AT MATINS

Glory. Both now.

**After the 1st Reading from the Psalter, Kathisma.

Glory. Both now.

Tone 1.**

Born wondrously from barren birth pangs, you bore a Child beyond nature from virgin loins; for you appeared as a fair shoot and blossomed with life for the world. Therefore the Powers of heaven cry out to you Mother of God, ‘Glory, O honoured one, to your coming forth! Glory to your virginity! Glory to your child-bearing, alone all-immaculate!’

**The same.**

After the 2nd Reading from the Psalter, Kathisma.

Tone 5.

All things of heaven now rejoice, the human race with them keeps festival, and the Prophets mystically exult with them; for she whom they foresaw in types in ancient generations, bush and jar, cloud, gate and throne, and great mountain, is being born today.

**The same.**

Psalm 50 and the Canons of the Forefeast of the Mother of God and of the Saint.

Of the Mother of God, of which the Acrostic is:

I hymn the birth of the Maiden, child of God. Joseph. ****