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.
Desiring to save all from the yoke of slavery, O blessed and divinely manifest one, the Lord ordained thee as a performer of the sacred mysteries of His honored Gospel.
Theotokion: The Son, Who by nature is unoriginate and beyond time, of His own will receiveth a beginning in time through the Virgin Maiden, intending to restore from corruption those who are subject to time.
Thou becamest a child of God through grace, proclaiming His only-begotten and ever-existing Word, Who hath all-gloriously drawn nigh in the flesh unto those on earth.
Thou didst live as a hierarch, O most wise one, with discourse of judgment and the divine anointing of the priesthood, and by enduring cruelties thou becamest a martyr of God.
Translated by Isaac Lambertsen. Edition menaion.en.lambertsen.