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Ode I

Menaion — translated by Isaac Lambertsen

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¶1

Irmos: O ye people, let us send up a hymn unto our wondrous God, Who freed Israel from bondage, singing and crying out a hymn of victory unto Thee Who alone art Master.

¶2

Theotokion: With hymns let us praise the most pure Mary, the joyous Mother of God, the divine shelter, the right calm haven, the salvation of all the faithful.

¶3

By thy right pleasing supplications unite me to God, for I have become a stranger to every virtue and have estranged myself from Him through mine unseemly deeds, O honored and venerable Xenia, for I praise thy strange life.

¶4

Noetic fire set thee alight like right flammable tinder, and moved thee to renounce the delusion of the world and a fleshly bridegroom with most manly understanding, and to wed thyself to the Lord in purity.

¶5

Comprehending a strange life which abideth in the heavens and passeth not away, thou didst adopt a name in accordance with thine activity, and didst hasten after thine immortal Bridegroom like a thirsting deer.

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

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