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Isaac Lambertsen

Ode IV

Menaion — translated by Isaac Lambertsen

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¶1

Irmos: Christ is my power, my God and my Lord, the honored Church doth sing, crying out in godly manner with a pure mind, keeping festival in the Lord.

¶2

Full of the Holy Spirit, O sacred father Metrophanes, thou didst drive evil spirits away from men, and by thy spiritual teachings hast rendered them faithful.

¶3

Theotokion: Through thee, O all-pure Mother of God, hath the curse of our first mother been annulled, for thou gavest birth for us to the Wellspring of holiness, to Life everlasting.

¶4

Thou didst theologize concerning the uncreated Unity indivisible in three Persons, inseparable and unconfused, illumining the pious with thy sacred theology.

¶5

Having first mortified carnal thoughts by asceticism and labors, thou didst show thyself to be a godly hierarch and a most sacred intercessor before the Trinity.

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

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