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.
Adorned with the gifts of martyrdom, and standing all resplendent with love before the great Light, O martyrs, with the grace of our almighty God dispel the clouds which darken our souls and the winter of the passions.
Theotokion: From enemies visible and invisible deliver thou me, O Virgin Mother who gavest birth to God, the visible Word Who is invisible; and with thy serenity drive away the storm of my passions, O thou who alone settest men aright.
Having set itself before God Who seeth all things, and bound souls with His love, the assembly of the martyrs hath loosed the bonds of evil and granteth remission of sins unto those who bless them with faith.
Aflame with divine fire, and having enlivened men’s souls with noetic power, the passion-bearing martyrs were shown to be burning coals consuming the tinder of polytheism and enlightening the ends of the earth with the radiance of piety.
Translated by Isaac Lambertsen. Edition menaion.en.lambertsen.