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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

O venerable Benedict, pray thou that God grant deliverance from all transgressions and grace unto me who aspire to hymn thy right laudable memory.

¶3

Theotokion: Enriched with incorruption on account of thee, O most pure Theotokos, we cry out to thee who art full of joy: Rejoice, O adornment of the venerable and the righteous!

¶4

Taking up thy cross from childhood, in monasticism thou didst follow after the Almighty; and having mortified the flesh, thou wast vouchsafed life, O all-blessed one.

¶5

Subjecting thyself to the law of God, O right wondrous one, thou didst quell the uprisings of the passions with feats of abstinence, and wast enriched by the grace of dispassion.

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

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