Ode 3.

The springs of healings, and the channels of divine gifts, the shining vessels of the immaterial light, let us fittingly sing their praise.

**Theotokion.**

As ones who heal the passions of souls and bodies, O All-revered, as benefactors now cure the maladies of those who eagerly approach you.

Or Cross-Theotokion.

Adorned with fertile virtues, you clearly beat off every corrupted delight of life, as you bent your gaze unswervingly on the divine beauty.

He who before was without form appeared in a form like ours, Mother of God, when the Godhead came together with flesh in your womb, all-holy Bride of God.

‘Not in wisdom and power and wealth let us boast, but in you, O Christ, the empersonned Wisdom of the Father; for none is Holy, but you, O Lover of mankind’.

Kathisma. Tone 8. The Wisdom and Word.

From heaven you marvellously received the gift of wonders from Christ, and you unendingly cure all the passions; for the grace of the Spirit appeared in you, giving the power of divine healings; therefore with unmercenary thought, God-bearing Unmercenaries, You have gained also abundance of incorruptible good things; intercede with Christ God to bestow forgiveness of faults on those who feast with love your holy memory.

**Same Tone.**

You have been revealed by the grace of the Spirit as wonderworking givers of remedies, light-bringing lampstands of wonders; for bedewing the flame of the passions with the faith, by it you warm the thought of believers; therefore, having gained your divine temple as a surgery for souls, we take refuge in it, God-bearing Unmercenaries; intercede with Christ God to bestow forgiveness of faults on those who feast with love your holy memory.

Come all believers, let us magnify with our voices the Queen, the Mother of the Creator of all things, and with hymns of praise let us shout: Cause of joy, All-praised Virgin, save those who honour you, and protect them by your prayers; for as Mother of God you have boldness to take pity and to adjudge healing of diseases; and so we cry to you: Intercede with your Son and God to grant forgiveness to your servants, who devoutly worship your child-bearing without seed.

When the Ewe-lamb saw the Lamb and Shepherd hanging on the Cross, her inward parts were in agony and she lamented as a mother: Alas! Light of the world, my God and Lord, for what reason do you now willing endure all this? Because you wish to save entirely those born of earth and for your corrupted image to change its dwelling to divine life. I magnify your sufferings; you endured them through the compassion of your pity, completely curing the pains of all by your own.