Christ is Risen from the Dead | Paschal Troparion | Retro LP Cover Design | Orthodox Christian Art PosterDeath was swallowed up in victory At Thy resurrection from the dead, O Christ. Hence, glorying in Thy passion, And always celebrating it, we rejoice. With jubilation let us cry out: The Lord is risen! Once the host of lawless people handed over Life to the tomb, God to death, And the One Who despoiled Hades to Hades; With the result that a mortal made mortals immortal, And One Who was dead, at a word, raised up the dead. They placed guards at the tomb

“O Lord God

It takes as its visual foundation the “Hospitality of Abraham

For this also was good news proclaimed to dead men

the Virgin Mother of God

then we commit all the vilest sins

+ St Maximus the Confessor

- Zechariah 6:12 (Septuagint)

and make us all victors

Then after he had taken the morsel

and whence came they

that he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men

Step 6: On the Remembrance of Death