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Isaac Lambertsen

Ode I

Menaion — translated by Isaac Lambertsen

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¶1

Irmos: I will open my mouth, and with the Spirit will it be filled; and I shall utter discourse unto the Queen and Mother, and shall appear, keeping splendid festival; and, rejoicing, I will hymn her wonders.

¶2

Illumined with divine splendors, O venerable one, drive away the clouds from my mind, that I may behold thy luminous life and the correction found in thy manner of living.

¶3

Theotokion: O only Bride of God, thou didst bear in thine arms Him Who sitteth in the highest yet became man; for thou art a worthy receptacle of the Ruler of all ages.

¶4

Having from thy childhood risen early unto God, the Sun of righteousness, O thou who art most rich, thou didst avoid the darkness of the carnal passions through abstinence and wast enriched by the gift of miracles, O venerable one.

¶5

Having acquired noetic purity through dispassion, thou becamest a habitation of the Spirit, O right wondrous and most blessed Palladius, adornment of the fathers, universal beacon.

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

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