Ode III

Irmos: Thou art the confirmation of those who have recourse to Thee, O Lord; Thou art the light of the benighted; and my spirit doth hymn Thee.

Kontakion, in Tone II—

Glory..., Now & ever...: Sessional hymn from the Pentecostarion.

Sessional hymn, in Tone VII—

Unceasingly didst thou raise thy venerable hands on high to Him who giveth prayer to him who prayeth, conquering the noetic Amalek and chanting to the Lord without ceasing.

Theotokion: O pure and blessed one, entreat God the Word Who was born of thee that He be not mindful of our sins, but grant us His grace, that, saved, we may hymn thee.

As many things as are true, and pure, and lovely, these didst thou contemplate and didst teach, O venerable father.

Having adorned the ark of thy soul for the King of kings, O divinely wise one, thou wast vouchsafed the overshadowing of His grace, which hath poured forth abundantly from thy lips, sanctifying those who honor thee.

Come ye, with hymns let us now bless the namesake of the resurrection, the hesychast of Sinai, for emulating Moses the God-seer, he ascended the sacred mountain, that he might obey the divine voice and have the law of grace divinely engraved upon the tablets of his heart. Wherefore, praising him as an initiate of the mysteries of God and emulator of the angels, a champion of Orthodoxy and divinely wise instructor of monks, let us cry out with heartfelt love: Rejoice, O Anastasius, thou boast of Sinai!

Ikos: Tell us, O venerable one, how thou didst spend so many years in quietude; how, having buried the old man, thou didst rise with Christ; how, having His law divinely inscribed in thy soul, thou didst struggle for the truth, and didst thunder against the heretics; how thou didst shepherd the spiritual sheep with the staff of righteousness; how thou didst fly up the ladder of the virtues as upon wings; how thou hast been made manifest as a true partaker in the never-waning Light. Wherefore, then, art thou humble-minded, O father? Why answerest thou not? Yet, as thou art silent, we cry aloud: Rejoice, O Anastasius, thou boast of Sinai!

With what praises shall we honor the venerable one? With what hymns shall we adorn the memory of him who fled the glories of the world and acquired the glory of Heaven, who emulated the angels by his struggles and enlightened men by his teachings? Wherefore, falling down before him, let us cry: Remember us at the throne of God, O most sacred father!