Irmos: The staff of Moses, once working a wonder, striking the sea in the form of the Cross and dividing it, drowned the mounted tyrant Pharaoh, and saved Israel who fled on foot, chanting a hymn unto God.
By thy supplication, O venerable and blessed John, pilot me to the haven of dispassion and the harbor of salvation, who am ever assailed by the threefold waves of the passions and am now engulfed amid the tumult of evil thoughts.
Theotokion: The only-begotten Word, Who with the Father and the Spirit is equally eternal, through thee appeared on earth as a man, O Theotokos Mary, and hath saved the whole world, which chanteth hymns to the Lord.
Thou hast truly been translated to the heavens by thy desire, having lived angelically on earth and mortified the wisdom of thy flesh by abstinence, O father. Wherefore, thou hast been shown to be a habitation of God, O wondrous John.
Desiring to obtain things of beauty which pass understanding, O blessed one, thou didst find the glorious Gregory as thine instructor, who moved thee to godly struggles, and in whose steps thou didst follow, O divinely wise John.
Translated by Isaac Lambertsen. Edition menaion.en.lambertsen.