Ode 5. Irmos.

‘With your divine light shine, O Good One, I beg, on the souls of those who with love seek you early in the morning, that they may know you, O Word of God, as truly God, who call them back from the gloom of faults’.

Let us for Christ bear the fruit of a pure life; for he is coming, cleansing with the waters the stain of sins by grace, he the only Benefactor and Sinless One.

People, who of old sat in the darkness of difficulties, the unsetting Light has appeared to you; look, and be illumined by the divine beams, and praise the grace of him who has appeared.

Accomplishing a great mystery, O Lord of great gifts, you are coming to your greatest Forerunner, as you ineffably magnify through Baptism humanity which had been made small.