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Isaac Lambertsen

Ode IV

Menaion — translated by Isaac Lambertsen

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¶1

Irmos: I have heard, O Lord, the mystery of Thy dispensation; I have understood Thy works, and have glorified Thy divinity.

¶2

O passion-bearing martyr, like an unblemished sacrifice the tyrants snatched thee from the hands of thy father, who loved the heavenly Father exceedingly.

¶3

Theotokion: Heal thou our spiritual infirmities and our bodily sufferings, O pure one. Yea, haste thou, O Lady, to bestow health upon us by thy supplications.

¶4

Beseech God in your supplications, O holy fathers, that He still the turmoil of my passions and the tempest of the assaults of my many tribulations.

¶5

Irmos: Beholding Thee lifted up upon the Cross, O Sun of righteousness, the Church stood rooted in place, crying out as is meet: Glory to Thy power, O Lord!

¶6

Following the wise maidens, O most glorious one, thou didst richly feed the lamp of thy soul with thy blood as with oil, and thou didst inherit the divine bridal-chamber, O martyr, namesake of joy.

¶7

Theotokion: O pure Theotokos, thou gavest birth to the incarnate Word of God; and Charitina, loving Him ardently, withstood the fire and multifarious torments.

¶8

O holy fathers, extend the abyss of your loving-kindness unto us who call upon you for help, for the merciful God hearkeneth to your supplications.

¶9

Set afire with love for the Bridegroom, thy heart extinguished the burning coals of falsehood with the outpouring of thy blood and dried up the sea of polytheism, O thou of valiant mind.

¶10

Having you as our hope, O holy fathers Peter, Alexis, Jonah, Philip, Hermogenes & Tikhon, and your supplications to God as an immovable rampart, we are delivered from evils and all misfortunes.

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

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