Irmos: O Thou Who alone hast known the weakness of human nature, having in Thy mercy formed Thyself therein: Thou dost gird me about with power from on high, that I may chant to Thee: Holy is the living temple of Thine ineffable glory, O Thou Who lovest mankind!
Sessional hymn, in Tone I: Spec. Mel.: “Thy tomb, O Savior…”—
Gazing upon divine things with the pure perceptions of your minds, O blessed athletes, with manly demeanor ye made haste to the torments, vanquishing the incorporeal foe with your bodies; wherefore, ye are glorified.
Theotokion: In thy womb thou didst receive Christ, Who emptied the womb of hades by His all-accomplishing counsel. Him do thou entreat, O divinely joyous one, that He deliver from the bondage of sin all who with faith ever call thee blessed.
Having endured for Christ the severing of your members, O wise ones, ye sanctified the earth in holy manner with the divine outpourings of your blood, and stanched the blood offered to the demons on idolatrous altars, O martyrs.
Glory…, Now & ever…: Theotokion—
Ye were truly set like luminous stars in the heavens of suffering, shedding your light upon the whole world with never-waning effulgence, and dispelling the darkness of deception, O holy ones; wherefore, with faith we call you blessed.
Before many people the trinity of martyrs confessed the worshipful Trinity; and, having suffered, they have been numbered among the choirs of the incorporeal ones. Let us praise them today with faith, celebrating their sacred memory, which saveth the world.
O all-holy Virgin, thou hope of Christians: with the hosts on high do thou unceasingly entreat God, to Whom thou gavest birth in manner past understanding and recounting, that He grant remission of all sins and amendment of life unto those who ever glorify thee with faith and love.
Stavrotheotokion—
The unblemished Ewe-lamb, beholding the Lamb and Shepherd hanging dead upon the Tree, said, weeping and bitterly exclaiming: “How can I bear Thine ineffable condescension, O my Son, and Thy voluntary suffering, O all-good God?”
Translated by Isaac Lambertsen. Edition menaion.en.lambertsen.