Ode 6. Irmos I will sacrifice to you.

Establishing your Disciples by wisdom and wonders, O Saviour, you made them more powerful than the prattling of the Greeks, and they destroyed their deceiving doctrines.

The divine rivers of wisdom have filled all the valleys of the Church with waters, being rich in the streams from the wells of salvation.

Appearing like living stars, all-blessed Apostles, you scattered every gloomy error with bright beams of light, as you blazed with the knowledge of God.

Having found you as a wholly perfect dove, and as an all-fair and shining lily and flower of the valleys, Mother of God, the Bridegroom dwelt in your womb.

‘I will sacrifice to you with a voice of praise, O Lord’, the Church cries to you, cleansed from the filth of demons by the blood which flowed with pity from your side.