Ode 6. The monster from the deep.

The truly dread assembly uttered a strange and new confounding of the natures of Christ, confounding the double energies into an energy one and monstrous; which the fullness of the holy orthodox regions rejected.

Another. Have mercy on me, Saviour.

That it might escape the dread Nestorios, who wickedly introduced a duality of sons, the assembly of error slid from the mire into the pit, vainly teaching a confusion of wills and natures; but it was refuted by the godlike Fathers.

Kontakion. Tone 8. Model melody.

The Son, whom the Fathers of old had proclaimed as consubstantial with the Father and the Spirit, the assembly of inspired Teachers taught all, with divine energies acknowledging one natural energy and will.

The Synaxarion of the day, then:

The champions of error, thinking the will to be hypostatic, wickedly intro­duced along with the wills the persons of those who willed: the Fathers, excellently refuting them, teach that the energy which is appropriate to it is congenital with the nature.

All-blameless Lady, you have become the door of the divine ray and source of the unsetting light; for all the full­ness of the Godhead dwelt ineffably in your womb; you reward with his natural energy and radiance those who crave.

The two letters of Cyril, once sent to Succensus, the leader of the East, refute all the error of Severos, as they devoutly proclaim Christ.

Cyril proclaims Christ with two natures and double energies, routing the heresy of the senseless Severos; therefore we all abide by his teach­ings.

We orthodox proclaim you, Mary, to be in truth Virgin and pure Mother of God, thus shutting the ill-famed mouth of Nestorios and the wicked notion of Dioskoros.

The preaching of the Apostles and the teachings of the Fathers con­firmed for the Church the faith as one; and wearing a tunic of the truth, woven from the theology on high, she rightly defines and glorifies the great Mystery of true religion.

Let us listen to the Church of God as she cries with exalted proclamation: Any who thirst, let them come to me and drink; the mixing bowl I bear is the mixing bowl of wisdom. This drink I have mixed with the word of truth; I do not pour out water of contradiction but of confession, which the present Israel drinks and sees God who declares: See, see that it is I, and I am not changed. I am God first, and after this, and but for me there is no other at all. Those who partake from here will be multiplied and will praise the great Mystery of true religion.

On the same day, Commemoration of the holy six hundred and thirty God-bearing Fathers of the fourth Holy and Ecumenical Council of Chalcedon.

Stars of the spiritual sky now bearing light

My mind do you enlighten with your rays.

At the intercessions of the holy Fathers, O God, have mercy on us. Amen.