Ode 1. Tone 6. Helper and Protector .

Let us believers sing a song of thanksgiving to our God, the Benefactor of all things, for he has raised up a saving horn for us, a mighty kingdom, a champion of Orthodoxy.

Both now. **Theotokion.**

Truly divine grace has appeared to the inhabited world, glory and honour have appeared, the Church leaps for joy, having received the robe of its own baring.

Christ’s tunic, previously rent by John the deceiver and poisoner, the godly Fathers have now woven and given to the Church.

The Church, having taken up the Lord’s form, rejoices and leaps with gladness with her children, as she has received from him prizes of victory, symbols of Orthodoxy.

Let the haters, dreadful Lizix and Antony with John and Theodore, both deniers of the faith, be ashamed and turned back.

Iannes and Iambres, who opposed Moses the Lawgiver of old, were put to shame; while now John the deceiver is truly routed with Antony.

You tore apart the faction of God’s foes, O Christ, and have now restored to the Church her robe, the Church for which you poured out your blood, as you are good.

I contemplate you, O Trinity, and worship your divine might; deliver me from trials of every kind, for I believe in you, Father, Son and all-holy Spirit.

Wearing from you the royal robe, O Virgin, God appeared to mortals in human form, double in being; the form of his form we hold in veneration.