Irmos: Traversing the deep on foot, as though it were dry land, and seeing the tyrant Pharaoh drowned, Israel cried aloud: Let us chant unto God a hymn of victory!
Theotokion: O pure one, thou gavest birth unto Christ, One of the uncreated Trinity, in two natures and volitions, Who for thy sake hath accomplished the uniting of men and angels.
Canon I of the Holy Fathers, the composition of Kyr Germanus II, sacred and Ecumenical Patriarch, in Tone VI —
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.
Theotokion: When Gabriel beheld thee, the pure and all-immaculate one, he cried out in splendor unto thee, O Mistress: Rejoice, thou who hast not known wedlock, thou salvation of men and boast and praise of the angels!
With sacred words let the fathers be honored who from Nicæa, as it were from the sky, thundered forth the Word of the living God everywhere, showing forth His enemies as slain by their thunder.
With the Holy Spirit hath Christ driven the evil spirit of the Spirit-haters far from His Church, unifying the Church by the activity of the Second Council.
Cyril, the leader of the Council, who clearly confessed the Virgin Mary to be the pure Mother and Theotokos, dispelled the deception of Nestorius the Christ-hater.
Canon to the archangel, the composition of Joseph, the acrostic whereof is: “I praise Gabriel as all-honorable”, in Tone IV —
O archangel of the Lord, I entreat thee, who art become divine and immaterial light through partaking immaterially in the ultimate Light: by thy prayers illumine my mind, that I may hymn thee.
In gladness let us form a godly choir today, honoring the foremost of the incorporeal intelligences, who announced the ineffable Joy which came into the world for the good thereof.
Having thee, O Gabriel, as a great intercessor and helper before God, and as a rampart and confirmation, praising thee, we who love thee are delivered from misfortunes and the harm of the serpent.
Translated by Isaac Lambertsen. Edition menaion.en.lambertsen.