Ode 4. Irmos. Χριστός μου δύναμις.

Christ is my power, my God and Lord, the holy Church cries out from a pure mind in song befitting God, as it keeps festival in the Lord.

The tree of life has truly flowered, O Christ, for the Cross was fixed and, watered with blood and water from your most pure side, it blossomed with life for us.

No longer does the serpent lyingly suggests deification to me; for Christ, the divine fashioner of human nature, has opened wide for me the unhindered path of life.

How truly ineffable and incomprehensible to those on earth and in heaven, Mother of God, are mysteries of your divine child-bearing.

Another, of Cross and Resurrection. Τὴν ἐν Σταυρῷ σου θείαν κένωσιν.

We honour your precious Cross, O Christ, the nails and the holy lance, with the reed and the crown of thorns. Through them we have been delivered from the corruption of Hades.

A tomb received you, seen willingly a corpse for us, but in no way could it hold you fast, for as God you arose and saved our race.

Ever-virgin God’s conceiver, who for mortals gave birth to Christ the Saviour, deliver from dangers and punishments those who with divine faith take refuge in your protection.

Another, of the Mother of God. Χριστός μου δύναμις.

All-pure, we who have been saved through you, the All-unblemished, and who devoutly sing your praise, cry out, ‘Blessed are you, Ever-Virgin, who bore God!’

All-blessed Virgin, you gave birth to the inaccessible light that, appearing through flesh, shines for those in the darkness of life, and for those who sing your praise, Ever-Virgin, you are a source of joy.

Grace has flowered, the law has ceased, through you, All-holy, for you gave birth, pure Ever-Virgin, to the Lord, who grants us forgiveness.

Tasting of a plant declared me to be a corpse, but the tree of life which appeared from you, All-pure, raised me up and established me as heir to the delight of Paradise.