Irmos: The youths of old showed themselves to be rhetors with the greatest love of wisdom; for, theologizing with their lips, they chanted from the depths of their God-pleasing souls: O most divine God of our fathers, blessed art Thou!
Together let us hymn Silas and Silvanus, the vessels which contained the grace of the Comforter, which destroyed the receptacles of the delusions of the past, and made them acceptable unto God.
Theotokion: By thy mediation loose the bonds of my transgressions, O pure one, and to the perfect love of thy good Son do thou bind me, who ever withdraw myself from Him by my wicked pleasures.
No one is able to praise the wondrous Epenetus, for he transformed himself for Christ, accepting suffering for His sake; and, having contended well, he hath won a share in His kingdom.
With divine hymns let Crescens be praised, who revealed the hidden paths of Christ, who with his own flesh condemned sin and showed forth many as uncondemned.
Translated by Isaac Lambertsen. Edition menaion.en.lambertsen.