Glory.
Thou of earth’s blessings hast depriv’d thy babe, that thou of heaven’s might’st make him sharer, who hath not overstepp’d thy bid divine. O Good One, we extol thy judgments’ depth unmeasur’d.
Both now. Theotokion.
We have thee, Maiden, as a sheltering wall, for souls a full salvation, and in afflictions ample room; and in thy light we aye rejoice, and in this save us now, O Queen, from passions and from dangers.
Then the irmos. And after the irmos the priest saith the previously written ectenia and the prayer. Page [139].
Then the condakion, tone viii.
Rest with the Saints, O Christ, thy servant’s soul, where is no pain nor grief, nor sighing, but life that endeth not.
Icos.
Thyself alone immortal art, who madest and didst fashion man; for out of earth we mortals fashion’d were, and unto that same earth shall go, as thou who madest me hast given command, and sayest unto me, Earth thou art, and unto earth shalt thou return. And thither all we mortals go, making the funeral wail, even the song, the Alleluia.
And these following icosi.