At the Aposticha, Prosomia.

Verse: His sound has gone out into all the earth; and his words to the end of the world. [22]

Tone 4. Called from the highest.

Verse: The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament proclaims the work of his hands. [24]

Having contemplated the Son of the Most High, co-eternal and consubstantial with the Father, unchanging light from light [19] and express imprint of the person of the Begetter, [20] who shone forth from him beyond time and impassibly, the Creator and Lord of all ages, you proclaimed him, Beloved Disciple, to the world, Christ our God, who brings light out of darkness. [21] Implore him to save and enlighten our souls.

Glory. Tone 6. By Monk John.

Taken into the light of the Paraclete and enlightened by it, you contemplated the One who proceeds from the Father, [23] while being revealed to humanity through the Son, as the same in honour, in majesty and being, whom with the Father who has no beginning and the divine Word you preached to all, Beloved Disciple. Therefore in hymns we honour you as a godly foundation of the faith. Keep it unshaken by your prayers to the Lord.

Both now. Theotokion.

Ascending the heights of theology, you were initiated into the ineffable mysteries of God: one being of the Godhead, and one glory and kingship and lordship, separated in three persons, inseparable in being and united in an unconfused divine unity. Giving glory in this way, O Theologian, you proclaimed an undivided Trinity. Implore that undivided Trinity to save and enlighten our souls.

Apolytikion. Tone 2.

Apostle of Christ, Evangelist, Theologian, you became an initiate of ineffable mysteries and thundered out to us the ineffable doc­trines of wisdom, making clear to believers that: In the beginning he was. [25] And, rejecting the: He was not, [26] you refuted the words of the heretics, revealed as bosom and beloved friend, as mighty-voiced Isaias and Moses who saw God. [27] As you have freedom to speak before God, implore him insistently on behalf of our souls.

Glory. Both now. Theotokion.

My Maker and Redeemer, Christ the Lord, coming forth from your womb, O All-pure, clothed himself in me and freed Adam from the former curse; [28] and so, never silent, we all cry out to you as truly Mother of God and Virgin the Angel’s, ‘Hail!’ [29] Hail, Lady, shelter and pro­tection and salvation of our souls.

And Dismissal.

Beloved Apostle of Christ our God, hasten, deliver a people without defence. As he accepted that you lean upon his breast, [30] he accepts you as you fall before him. Implore him, O Theologian, and scatter the persistent cloud of nations, asking for us peace and his great mercy.

All your mysteries are beyond understanding, all beyond glory, O Mother of God; sealed in purity and guarded in virginity you were recognised to be truly a Mother, in giving birth to the true God: im­plore him that our souls may be saved.