - a special bell ringing. It is better to consecrate Easter cakes, Easter and other food in advance, on Saturday. During the Easter service, with a large crowd of people, it will be difficult to do so. Half an hour before midnight, the priest and the deacon on their heads bring to the altar through the Royal Gates a canvas with the image of Christ in the shrine - the shroud. Ministers lay her on the throne. Here, the shroud is before the giving of Holy Easter as a sign that Jesus was on the earth for forty days before the ascension. With the onset of midnight in the altar, which marks the sky, the clergy begin to sing the stechira. It sounds like this: "Thy Resurrection, Christ the Savior, Angels sing in heaven, and like us to the earth like a pure heart to Your glory." Singing stekhira occurs three times. The second time she is also sung in the altar, a tone higher and with a curtain drawn back. This is a sign that the destinies of mankind are earlier revealed in heaven than on earth. The third singing, in even higher voices, begins when the priests exit the altar and lasts until the middle. The stechirs of the choir in the middle of the temple and all the worshipers finish their singing, followed by a chime. Exit the procession from the church and walks around the church with the singing "Thy Resurrection, Christ the Savior …". The move represents the myrrh-bearing women who walked with aromas of "Zelo early to the Sepulcher." The participants of the Khod stop at the western gate of the temple, as if at the door of the tomb, where the Mironians received the news of the resurrection. At this moment, the chime subsides. The abbot takes the censer and envelops in the fragrance of incense the icon and all the worshipers. Then he takes in his free hand a cross with a tri-hang and becomes facing east. With a censer, the priest draws the sign of the Cross in front of the closed gates and begins the Bright Morning. Following this, the doors of the temple open and the gaze of worshipers is surrounded by candles and flowers. This is followed by the Easter morning service. It consists of canon singing. Then the stohirs sing and solemnly read the gospel. The next step is the reclusive prayer, after which, on a lectern, in front of the icon with the Risen Christ, relies bread prepared according to a special recipe. This bread, called Greek artos, is blessed with prayer and sprinkled with holy water. Throughout the entire Bright Week, bread remains in the temple. At the end of the Easter Liturgy, joyful singing is heard, and all believers come to the Cross of the Lord under the ringing of bells. Here they exchange festive greetings: "Christ is risen!" - "Truly Risen!"
