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Isaac Lambertsen

Ode I

Menaion — translated by Isaac Lambertsen

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¶1

Irmos: Bringing battles to nought with His upraised arm, Christ hath overthrown horse and rider in the Red Sea, and hath saved Israel, who chanteth a hymn of victory.

¶2

With the light of thy prayers, O most honored one, thou namesake of divine gladness, illumine me who hymn thy holy and truly right laudable memory today with hymns of beauty divine.

¶3

Theotokion: All desire, sweetness and life shone forth from thee in His exceeding great goodness, O most immaculate Virgin. Him do thou entreat, that He save those who unceasingly call thee blessed.

¶4

Loving the divine beauty of Christ alone, and set afire by His immaterial comeliness, thou didst disdain the beauty of thy body, O glorious one, passing thy time in divine visions.

¶5

As a bride adorned with the beauties of the virtues, thou didst betroth thyself truly to Christ Who is comely in beauty, forsaking thy transitory betrothed and all thy beauty of life, O Euphrosyne.

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

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