Merry Christmas!!!
Forefeast of the Nativity of our Lord - Troparion
Prepare, O Bethlehem, for Eden has been opened to all!
Adorn yourself, O Ephratha, for the tree of life blossoms forth from the Virgin in the cave!
Her womb is a spiritual paradise planted with the Divine Fruit:
If we eat of It, we shall live forever and not die like Adam.
Christ comes to restore the image which He made in the beginning!
Kontakion
He who holds the earth in the hollow of His hand
now is beheld in Bethlehem wrapped in swaddling bands.
We offer pre-festal hymns to His Mother, who maternally rejoices
having held to her bosom the Son of God.