Irmos: Celebrating this divine and most honored festival of the Mother of God, come, ye divinely wise, let us clap our hands and glorify God Who was born of her.
Kontakion, in Tone IV: Spec. Mel.: “Thou hast appeared today…” —
With ineffable joy and gladness the priests and monastics, all the multitudes of the Mountain, hastened to take up thine icon, O all-pure one.
Holding this thy divine icon with all reverence, all the fathers, weaving hymnody, bore it into thy divine temple with hymns and songs, O all-pure one.
O Virgin, they celebrated an all-night vigil, lovingly honoring thee and the archangel who proclaimed thy hymn; and we now likewise honor you together.
After the celebration of the Mysteries, the godly fathers, chanting, took up thy divine icon, and with great reverence placed it within the sanctuary of thy temple.
All of Athos doth celebrate today, for it hath miraculously received from the angel the hymn to thee, the pure Mother of God, whom all creation doth honor, rendering thee glory.
Ikos: Let the multitude of the fathers of Athos now be glad, for, lo! to the former hymn to the Virgin which Cosmas, the divine hymnographer, wondrously sang to her, Gabriel hath now added a beginning: “It is truly meet,” he said to the monk, “to bless thee, the Theotokos, ever-blessed and all-immaculate, and the Mother of our God.” And he commanded him to tell all to begin thy hymn thus. And having engraved it on a tablet of stone with his hand, he suddenly vanished. Marvelling, the monk hymned, as he had been taught, the pure Mother of God, whom all creation doth honor, rendering her glory.
Translated by Isaac Lambertsen. Edition menaion.en.lambertsen.