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The Three Kathismata from the Nativity Matins Service (in Greek):
English translation:
Kathisma I.
Mode 4. Joseph marveled.
Come, believers, let us see the place
where Christ has been born.* With the
Magi, those three kings who from the
orient are,* now let us follow to where
the star is proceeding.* Ceaselessly do
Angels sing praises there.* Shepherds in
the field sing a worthy song,* saying:
Glory in the highest be to Him who* was
born today in the grotto* from the Virgin
and Theotokos,* in Bethlehem of Judea.
Kathisma II.
Mode 4. Joseph marveled.
Mary, why are you amazed and
awed by what was done in you?* And
she answers, For in time I have brought
forth a timeless Son.* But I have no understanding
of His conception.* Husbandless
am I: how can I bear a son?*
Who has ever seen seedless childbirth?*
But where God wills, the order found in
nature* is overcome, as it is written.*
So Christ was born from the Virgin
Maiden,* in Bethlehem of Judea.
Kathisma III
Mode 4. Joseph marveled.
He whom nothing can contain has
been contained in a womb.* He is in the
Fathers bosom and His Mothers embrace.*
How can this be, but as He
knows and willed and was well pleased.*
Fleshless as He was, He willingly took
flesh.* And He Who Is became what He
was not, for us.* And while departing
not from His own nature,* He shared in
our natures substance.* So Christ was
born with dual natures,* wishing to replenish
the world on high.
Also a special Heirmos (outside the normal texts)
Source: http://www.ecclesia.gr/Multimedia/Audio_Index/xmas_2004/index.html
English translation:
Kathisma I.
Mode 4. Joseph marveled.
Come, believers, let us see the place
where Christ has been born.* With the
Magi, those three kings who from the
orient are,* now let us follow to where
the star is proceeding.* Ceaselessly do
Angels sing praises there.* Shepherds in
the field sing a worthy song,* saying:
Glory in the highest be to Him who* was
born today in the grotto* from the Virgin
and Theotokos,* in Bethlehem of Judea.
Kathisma II.
Mode 4. Joseph marveled.
Mary, why are you amazed and
awed by what was done in you?* And
she answers, For in time I have brought
forth a timeless Son.* But I have no understanding
of His conception.* Husbandless
am I: how can I bear a son?*
Who has ever seen seedless childbirth?*
But where God wills, the order found in
nature* is overcome, as it is written.*
So Christ was born from the Virgin
Maiden,* in Bethlehem of Judea.
Kathisma III
Mode 4. Joseph marveled.
He whom nothing can contain has
been contained in a womb.* He is in the
Fathers bosom and His Mothers embrace.*
How can this be, but as He
knows and willed and was well pleased.*
Fleshless as He was, He willingly took
flesh.* And He Who Is became what He
was not, for us.* And while departing
not from His own nature,* He shared in
our natures substance.* So Christ was
born with dual natures,* wishing to replenish
the world on high.
Also a special Heirmos (outside the normal texts)
Source: http://www.ecclesia.gr/Multimedia/Audio_Index/xmas_2004/index.html
