Irmos: I will open my mouth, and with the Spirit will it be filled; and I shall utter discourse unto the Queen and Mother, and shall appear, keeping splendid festival; and, rejoicing, I will hymn her wonders.
Canon of the Theotokos, the acrostic whereof is “Rejoice, O Virgin, thou cause of our joy”, the composition of the monk Gerasimus, in Tone IV —
Theotokion: Acquiring power, confirmation and enlightenment by thy good pleasure, O Lady, the godly Nicodemus, divinely inspired and wholly God-bearing, appeared on Athos in the latter days.
O ye two radiant and wise unmercenaries, standing with all the elect before the worshipful Trinity, pray that those who keep your radiant memory may be enlightened by the divine splendors of the Spirit.
Irmos: Same as the foregoing.
O Lady, thou treasury and unfathomable sea of mercies, let fall a drop of understanding upon me, that with the angel I may cry out to thee “Rejoice!” with the clarion of hymnody.
Theotokion: O pure and all-pure one, by thy pure blood thou gavest flesh to the Savior and God Who, through the Spirit, hath shown forth to us physicians for our souls, our saving and fervent helpers, the honorable unmercenaries.
Showing yourselves to be elevated in mind high above material things, O wise saints, ye have received the immaterial radiance of the Spirit. Wherefore, O unmercenaries, ever dispel the darkness of infirmities by your divine visitations.
Irmos: O Thou Who wast born of the Virgin, drown Thou, I pray Thee, the three parts of my soul in the depths of dispassion, as of old Thou didst drown the mounted captains of Pharaoh; that, in the mortality of my body, as on a timbrel, I may chant a hymn of victory.
Rejoice, O most immaculate Lady Bride of God, thou annulment of the curse and redemption of the world! Rejoice, thou who hast poured forth eternal Life! Rejoice, thou who by thy birthgiving hast put hades to death!
Having acquired spiritual eyes which slumber not, O glorious, merciful and God-bearing unmercenaries, in divine fulfillment of the commandments of God, by grace ye rouse to goodly health those who sleep in infirmities.
Rejoice, O all-pure one, thou palace of the Power of the Father! Rejoice, O undefiled bridal-chamber of Him Who hast created all things! Rejoice, O all-splendid chamber of the glory of the incarnation of God!
Rejoice, O thou who knewest not wedlock, O thou who gavest rise to the Planter of all creation! Rejoice, O vine who put forth the beautiful Branch Who poureth forth the wine of understanding!
Canon I of the Saint, the acrostic whereof is “I hymn the holy Nicodemus”, the composition of the monk Gerasimus, in the same tone —
O consubstantial Trinity — Father, Son and Holy Spirit, — grant me wisdom, that with splendor I may hymn the holy Nicodemus, who by his words, teachings and works hath glorified Thee, O Lord.
The divine Nicodemus, the heavenly intelligence, the phial of the Spirit, calleth us all to keep his annual memorial. Let us all, therefore, come, rendering him honor.
Mortifying the mind of thy flesh, O father Nicodemus, through the struggle of divine philosophy thou didst make that which is more base subject to that which is higher, and hast been shown to be a priceless vessel of grace.
Translated by Isaac Lambertsen. Edition menaion.en.lambertsen.