Irmos: Come, ye people, let us chant a hymn to Christ God, Who divided the sea and guided the people whom He had led forth from the bondage of Egypt, for He hath been glorified.
Deliver me from assault, captivity and bondage, and guide me to repentance, O Compassionate One, leading me quickly to Thy love.
Theotokion: Isaiah crieth, O pure Virgin: “Behold, having conceived in thy womb without seed the Angel of Great Counsel, thou gavest birth unto Him, O pure one, yet remainest a virgin even after giving birth!”
Possessing streams of life in thy heart, O wise one, thou wast as a river of God filling the Church with thy teachings and watering its furrows, O father.
When thy precious head was anointed with the oil of the divine Spirit, O Tarasius, it flowed richly down upon thy beard, as upon the beard of Aaron, down to the hem of thy garment, like the dew of Hermon.
Translated by Isaac Lambertsen. Edition menaion.en.lambertsen.