Canon per week of Holy Easter

Easter canon, stichera and hours of Holy Easter - the creations of St. John Damaskin - make up the most important part of the Easter utensils of the "holiday of holidays" and are outstanding works of church literature not only from the solemnity of their external form, but also in their internal virtues, according to the power of thoughts, in the hill and wealth of content. They introduce us into the spirit and meaning of the very holiday of the resurrection of Christ, encouraging this event, when, according to St. John Zlatoust, “people connected with the angels and, coupled with barren forces, lifted the laudatory songs to God,”