Ode 5. Why have you rejected me.

We all know you to be a most resplendent beacon of the Church and saviour of souls, snatching them from the death-bearing maw and guiding them to eternal life, honoured Father.

Armed with weapons of true religion and courage of soul, most holy one, you routed the ranks of the heretics; but with joy you outstandingly rally the choirs of the Orthodox with the bond of the Spirit.

Your cheeks, full like fountains with inspired fragrances, make the inhabited world glad with spiritual scents by the aromatic initiation of your thoughts and the beauty of your words, O all-wise.

As you conceived God, the creator and maker and Lord, all generations of mankind call you blessed, pure Virgin, and the immaterial Captains of the Bodiless Powers glorify you as Mother of God.

The universe was amazed. ****