Theotokos
DAILY THEOTOKIA
SATURDAY & SUNDAY (FRIDAY & SATURDAY EVENINGS)
BEYOND ALL THOUGHT AND EXCEEDINGLY GLORIOUS ARE YOUR MYSTERIES, THEOTOKOS!
SEALED IN PURITY AND PRESERVED IN VIRGINITY,
YOU WERE REVEALED AS TRULY THE MOTHER WHO BORE THE TRUE GOD!//
BESEECH HIM TO SAVE OUR SOULS!
MONDAY (SUNDAY EVENING)
WHEN GABRIEL GREETED YOU, O VIRGIN,
HE CRIED OUT LIKE THE RIGHTEOUS DAVID,
FOR IN YOU, SACRED ARK, WAS THE MASTER OF ALL INCARNATE.
YOU WERE MANIFEST AS MORE SPACIOUS THAN THE HEAVENS,
FOR YOU BORE YOUR CREATOR!
GLORY TO HIM WHO DWELLS IN YOU!
GLORY TO HIM WHO COMES FORTH FROM YOU!
GLORY TO HIM WHO FREES US THROUGH YOUR CHILD!
TUESDAY (MONDAY EVENING)
THEOTOKOS, YOU ARE OUR SHELTER AND OUR STRENGTH,
PROTECTING THE WORLD WITH POWER!
PROTECT YOUR SERVANTS FROM ALL DANGERS BY YOUR INTERCESSIONS//
ONLY BLESSED ONE!
WEDNESDAY & FRIDAY (TUESDAY & THURSDAY EVENINGS)
THOETOKOS, WE HAVE OBTAINED THE CROSS OF YOUR SON
AS A POWERFUL ROD,
TO STRIKE DOWN THE BOASTING OF THE ENEMY://
THEREFORE WE EXALT YOU FOREVER!
THURSDAY (WEDNESDAY EVENING)
THE PROPHETS HAVE FORETOLD, THE APOSTLES TAUGHT
THE MARTYRS PROFESSED, AND WE HAVE BELIEVED
THAT YOU ARE INDEED THE MOTHER OF GOD://
THEREFORE WE EXALT YOUR INEFFABLE CHILDBEARING!
MATINS DISMISSAL THEOTOKIA
MONDAY, TUESDAY & THUSDAY MORNINGS:
ONE RUNS WITH HASTE TO WHERE ONE FINDS SALVATION,
AND WHAT REFUGE HAVE WE OTHER THAN YOU,//
THEOTOKOS, THE SHELTER OF OUR SOULS.
WEDNESDAY & FRIDAY MORNINGS:
THEOTOKOS, OUR POWER AND OUR SHIELD,
THE MIGHTY HELP OF THE WORLD,
SHELTER YOUR SERVANTS FROM ALL CALAMITY BY YOUR PRAYERS,//
FOR YOU ALONE ARE BLESSED!
SATURDAY MORNING:
THE PROPHETS HAVE FORETOLD, THE APOSTLES TAUGHT,
THE MARTYRS PROFESSED, AND WE HAVE BELIEVED.
THAT YOU ARE INDEED THE MOTHER OF GOD://
THEREFORE WE EXALT YOUR INEFFABLE CHILDBEARING!