Irmos: With Thy divine light illumine the souls of those who with love rise at dawn unto Thee, O Good One, that they may know Thee, O Word of God, to be the true God Who calleth all forth from the darkness of sin.
Theotokion: When the Dayspring appeared on earth from on high, O Ever-virgin, thou wast shown to be the most radiant portal, illumining the world with beams of purity and sending down rays of miracles upon the faithful.
When thou didst desire to join the sacred and angelic rank of monastics, thou didst withdraw into the desert of Holy Sinai, and wast shown to be angelic, O God-bearer.
Ascending to the heights of the virtues as it were a mountain, and being covered with divine darkness, thou didst receive from God the tablets of divine dogmas, O thou who art most rich.
Thou wast a model of all good things, leading to the life on high, O most honored one; wherefore, thou wast summoned by God to Jerusalem, that thou mightest win the heights by humility.
The sacred council and the assembly of the faithful elected thee to be a bishop in Holy Sion, O divinely radiant one, as a true disciple and emulator of the Chief Shepherd.
Translated by Isaac Lambertsen. Edition menaion.en.lambertsen.