At the Aposticha, these stichera, in Tone IV—

Glory..., Now & ever..., in Tone V—

We glorify today the glorious appearance of thine icon, O most immaculate Theotokos, and we celebrate thine aid to us; for, in that thou art the Mother of Life, thou entreatest Christ our God in behalf of us who place a firm trust in thee, O our true guide to salvation.

Troparion, in Tone I—

Stichos: I shall remember thy name in every generation and generation.

Set aside all grief, O ye faithful; for, lo! a second burning bush, the icon of the Mother of God, appeareth for the cleansing of the sinful, and is seen by the monks of Athos.

Stichos: Hearken, O daughter, and see, and incline thine ear.

O Mother of God, thou appearest in a pillar of fire, signifying thy guidance of us in the sojourn of life, that thou mayest direct us, who have gone astray, to the eternal mansions of heaven.

Come, all ye monks and layfolk, let us glorify the all-pure Virgin Theotokos; for today, because of her sacred icon, her path is in the sea and her steps in many waters; for she passeth over the sea from Nicæa to Athos, in a pillar of fire, and in her arrival granteth her faithful a gift. And we, illumined by the ray of grace, call the mediatress of our salvation blessed.

The audacity of those who hate the image of the Lord and the might of the impious came godlessly to Nicæa, and emissaries inhumanly interrogated the widow who piously venerated the icon of the Mother of God; but at night, she and her son cast the icon into the sea, crying out: “Glory to thee, O pure one, for the trackless sea hath given thee its breast! Glory to thy straight journey, O thou who alone art incorrupt!”