Ode 6.

Kontakion of the Dedication. Tone 4.

Then the Synaxarion from the Menaion.

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

Christ the King has now desired the beauty of the holy Church, and revealed her as mother of the nations, adopted as sons from slavery through the Spirit.

The ranks of hostile demons tremble before the Church of Christ, signed with mark of the Cross, and the sanctifying radiance of the Spirit overshadows her.

The Church from the nations, does not have sand but Christ as her foundation, is crowned with the unapproachable beauty, and adorned with the diadem of the Kingdom.

O wonder newer than all wonders! For a Virgin who did not know man conceived in the womb him who controls all things, and he was not circumscribed.

Today you have appeared.

The Church has been declared a heaven with many lights that illumines all the faithful. Standing in it we cry, ‘Make firm this house, O Lord!’

When the Word had come to dwell among us in the flesh, the offspring of the thunder wrote of him as follows: Radiantly we have seen in grace and truth the glory which the Son had with the Father. To as many of us as have received him in faith, he has given us all power to become children of God, who are born again, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, but brought to full growth from the Holy Spirit we have erected this house of prayer, and we cry out, ‘Make firm this house, O Lord!’