Pascha ( 24.04.2006 )
Today, in the monastery of the Most Holy Theotokos Eleusa in Veljusa, to the glory of Christ’s Resurrection, Metropolitan Nahum of Strumica celebrated Hierarch’s Divine Liturgy. According to church canons i.e. 66 Canon of the Holy Apostles, the Sixth Ecumenical Council: “From the Holy day of the Resurrection of Christ, our God, until the following week, throughout the whole week, the faithful should attend services in the holy churches, chanting psalms, hymns and religious songs, rejoicing in Christ and celebrating, listening carefully at that to the reading of the Divine Scriptures and partaking of the Holy Mysteries. For only in this wise we shall rise and ascend together with Christ.” Certainly, this rule applies only to them who regularly fast, confess, and pray, under the guidance of a spiritual father.
Christ is risen!
We read the paschal Hours during the Bright week in place of the usual Compline, Midnight Service, and the Hours.
Christ is risen from the dead,
By death hath he trampled down death,
And on those in the graves hath he bestowed life. (3)
Let us who have beheld the Resurrection of Christ
Worship our holy Lord Jesus,
Who is alone without sin.
We worship Thy Cross, O Christ,
And we praise and glorify 
Thy holy Resurrection.
For Thou art our God,
And we know none other beside Thee,
And we call upon Thy Name.
come, all ye faithful, let us worship
Christ’s holy Resurrection, for behold,
Through the Cross joy hath come to the whole world.
Forever blessing the Lord,
We praise His Resurrection.
He endured the Cross for us,
And by death destroyed death. (3)
When they who were with Mary came,
Anticipating the dawn,
And found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre,
They heard from the Angel:
Why seek ye among the dead,
As though He were mortal man,
Him Who abideth in everlasting light?
Behold the grave-clothes. 
Go quickly and proclaim to the world that the Lord is risen,
And hath put death to death.
For He is the Son of God, Who saveth the race of man.
Though Thou didst descend into the grave, O Immortal One,
Yet didst Thou destroy the power of Hades,
And didst arise as victor, O Christ God,
Calling to the myrrh-bearing women, Rejoice,
And giving peace unto Thine Apostles,
O Thou Who dost grant resurrection to the fallen.
In the grave bodily;
In Hades with Thy soul, though Thou wast God;
In
And on the Throne with the Father and the Spirit
wast Thou Who fillest all things, O Christ the Uncircumscribable.
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit.
How life-giving, how much more beautiful than paradise,
And truly more resplendent than any royal palace
Proved Thy grave, the source of our resurrection, o Christ.
Both now and ever, and unto the ages of ages. Amen.
Rejoice, O sanctified and divine tabernacle of the Most High;
For through thee, O Theotokos,
Joy is given to them that cry:
Blessed art thou among women,
O all-immaculate Lady.
Lord, have mercy. (40)
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit; 
Both now and ever, and unto the ages of ages. Amen.
More honourable than the Cherubim,
And beyond compare more glorious than the Seraphim,
thee who without corruption gavest birth to God the Word,
The very Theotokos, thee do we magnify.
Through the prayers of our holy Fathers,
Lord Jesus Christ our God, have mercy on us.
Amen.
Christ is risen from the dead,
By death hath he trampled down death,
And on those in the graves hath he bestowed life. (3)
