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: Spec. Mel: “Thou hast appeared...”—
Within thy soul thou didst lay up the divine wealth of the Spirit: blameless prayer, purity, honesty, constant vigil, and labors of abstinence, whereby thou didst come to be known as a house of God.
Theotokion: The Effulgence of the Most High shone forth from Sion clad in flesh taken from thee, O thou who knewest not wedlock, in an ineffable union; and He hath enlightened the world.
Thou didst leave behind the baseness of matter here below, giving wings to thy mind through immaterial prayer, and through the perfection of thy life thou wast shown to be an heir to the serenity of the Most High.
With the sweat of thine asceticism didst thou truly extinguish the burning darts of the enemy, and having kindled the fire of the faith thou didst utterly consume the arrogance of the infidelity of the heresies.
In the firmament of true abstinence hath the Lord set thee as a true star guiding the ends of the earth with light, O father John our instructor.
Ikos: Truly thou didst make of thyself a house of God, O father, manifestly adorning it with thy godly virtues as with radiant gold, expounding the divine laws of faith, hope and love, learning through asceticism, like one of the incorporeal ones, understanding and courage, and acquiring chastity and humility, whereby thou hast been exalted. Wherefore, having been enlightened by unceasing prayers, thou didst take wing through mystical visions and didst receive the mansions of heaven, O father John our instructor.
Translated by Isaac Lambertsen. Edition menaion.en.lambertsen.