Irmos: Wherefore hast Thou turned Thy face from me, O Light never-waning? And why hath a strange darkness covered me, wretch that I am? But turn me, and guide my steps to the light of Thy commandments, I pray.
Having Christ speaking within the melodious instrument of thy tongue, O father Athanasius, with thy writing thou didst put to shame the heresy of idols, guiding the lost and turning them to the true God.
Theotokion: Having acquired maternal boldness before thy Son, O most pure one, disdain not to take thought for us as thy kin, we pray; for thee alone do we Christians set before the Master to obtain cleansing of His mercy.
Irmos: Waking at dawn, we cry to Thee: Save us, O Lord! For Thou art our God, and we know none other than Thee.
All pernicious heresies didst thou denounce with thy discourses and writings, O blessed father, dispelling from the whole world all manner of falsehood with thy wise demonstrations, and indisputably making clear the Orthodox Faith.
Theotokion: Through thee did fire devour the adversaries, O all-pure one, for thou gavest birth to Christ Who alone is our Savior, Who hath freed us from slavery and by His death granted us life.
The Church of Christ truly calleth thee a great teacher of wise teachers, O father Athanasius, and hath numbered with the apostles thee who dost elucidate the unsullied word of the Faith.
Fulfilling all things needful, that the light of God’s commandments might shine forth upon thy newly baptized people, thou didst receive into thy land the Slavic teachers and didst show them thy favor, aiding them in their apostolic task.
Sending Clement and Nahum to Ochrid, having John the exarch in Preslav with Constantine, and Theodore Dukas, and Khrabr, thou didst flourish in discourse like a palm-tree, and like a cedar of Lebanon didst thou increase.
When thou didst richly adorn the souls of thy people with Slavic books, giving the grace of the Word as drink unto those who thirsted, they who dwelt in the land of Bulgaria learned righteousness, and the ungodliness of the idols finally ceased.
Translated by Isaac Lambertsen. Edition menaion.en.lambertsen.