Irmos: Cleanse me, O Savior, for many are my transgressions; and lead me up from the abyss of evils, I pray, for to Thee have I cried, and Thou hast hearkened to me, O God of my salvation.
Kontakion, in Tone IV —
Theotokion: O all-pure one, entreat God, to Whom thou gavest birth in the flesh, in that He loveth mankind, that He take pity upon the sinful people.
Thou didst weep and wast downcast over thy parting with thy companion, the blessed father Sabbatius, finding that he was no longer among the living when thou didst return to the island from thy journey.
Thou wast filled with joy and gladness when, after parting with Sabbatius, thou didst find the venerable Zosimas, with whom thou didst return to the island, directed by the providence of God.
The words which the angel spake to the fisherman’s wife, that it was not meet for women to dwell on that island, thou didst recount to Zosimas, who beheld a wondrous church in the air.
Desiring that which is above, thou didst hate all that draweth man down; and, forsaking thy homeland, thou didst depart to a deserted coast where, withdrawing to an island of the sea, thou didst labor for the Lord for many years. Wherefore, celebrating thy memory, we cry out to thee with love: Rejoice, O divinely wise Germanus our father!
Ikos: Preparing thyself as a dwelling-place for the Holy Spirit, thou wast adorned by Him with all manner of divine beauties, and wast shown to be a guide for monks, O father, teaching thy children by good works. Wherefore, celebrating thy memory, we cry out to thee such things as these: Rejoice, O heavenly adornment of the divinely chosen island of Solovki! Rejoice, divine ornament of the monastic habitations! Rejoice, lover of the life of the wilderness! Rejoice, thou who didst bring the venerable Sabbatius to the island of Solovki and didst abide with him! Rejoice, thou who didst serve the venerable Zosimas in the founding of a monastic house! Rejoice, thou whom we bless with those venerable fathers! Rejoice, thou who art glorified by Christ God with all the saints in the heavens! Rejoice, O divinely wise Germanus our father!
Translated by Isaac Lambertsen. Edition menaion.en.lambertsen.