Ode 5. Rising in the night .

Christ has conquered! Let earth leap for joy! Tumult has ceased; the weeping of the Lord’s servants too has ceased; while everywhere the Faith has been unfurled for the world.

Both now. Theotokion.

Seeing the Crucifixion in an Icon, we love it with reverence, greeting Christ and his symbols, and we worship them, but do not honour them as gods.

The garrulous and blasphemous spirit of Lyzikos has ceased, that continually by day and night spoke out against the divine image of Christ and his Saints.

Why, thrice wretched man, do you hate the immaculate image of Christ’s incarnation and of all the Saints? For surely we believers do not worship dumb idols, do we?

Lighting on instruments of impiety, they assembled a synod of impious priests against God most high, like the Jews, Annas and Caiaphas, of old.

On the day of judgement, most wretched man, the company of the Fathers will stand as accusers of your godless soul; the Fathers who flesh you stripped bare with unnumbered blows.

All the Churches will shout aloud, crying that they were all deprived by you of the image of the Lord and of his Saints, the holy Icons.

Glory to you who sustain the universe by your might! Glory to you, Unity in Three Persons, Father, Son and Spirit, deliver from harm of every kind those who believe in you.

We reverence you, Sovereign Lady and Virgin, as the beauteous golden lamp that gave birth for the world to the spiritual light and diminished the misty fog.