CHRIST IS BORN!
GLORIFY HIM!
GOD IS WITH US, UNDERSTAND ALL YE NATIONS
AND SUBMIT YOURSELVES FOR GOD IS WITH US!
YOUR NATIVITY, O CHRIST OUR GOD
HAS SHONE TO THE WORLD THE LIGHT OF WISDOM.
FOR BY IT, THOSE WHO WORSHIPPED THE STARS,
WERE TAUGHT BY A STAR TO ADORE YOU,
THE SUN OF RIGHTEOUSNESS AND TO KNOW YOU,
THE ORIENT FROM ON HIGH,
O LORD, GLORY TO THEE! (Troparion)
TODAY THE VIRGIN GIVES BIRTH
TO THE TRANSCENDENT ONE,
AND THE EARTH OFFERS A CAVE
TO THE UNAPPROACHABLE ONE!
ANGELS WITH SHEPHERDS, GLORIFY HIM!
THE WISE MEN JOURNEY WITH A STAR!
SINCE FOR OUR SAKE THE ETERNAL GOD
WAS BORN AS A LITTLE CHILD! (Kontakion)
May God bless you all abundantly and may all of you
Join us at St. John’s to thank Him whole-heartedly!