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.
O thou who standest in radiance before the Bestower of light, illumine the darkened eye of my soul with light, and drive away the gloom of the passions by thy prayers; for as a holy hierarch thou hast boldness before Him, O venerable Meletius.
Theotokion: To the Word of divine origin, Who before was incorporeal, didst thou give birth incarnate, O all-holy one; for thou alone, of all throughout the ages, wast worthy, by virtue of the radiance of thy purity, the beauty of thy virginity and thy most immaculate gifts.
The Word Who resteth in the Father’s bosom, and Who is equally everlasting and of the same essence as the One Who begat Him, alone ordaineth thee now as a preacher of His divinity, as a peer to the apostles, O divinely revealed Meletius.
Shining with divine effulgence, thou didst utter theology concerning the only-begotten Word, that He is begotten of the Father, uncreated and crowned, O venerable one; and, protected by the armor of God, thou didst expel the minions of those who shared the heresy of Arius.
Translated by Isaac Lambertsen. Edition menaion.en.lambertsen.