¶1
Irmos: I have heard, O Lord, the mystery of Thy dispensation; I have understood Thy works, and have glorified Thy divinity.
¶2
Transported far above every mind by divine ascents, O divinely wise ones, ye were undaunted by the bitter wounds of your flesh.
¶3
Theotokion: O all-immaculate one, thou gavest flesh to the Transcendent One Who is equally omnipotent and enthroned with the Father and, in His loving-kindness, entered into communion with mortals.
¶4
As a God-pleasing emulator of Christ and a blameless hieromartyr, Athenogenes was vouchsafed divine grace.
¶5
O martyrs who spake of the incarnation of the Word, ye endured wounds and death, passing over to immortality.
Translated by Isaac Lambertsen. Edition menaion.en.lambertsen.