Alithos anesti!!!!
Christ God, the Creator and Master of all / cried to all in the midst of the Feast of the law: / Come and draw the water of immortality! / We fall before You and faithfully cry: / Grant us Your bounties, for You are the Fountain of our life!
With the streams of Thy Blood do Thou water my soul,
which is grown dry and barren because of mine iniquities and offences,
and show it forth to be fruitful in virtues.
For Thou didst tell all to draw nigh Thee,
O all-holy Word of God,
and to draw forth the water of incorruption,
which is living and which washeth away the sins of them that praise Thy glorious and divine arising.
Unto them that know Thee as God, O good One,
grant from on high the strength of the Spirit,
which verily was borne by Thy disciples,
for Thou are truly the Well-spring of life for all.
—Matins Oikos