1. Helper and Protector be my salvation: This is my God, and I will glorify Him, the God of my father, and I will exalt Him: gloriously will I be glorified.
2. Look up, heaven, and I will proclaim and sing of Christ, who came in the flesh from the Virgin.
You see, you see, for I am God, who rained down manna and brought out water from stones of old in the wilderness through My one right hand and My strength (Ex. 16:14; 17:6).
3. Establish my thoughts on the immovable stone of Your commandments, Christ.
Establish, Lord, on the rock of Your commandments my heart has moved, for You alone are holy and the Lord.
4. The prophet heard Your coming, O Lord, and feared, because you wanted to be born of a virgin and appear as a man, and said: I heard Your hearing and was afraid: glory to Your power, Lord.
5. From the morning night, O Lover of mankind, enlighten me, I pray: and instruct me in Thy commandments, and teach me, O Savior, to do Thy will.
God! the prophet trembled when it was revealed to him about Your coming, that You wanted to be born of a Virgin and appear among people, and said: I received a revelation about You, Lord, and fear seized me; May there be glory to Your might.
More humane! I pray to You: illuminate me with Your light, who never ceases to sing the song of the morning to You in the night, guide me on the path of Your commandments, and teach me, Savior, to fulfill Your will.
6. I cried out with all my heart to the generous God, and heard me from the lowest hell, and raised my belly from aphids.
Kontakion: My soul, my soul, arise, what are you writing off? The end is approaching, and you will be embarrassed: rise up, so that Christ God, who is everywhere and fulfills everything, will have mercy on you.
7. We have sinned, we have sinned, we have acted untruthfully before You, we are inferior to the observant, inferior to those who have done as You commanded us: but do not betray us to the end, O God of the fathers.
8. And the armies of heaven praise him, and tremble with cherubs and seraphim; every breath and creature, sing, bless and exalt to all ages.
9. From the seedless conception there is an unspeakable nativity, to the mother of the husbandless mother the incorruptible fruit: for God’s birth renews natures: thus we all give birth to you, as the Blessed Mother of God, we Orthodoxy magnify.
Behind the seedless conception there is an inexplicable Christmas; from a husbandless Mother and the fruit is imperishable; for the birth of God renews nature. That is why we - all generations - Orthodoxy glorify You, the Blessed Mother of God.
On Friday of the first week of Great Lent, after the prayer behind the pulpit, the prayer canon of St. Great Martyr Theodore Tiron and is blessed in his honor with kolivo, or rice boiled with honey. This celebration was established on the following occasion. In 362, the Greek emperor Julian the Apostate (apostate from the Christian faith), in mockery of Christians, ordered that all food supplies sold in the markets of Antioch be secretly sprinkled with blood sacrificed to idols. But St. The Great Martyr Theodore, who was burned in 306 for confessing the faith of Christ, in a dream revealed Julian’s order to Bishop Eudoxius, and gave advice, instead of contaminated food, to eat kolivo during the week.