Ode 1. Tone 3. The Irmos.

Another Irmos.

He who of old assembled the waters into one gathering by divine decree and divided the sea for the people of Israel, he our God is glorified; to him alone let us sing, for he has been glorified.

The choir of the Martyrs, clearly united with the choirs above, is ever surrounded by the rays of the uncreated Godhead, and shines on those on earth who with faith glorify their wonders.

Cross-Theotokion.

You ended painful passions, O Word, by the passion of your pre-cious flesh, and saved mortals, whom the opponent had wounded of old, mortals who venerate your incomprehensible dispensation.

He who by deception bound mankind in Paradise by transgression of the commandment, has been bound, Lord, with the indissoluble bonds with which you were willingly bound in body, loosing our offence, O Lover of humankind.

Of the Martyrs.

The famed Champions, seeing creation being shipwrecked by the deceptions of the demons, appeared as fair havens, drowning all the power of the avenger in the red sea of their blood.

You appeared higher than the Hosts on high, O Immaculate, who bore God the Word on earth, who through his goodness by his Passion and Cross has made us mount to heaven.

Another, of the Mother of God, of which the acrostic is: I bring a third song to the Mother of God.

With the sprinkling of the divine stream which was emptied from the divine side of your Son, Pure Lady, wash the bruises of my heart, that I may magnify you and, as is fitting, glorify you as ever blest and all blameless.

You bore the Word, equal in power to his Begetter and who makes the being of mortals divine; but ask him, O Pure One, to grant me, in despair and made weak by the wiles of the foe, divine consolation.