Irmos: Let us chant unto the Lord Who by His divine command dried up the impassable and turbulent sea, and guided the people of Israel across it on foot, for gloriously hath He been glorified!
Theotokion: That He might unite those below with those on high, the one God of all descended into the womb of her who knew not wedlock and appeared in fleshly form; and breaking down the middle-wall of enmity, He hath brought about peace and bestowed life and divine deliverance.
Canon of the Forefeast, the acrostic whereof is the [Greek] alphabet, the composition of Joseph, in Tone II—
Irmos: Let us chant unto the Lord Who by His divine command dried up the impassable and turbulent sea, and guided the people of Israel across it on foot, for gloriously hath He been glorified!
The divine Forerunner, who knoweth the advent of the Lord, emergeth from the desert, crying out with splendor: “Our deliverance hath drawn nigh and appeared! Repent ye, and cleanse yourselves with water!”
Irmos: Let us chant unto the Lord Who by His divine command dried up the impassable and turbulent sea, and guided the people of Israel across it on foot, for gloriously hath He been glorified!
O Word, Who with the Father art equally without beginning, with the immersion of repentance which is Thy baptism cleanse me wholly who am engulfed in a flood of sins; and ever grant deliverance unto the faithful, for the sake of Thine infinite loving-kindness.
Irmos: That which had been hewn down cut through the undivided, and the sun saw land which it had not seen before; the water engulfed the cruel enemy, and Israel traversed the impassable, and chanted the hymn: Let us sing to the Lord, for gloriously is He glorified!
The land of Zebulun, as it is written, beholding the unwaning Light, was enlightened; for, lo! He is come to the streams of the Jordan! And it hymneth God Who is over all, crying out: Let us chant unto the Lord, for gloriously hath He been glorified!
The divinely eloquent Forerunner, seeing all the people who had come, exclaimed to them: “Who hath told you to flee from the coming wrath? Show forth fruits of repentance, O ye who are saved by grace!”
Canon of the Forefeast, the acrostic whereof is the [Greek] alphabet, the composition of Joseph, in Tone II—
The divine Forerunner, who knoweth the advent of the Lord, emergeth from the desert, crying out with splendor: “Our deliverance hath drawn nigh and appeared! Repent ye, and cleanse yourselves with water!”
O Word, Who with the Father art equally without beginning, with the immersion of repentance which is Thy baptism cleanse me wholly who am engulfed in a flood of sins; and ever grant deliverance unto the faithful, for the sake of Thine infinite loving-kindness.
The land of Zebulun, as it is written, beholding the unwaning Light, was enlightened; for, lo! He is come to the streams of the Jordan! And it hymneth God Who is over all, crying out: Let us chant unto the Lord, for gloriously hath He been glorified!
The divinely eloquent Forerunner, seeing all the people who had come, exclaimed to them: “Who hath told you to flee from the coming wrath? Show forth fruits of repentance, O ye who are saved by grace!”
Canon of the Forefeast, the acrostic whereof is the [Greek] alphabet, the composition of Joseph, in Tone II—
The divine Forerunner, who knoweth the advent of the Lord, emergeth from the desert, crying out with splendor: “Our deliverance hath drawn nigh and appeared! Repent ye, and cleanse yourselves with water!”
O Word, Who with the Father art equally without beginning, with the immersion of repentance which is Thy baptism cleanse me wholly who am engulfed in a flood of sins; and ever grant deliverance unto the faithful, for the sake of Thine infinite loving-kindness.
The land of Zebulun, as it is written, beholding the unwaning Light, was enlightened; for, lo! He is come to the streams of the Jordan! And it hymneth God Who is over all, crying out: Let us chant unto the Lord, for gloriously hath He been glorified!
The divinely eloquent Forerunner, seeing all the people who had come, exclaimed to them: “Who hath told you to flee from the coming wrath? Show forth fruits of repentance, O ye who are saved by grace!”
Canon of the holy hierarch, the acrostic whereof is: “Grant me the grace to hymn thee with faith, O blessed one”, the composition of Joseph, in Tone VIII—
Having through grace been adopted as a son by God the Father, embraced a life of purity, and been seen to be illumined in soul with divine splendors, O Sylvester, thou hast passed over to the Light which waneth not, crying: Let us sing to the Lord, for gloriously hath He been glorified!
With the magnitude of thine intellect thou didst suppress the passions, and by a life of fasting thou didst make thy flesh subject to thy spirit, O wise one, becoming a divine and splendid habitation of the Trinity; and thou didst bring low the spirits of wickedness, singing to the Lord, for gloriously hath He been glorified.
Submitting to the divine law in godly manner, and adorned with an understanding of the divinely inspired Scriptures, thou didst truly teach the sages of the Greeks to confess Christ with the Father and the Spirit; and they chant: Let us sing to the Lord, for gloriously hath He been glorified!
O Sylvester, thou didst preach the incarnate Christ, Who is known to be in a single Hypostasis, is understood to be of two wills and activities, and hath deified thee who with faith cry out to Him: Let us sing to the Lord, for gloriously hath He been glorified!
Translated by Isaac Lambertsen. Edition menaion.en.lambertsen.