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On Saturday, December 7th 1991, the Venerable Gerasimos Mikragiannanitis, Hymnographer of the Great Church of Christ, reposed in the Lord. As a small memorial to his revered memory, we present his "Swan Song", which he included in his last offering to the Most Holy Mother of God, in his famous Theotokarian, the book that contains hymns and spiritual odes to the overseer of the Holy Mountain and the Mother of all Christians.
But O All-Praiseworthy Lady, please accept, with great maternal favor and sympathy and condescension, as your Son and our God accepted the two mites of the widow, these humble chants of mine, which on my knees in great reverence I offer to your Theometoric majesty, “as acceptable gifts and a perfect offering,” and in the fearful hour of death, help me, your unworthy and sinful supplicant, at the impartial judgment seat of your philanthropic Son and our God, to present me uncondemned through your maternal boldness, as you promised, O good-loving Lady, and make all who chant them with reverence worthy of the heavenly kingdom. Amen.
Accept graciously, I beseech you, beloved brethren in Christ, the present Theotokarion, and chant the canons therein with faith and reverence to our Lady Theotokos, that she may deliver you from temptations and dangers and all sin, and at the end may she make you worthy, through her maternal intercession, for the kingdom of heaven; which has been made possible for us all by the grace and philanthropy of our Lord and God and Savior Jesus Christ; to whom be glory and dominion and worship with His eternal Father, and His All-holy and consubstantial Spirit, now and ever and unto the ages of ages. Amen.
But O All-Praiseworthy Lady, please accept, with great maternal favor and sympathy and condescension, as your Son and our God accepted the two mites of the widow, these humble chants of mine, which on my knees in great reverence I offer to your Theometoric majesty, “as acceptable gifts and a perfect offering,” and in the fearful hour of death, help me, your unworthy and sinful supplicant, at the impartial judgment seat of your philanthropic Son and our God, to present me uncondemned through your maternal boldness, as you promised, O good-loving Lady, and make all who chant them with reverence worthy of the heavenly kingdom. Amen.
Accept graciously, I beseech you, beloved brethren in Christ, the present Theotokarion, and chant the canons therein with faith and reverence to our Lady Theotokos, that she may deliver you from temptations and dangers and all sin, and at the end may she make you worthy, through her maternal intercession, for the kingdom of heaven; which has been made possible for us all by the grace and philanthropy of our Lord and God and Savior Jesus Christ; to whom be glory and dominion and worship with His eternal Father, and His All-holy and consubstantial Spirit, now and ever and unto the ages of ages. Amen.
Source: Translated by John Sanidopoulos.
