O God, You have refashioned the nature of Adam, / which had
fallen into the depths of the earth. / You have led it up today
above every Principality and Power, / for in Your love for it, You
have seated it together with Yourself. / Since You have taken
compassion on it, You united it to Yourself, / and having been
united with it, You suffered with it; / as not subject to
suffering, yet You suffered and glorifi ed it with Yourself. /
The Bodiless Ones said: "Who is this Man of beauty? / He is
not only a Man; / He is both God and Man, united and manifested
in One!" / Astonished Angels, some flying in glorious
apparel, / and some standing near the Disciples, cried out: /
"Men of Galilee, the One gone from you is Jesus, Who is both
God and Man!" / The God-Man will come again as the Judge of
the living and the dead,// granting to the faithful remission of
sins and great mercy!
-Sticheron of the Litya of Ascension
