Irmos: Whirled about in the abyss of sin, I call upon the unfathomable abyss of Thy loving-kindness: Lead me up from corruption, O God!
Kontakion, in Tone III, Spec. Mel: “Today the Virgin...”—
As sacrifice and victim thou didst submit thyself to God with faith, and thou didst continue to serve His unbloody sacrifice.
Theotokion: Thy birthgiving is cause for perplexity, for thou givest suck unto the Nourisher in strange manner, and nurturest with milk the immaterial Creator Whom thou holdest in thine arms.
Having now passed from earth to immaterial glory, O venerable one, by thine earnest supplication heal thou my soul which hath been defiled by material passions.
Thou didst cut away the thickness of the Scriptures with the profound paring-knife of thine intellect, O Tarasius, and wast the scribal pen of the Church.
Having illumined the Church with Orthodox dogmas and taught all to honor and bow down before the precious icon of Christ, O blessed one, thou didst denounce the godless decree of the iconoclasts. Wherefore, we cry out to thee: Rejoice, O wise father Tarasius!
Translated by Isaac Lambertsen. Edition menaion.en.lambertsen.