Nativity of Theotokos - Liturgical Texts

Troparion - Tone 4
Your Nativity, O Virgin,
Has proclaimed joy to the whole universe!
The Sun of Righteousness, Christ our God,
Has shone from You, O Theotokos!
By annulling the curse,
He bestowed a blessing.
By destroying death, He has granted us eternal Life.

Kontakion - Tone 4
By Your Nativity, O Most Pure Virgin,
Joachim and Anna are freed from barrenness;
Adam and Eve, from the corruption of death.
And we, your people, freed from the guilt of sin, celebrate and sing to you:
The barren woman gives birth to the Theotokos, the nourisher of our life!

Hymn to the Theotokos
Virginity is foreign to mothers;
childbearing is strange for virgins.
But in you, O Theotokos,
both were accomplished!
For this, all the earthly nations unceasingly magnify you!