Ambrose Timrot - Canon (Russian translation)
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CANON OF THE HOLY AND LIFE-GIVING TRINITY
Troparion of St. Life-Giving Trinity (Feast of Pentecost). Voice 8
Blessed are You, Christ our God, / who showed the fishermen to be wise, / who sent down the Holy Spirit to them, / and through them captured the universe. / Lover of humanity, glory to You!
CANON OF MITROFANOV'S CREATION, VOICE 1
Song 1
Irmos: Your, Immortal, victorious right hand / was glorified by divine power: / for she, like the omnipotent, broke her opponents, / and paved / for the Israelites a new path through the depths.
Chorus: Most Holy Trinity, our God, glory to Thee.
The seraphim, without ceasing, glorify / the One Trihypostatic Beginning / - the beginningless, eternal, who created everything, the incomprehensible: / Every tongue glorifies Him with faith / with hymns.
In order to reveal to people Your one, / Divinity shining with the Triple Light, / You, having created man in the beginning, / created him in Your image, / bestowing mind, and word, and spirit on him as a Lover of Mankind.
Glory: Manifesting from above the one power / in the Three Divine Persons, / You, Father, spoke to Your equal Son and Spirit: / “Let us go down and confuse their languages.”
And now: the unborn Father / was foreshadowed figuratively by the wise as the Mind, / the Son, one with Him by nature, - as the Word without origin, / and as the Holy Spirit - who accomplished the incarnation / of the Word in the womb of the Virgin.
Song 3
Irmos: The One Who Knows the weakness of the nature of mortals, / and out of compassion accepted his image! / Gird me from above with strength to cry out to You: / “Holy is the animated temple / of Your most pure glory, O Lover of Mankind!”
Chorus: Most Holy Trinity, our God, glory to Thee.
When in ancient times You / clearly appeared to Abraham in three Persons / and one in the nature of the Divine, / figuratively showed the purest theology; / and we glorify You with faith, / the only God and the three-solar One.
From You, Who was born in an image worthy of God, / not according to corruptible laws, Father, shone / as Light from Light - the unchangeable Son, / and the Divine Spirit as Light came forth, / and we worship the radiance of the one Divinity of the three Hypostases / with faith and glorify.
Glory: The Unity-Trinity is supernaturally / inexpressibly, beyond comprehension, / glorified by rational Beings, / in the trisagion exclamations, never ceasing to proclaim praise; / the Trinitarian Lord also harmonizes with them.
And now: From You without a seed came / in time the Supertemporal One, / the Invisible One who became like us, / and taught the unity of Nature and dominion / the Father, and the Son, and the Spirit, Mother of God; / therefore we praise You.
Lord, have mercy, three times.
Sedalen, voice 1. Similar to “Thy Sepulcher, O Savior:”
Let us all bow to the Father and the Son, / and to the rightful Spirit and equal to them in honor; / glory to the uncreated Trinity and super-divine Power, / Which the Ethereal regiments glorify; / This day we, who were born on earth, / will praise her with fear.
Glory, even now, to the Mother of God: Guide us on the path of repentance / who always deviate towards the pathless paths of evil / and who anger the most good Lord, / who has not known marriage, blessed Mary, / a refuge for desperate people, / God’s abode.
Song 4
Irmos: Habakkuk, seeing You as a mountain, overshadowed by Divine grace, / predicted with discerning eyes, that from You would come the Holy One of Israel / for our salvation and renewal.
Chorus: Most Holy Trinity, our God, glory to Thee.
Illuminate me, Trisolar Divine Power, / with the radiances of Your God-creating illuminations, / so that the beauty / of Your God-originating brilliance, which exceeds the mind, / and light-giving and sweet communion with You, appears to the eyes of the heart.
First, You established the heavens, O Lord, / and all their Hosts with Your all-creative Word, / and the Spirit of Your mouth, united with You by nature: / with Them You rule over everything / in the tri-luminous autocracy of the Divine.
Glory: Since You created me in Your image and likeness, / God-originating (and) all-creative Trinity, / unmerged Unity, / enlighten me, enlighten me to the fulfillment of Your holy will, / good in strength and perfect.
And now: You, Most Pure One, gave birth to One of the Trinity / - the Most Divine Son, / incarnated for our sake from You, / illuminating those born on earth / the Trisolar Deity with unfading light and radiance.
Song 5
Irmos: Who illuminated the brilliance of Your coming Christ, / and who cleansed the ends of the world with Your Cross! / With the light of Your knowledge of God, enlighten the hearts / of those who sing Orthodox praises of You.
Chorus: Most Holy Trinity, our God, glory to Thee.
Build the first angels / with Thy unapproachable beauty rays / illuminating without any mediation, the most sovereign Trinity, / with Thy radiances enlighten / those who praise You Orthodoxy.
Now the one nature, / to which You gave existence out of goodness, / sings Your praises, Trisolar Divine Power, / asking for deliverance from sins, / and from temptations, and troubles and sorrows.
Glory: The Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, / one nature and Divinity / we glorify with faith: / separated, but indivisible / - one God and invisible and visible creation.
And now: All the sayings of the prophets have been described in advance, / the birth from You, Most Pure One, of Christ, / ineffable and inexplicable, / which we have come to know, / introducing us into the mystery of the only and three-solar Deity.
Song 6
Irmos: The deepest abyss has engulfed us, there is no deliverer: / they considered us to be slain sheep. / Save Your people, our God; / for You are the strength of the weak and the correction.
Chorus: Most Holy Trinity, our God, glory to Thee.
As having equal power, / the Trinity is super-essential, / in the identity of the will You are / a simple and indivisible Unit; / So, by Your power / You save us. (2)
Glory: Thou, by Thy will, created all ages, / as a good one, from non-existence, / the incomprehensible Trinity, / then created man; / but even now deliver me from all misfortune.
And now: You have become the home of the never-setting Sun, / who created and placed in your order / the great luminaries omnipotently, / the Most Pure Virgin, God’s Bride; / but even now deliver me from the passions of darkness.
Lord, have mercy, three times. Glory, and now:
Sedalen, voice 1. Similar to: “Thy Sepulcher, O Savior:”
To the revered and indivisible Nature of the Trinity, / in three Persons, dissected without dissection / and remaining inseparable by the nature of the Divinity, / let us bow down, born on earth with fear, / and glorify the most good God as Creator and Ruler.
Glory, even now, to the Mother of God: Guide, Pure, my unfortunate soul, / and have pity, for the sake of many sins, / over it, which has slipped into the depths of destruction, All-Immaculate; / and in the terrible hour of death You save me / from accusing demons and all punishment.
Song 7
Irmos: We, the faithful, recognize you, Mother of God, as a spiritual furnace; / for just as the exalted One saved three youths, / so the whole of me, man, was renewed in Your womb / by the praised God of the fathers and the most glorified.
Chorus: Most Holy Trinity, our God, glory to Thee.
The Word of God, the one radiance by nature / of the Almighty God! / As You promised, create the divine universe from You, / as a merciful One, with Your Father and the Spirit, / and show me terrible for demons and passions. (2)
Glory: To show us Your, Lord, the abyss of mercy, / By sending Your Son to us, humiliated, / You again renewed in us the original brilliance; / but even now enlighten me / with the Divine Spirit.
And now: Carried on the throne of the Cherubim and the King of all, / the Most Pure One dwells in Your virgin womb, / delivering everyone from destruction, as a Lover of mankind; / but even now preserve me through Your intercessions.
Song 8
Irmos: The image of a supernatural miracle / was shown in ancient times by a fiery furnace full of dew: for the fire did not scorch the young youths, / revealing the divine birth without seed from the Virgin. / Therefore, in songs we will sing: / “May the Lord bless all creation / and exalt it to all ages!”*
Chorus: Most Holy Trinity, our God, glory to Thee.
With a divine gesture, O Lord of all, / Trinitarian and Almighty, / You have spread out the heavens like a covering of skin; / then I hung the depths of the earth / with Your omnipotent hand. / Therefore, strengthen Your servants / with love and faith in You, Lover of Mankind, / so that we, lusting for You, glorify forever. (2)
Glory: Enlighten with the Divine Light / those who sing Your praises, / Light, trisolar in Face, / but at the same time unique in Nature, / and enable me to always look to Your light-giving rays, / through which I will be satisfied with Your glory, sweet, / and light-giving, and all-blessed, / and I will extol You with faith forever.
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