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Ode VI

Menaion — translated by Isaac Lambertsen

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¶1

Irmos: Grant me a robe of light, O Thou Who coverest Thyself with light as with a garment, O most merciful Christ our God.

¶2

Kontakion & Ikos from the Pentecostarion

¶3

Emulating Moses the God-seer, thou didst ascend Mount Sinai, that thou mightest hear the voice of God in thy heart and that His law be inscribed on the tablets thereof.

¶4

Theotokion: O Theotokos and Queen, may the tongue that doth not proclaim thee, whom all creation doth glorify unceasingly, fall silent, forever shamed.

¶5

Having left the one and saving path, we have gone astray into a wilderness devoid of the virtues, yet do thou, O venerable father, come forth to meet us, guiding us to the promised kingdom.

¶6

Thou dost not pour forth water from a rock for the people, O all-praised Anastasius, but givest all to drink of thy teachings, drawing forth from the living water of the Gospel of Christ.

Translated by Isaac Lambertsen. Edition menaion.en.lambertsen.

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