Кафисма 17

Blessed are the immaculate ones, who walk on the path in the law of the Lord, blessed are those who follow the holy virtue of the Mother of God; blessedness imitating Her humility; the bliss of the participant in Her goodness; Blessed are the lovers of Her meekness of heart; blessed ones who serve Her with holy vows; blessed ones who have firm trust and good hope in Her; blessedness, the Queen of Heaven will accept them into Her intercession. Oh, all-merciful Lady! May these grace-filled mercies be poured out on us and let us enjoy them, as we do in all riches. Reward us, Thy servant, Lady, with this great grace of Thy, to do with love the holy will of Thy beloved Son; Do not hide Your generosity from us and we will understand Your miracles on us, our soul has longed to sing Your praise ever since, through You our salvation is in the Lord. What shall we render unto Thee for all that Thou hast rendered unto us? The law of the mother of Thy will, O Most Holy One, Thou hast laid down and confirmed in our hearts; incline our souls to the highest love and turn away our eyes from seeing vanity; may the fear of God be our filial fear and humble reverence for You, comfort us in our humility. Oh, all-merciful Lady! We pray to Your face and bow the knees of our hearts before You, have mercy on us according to Your mercy. You have created grace in every generation and generation with all who in truth call on You, Lady, for help; We, sinners, remember Your wondrous miracles and are confirmed in the hope of heavenly hope; We have experienced adversity, but Thy mighty right hand will take us away from them; It is good for our souls, for we are humbled by their burdens. Oh, all-merciful Mother! Give us spiritual understanding, so that we can worship the goodness of the living God and humble ourselves before His fatherly punishment. Rejoice, all-blessed Ever-Virgin Mary, You are the light in the darkness of sin and the shameless hope of all who trust in You; We humbly pray to You: quench the criminal passions of our hearts and turn away the temptations of the flesh and the world; The lawbreakers will tell us their mockery, but You, Intercessor, give us the feeling of crying for our sins, so that we may die a Christian death and be honored to receive God’s mercy. Our soul and heart disappear, seeking salvation from You, Lady; Reveal to us Thy gracious visage, revive us with Thy mercy, let us never forget Thy goodness; for if it were not for You, those who beseeched Your beloved Son and our God for us would have perished in our busy life; You are an unflickering lamp for us in the darkness of sin: more than all those who teach us, we will understand the law of God and will not deviate from the commandments of our Savior, if You, Queen of Heaven, help us. Marvelous are Thy mercy and generosity, O most holy Mother of God, wondrous are Thy miracles upon us, near Thou art all the faithful and chosen of God and all Thy ways are the truth, but far is Thy salvation and help from those who are careless about reverent service and worship of Thee, for their thoughts are unrighteous; May they, we humbly pray to Thee, bring Thy bounty upon us and let us live in the Lord. How sweet is Thy praise to our throats, how sweet is Thy all-blessed name to our lips! Consider us wandering for good and save us from hellish hostility. Rejoice, Most Holy Theotokos Mary, we take refuge under Your maternal mercy and protection with faith and love; today, and every day and night, and at the hour of our death, we entrust our soul and body to You, we place all our hope in all our lives on You, that through Your intercession and help all our affairs will be corrected and changed according to the most holy will of Your beloved Son, our Savior. Look upon us, O all-merciful Lady, and have mercy on us who love Your holy name; With all our hearts we cry out and pray to You, Lady, direct our feet on the path of salvation and may all lawlessness not rule our will. Hear, heavens, and teach, to earth: just as a baby cannot live without a nurse, so without our Lady, the Ever-Virgin Mary, we cannot receive eternal salvation. There is peace for many who love, honor and worship the Queen of Heaven, for under Her protection those who remain will be far from eternal destruction. The princes of hell, having bypassed us, have spread everywhere the nets of evil in heavenly places to ensnare our hearts and souls, but from calling upon Thy holy name, O beloved Mother of God, the machinations of the enemies disappear like smoke. The world is full of those who love Your name and there is no temptation for them; our soul will live and praise You, its most merciful Lady; Your mercies will always help us; We sing the praises of the Lord to You seven days a week and will not forsake calling on You, our Helper, in all the days of our life, for through this we will not get lost, like a lost sheep, because Your ways are heavenly light and truth. Rejoice, blessed Ever-Virgin Mary; who can adequately thank and praise you? The heavens are filled with Thy glory and the earth is filled with Thy mercy; by Thy seedless Nativity, Thou hast freed our souls from the ashes of eternal death and placed them in the paradise of immortality. According to the 17th kathisma troparia, ch. 1 The multitude of Christians rejoice in Thy name, O Mother of God, who call upon Thy heights every day and magnify Thy heights with love. You are the praise and the Helper and the unashamed Representative of all who honor Thee with faith. Rejoice at the earthly Mother of the Lord, praise the heavenly powers, glorify those who reign on earth, come, all of you, rejoice with the mouth of the Mother of God in accordance with your faith, rejoicing in your faith. The New Heaven, which contains the inexpressibly existing in the heavens, the incontainable Word, the animate Chamber of the Lord of creation, the glorious and eminent City of our Savior: make me a citizen of the heavenly fatherland. Most Holy Lady, Lady Theotokos! We resort to You, O Pure One: For You are an insurmountable wall, intercession and protection for all who come running to You with faith and hope! We pray to Thee, Most Blessed One, hear the prayer of Thy unworthy servants and ever stand for Thy departed servants. You will intercede for those who Orthodoxy revere Thee, who resort to Thy protection and the warmth of those who pray to Thee in illness, sorrow and adversity; but Your intercession, Your intercession is most beneficial to us after our death; You show Your immediate help to Your servant and do not cease to show Your mercy to all who pray to You and pour out the great and rich mercies of Your Son and our God on all believers: in You, the only one in God, the imams have firm hope and hope: no one, praying to You, leaves You without help, joy, and consolation, and delight. We pray to You, O Most Holy Theotokos, Lady of the world, who have unreliable hopes, be today an intercessor to Him who was born of You for Your departed servants, beg Your Son and our God to grant them forgiveness and remission of sins. Pray, Mother of God, much more can a motherly prayer do for the mercy of the Lord; For from You the Lord accepts every word of petition; therefore You also accept our prayers and supplications offered to You, Most Holy Virgin, from all our hearts and all our souls for the souls of Your departed servants. We pray to Thee, help them, O Lady, with Thy motherhood to the Lord, with boldness to achieve a quiet refuge in heavenly Jerusalem; help them, O zealous Intercessor, to appear shamelessly at the terrible and second coming of Your Son, where each one will either be glorified or ashamed by his deeds; help them, O Most Gracious One, to be justified before the face of Him who sits on the throne of glory, so that they will not be ashamed before the Angels and all the Saints, before the whole world, above and below. Oh, All-Singing Mother, Lady Theotokos, we pray to You, intercede, save, preserve and eradicate the future torments of Your departed servants, may they not perish forever, but may they be saved by Your prayers and pass from death to the belly. We, sinners and unworthy servants of Yours, will not retreat from You, we will not stop crying out to You in tenderness: Most Holy Lady, Queen and Lady! Pray to Thy Son and our God for Thy departed servants, that the Lord may grant them remission of sins; send them, O Blessed One, to reach the longed-for fatherland and see the blessings of heaven, which no eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no one has sighed in the heart; pray for them, Mother of God, that through Your intercession they may be worthy to partake of these blessings in the Kingdom of Your Son, Christ our God. For You are the only blessed and powerful Intercessor among women, hope, protection and refuge for all who flow to You - You are the bridge, leading those who exist from earth to heaven and the opening of the heavenly doors. Amen.