Ode III

Irmos: Establish us in thee, O Lord Who hast slain sin by the Tree, and plant the fear of Thee in the hearts of us who hymn Thee.

Glory... Now and ever...: Theotokion—

Sessional hymn, in Tone IV: Spec. Mel: “Go thou quickly before...”—

Thy life was beautiful, thy discourse seasoned with the salt of love, and thy heart right compunctionate, O divinely wise one; wherefore, with faith we call thee blessed.

Theotokion: Thee, O Virgin, do we truly call the golden censer, the jar of manna, the divine mountain and the all-beauteous palace of God.

In honoring the divine image of Christ Who revealed Himself in the flesh for our sake, O father, thou didst endure persecution, tribulation and sorrows, O most blessed one.

Mortifying sin, thou didst offer thyself to the Lord as a pure sacrifice; and as a lawful hierarch thou didst offer Him unbloody sacrifices.

Having forsaken the world and manifestly reduced the flesh to submission by abstinence, O all-blessed James, whence thou didst receive the holy anointing of the priesthood; and now thou hast passed on to the immaterial choirs, praying for all of us who praise thee.

O Bride of God who alone gavest birth unto the Creator of all, who alone hast adorned mankind with thy birthgiving, deliver me from the snare of the lying enemy, and set me upon the rock of Christ’s will, earnestly entreating Him to Whom thou gavest flesh.

Or this stavrotheotokion—

As she beheld Thee uplifted upon the Cross, O Word of God, Thine all-pure Mother exclaimed, lamenting maternally: “What new and strange wonder is this, O my Son? How canst Thou, the Life of all, taste death, desiring to give life to the dead, in that Thou art compassionate?”