Ode 1. Tone 8.

Let us sing to the Lord.

> **F**irst Woman Martyr’s far-famed struggles tongue’s sound has not the strength to tell; for it is far too weak to raise a worthy hymn.

> **I**t has ceased, the scornful boasting of the tyrant; for in Christ women, like heroes, devoutly stood against him.

> **R**esounded in her ears, all-blessed Paul, your ineffable preaching of the gospel; and so the virgin has been betrothed to Christ.

> **A**ll-immaculate Mother of God, who bore beyond nature the eternal and divine Word incarnate, we hymn you.