Ode I

Canon of the feast, with 6 troparia, including the irmos, the composition of John, in Tone II—

Theotokion: The most blessed Joachim and glorious Anna, the authors of all creation, gave birth to the pure, immaculate and all-pure Theotokos, receiving her as the reward for their piety.

Come, ye faithful, and, rejoicing with divine spirit, let us honor with hymns the Ever-virgin Maiden who today hath issued forth from a barren woman for the salvation of men.

Irmos: Come, ye people, let us chant a hymn to Christ God, Who divided the sea and guided the people whom He had led forth from the bondage of Egypt, for He hath been glorified.

Rejoice, O pure one, Mother and handmaid of Christ God, mediatress of our primal blessedness! All of us, the human race, glorify thee with hymns, as is meet.

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.

Today is the bridge of life born, through which men have attained restoration after their fall into hades, glorifying Christ, the Bestower of life, with hymns.

Canon of the Righteous Ones, the acrostic whereof is: “In chastity I hymn thy parents, O most pure one”, in Tone II—

Shining with the splendors of the virtues, O divinely wise Anna and ever-blessed Joachim, ye were vouchsafed to give birth to the lamp which emitted the noetic Sun Who shone forth from her in the flesh.

Praying tirelessly and looking to God in every way, the God-pleasing Joachim and the divine Anna truly gave birth to the all-pure Theotokos, who is far greater than all creation in holiness.

Possessed of a most exalted life and splendor of life, together ye surpassed all the parents of earth, giving birth to the incorrupt Virgin, and truly becoming ancestor of God because of her.