Ode VI

Irmos: Whirled about in the abyss of sin, I call upon the unfathomable abyss of Thy loving-kindness: Lead me up from corruption, O God!

Kontakion, in Tone V —

False idols didst thou spit upon, and thou didst cast down vaunted falsehood, working wonders and effecting cures, O divinely wise one.

Theotokion: Him Who as God doth hold the ends of the earth together is held in thine arms, O pure one; He that is infinite in His divine form is contained in a body.

Irmos: Celebrating this divine and most honored festival of the Mother of God, come, ye divinely wise, let us clap our hands and glorify God Who was born of her.

Kontakion, in Tone IV: Spec. Mel.: “Having been lifted up…” —

Thou wast shown to be a crown bearer, O most eminent one, for thou didst pass through fire and water. And, bound to the wheel, thou didst most gloriously destroy the mindless.

Theotokion: O most immaculate Theotokos, the Word of God, Who looked down upon thee from on high at His own nativity, hath saved the human race from the sin of demonic idolatry.

Having set at naught the arrogance of the tormentors, thou didst with effort endure the beating of thy body, O divinely wise one, bearing the blows with spiritual strength and grace.

Emulating the Merciful One, and receiving from Him the grace of healing, O passion-bearer and martyr of Christ God, by thy supplications heal thou our spiritual infirmities, ever driving away the temptations of the foe from those who cry out with faith: Save us, O Lord!

Ikos: O ye who love Christ, let us piously hymn the memory of the unmercenary one, the valiant athlete, the faithful healer, that we may receive mercy though, like me, we have defiled our bodily temples; for He granteth healing to soul and body, O beloved. Wherefore, let us strive, O faithful brethren, to have in our hearts the strength of Him Who delivereth from deceit those who cry: Save us, O Lord!

Let the abundant grace of the holy seven drop down miracles today from on high, that all the assemblies of the world, who hymn them with songs of love, may be filled to repletion.

As equals of the apostles, ye considered all transitory things to be as dung, O seven-member choir; and ye loved divine and incorrupt things. And glorifying the eternal Christ, ye have received everlasting glory.

Manifestly acknowledging the sweat ye shed for the Faith, O divinely wise ones, the Lord hath now given to you, the glorious ones, a habitation among the firstborn.

Having shown yourselves to be invincible in asceticism, with divine power ye vanquished the invisible foe; and having instructed the unenlightened Bulgars in the Orthodox Faith, ye received crowns. Pray unto Christ in our behalf, O ye seven, that He grant us remission of transgressions.

Ikos: Come, O ye faithful, and let us render goodly praise unto the seven God-bearers, the preachers of piety who shone forth in asceticism, the true pillars and foundation of the Church, the clarions of the divine dogmas of Christ, who burned up heresies with the fire of the Spirit and openly proclaimed the Orthodox Faith; for, having grafted the Bulgarian race from the wild olive-tree onto that which is good by enabling them to write, they led all to the immaculate Faith through divine baptism. Wherefore, let us cry out to them: O ye seven most godly equals of the apostles, pray unto Christ in our behalf, that He grant us remission of transgressions.