Ode IV

Irmos: Habbakuk, gazing with the eyes of foresight upon thee, the mountain overshadowed by the grace of God, prophesied that the Holy One of Israel would come forth from thee, for our salvation and restoration.

Thou hast been shown to be a dwelling place of the Sun, of Christ Who is the Light, and a temple which containeth His splendor, and a heaven proclaiming the glory of God unto men.

Theotokion: With sacred discourses thou didst hymn her who gave birth to the ineffable Word of God and with splendor didst proclaim the mystery of the incarnation. And the Church doth now beg her to preserve it unbeset by storms.

Having wounded the moonless night and darkness of the passions with the staff of prayer, as Moses did to Egypt, thou didst hasten supernaturally to divine vision, and hast become for us a law-giver.

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.

Casting the salt of God which is from Christ into mankind corrupted by the passions, O right glorious herald of God, thou didst dry up the putrefaction thereof.

Theotokion: Christ hath revealed a calm harbor unto those who with faith and love and with a pure conscience proclaim thee, the true and all-immaculate Mistress, to be the Theotokos.

Having ascended the divine heights of the virtues, as the friends and disciples of Christ on Tabor, O father Gregory, thou didst behold Him revealing His natural and divine glory; and, deified, thou wast shown to be like another sun.

Strengthened with the power of Christ, O Philip, thou wast shown to be more powerful than the legions of demons and the wicked, proclaiming unto those who are on earth the glad tidings of divine life.

O God-seer Gregory, having become an initiate of the mysteries of the Godhead and a partaker of ineffable things, thou dost articulate the mystery of theology, declaring God to be one and uncreated in power and nature, and composed of three Persons.