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.
Theotokion: O most immaculate one, as with a single mouth, and forming a single concord, we all glorify thee, our common distinction of honor.
Canon of the Theotokos, the composition of John Mauropus, Metropolitan of Euchaïta, in Tone II—
Irmos: Same as that of the preceding canon.
O all-pure one, from cruel misfortunes, from infirmities and transgressions, save me who, with body and soul, do piously confess thee to be the pure Theotokos in truth.
We have come to know the whole abyss of spiritual gifts which lieth within thee, O Theotokos; wherefore, fleeing earnestly to thy divine protection, we are saved.
Entreat Him Who became incarnate of thine all-pure and precious blood, O all-pure one, in behalf of us who hymn thee, that we may be delivered from transgressions and bitter pain.
Canon I of the holy hierarchs, the acrostic whereof is: “I proclaim the three suns of the light of the threefold Sun”, the composition of the same John, in the same tone—
What manner of thanksgiving, what manner of suitable reciprocity should we offer to our benefactors, by whom we are instructed in how to live in goodness, O ye people?
Let the tongues of the orators, their skill and craft, and all the power of their words, now be applied toward a single end; and, honoring them, let us venerate them all together.
The heavenly minded could not bear what was peculiar to them so as to acquire something on earth; and they were revealed as preservers of society and intercessors. Let them therefore be vouchsafed praises in common.
Translated by Isaac Lambertsen. Edition menaion.en.lambertsen.