Order of Burial for Those Who Die at Easter

Alleluia, in Tone II. The Gospel for the first Sunday.

And then: In that we have beheld the Resurrection of Christ {seepage 230): and the rest of the Songs of the Canon,

And when the Canon is completed, the Exapostildrion is read or sung : After that thou hadst fallen asleep in the flesh, … {Twice.) {Seepage 233.)

Then is sung; Blessed art thou, O Lord; teach me thy statutes. The company of the Angels was amazed, … {See page 28.)

Then the Easter Canticles {Stikhiri), with their Verses, {Seepage 234-)

Glory … now, and ever, … The Day of Resurrection, … {Thrice.) {See Page 227.) And: Christ is risen … {Thrice*)

And when these Canticles have been sung, there is the customary kissing of the dead, as they say : Christ is risen.

And after the Canticles, the usual Litany for the dead, with the Prayer, which is read aloud, close to the dead person, by the Bishop or Priest.

Exclamation. For thou art the Resurrection, and the Life, … {Seepage 370.)

Then the customary Benediction. {See page 391.)

Then the concluding Prayer: May the Lord Jesus Christ our God, … {See page 392.)

And we go forth to the grave, bearing the body of the dead for burial. And the Priest, and all the Choir, going before the remains, chant: Christ is risen from the dead, trampling down Death by death, and upon those in the tomb bestowing life.

And the body is buried, with thanksgiving and joy, all things having been done and said which are written in the Burial of a Layman.

And the Hymn {Tropdr) having been sung; Open, O earth, and receive that which was made from thee.