Ode 9.

Exapostilarion.

The choir of the Saints rejoices to the ages; for they have inherited the kingdom of heaven. Earth has received their relics and is filled with sweet fragrance. Christ’s servants have taken up their dwelling for eternal life.

The wise pair, the dazzling beam of the spiritual light, which gives to all a share in illumination, let us unceasingly call blest.

**Theotokion.**

For believers you produce strength of spiritual health, and you are trusted to cure the sufferings of the body, as saviours you are ever praised.

Or Cross-Theotokion.

The beacons, shining with God’s light, spiritually make radiant without ceasing the heaven of the holy Church, as they now carry the torch with its outpouring of illumination.

The pair called by God, strengthened by the holy Trinity, pours out the gifts of remedies for all those who with love call them blest.

Cloud of light and holy Ark, Gate all-light of the spiritual Sun, as Mother of God we magnify you.

‘Eve by the disorder of disobedience introduced the curse; while you, Virgin Mother of God, by the shoot of your child-bearing made the blessing flower for the world; therefore we all magnify you’.

Receiving the grace of healings from God, blest Unmercenaries, you cure diseases and heal all those who faithfully have recourse to your godlike shrine; and therefore with one voice we worthily call your holy memory blest.

All-immaculate, you bore God the Word of God, when he in his great wisdom accomplished his great dispensation; and therefore we all worthily praise you as her who intercedes with him that we may be rescued from diseases and every kind of danger.

At Lauds we insert 4 idiomel Stichera.

Tone 1. By Anatolios.

You received the grace of remedies from God and heal the sufferings of our souls and bodies without payment, Unmercenaries for the whole world; therefore through you Christ granting believers the gift of good health, reveals you as unerring beacons for the inhabited world; intercede with him that our souls may be saved.

Drawing from the providence from above the abyss of remedies, you pour out healings for all believers, O Unmercenaries; for beyond nature you heal the sufferings of the sick with mystic surgery, as you bring from the treasures of the Spirit saving remedies for the ailing; therefore as you have become an honoured temple of the Trinity, source of life, which has made its dwelling in you; intercede with it that our souls may be saved.

Tone 2. By Germanos.

The same Tone.

Physicians of the sick, treasuries of remedies, saviours of believers, far-famed Unmercenaries, heal those who cry out in need and who suffer pain, as with Theodoti you intercede with the good God that we may be rescued from all the snares of the foe.

**Tone 4. By Theophanes.**

Holy Unmercenaries, you possess a source of remedies and grant healings to all who ask, for you have been found worthy of the greatest gifts from the unfailing source of the Saviour Christ. For to you, as rivals of the Apostles in zeal, the Lord says: See, I have given you authority against unclean spirits, so as to cast them out and so as to cure every disease and every weakness. And so, having lived your lives well in accordance with his commands, freely you have received, freely you give, as you heal the sufferings of our souls and bodies.

Hail refuge of Christians and their might; hail heavenly Ladder; hail treasure-chest of virginity; hail Mother of God, the spiritual Ark of the divine; hail boast and support of the world, recalling of the fallen, the Tabernacle, wholly light, holy and all good.

When the All-pure saw Christ the lover of mankind crucified and pierced in the side, she wept and cried out; What is this, my Son ? Is this how an ungrateful people repays you for the good things you have done for them? Why, so much beloved, do you hasten to leave me childless? I am filled with amazement, O Compassionate, at your voluntary crucifixion.