Ode 3. Your Church, O Christ.

You alone, O Christ, are wonderful and pity those who are faithful; give your grace from on high to those who are grievously sick.

By your divine help, O Lord, you once used an olive branch to show the abatement of the Flood; in mercy save the ailing.

With a divine lamp of light, O Christ, in your mercy make bright those who with faith in your mercy now hasten for anointing.

Look favourably from on high, O Mother of the Maker of all, and do away with the bitter illness of the sick by your prayers.

Kathisma. Tone 8. The song of shepherd pipes.

As you, O Merciful, are a divine river of mercy, an abyss of great compassion, show us the divine streams of your mercy, and heal us all; pour out unstintingly the springs of your wonders, and cleanse us all; for ever hastening fervently to you, we implore your grace.

Another. Tone 4. Lifted up on the Cross.

Physician and helper of those in pains, deliverer and saviour of those in sickness, Master and Lord, give healing to your sick servants; have pity, have mercy on those who have often stumbled, and deliver them from their falls, O Christ, that they may glorify your divine power.