Irmos: O Lord Who dost establish the thunder and formest the wind: make me steadfast, that I may hymn Thee in truth and do Thy will; for none is as holy as Thee, O our God.
Sessional hymn, in Tone III: Spec. Mel.: “Of the divine Faith…” —
Wounded with the love of Christ, the martyr cried out, enduring pain amid his struggles: “I make haste to the sweet fragrance of myrrh, following Thy Passion, through the suffering of my blood!”
Theotokion: In thy womb thou alone didst conceive as the ineffable Offspring of thy birthgiving God the Word, Who existed before thee, O Mother; and with milk thou didst nourish as a babe Him Who is without beginning, O all-pure one.
Thou wast preserved unassailed by the darts of the serpent; for the crafty one, having bruised thy heel amid thy wounds, crushed his own head in thy sufferings, O Callinicus.
Glory…, Now & ever…: Theotokion —
Having cut down the thorns of deception with the sword of the Spirit, thou didst truly offer unto thy Master the fruit of the Christian Faith, O most blessed one: thy hundredfold pangs.
Having divine zeal within thy soul, O glorious one, thou didst steadfastly denounce those who vainly worked iniquity; and having drawn nigh unto torments, thou didst pass through thy struggle with valiant mind. O martyr Callinicus, entreat Christ God, that He grant us great mercy.
Without being separated from the divine nature, yet becoming flesh within thy womb, the one Lord remained God and man, Who after thy birthgiving preserved thee, His Virgin Mother, all-immaculate, as thou wast before giving birth. Him do we earnestly entreat, that He grant us great mercy.
Stavrotheotokion —
The unblemished ewe-lamb of the Word, the incorrupt Virgin Mother, beholding Him hanging upon the Cross Who had come forth from her without pain, cried aloud, lamenting maternally: “Woe is me, O my Child! How is it that Thou sufferest willingly, desiring to deliver man from the indignity of the passions?”
Translated by Isaac Lambertsen. Edition menaion.en.lambertsen.