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Does anyone have the English text for the second Triodion canon of the 9th Ode for Matins of Cheesefare Friday?

In both the Kallistos Ware/Mother Maria edition and the Sophia Press edition a note is given that the Greek edition does not have a second Triodion Canon for the 9th Ode. The Basilian Triodion does not give a note, but also omits it.

Many thanks.

I don't have an ENglish copy, but in my Slavonic triodion, only one canon is given full stop in the Triodion for CHeese fare SUnday.

If you're talking about the katavasia being the same as the irmos for the 9th Ode it is.

I realise that Greek usage may be different, but there is definitely only one canon for all 9 odes in Slavonic use.

No, I'm not talking about only the Katavasia, but rather a Triodion.

In all three of the Triodia that I mentioned, a full canon of 8 odes is given for the Friday, then two additional Triodion canons at Odes 5, 8 and 9. For Ode 9, however, only one additional Tridion canon is given, along with the note that in Greek usage only one Triodion canon is taken, but in Slav there are two.

Perhaps someone just left an incorrect rubric.

There are only 4 or 5 odes in the slavonic for each irmos; see pages 3 onwards of:

http://www.st-sergius.org/services/SlavLT/0-47.pdf

if you have slavonic.

I also noticed the lack of a second triodial canon at Ode 9.

I didn't interrupt the flow of Matins to do an exhaustive search for the second canon, but I can now report that I can not find the text for that canon in any of my sources. If you ever find the text, please do post it here.

Reader Isaac Lambertsen has translated second Triodion Canon for the Ninth Ode of Cheesefare Friday Matins. This, and other omissions from Mother Mary and Bishop Kallistos' Lenten Triodion (and Supplement), have been
translated by Brother Isaac and are available in booklet form from the St. John of Kronstadt Press.

For the convenience of the Forum members, with the Translator's kind permission, I will share the English translation of the requested ode. Here is the text:


9th Ode of 3rd Canon of Matins/Cheese Friday
MISSING FROM MOTHER MARY’S SUPPLEMENT TO THE LENTEN TRIODION

Ode IX

Irmos: Foreign to mothers is virginity…

We bow down before Thy wounds, O Bestower of life, having thereby been delivered from the passions of sin and come to know that we have been sealed by Thy precious Cross for our salvation and as an aid against every assault of the enemy.

O most Merciful One, Who of Thine own will wast crucified for the salvation of all, with the effulgence of Thy Cross illumine the souls of those who hymn Thy sufferings, and direct and guide our life to the [right] path.

We have sinned, violating Thy commandments, O Savior Who lovest mankind, and through indifference we have wandered far away from the path of Thy divine precepts; yet recall our souls from falsehood, O Compassionate One.

Glory…: Praise, honor and glory are due the Trinity as the sole Dominion, the sole Kingship, the worshipful Unity of the Godhead, unconfused, indivisible, inseparable in essence, continually magnified.

Now & ever…: In that Thou art merciful, be Thou moved to mercy by the supplications of Thy most pure Mother, O most compassionate King of glory, when thou comest to judge Thy servants; for we all believe in Thee, and we know Thee to be God.

Glory to Thee, our God, glory to Thee!

The splendid fast which now cometh upon us doth comprise a banquet of ascetic feats set forth before [us]; wherefore, O ye faithful, with sobriety let us all take up the honored cup of cleansing tears, that we may not be tormented by inconsolable weeping in [hades].

Katavasia: Foreign to mothers is virginity, and strange is childbirth to virgins; yet both were accomplished in thee, O Theotokos. Wherefore, all of us, the peoples of the world, magnify thee unceasingly.