Irmos: The staff of Moses, once working a wonder, striking the sea in the form of the Cross and dividing it, drowned the mounted tyrant Pharaoh, and saved Israel who fled on foot, chanting a hymn unto God.
Behold now, what is so good or so joyous as for brethren to dwell together in unity? Attentive to this divinely inspired word, and working out your salvation together, ye did persist in prayers and labors in singleness of mind, chanting with one mouth and one heart unto the Trinity, consubstantial and indivisible.
Theotokion: Thou art an aid to those who travel the narrow way, O Theotokos, for by thee are the afflicted strengthened and in thee do the weak become strong; in thee do the saints boast and by thee are sinners saved. We hymn thine ineffable loving-kindness.
Purchasing that which is eternal with that which is transitory and corruptible, ye made a blessed exchange in your earthly life; for, lo! ye took up labors and struggle, that ye might obtain heavenly rest; ye loved the desert, that ye might delight in the garden of paradise; ye endured the burning heat of noonday, that ye might abide eternally in a place of refreshment; and hunger and thirst did ye bear, that ye might give drink to your souls with streams of immortality and nourish yourselves with the most sweet sight of the countenance of God, chanting with the angels a new hymn unto Him.
Departing from this sin-loving world as did the chosen people from Egypt, and delivered from the demonic hordes as from the warriors of Pharaoh, ye did attain unto the Thebaïd, strengthened by the right hand of God; and laboring there ascetically, ye made your abode in the wilderness. Wherefore, delighting now, not in an earthly promised land, but in heaven, ye chant to Christ God a hymn of victory.
Translated by Isaac Lambertsen. Edition menaion.en.lambertsen.