The Meeting of our Lord

Tone 3

Ode 1.  The Sun once shone with its rays upon dry land in the midst of the deep.  For the water on both sides became firm as a wall while the people crossed the sea on foot, offering this song acceptable to God:  Let us sing to the Lord; for gloriously is he glorified.

Ode 3.  O Lord, the firm foundation of those that put their trust in Thee, do Thou confirm the Church, which Thou hast purchased with thy precious blood.

Ode 4.  Thy virtue, O Christ, hath covered the heavens, for proceeding forth from the Ark of Thy sanctification, from Thine undefiled Mother, Thou hast appeared in the temple of Thy glory as an infant in arms, and the whole world hath been filled with Thy praise.

Ode 5.  In a figure Isaiah saw God upon a throne, lifted up on high and borne in triumph by angels of glory; and he cried: ‘Woe is me!  For I have seen beforehand God made flesh, Lord of the light that knows no evening and King of peace.’

Ode 6.  The Elder, having seen with his eyes the salvation that was to come to the peoples, cried aloud unto Thee: ‘O Christ that comest from God, Thou art my God.’

Ode 7.  O Word of God who in the midst of the fire hast dropped dew upon the children as they discoursed on things divine, and Who hast taken up Thy dwelling in the pure Virgin:  Thee do we praise as with piety we sing:  O God of our fathers, blessed art Thou.

Ode 8.  Standing together in the unbearable fire, yet not harmed by the flame, the children, champions of godliness, sang a divine hymn:  O all ye works of the Lord, bless ye the Lord and exalt Him above all for ever.

Ode 9.  In the shadow and the letter of the Law, let us, the faithful, discern a figure: every male child that opens the womb shall be sanctified to God.  Therefore do we magnify the firstborn Word and Son of the Father without beginning, the firstborn Child of a Mother who hath not known a man.

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