Irmos: Beholding the sea of life surging with the tempest of temptations, fleeing to Thy calm haven I cry unto Thee: Lead up my life from corruption, O greatly Merciful One!
Kontakion, in Tone III—
Theotokion: Join chorus, all ye souls, and leap up! Without being ploughed the ground now produceth as fruit the life-bearing Grain! And eating thereof, we shall no longer hunger, magnifying His goodness.
Thou wast consecrated with myrrh, becoming a most sacred minister of grace and an all-wondrous worker of miracles where the Light of revelation for the nations and the glory of Israel had appeared.
Thou didst serve like an angel, O right glorious one, in the Temple of the Resurrection which containeth the life-bearing Tomb of the Christ, Who rectified the fall of our race by His arising.
Gazing upon the precious manger and the Cross of the Master of all with steadfast love, thou didst draw from them the mystic teaching of the vision of God, and didst commit this to thy flock, O most excellent one.
Thou wast an emulator of the Patriarch Abraham in valor, feeding the hungry, giving drink unto the thirsty, filling the constant needs of the poor, and healing cattle, O holy one.
Seeing the steadfastness of thy splendid struggles and the wealth of thy compassion for all, God, the all-good Judge of the contest, vouchsafed thee His rich gifts, O Modestus, glorious hierarch and wonderworker. Wherefore, praying to thee, we cry: Free us from grievous circumstances and grant us the healing of our infirmities.
Ikos: Come, and in mind let us fly to the Holy Land, that therein we may with spiritual eyes behold the holy hierarch and wonderworker Modestus. Where the heavenly Chief Shepherd became man for our salvation this saint became a hierarch by His will, tending His people and healing their every ailment; and unto all he preached the preëternal God, Who became a little Child for our sake. Wherefore, celebrating the passing of the blessed one from this life, let us cry aloud: Free us from grievous circumstances and grant us the healing of our infirmities.
Translated by Isaac Lambertsen. Edition menaion.en.lambertsen.