Ode 7. The Hebrew Youths.

Tens thousand ministering Angels stand unceasingly before him, unable to bear the sight of his countenance, as they cry: Blessed are you, Lord God!

You have shown, O Merciful, that the immaterial substances of the Angels are lights, filled with the ineffable light, who cry out unceasingly: Blessed are you, Lord God, to the ages.

Having created the multitude of Angels by your consubstantial Word, and hallowed them with the divine Spirit, you have taught them to praise the Trinity, God to the ages.

Keeping in mind three Persons, we glorify an infinite Essence, the Father, the Son and the Spirit, as we cry out: Blessed are you, Lord God, to the ages.

Second Canon.

With choirs of Bodiless Powers, come race of mortals, let us clap our hands as we celebrate the auspicious day of the memorial of the wise Archangels of Christ, crying out: Blessed are you, O God of our Fathers.

Of old, as friends of strangers, Abraham who saw God and glorious Lot welcomed Angels and have found fellowship with Angels as they cry: O God of our Fathers, blessed are you.

Angels appeared to noble Manoe and to all-wise Tobit, bringing them the rewards of a worthy life; and the Angel of the three Youths once truly quenched the furnace’s flame of fire.

Jesu, like the Fathers we proclaim that you took our whole nature from a Virgin without change, double in natures, but one in person; whose form we depict and faithfully reverence.

The godlike Youths. ****