Irmos: Christ is my power, my God and my Lord, the honored Church doth sing, crying out in godly manner with a pure mind, keeping festival in the Lord.
Theotokion: Without leaving the heavens, God now poureth Himself forth in thy womb, O all-pure one, and the Infinite One becometh finite, releasing the wide world from transgressions.
When thou didst dwell in Athens, O venerable one, thou wast shown to be honored by all for thy virtues, being pious, guileless, true, and a stranger to all evil.
As a zealot of poverty, after the repose of those who had adopted thee thou didst entrust all their property to their children; but thou thyself didst serve God in fasting in places of solitude.
The sons of the silversmith and his brother, unable to endure seeing thee honored by all, were eaten up with envy, and sold thee, as Joseph’s brethren had sold him, to a cruel and unbelieving man in Egypt.
Manfully enduring evils in captivity, by the humility of thy character thou didst move him who had bought thee to meekness, O glorious one; and, having healed his infirmities, thou didst enlighten him with the Faith.
Translated by Isaac Lambertsen. Edition menaion.en.lambertsen.