Irmos: To God the Savior, Who led His people in the sea with dryshod feet and drowned Pharaoh and all his army, let us chant alone, for He is glorious.
Standing ever before God the Savior, O most honored one, remember us, thy children, whom thou hast caused to bud forth by thy discourses.
Theotokion: Let the pure Mistress, who alone hath delivered us from the curse and death, be hymned as the glory and adornment of mortals.
Irmos: Having traversed the depths of the Red Sea with dryshod feet, Israel of old vanquished the might of Amalek in the wilderness by Moses’ arms stretched out in the form of the Cross.
Purifying thy noetic eye with streams of tears, thou didst behold a great light; and delighting therein, ask for us divine effulgence.
Theotokion: O Lord, the portal of the condescension to us of Thee Who art mystically called the Orient, the Sun and the Light, the God-man in two natures, hath supernaturally shone forth.
Having disdained the darkness of sin and rejected the gloom of the passions, thou wast enlightened by lightning-flashes of theology, speaking and revealing ineffable things.
Aflame with piety, O father, thou didst follow in the steps of God Who revealed Himself in the flesh; for in receiving a name derived from His revelation, which was truly fitting for thee, thou wast prefigured as providence.
Delighting in the most desired love of thy Master, thou didst spurn earthly love; and, united to divine love, thou didst count the beauty of life as naught, O most blessed one.
His onslaught savage, the tyrant Leo persecuted the elect, unable to endure the sight of Christ’s icon being honored; and he condemned thee to exile with them, O Theophanes.
Translated by Isaac Lambertsen. Edition menaion.en.lambertsen.