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 VI: Spec. Mel.: “He Who fulfilled His providence concerning us…”—
As a rich bestower of discourse, thou hast enriched the whole world with spiritual wisdom; for rich grace poured forth through thy lips from on high, O hierarch.
Theotokion: He Who loveth mankind, Who sustaineth all things by His omnipotent power, arrayed Himself in the weak flesh He received from thee, O all-immaculate Virgin, for the benefit of men.
Thy sound hath gone forth into all the earth like lightning, O Chrysostom, and the power of thy words hath sounded in all the ends of the world like a blaring trumpet.
Clad in a robe of the virtues woven from on high, O most blessed one, and arrayed in the beauty of thy discourses, thou wast shown to be the glorious confirmation of the truth.
From heaven thou didst receive divine grace, and with thy lips thou dost teach all to worship the one God in Trinity, O most blessed and venerable John Chrysostom. We praise thee as is meet, for thou art our teacher, in that thou revealest things divine.
Ikos: I bend my knee before the Creator of all, I stretch forth my hands to the preëternal Word, seeking the gift of discourse, that I may hymn the saint whom He Himself hath magnified; for through His prophet He Who liveth forever doth say: I glorify those who glorify me with faith. He Who in ancient times raised up Samuel hath now glorified a hierarch; for, having invested well the talant with which he was entrusted, he hath brought it to the King, for which cause the Transcendent One hath exalted him. I beg that the Word impart unto me his grace, unworthy though I am, that I may be able to hymn him with piety. For he is the teacher of the ends of the world, in that he revealeth things divine.
Translated by Isaac Lambertsen. Edition menaion.en.lambertsen.