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Isaac Lambertsen

Ode I

Menaion — translated by Isaac Lambertsen

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¶1

Irmos: I will open my mouth, and with the Spirit will it be filled; and I shall utter discourse unto the Queen and Mother, and shall appear, keeping splendid festival; and, rejoicing, I will hymn her wonders.

¶2

Theotokion: O most immaculate one, animate city of the King, who showed forth a strange birthgiving and a divine dormition: show thy city to be unharmed by every earthquake and collapse.

¶3

As thou art illumined by the light of the three-fold Sun, O blessed one, dispel the darkness of mine ignorance, that I may hymn thy radiant memory and the amendment of thy life.

¶4

Having made thy mind hostile to the passions, O glorious one, thou wast shown to be a receptacle of the Spirit; and thou didst pour forth an abyss of healings which engulfeth all the defilement of infirmities.

¶5

Desiring endless life, O all-lauded one, thou didst hasten to drain the cup of death, which thou didst receive as a herald summoning thee to a wreath which withereth not, O invincible martyr.

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

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