Ode 3. Plant your fear, Lord.

Glory. Both now.

With strength, O Immortal, you established mighty beings to accomplish your all-holy will, who ever stand before you in the highest.

**Theotokion.**

Accept the leaders of the Angels, the initiates of your incarnation and of your hallowed rising, O Christ, as they intercede on our behalf.

In your compassion, O Christ, you have placed Angels as guardians of mankind, and made them the ministers of the salvation of your servants.

Ineffably, O Bride of God, you conceived the Lord, the Saviour who redeems from dangers us who call on you in truth.

Second Canon.

You are the foundation.

First of the Angels and second light after the Trinity, Prince Michael, you have appeared to us who praise you faithfully.

Gabriel faithfully dazzled the whole earth with the ray of divine grace when he announced the descent of God in the body.

Famed couple, radiant immaterial pair, show those who faithfully celebrate your memory to be God’s lights.

Isaias sang your conceiving beyond understanding, O Pure one; I sing it too, that I may share his cleansing.

O Mother of God. ****

Kathisma. Tone 8. Taking knowledge.

In our desire to praise the choirs of Bodiless Powers, let us on earth imitate as far as we are able their holiness, by deadening all the limbs of the flesh, asking them as champions and protectors to deliver from every deception of the invisible foe us who sing their praise, that we may find mercy.

We ever thank you, Mother of God, and we magnify and worship you, Pure Virgin Full of grace, as we praise your childbearing, crying out unceasingly: Save us, Virgin All-merciful, as you are good, and deliver us from dread reckoning of the demons at the hour of judgement, that your servants may not be put to shame.