By Your Holy Birth

Kontakion, Nativity of the Theotokos
Byzantine Tone 4
arr. Fr. David Anderson, harm. Anne Schoepp


By your holy birth, O undefiled Lady,
Joachim and Anna were freed from barrenness,
Adam and Eve from the corruption of death,
and delivered from the guilt of sin,
your people celebrate and sing to you:
"The barren woman gives birth to the Theotokos,
who nourished our life."