Canon of the Mother of God,

**Ode 1. Tone 2. The Irmos.**

of which the acrostic is the Alphabet in reverse order.

**Troparia**

By Theophanes.

**Y**ou it was that God chose among women as lovely, as most fair, as wholly unblemished, and he dwelt in your unblemished womb; implore him, all-blameless one, that from the blemish of offences those who sing your praise may be delivered.

His overwhelming power once smothered in the deep all Pharao’s host; while the incarnate Word, the glorified Lord, has wiped out malignant sin: for he has been greatly glorified. [35]

**W**hile, in the words of the psalm, you stand, pure Virgin, as Queen on the right-hand of the King [36] who shone forth from your womb, be­seech him to make me stand at his right hand on the day of recompense, [37] O Bride of God.

**V**irgin, you wholly renewed the nature of mortals, dried up by every offence, in giving birth to the heavenly rain. But, I beg, show the dried up furrow of my soul to be fruitful, O Bride of God.

**Canon of the Saint, of which the acrostic is:

** I shall praise the son of thunder in a way pleasing to Christ.

**By Theophanes.