Kontakion to the Theotokos
To thee the Champion Leader, we thy servants dedicate a feast of victory and thanksgiving,
as ones rescued out of sufferings, 0 Theotokos; but as thou art one with might which is
invincible, from all dangers that can be, do thou deliver us, that we may cry to thee: Rejoice,
thou Bride unwedded!
Most glorious Ever-Virgin, Mother of Christ God, present our prayer to thy Son and our God,
that through thee our souls may be saved.
All my hope I place in thee, 0 Mother of God: keep me under thy protection.
0 Virgin Theotokos, disdain not me a sinner, needing thy help and thy protection, and have
mercy on me, for my soul hath hoped in thee.
My hope is the Father, my refuge is the Son, my protection is the Holy Spirit: 0 Holy Trinity,
glory to Thee.
It is truly meet to bless thee, the Theotokos, ever-blessed and most blameless and M other of
our God. More honorable than the Cherubim, and beyond compare more glorious than the
Seraphim, who without corruption gavest birth to God the Word, the very Theotokos, thee do
we magnify.
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, both now and ever, and unto the
ages of ages. Amen.
Lord have mercy.
Thrice.
0 Lord, bless.
The dismissal:
0 Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, for the sake of the intercessions of Thy most pure Mother,
the God-bearing fathers and all the saints, have mercy on us.
But a layman sayeth:
Through the prayers of our Holy Fathers, O Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on us and save us.
Amen.