Irmos: The tempest of evil thoughts, having overtaken me, doth drag me down into the abyss of my countless sins; but, going before me, O good Helmsman, govern me and save me, as Thou didst the Prophet Jonah.
Kontakion, in Tone III: Spec. Mel.: “Today the Virgin…”—
Thou didst shake off the grief of mortals and didst direct all thy desire toward the Master, delighting in His beauty and the splendors which proceed therefrom.
Theotokion: The threefold billows of the passions beat upon me, and the abyss of despondency assaileth my heart. O Virgin who gavest birth to Christ the Helmsman and Savior, deliver and save me by thy supplications.
Drinking from a spring, thou didst cause the darkness of sin to dissolve, O father, and standing in the midst of the winds, thou didst endure their assaults like an incorporeal being, warmed by divine grace.
Approaching thy sacred shrine, we who honor thee with love are filled with the sweet fragrance of divine understanding, O wonder-working hierarch, and we are delivered from the foul stench of the passions, O venerable father.
Mounting upon the virtues as upon a fiery chariot, O God-bearer, thou didst ascend to the heavenly abodes. Thou didst dwell like an angel with men, and as a man thou joinest chorus with the angels. Wherefore, thou hast been shown to be a divine receptacle of miracles, O venerable Theodore.
Translated by Isaac Lambertsen. Edition menaion.en.lambertsen.