Irmos: Sailing amid the tumult of the cares of life, I founder with the ship of sin and am cast to the soul-destroying beast; yet like Jonah I cry to Thee, O Christ: Lead me up from the deadly abyss!
Kontakion, in Tone IV: Spec. Mel.: “Having been lifted up…” —
Thou gavest no slumber to thine eyelids nor any sleep to thine eyes, O all-blessed one, until thou didst free thyself of all the passions and make of thyself a temple to house the flashing lightning of the Spirit.
Theotokion: Knowing thee to be the queen of all, O Mother of God, with the angel Gabriel we utter hymnody of gladness unto thee, for thou gavest birth unto God Who brought all things out of non-existence.
Uniting thyself wholly to the divine effulgence of God, O divinely wise Methodius, thou becamest a model of the godly priesthood and wast shown to be a mediator before God for the faithful of the whole Church.
The splendid revelation of things that are, coupled with thy brilliant life, O divinely eloquent one, showed thee to be a beacon for the world, dispelling the prating of the heretics and the darkness of ungodliness.
Thou wast a priest of the mysteries of the Holy Trinity, a proclaimer of the commandments of God which pass all understanding, and the confirmation of the Orthodox, O Methodius; thou didst denounce the thoughts of the heretics for the sake of Orthodoxy, shown by thy blood to be a hieromartyr. Standing before Christ with the angels, entreat Him that we be saved.
Translated by Isaac Lambertsen. Edition menaion.en.lambertsen.