Irmos: Wherefore hast Thou turned Thy face from me, O Light never-waning? And why hath a strange darkness covered me, wretch that I am? But turn me, and guide my steps to the light of Thy commandments, I pray.
Gazing with a most pure mind upon the Mind which is the Cause of all, thou didst receive from Him the radiance of gifts, the sacred effulgence of healings, whereby thou dispellest the darkness of the passions, O divinely inspired one.
Theotokion: Most divinely perceiving of old the ineffable depth of the mystery of thy precious birthgiving, O divinely joyous one, the honored prophets proclaimed it beforehand, using divers images as they received them.
O venerable one, thou didst steadfastly protect thy monastery from evil besiegers, as it were a precious stone, rescuing and freeing the monks from the passions and leading them upwards through the virtues.
Irmos: Enlighten us with Thy commandments, O Lord, and with Thine upraised arm grant us Thy peace, O Thou Who lovest mankind.
He who with demonic deceptions deceiveth all who believe in Christ didst thou justly commit to a fiery judgment, O blessed one, and as a true and saving shepherd thou didst deliver souls from his most pernicious harm.
Theotokion: Dispel the gloom of our passions, O Virgin, and with the gracious power of thy Son drive away the treachery of the enemy and the assaults of the devil from thy servants who glorify thee.
Let the true strugglers of piety in thy monastery never lack thy supplications, O father, but with the holy wonder-worker Nicholas, to whom thou didst entrust its protection, preserve it until the trumpet of the archangel will sound.
When the fire was kindled, thou didst stand in its midst unharmed, O all-glorious one; for the divine dew of the Holy Spirit surrounded thee as an initiate of the sacred mysteries, a servant of the glory of God, a partaker in the splendor of the Most High.
O venerable father, help thy monastery, its inhabitants and all of us, to set at nought all the machinations of the evil one, as thou once didst fend off enemies visible and invisible.
Translated by Isaac Lambertsen. Edition menaion.en.lambertsen.