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Isaac Lambertsen

Ode I

Menaion — translated by Isaac Lambertsen

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¶1

Irmos: O ye people, let us send up a hymn unto our wondrous God, Who freed Israel from bondage, singing and crying out a hymn of victory unto Thee Who alone art Master.

¶2

Theotokion: With the ranks of the angels, O Mistress, with the honorable and glorious prophets, the preëminent apostles and hieromartyrs, and with the archangels, pray thou to God in behalf of us sinners, who in the land of Russia have glorified the feast of thy protecting veil.

¶3

In spiritual songs let us all hymn together our godly fathers who have shone forth in piety, whom every place and region of the land of Russia hath brought forth, and whom the Church of Russia hath nurtured.

¶4

Rejoice, O ye seven holy hierarchs — Basil, Ephraim, Eugene, Elpidius, Agathadorus, Eutherius and Capito — who were bishops in Cherson and hallowed our land with your blood!

¶5

Come, O ye faithful who love the martyrs, and with hymns let us honor the protomartyrs of Russia, Theodore and the youth John, who would not worship the idols and shed their blood for Christ.

¶6

Thou art our greatness and boast, O divinely wise Olga; for by thee were we freed from the deception of idolatry. Pray thou now for the people whom thou hast led to God.

¶7

Rejoice and be glad, O servant of Christ, great and wise Prince Vladimir, intercessor for our souls; for by thee have we all been delivered from the deception of the demons. Wherefore, we cry to thee: Rejoice!

¶8

Michael, the hierarch of God, shineth like a star in heaven, who illumined the land of Russia with the light of the knowledge of the divine Faith and led to the Master a new people, reborn in the font of baptism.

¶9

O blessed passion-bearers of Christ, Boris and Gleb: forget not thy homeland. Dispel from it famine and affliction, and deliver us, who set our hope on you, from civil strife and every sinful fall.

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

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