AT MATINS

Glory..., Now and ever...: The foregoing is repeated.

After the first chanting of the Psalter, this Sessional hymn, in Tone III: Spec. Mel: “Awed by the beauty of thy virginity...” —

Canon of the holy hierarch, the acrostic whereof is: “I praise the wondrous champion of Orthodoxy”, the composition of Valeria, in Tone II —

At “God is the Lord...,” the troparion to the Theotokos, thrice.

Glory..., Now and ever...: The foregoing is repeated.

After the second chanting of the Psalter, this Sessional hymn, in Tone III: Spec. Mel: “Awed by the beauty of thy virginity...” —

Having given birth to the most comely Word in the beauty of thy virginity, thou didst wrap Him as an infant in thy robe, O pure one. This robe hast thou given to thy servants, O Mistress, as a protection, aid and source of sanctification. And we all faithfully celebrate its honorable deposition.

Thou alone didst have virginity and birthgiving free from corruption, O blessed one. And as a vesture of salvation hast thou given mankind thy holy robe, which even now doth remain incorrupt, O Bride of God. For its sake, O pure one, do we, thy servants, receive from God great mercy.