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Isaac Lambertsen

Ode I

Menaion — translated by Isaac Lambertsen

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¶1

Irmos: Come, ye people, let us chant a hymn to Christ God, Who divided the sea and guided the people whom He had led forth from the bondage of Egypt, for He hath been glorified.

¶2

Be Thou well pleased to transform the misery of my soul into delight, O Good One, through the entreaties of Thy passion-bearer Eudocia; and grant that I may hymn her, O Word.

¶3

Theotokion: Thou hast truly been shown to be a godly habitation more spacious and honorable than the heavens, O Virgin Theotokos; and the choir of the angels now rejoiceth in thee.

¶4

Who can openly confess the depth of Thy compassion, O Christ? For it hath made into a refuge of salvation one who of old was an abyss of transgressions.

¶5

Like good soil did thine all-glorious soul receive the rain of the teaching of the venerable Germanus, and as fruit it brought forth the grain of piety.

¶6

Having received the noetic burning coal of Christ within thy heart through baptism, O most pure one, thou didst truly reduce deception and the passions of the flesh to ashes.

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

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