Ode I

Canon of the Transfiguration, in Tone VIII, with 8 troparia, including its Irmos—

Theotokion: Delivered from the bonds of hades and corruption, and from the condemnation of the law, by thine honored birthgiving, O all-holy Virgin, we cry to thee in thanksgiving: Rejoice, O thou who art full of joy, thou saving portal of grace!

Moses of old, prophetically beholding the glory of the Lord upon the sea in the cloud and the pillar of fire, cried out: Let us chant unto our Deliverer and God!

Irmos: Having traversed the water as though it were dry land, and escaped the evil of Egypt, the Israelite cried aloud: Let us chant unto our Deliverer and God!

His body shielded as by a stone, Moses the beholder of God, seeing Him Who is invisible in His divinity, cried aloud: Let us chant unto our Deliverer and God!

Irmos: O Thou Who wast born of the Virgin, drown Thou, I pray Thee, the three parts of my soul in the depths of dispassion, as of old Thou didst drown the mounted captains of Pharaoh; that, in the mortality of my body, as on a timbrel, I may chant a hymn of victory.

Of old Thou wast seen by Moses in darkness on the mount of the law, but now Thou art beheld in the unapproachable light of the Godhead on Tabor.

And this canon of the saint, with 4 troparia, the acrostic whereof is: “Most wisely do I hymn the mighty Laurence”, in Tone IV—

Taking delight in the garden of sweetness and joining chorus with the angelic hosts as is meet, as a warrior of Christ, pray thou that He grant effulgent radiance unto me who hymn thee, O blessed Laurence.

Entering upon the feats of honored torment, O Laurence, in steadfastness of soul thou didst show thyself to be a victorious athlete, magnificently arrayed in the crown of righteousness and the diadem of victory.

As thou wast a child of the light and of the day, thou hast shone forth upon us sensibly like the sun from the west, illumining the ends of the earth with most splendid radiance, O all-glorious ­martyr Laurence.