Ode 8.

As a youth, Athanasios, you routed the principalities and powers of darkness and became a great teacher and saving guide, unveiling their assaults, their ambushes and their wiles, and guarding your untended flock from the malice of the demons.

Living as man on earth you truly gained the commonwealth of heaven, revealed as a companion of Angels and living their way of life; with them you now sing out: Priests bless, people highly exalt Christ to the ages.

Assembled today we rightly honour you and reverence the casket of your relics, asking by your prayers release from passions and forgiveness of sins, deliverance from every calamity and danger as we celebrate with faith and joy your holy memory to the ages.

As Elias of old dwelt on Carmel, so he too dwelt on Mount Athos, devoting himself with longing to be by himself with God; and irradiated by divine graces of contemplation he was declared to be the servant of the pure Mother of God, as with the Archangel he cried to her:Hail!