Ode V

Irmos: Waking at dawn, we cry to Thee: Save us, O Lord! For Thou art our God, and we know none other than Thee.

Theotokion: We hymn thee who art still Virgin after giving birth, O Theotokos; for thou gavest birth in the flesh unto God the Word, for the world.

Set afire by the burning coal of dispassion, O blessed one, thou didst utterly consume the dry tinder of the passions.

Irmos: Enlighten us with Thy commandments, O Lord, and with Thine upraised arm grant us Thy peace, O Thou Who lovest mankind.

Thou hast been shown to be a star of abstinence, shining in the heights and illumining our souls, O all-glorious one.

Thou didst ascend to the summit of the virtues and didst attain unto the heavenly isle, O right wondrous father Moses.

O most blessed fathers, ye have enlightened the whole land of Russia with the grace given you, and the darkness of false belief hath been driven utterly away. Spread the beams thereof also upon us, for the sake of their entreaty, we pray Thee, O Thou Who alone lovest mankind.

O wondrous Sisoës, and Gregory whose name signifieth vigilance, who both restrained your passions by fasting: humble ye also the raging lust of our flesh, for unto you hath been given the grace to aid us amid the passions.

O blessed Paul, lover of abstinence, with the two canonarchs make entreaty unto the Master in our behalf, that by His grace we may restrain ourselves from satisfying the belly, and may become your heirs in abstinence.

The word of God which bringeth understanding unto men, O holy Nestor, taught thee not book learning, but that which is higher, wherewith thou didst behold angels when thou didst pray, and didst foresee thine own end. Make us also, who honor thy memory, partakers thereof, we pray thee.

O most manly Titus, when once thou didst take part in war the enemy smote thy head a blow and wounded thee. But thou didst go to the mountain of the caves and there didst weep over thy sins; and when thou didst receive word that they were forgiven, thou didst joyfully depart unto the heavenly mansions on high, O venerable one.

I make bold to honor Pambo the obedient, and I marvel: for he endured much in submission to the infidels, in fetters for the sake of the Faith; and he was taken up by angels and found himself transported to his own cell; and it was fulfilled in him that obedience delivereth from death.

Glory…: I have fallen into the hands of the noetic foe, and am fettered by them with heavy chains, from whence no brother can deliver me. As Thou art merciful, O all-holy Trinity, have mercy upon Thy creature, and in Thy goodness free me from the bonds of death.

Now & ever…: I am bound by the many bonds of the passions, and have no hope of release; but as thou art the Mother of God Most High, have mercy upon me, and free me from them; for thou alone, after God, hast the power to loose the bonds of sin.