Christ is Born -Χριστός Υεννάται

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Christ is born, Odes 1-8, mode I

Chanted By "Romeiko Ensemble"

Χριστός Υεννάται,Ωδή α΄-θ΄ Ηχος α΄

Ψάλουν όι Βυζαντινή Χοροδία "Romeiko Ensemble"

English Text:

Christ is born; therefore glorify!*

Christ is come from heaven; go and

meet Him.* Christ is on earth; arise to

Him.* Sing to the Lord, all you who

dwell on the earth;* and in merry

spirits, O you peoples, praise His

birth.* For He is glorified.

To the Son, begotten* without flux, of

the Father, before the ages,* and who

was lately made incarnate* of the

Virgin without seed;* to Christ God

now let us cry aloud:* You have exalted

the horn of our strength. Only You are

holy, O Lord.

Jesse's root produced a branch, O

Christ,* and You its flower blossomed

forth,* from the Virgin who by Hábakkuk

prophetically once was called*

overshadowed, dense mountain.* From

her who knew not man You came

incarnate,* the immaterial God.* Glory

to Your power, O Lord.

God of peace and Father of mercies,

Your Son* You have sent unto us as

Your messenger,* the Angel of great

counsel who is granting peace to all.*

Therefore having been guided to the

light of godly knowledge,* waking

from the night to dawn, we sing Your

glory, O Lover of man.

Such as it received* Jonah as an

embryo, the sea beast disgorged him

from its bowels intact.* With the Virgin,

though, when the Logos had dwelt in

her taking on flesh,* He came forth

from her preserving her yet incorrupt.*

For from her no fluxion suffered He,*

and He kept her unaltered in

childbirth.

The children nurtured piously

together,* with contempt regarding the

impious king's decree,* intrepidly

faced the threat of holocaust,* and

while standing in the midst of flames

they chanted thus,* saying: O God of

the fathers, You are blessed.

Babylon's bedewing furnace bore the

image* of an extraordinary wonder.*

For it did not burn the youths it

accepted,* nor did the fire of Divinity

consume the Virgin's womb wherein it

went.* So let us melodiously chant in

praise:* Let all creation bless and extol

the Lord,* and let it exalt Him supremely

to the ages.

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