Ode 3. You that alone.

The first source of blessings, the grace of the Spirit, opened your mouths as rivers which sweep away error, glorious Fathers, and give the faithful streams of true religion to drink, the preaching of Prophets and Apostles.

Another. You that established.

**Theotokion.**

Wise Fathers, you nobly destroyed all together Sergios and Pyrrhos the dread champions of heresy, Paul and Peter and Theodore, establishing the holy Church on the teachings of Apostles and Fathers.

Kontakion and Ikos of the Tone.

The God-bearing Fathers, plainly proclaiming the energy without beginning of the Godhead without beginning, taught the created energy of the created addition, preaching Christ as one Son in a duality of natures.

Kathisma. Tone 4.

We who long to see the rays of the Spirit’s grace and the divine bright­ness that knows no evening, let us hasten to the source of grace, the Mother of the Creator; for by her all the best things are given to the faith­ful.

Glory. The same.

You that without shame pride yourselves on the words of Severos, which are full of death-dealing poison, may you be ever put to shame and all depart from the Church, like wolves and ravaging dogs.

Both now. Theotokion.

We worshippers and believers honour the Creator of all and Saviour in two undivided essences, and double wills and energies; therefore the error of Severos we utterly repulse.

Come, let us all plainly reject the error of Severos, Eftyches and Jacob, and with them that of Theodore and Dioskoros; but let us praise in godly songs the fourth Council of the de­vout Fathers.

You have been declared higher than the Cherubim and Seraphim, Mother of God; for you alone received in your womb the uncontainable God, O undefiled; and so in hymns, pure Virgin, all we believers call you blessed.

Come speedily to help.

Blessed Fathers, you were truly re­vealed to the world as most brilliant beacons of Christ’s truth on the earth, melting like wax the heresies of the blasphemous prattlers, quenching the burning confusions of the slanderers; and so, as Hierarchs of Christ, inter­cede that we may be saved.

Speedily accept our supplications, all-blameless Lady, and bring them to your Son and God; abolish the troubles of those who have recourse to you; humble the devices and overthrow the insolence of the godless, who are in arms against your ser­vants.