Ode 1. Irmos.

‘Marching on foot in the deep as on dry land, Israel saw Pharao their pursuer drowning and cried out, Let us sing to God a hymn of victory’.

The choirs of Angels when they saw Christ, the mediator between God and humankind, in the highest with his flesh, were astounded, while with one voice they sang a hymn of victory.

With your hands stretched out on the Cross, good Jesu, you filled all things with the Father’s good pleasure. Therefore let us all sing to you a hymn of victory.

Death, our end, like a servant under orders approaches you, the Master of life, in fear. Through it you have awarded us unending life and the resurrection.

Having received your own creator, beyond understanding incarnate from your womb without seed, O pure one, as he himself willed, you were declared to be truly Sovereign Lady of all creatures.

All peoples let us sing a hymn of victory to Christ who has been taken up with glory on the shoulders of the Cherubim, and seated us at the Father’s right hand; for he has been glorified.

To God, who appeared on mount Sinai and gave the law to Moses who saw God, and who was taken up in the flesh from the mount of Olives, let us all sing; for he has been glorified.

Immaculate Mother of God, without ceasing implore the God who was incarnate of you, yet did not depart from the bosom of his Begetter, to save from every calamity those whom he fashioned.

praise the all-holy Council of the holy Fathers as I cry out: O Christ, I implore you, guard closely in me its all-holy revelation.

hining like lightning the godbearing Fathers, having come together today, confessed you clearly, O Christ, as alike without beginning and consubstantial with the Father.

llustrious are the groomsmen of your bride the Church, O Master, who wisely laid down the definition of the faith and adorned her as with fair adornment of gold.

ear her own Son and God the holy Queen stands clothed in many colours with divine glory, interceding for the salvation of our souls.

The slow of tongue, hidden in divine darkness,

Proclaimed the law written by God;

For shaking the dust from his mind’s eye,

He sees the One Who Is, and is initiated

Into knowledge of the Spirit, giving praise with songs inspired.