Ode 3. Irmos.

Second Canon. Irmos.

O Christ, the Wisdom and Power of God, which creates and upholds all, establish the Church unshaken and unwavering; for you alone are holy, who have your resting place among the Saints.

Knowing you, All-blameless, to be a mortal woman, but beyond nature Mother of God, with fearful hands the illustrious Apostles touched you, as you blazed with glory, gazing on you as the Tabernacle that had received God.

Just punishment intervened to cut off the sacrilegious hands of the presumptuous, for God guarded with the glory of the godhead the reverence due to the living Ark, in which the Word had become flesh.

O Mother of God, as a living and unstinted fount, establish those united in spiritual fellowship who sing you hymns of praise, and in your divine glory grant them crowns of glory.

Pure Virgin, sprung from mortal loins, your final departure was in conformity with nature; but, as you gave birth to the true life, you have passed over to the one who is the divine life in person.

A company of Theologians from the ends of the earth and a multitude of Angels hastened to Sion at an all-powerful command, that they might fittingly minister at your burial, Sovereign Lady.

Ypakoï. Tone 5.

All generations we call you blessed, Virgin Mother of God; for in you Christ our God, the uncontainable, was well-pleased to be contained. Blessed are we also, for we have your protection, for day and night you intercede for us and the sceptres of the kingdom are strengthened by your intercessions. And so we sing your praises and cry out to you: ‘Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with you’.