Canon of John the Baptist
Voice 2 Song 1
In the depths of the post, sometimes the Pharaoh's all-armed force is transformed into power, but the incarnate Word consumed all-evil sin: glorified Lord, gloriously be glorified.
Chorus: Great Holy John the Baptist of the Lord, pray to God for us.
To the Baptist and Forerunner of Christ, always immersed in bodily sweets, guide my mind and tame the waves of passions, as if I were in the silence of the Divine, I will sing songs to you.
Perplexed, having been enlightened by enlightenment, like a multi-bright star, you were foreshadowed by the mental East, and pray to my heart, the Baptist, darkened by all demonic applications.
Glory to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Sometimes, O All-Wise One, you sank the abyss into the river, creating a flood with the grace of all crime. But I pray, O blessed one, dry up my sins through your Divine intercession.
And now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen. Pure, Virgin, God incarnate, you were a relative, blessed Forerunner, with Her we honor and pray, who now lives in your Divine temple, create temples for us of the Holy Spirit.
Song 3
Having established me on the rock of faith, you have enlarged my mouth against my enemies, for my spirit has rejoiced, always singing: there is nothing holy like our God, and nothing is more righteous than Thee, O Lord.
Heal the scabs of my soul and my mind, darkened by negligence, illuminate with your Divine intercession, Lord Forerunner, and deliver me from every opposing situation, I pray.
You resolved barrenness, having been born by God's providence, the wise prophet; Now make my barren heart fruitful, O Lord Forerunner, through your intercession, to bring virtues to vegetation.
Glory to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Through your love, who creates the Divine House, pray to enhance the life on high: and those who serve your temple by faith, create temples of the Divine Spirit, the Baptist and the Forerunner, through your intercessions.
And now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen. Rejoicing, Forerunner, we carry mothers in our wombs, and worshiping the Lord, we carry them in Thy wombs, O Blessed One, pray to Him to deliver me from the spirit of sorrow.
Sedalen, city center 2
For the sake of mercy, O blessed Thy creation, O Christ, art thou who have come, bow the heavens with Thy descent. Moreover, Your terrible look, singing, we cry out to You: through the prayers of Your Forerunner, grant us the cleansing of sins, for the only One is gracious.
Glory to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.
Theotokos
Warm representative of Christians, always pray to Your Son, Mother of God, to deliver us from all villainy and grief and give us forgiveness for those who have sinned, for the mercy of generosity, through Your prayers, Mother of the Virgin.
Song 4
You came from the Virgin, not an intercessor, not an angel, but the Lord Himself, who became incarnate and saved me as a whole man. Thus I call to Thee: glory to Thy power, O Lord.
To him who bowed to heaven and conversed with man, you bowed your head with your right hand, you who are rich; Keep me by it, keeping my heart in humility.
The impenetrable desert of a citizen is named after you, blessed Forerunner, and I cry to you: empty my soul of every divine act, make it fruitful.
Governing the Divine Law, you were slain lawlessly. The same I pray to you: correct me, who am always lawless and deceived by demonic excesses.
Glory to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Having created for yourself a temple to the Lord King, you have now come to the Divine village, Forerunner: even if you pray for it, you have erected the most holy house.
And now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen. Look at me who is ill, O All-Immaculate One, and resolve my fierce and intractable passions, as I magnify Thee, who has magnified all mankind.
Song 5
Enlightenment of those lying in darkness, salvation of the desperate, Christ my Savior, to You in the morning, King of the world, enlighten me with Your radiance: for do I know no other God for You.
During the currents of the Jordan stream of incorruption, the Forerunner, having baptized Christ, pray to dry up the flow of my passions, and to inherit the streams of sweet and righteous red joy.
I am already weeping, and shuddering with fear, and always containing bewilderment, thinking about what I have done and the terrible judgment to come: O Lord, gracious, spare me Thy Baptist with your prayers.
Establish salvation for people, Forerunner, in the repentance of sins, you became in the midst of law and grace. For this reason, we pray to you, enlighten us with the image of repentance.
Glory to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Give us the time of repentance, which sadly passed everything, to the benefactor, having prayed for this to You, the Word, John the Great, the Forerunner and the universal preacher of repentance.
And now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen. Slanders and catching the flattering dead, O Lady of the All-Immaculate, revive me, who gave birth to the Life of all, O Mother of God, hypostatic, so that I may also sing to You piously, O All-Immaculate.
Song 6
Lying in the abyss of sin, I call upon the unfathomable abyss of Thy mercy: lift me up from aphids, O God.
Preach the voice of the Word, we will receive all voices, ask for forgiveness of sins to grant by faith to those who sing to you.
Heal the contrition of my soul, and resolve the burden of sins, and rather than hope, save me with your prayers, blessed Forerunner.
Glory to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Jesus, whose hand you baptized, Forerunner, pray, the hands of sin to deliver me, lifting up my hand to Him everlastingly, all-gloriously.
And now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen. I am possessed by a lazy slumber, a sinful sleep weighs heavily on my heart: By Your, Most Pure One, vigilant intercession, raise up and save me.
Kontakion, tone 3
Before the unfruitfulness of this day, Christ gives birth to the Forerunner, and that is the fulfillment of every prophecy: Whom the prophets preached, placing their hand on Him in the Jordan, the prophet, preacher, and together with the Forerunner appeared of God’s Word.
Ikos
Let us now praise the Lord the Forerunner, whom the priest Elizabeth gave birth to from barren wombs, but not without seeds: Christ is the only container who can pass through impassable without seeds. Give birth to John barren, but do not give birth to him without this husband: but Jesus, by the shadow of the Father and the Spirit of God, gave birth to a Pure Virgin. But to the seedless one a prophet, a preacher, and, together with the Forerunner, appeared from the barren.
Song 7
The ungodly command, the lawless tormentor, the flame lifted high; Christ spread spiritual dew to the godly youth, who is blessed and glorified.
From the root, with the ax of your repentance, plucked out the wounds of my passionate heart, plant, Forerunner, Divine dispassion and the purest fear of God, alienating me from all malice.
In the streams of the Jordan, as if you baptized the most exalted Lord, covering Him with waters, pray to Him to bestow the water of Divine tenderness ever before my eyes, O glorious Forerunner.
Glory to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Whoever takes away sin from the world, the Lamb of God, the Forerunner, having preached, pray to Him from among the goats to reveal me as a stranger, and to His gums to unite the sheep and me, more gloriously.
And now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen. The barren womb bearing Thee, the Virgin, who in her womb bore the Word incarnate: Whose Divine leaps the great Forerunner, the barren all-holy fruit, rejoiced and bowed down.
Song 8
Sometimes the fiery furnace in Babylon shares the action, scorching the Chaldeans by God's command, watering the faithful, singing: bless, all the works of the Lord, the Lord.
Give your right hand to me, lying on the earth, the Forerunner, who stretched out his right hand, washed me with the waters of the Undefiled: and deliver me from bodily filth, cleansing me all with repentance, and save me.
O my soul, it is time to repent, shake off the heaviest sleep of laziness and hastily persevere, crying out to your Master: O Merciful One, spare me, Thy Baptist, with your prayers.
The sweat of passions and the waters of anger have descended upon my soul: blessed Forerunner, strive to quickly take me away, even as with river streams you have washed away the quietest abyss of dispassion.
Glory to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Woe to me, who has done much evil! Alas for me, the only one who has angered God the Most Blessed! Help me, the Baptist of Christ, and grant permission for my sins, and cut off my debts through your intercessions.
And now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen. Having given birth to the Most High God in the flesh, raise me from the pus of the passions that offend me: and having become impoverished with all the cruelty, enrich me with Divine virtues, O Most Pure One, so that we may sing to You and be saved.
Song 9
The Beginningless Parent, the Son, God and Lord, incarnate from the Virgin, appeared to us, darkened to enlighten, squandered by his fellow-creatures, thus we magnify the All-Sung Mother of God.
Deliver me from sin, O Lord, the One Sinless and Many-Merciful, the Baptist through your prayers, who preached to the whole world the Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of men.
Like a fragrant thorn, like a fragrant cypress, like an unfading plant, like the myrrh of honestly having you, the Lord Forerunner, I get rid of the stench of my deeds through your prayers, flowing to your protection.
Make me unfruitful in unfruitful deeds, O all-blessed one, make the virtues ever-bearing fruitfulness, making me a child of the Lord, and a partaker of the Divine Kingdom, and a merchant of the saints in the council.
Glory to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. To us who love you, who honor you with love, and who rejoice in your Divine temple, grant from heaven permission from the fierce, Forerunner of the Lord, and correction of life, and deliverance from sins.
And now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen. Carrying in the womb of the Mother of God, who wears everything with mania, you bowed down, prophet: with her, humbly pray for the salvation of my soul, which falls into many sins all the days.
Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist of the Lord John
Canon of John the Baptist (the first and second discovery of his venerable head), tone 6.
Song 1
Irmos: As Israel walked on dry land in the footsteps of the abyss, seeing the persecutor Pharaoh being drowned, let us sing a song of victory to God, crying out.
Come, with a blasphemous tongue and an omnipotent splashing spirit, from unclean walls let us glorify the Word—the Forerunner with spiritual songs.
The Church of Christ is pacified by a peaceful dispensation and the immeasurable multitudes of Christ are well preserved, crying out to you a summer song, Forerunner.
We will honor the God-bearing head of the Forerunner, given to us inseparably from God as a treasure.
Theotokos: Having received Your Creator, as You Himself desired, from Your seedless womb you were incarnated more than the mind, Pure One, the Lady of creatures truly appeared.
Song 3
Irmos: There is no one holy like You, O Lord my God, Who has lifted up the horn of Your faithful, O Great One, and established us on the rock of Your confession.
The womb is barren, the vegetation of you has worn out Divinely, even from the beginning the Church, glorious is the bride, Christ, the true God and Bridegroom, this betrothed.
Your divine voice, Forerunner John, was held back by the sword by the accursed adulteress: for you have shown us your divine head from the earth.
Triumphant in the light, desiring you, the city will be established, as if you have found secret wealth and an inexhaustible source of healing, Forerunner, your head.
Theotokos: Thy Divine Nativity, O Pure One, every order of nature passes away the miracle: for thou naturally conceived God in the womb, and having been born, the Virgin abideth ever.
Sedalen, voice 8.
Like the Forerunner’s head, hidden in a waterpot, is the voice of the Word; Like wheat is covered, in the depths of the earth it blossoms, bearing fruit of Divine life. We all honor this discovery, glorifying Christ, who gave her the grace to emanate healing.
Song 4
Irmos: Christ is my strength, God and Lord, the honest Church, sings divinely, crying out, from a pure meaning, celebrating the Lord.
You were the seal of old, you were all-rich, you revealed the covenant, and you announced the end to the prophets, and the Divine drawer Novago appeared to you, the Forerunner.
Hair shirts are customary, O Forerunner, you endured honorably and covered your glorious head with the royal scarlet, like a robe, rejoicing.
The beggar flees your divine head and wanders with your Divine instructions, as wealth does not show to John.
To the Dawn, Forerunner, always pray to the Divine Spirit, the city that honors you, to understand and rejoice in your Divine memory to the disembodied.
Theotokos: The dead showed me the garden to eat, but the animal tree that appeared from You, Most Pure One, created me to create an heir of heavenly food.
Song 5
Irmos: By Thy divine light, O Blessed One, illumine the souls of Thy morning with love, I pray, Lead Thee, O Word of God, the true God, from the darkness of sin, crying out.
You were not a reed, O Baptist, the winds were always tempting, the winds were always shaken, but the pillar of Divine people was unshakable, for by the power of Elijah you appeared and the Spirit.
Whoever sweeps away the Divinity, and diminishes the glory of the baptized Christ from you, and conceals your Divine grace, is rightly forbidden from the Divine fences.
Thou hast opened the door of the unenviable Divine source to those who sing of love, O glorious Forerunner, of Divine grace, flowing waters and streams of healing, making everyone glad.
Theotokos: Bearing the mental kindness of Your most beautiful soul, You were the bride of God, sealed with virginity, Pure, and enlightening the world with the dawn of purity.
Song 6
Irmos: The sea of life, raised up in vain by the misfortunes of the storm, has flowed to Your quiet refuge, crying out to You: lift up my life from aphids, O Many-Merciful One.
The Prophet spoke the Truth-Christ, and He is greater than the prophets, the Baptist and the Forerunner of Life: Him you have seen, His law and the prophets have proclaimed.
The source of miracles, the treasure of grace, your glorious head, the Baptist, prophet and Forerunner, cannot stand to be hidden, but when it appears, it pours forth springs of healing.
Praise is all-rich, and the decoration is bright, and this Christ-loving and blessed shield offers your city, your honorable and Divine head, the Forerunner.
Theotokos: The great prophet Moses wrote the ark, and the table, and the candlestick, and the image, denoting the incarnation of Thee, the Most High, Mother of the Virgin.
Kontakion, tone 2.
Prophet of God and Forerunner of grace, your head, like the most sacred thorn, found from the earth, we always accept healing, for again, as before, you preach repentance in the world.
Ikos:
I received a testimony from the Lord, John, who was above all men, I was afraid to bring you praise with songs, but, forced by love, the bold ones began a song. Moreover, let me not be unworthy of being an accomplice, O valedictor of all, so that I may crown your crown, O holy demander, for you preach repentance in the world.
Song 7
Irmos: The angel made the furnace like a venerable youth, and the Chaldeans the scorching command of God admonished the tormentors to cry out: Blessed are you, God our father.
Virgins are vegetated, more than all the words in those born of wives, as if you were incorporeal and equal to angels on earth, therefore you lived, crying out: Blessed are you, God our father.
In the virgin womb, the Almighty knew you from a barren womb and, using the swear word, the voice of the Forerunner, you playfully cried out to Him: Blessed are you, God our father.
From the desert, taught by the Most Holy Spirit, you appeared, like the bright morning, the Angel of Light, teaching us to cry: Blessed are you, God of our father.
Be blessed, for truly in this city now, of everlasting memory, the treasure that you have acquired, the Forerunner of Christ. Moreover, while celebrating, he cries out: Blessed are you, God our father.
Theotokos: By You, Mother of God, the brightest light of the entire universe has risen, for You have given birth to the Creator of all, God: ask Him, Most Pure One, to send us great mercy to the faithful.
Song 8
Irmos: From the flames of the saints you poured out the dew and you burned the righteous sacrifice with water: you did everything, O Christ, only as you wished. We exalt you to all ages.
A crying voice was quickly sent - the Forerunner to desolate hearts, the Son of God, establishing pious faith in the real God, whom we exalt to all ages.
Prepare, the verb and now the Forerunner, the path of the Lord: For this holy thing, having come, with the Father and the Spirit, will dwell in our hearts forever.
By hearing the voice of the Parent, by the eye of the Divine Spirit by sight, and in every way by touch, John the Baptist, with His hand laid upon You, O Christ, is the God-Bearer.
From the womb we were sanctified by the Divine Spirit and the prophet appeared, we carry in our womb, and now the pleasure that is in the depths of you has appeared to the possessing city, prophet.
Theotokos: The golden candlestick prefigured Thee, who received the indescribable Light of the Unapproachable, illuminating all things with the knowledge of Him, Whom we extol to all ages.
Song 9
Irmos: It is impossible for man to see God; the officials of the Angels do not dare to look at Worthiness; By You, O All-Pure One, the Word incarnate as a man, Who magnifies Him, with the Heavenly Ones we please You.
I have seen the fulfillment of the tenth, Forerunner, you were a strong keeper of the commandments, and you were honored more than Christ by the gifts of the tenth. Moreover, we please you, the Spirit of the secret place and friend of the Word, the leader.
Christ's prophet and apostle, Angel and Forerunner, the Divine Incarnation Baptist, and priest, and martyr is faithful, and the preacher of those in hell you were, and the one who ruled, and the wilderness of the desert knowledge.
The soul's unbelief is exposed by the sacramental hands slain by a miracle, but the vegetated one is renewed by faith and by your appearing head, blessed one, the sacrificial hand is renewed.
Your appearance proclaims to the viewer, the announcement of the Angels is not false, Gabriel is like the Divine Annunciation, even before your Nativity the holy Zechariah receives.
Theotokos: Let us draw the Passion of healing, flowing into the glorious temple of the Forerunners: in that place come the faces of angels, and the souls of all the righteous, the Lady with the Baptist John, giving healing.
Luminous.
The light-manifested ascension of your honorable head from the never-ending depths of the earth, Forerunner John, the lamp of the immaterial Light, who accomplishes the acquisition of love, we pray to you to find permission for the fierce The time and the time are more convenient to commit abstinence through your prayers, O All-Highly One, Baptist of the Savior.
