Reflection 26th Sunday after Pentecost

Canon Of The Nativity

Ode 1: Christ is born; let us glorify Him. Christ comes down from heaven; let us go out to meet Him. Christ lives on earth; let us exalt in joy.  All you faithful, sing to the Lord, for He has been glorified.

Ode 3: To Christ our God, who is the only-begotten Son of the Father before all ages and in these latter times has become flesh of the Virgin without seed, let us cry aloud: You are our strength; glory to You, O Lord!

Ode 4: O Christ, you have come forth from the Virgin as the rod of the root of Jesse and the flower that blossomed from his stem. You became flesh from her that knew not wedlock, from the Mountain overshadowed by the forest; O God, You are not formed from created substance. Glory to your power, O Lord.

Ode 5: Since you are a God of peace and Father of mercies, you have sent your Angel of great counsel to bring us peace. Thus we are directed towards the light of the knowledge of God, and we now glorify you, O Lover of Mankind.

Ode 6: Jonah had dwelt like a babe in the womb before the sea monster spew him forth; the Word dwelt in the womb of the Virgin, taking flesh from her. Although born from her, He kept her all-pure. Since Christ himself was not subject to corruptibility, He kept his Mother free from the same.

Ode 7:  The youths who had been raised to fear God were not threatened by the fiery torments. They denounced the wicked decree of the tyrant, and standing in the midst of the flames, they sang: Blessed are You, O God of our Fathers.

Ode 8: The dew-moistened furnace was the image of an incomprehensible wonder. It did not burn the youths entrapped there, just as the fire of the Godhead did not consume the Virgin’s womb in which he dwelt. Therefore, let us praise God saying: Let all creation bless the Lord and exalt Him above all forever.

Ode 9: I contemplate a divine and marvelous mystery: heaven has become a cave; the throne of the Cherubim, a Virgin;and the manger an honorable place in which lies Christ God, the Incomprehensible. Let us praise and extol Him.

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