Irmos: Come, ye people, let us chant a hymn to Christ God, Who divided the sea and guided the people whom He had led forth from the bondage of Egypt, for He hath been glorified.
Katavasia: “I shall open my mouth...”
Theotokion: Who is able fittingly to describe thy conceiving which surpasseth recounting? For thou, all-pure one, gave birth in the flesh to God, the Savior of us all, Who hath revealed Himself unto us.
Canon I, the acrostic whereof is: “I hymn the divinely-crowned regiment of martyrs,” the composition of John the Monk, in Tone II—
Irmos: The same as that of the preceding canon.
Theotokion: O Virgin Theotokos, Mother who knewest not man, thou gavest birth unto the Creator and Lord Who is supernaturally over all and Who, for the sake of us men, assumed our flesh.
With hymns inspired by God I praise the divinely-crowned regiment of the martyrs of Christ, radiantly celebrating the annual commemoration of the forty, for He hath been glorified!
Rejecting every title on earth, the forty desired the title of Christian, for which they now dwell in the Highest.
Living in Christ and despising the flesh and the world, ye therefore put off the old man and this transitory vesture, and clothed yourselves in the garment of incorruption.
Canon II, the acrostic whereof is: “I hymn the divinely-crowned regiment of martyrs,” the composition of Theophanes, in the same tone—
By your supplication, O ye forty martyrs, render God well-disposed now towards us who call upon you with the pure love of our hearts.
Made luminous in the heavens with the rays of the splendor of the three-fold Sun, O ye forty martyrs, protect us who hymn you on earth, which is frozen over by the winter of temptations.
O forty martyrs, invincible and unshaken rampart of piety and the Church and Christian calling: Bring peace to that which is now grievously troubled.
Translated by Isaac Lambertsen. Edition menaion.en.lambertsen.