Ode 5. Tone 6. Irmos.

‘Early will I seek you, who through compassion without change emptied yourself for the fallen, and willed to be baptised by the hand of a slave, O Word of God; grant me peace, O Lover of mankind’.

Cleansed in mind and purified by participation in the mystery of the dread dispensation, let all us believers go to meet Christ as he comes to purify us in the streams of Jordan.

See, friends, the voice of the Word, the lamp of the Sun, the friend of the Bridegroom, who cries out to the peoples: Repent, and hasten to be purified for meeting the Creator.