Ode 3. First Canon of the Saint.

Your Church, O Christ.

The decree of the tyrants was reckoned by you as nothing, O Champion, for you chose before all things the Word of God.

You have become a lampstand formed of light in a tabernacle of Martyrdom, shining by divine light, Martyr and Champion Demetrios.

Healing the form of mortals that had been corrupted, O All-pure, he clothed himself in it from you, yet remaining what he was, the Lover of mankind.

O Mother of God. ****

Kathisma of the Saint. Tone 8. The Wisdom and Word.

Rich in the ways of true religion, casting down the error of false religion, you trampled down the insolence of the tyrants, O Martyr; and with your mind on fire with divine love, you drowned the error of idols in the deep. Therefore you fittingly received wonders as the reward of your struggles and are a source of healings. Champion Demetrios, intercede with Christ God to grant forgiveness of faults to those who celebrate with love your holy memory.

**Another of the Saint.**

Well-pleasing to the King of the ages, you turned away the whole plan of a lawless king, glorious Martyr, and did not sacrifice to idols. And so, by contesting most valiantly, you offered yourself as a sacrifice to the Word who was sacrificed. Therefore you were also pierced through the side by the lance, healing the passions of those who approach you. Champion Demetrios, intercede with Christ God to grant forgiveness of faults to those who celebrate with love your holy memory.

**Of the Earthquake. Tone 4. Lifted up on the Cross.**

Because from your unendurable wrath that threatened us you have delivered us and had mercy on us, showing us, O Christ, an ocean of love for mankind, we now give you thanks, having been chastised so as to turn from our wicked deeds that slay us. But look upon us, have compassion on us, O Saviour, at the entreaties of the one who gave you birth.