This paper will examine how the mystery of Christ is explicated and
praised in the Paschal Stichera. These hymns constitute a part of
Paschal Matins in the Byzantine Rite and are unattributed in the
liturgical books. The presentation will include a philological study of
selected verses and an examination of the way in which the prophecy of
Isaiah (specifically ch. 60–66) supplies the central imagery of the
hymns. It will also consider the relationship between the Paschal
Stichera and Orations 1 and 45 of St Gregory of Naziaznus (used
extensively by St John of Damascus in the composition of the Paschal
Canon) and evidence of the liturgical reception of these hymns.
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