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Isaac Lambertsen

Ode I

Menaion — translated by Isaac Lambertsen

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¶1

Irmos: Overwhelming power once laid low the whole army of Pharaoh in the deep, and the incarnate Word hath destroyed pernicious sin. All-glorious is the Lord, for gloriously hath He been glorified.

¶2

Thou wast a holy hierarch of God, O wondrous father Michael, shining with the ­ineffable light of abstinence and bearing royal sanctity; and thou didst shepherd the Church of Christ, O all-blessed one.

¶3

Theotokion: The all-glorious Lord, the Sun shining forth upon us from thy womb, O pure and all-pure one, illumined all with His divine splendors, driving away all the gloomy darkness of the demons; for gloriously hath He been glorified.

¶4

Holding forth with thy radiant mouth, thou didst piously transmit the doctrines of theology to all, O Michael who art most rich; and, denouncing the blasphemies of heresies, thou wast a champion of piety, O all-blessed one.

¶5

As a vessel of divine gifts, O blessed and most lauded Michael, thou didst most manifestly give of them to all the faithful, having acquired a godly life and been vested with righteousness as with a robe.

¶6

Thou didst continue to venerate with honor the sacred image of Christ and the Mother of God, O most sacred Michael, and didst cast down the blasphemous speech of the heretics, vanquishing them with thy words and ­sufferings.

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

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