Irmos: Thou art the confirmation of those who have recourse to Thee, O Lord; Thou art the light of the benighted; and my spirit doth hymn Thee.
Sessional hymn, in Tone I: Spec. Mel.: “Thy tomb, O Savior…”—
With the blood of martyrdom thou didst extinguish the conflagration of idolatry, O martyr, and, rejoicing, thou delightest in a torrent of sustenance.
Theotokion: O all-pure one, let me ever have thee guiding me toward the virtues and leading me to the ways of repentance.
The two chosen athletes, leaving thee, the martyr of the Trinity, behind, departed unto Christ.
Glory…, Now & ever…: Sessional hymn from the Pentecostarion, or this theotokion—
Having departed from thy body, thou didst await those who suffered with thee, confessing Christ the Lord, the King of all, O much suffering Basiliscus.
Thou standest now, rejoicing, before the one King, sacredly arrayed in a splendid diadem and in vesture empurpled by thy blood, and deified by pure communion. Wherefore, celebrating thy most holy memory today, we hymn thee.
O all-holy Virgin, thou hope of Christians, with the hosts on high do thou unceasingly entreat God Who was born of thee in manner past understanding and recounting, that He grant remission of all our sins and correction of life unto all who ever glorify thee with faith and love.
Stavrotheotokion—
The unblemished ewe-lamb, beholding the Lamb and Shepherd hanging, dead, upon the Tree, exclaimed, weeping and crying out maternally: “How can I fear Thy condescension which is past recounting, O my Son, and Thy voluntary sufferings, O all-good God?”
Translated by Isaac Lambertsen. Edition menaion.en.lambertsen.