Ode 8. The Irmos.

The Magnificat is not sung.

Daniel, stretching out his hands, shut up the mouths of lions in the den, while the Youths, lovers of piety and clothed in virtue, quenched the power of fire, as they cried: All you works of the Lord, bless the Lord!

In beauty you rose from the tomb, Lord, adorned in the glory of your Godhead, and appeared to your Apostles, promising to send the force of the Spirit to them as they cried: All you works, praise the Lord!

Having slain Hell as God, supreme source of life, you became for all a source of eternal life, which the graces of these brilliant days now most clearly resemble for those who cry: All you works, praise the Lord!

Showing your rays, O Christ, as sun of justice, you sent out your Apostles to the world, bearing you, the light ineffable, dispelling the fog of ignorance and crying: All you works, praise the Lord!

See now a ruler, a leader has now clearly failed from the tribe of Juda; for you, all-spotless one, have given birth to the things stored up for him, the expectation of the nations, Christ, to whom we sing: All you works of the Lord, bless the Lord!

Angels and heavens.

Come, peoples, see the one who is hymned upon a throne of glory blasphemed by lawless peoples, and seeing, hymn the Messias who was foretold by the prophets.

You are truly the Christ who is coming into the world, from whom are salvation and forgiveness of ancestral faults; you are the true life of those who believe in you.

The Wisdom of God, so it is written, came to the temple at the mid-point of the feast and taught; for he was truly the Messias, Christ, from whom is salvation.

On the Sabbath, and on all days, Christ showed the works of the signs, healing completely the sick from divers diseases; but the erring people bore grudging anger.

This man, it says, cured the Paralytic, who had been lying sick for many years, on the Sabbath, and so transgressed the Law. Thus the Jews bitterly reviled Christ.

Did not Moses, who gave you the law, not command you to be circumcised? And he circumcised a man on the Sabbath, that the law of the fathers might in no way be abolished, says Christ to the Jews.

The ever ungrateful, who of old dwelt in the desert, enviously begrudged their benefactor, blaspheming, wagging their tongues and meditating vain things

The Trinity is one God; the Father does not come to sonship, nor the Son to procession, but separately and together light, I glorify God, the three, to the ages.

Say how you gave birth to him who shone forth eternally from the Father and is hymned with the holy Spirit? As he knows, who alone was well-pleased to be born of you, O Mother of God.

The one who is borne upon a throne of glory, and unceasingly glorified as God, Angels and heavens bless, praise and highly exalt to all the ages!