Irmos: I will open my mouth, and with the Spirit will it be filled; and I shall utter discourse unto the Queen and Mother, and shall appear, keeping splendid festival; and, rejoicing, I will hymn her wonders.
We proclaim thee, O Paul, to be the confirmation of the Faith, a teacher of the Church, an unshaken pillar of confession, a greatly luminous lamp of grace and the mouth of the fiery Spirit.
Theotokion: Come, let us hymn the all-pure Mary, who alone hath adorned the human race, gave birth to God incarnate, and hath remained a virgin intact.
Paul the most great, the sun of the whole world, setteth thee, a second Paul, forth as a fire mightily consuming heresies and as a scythe which moweth down ungodliness.
Thou didst contend lawfully, O divinely eloquent one, bearing the brunt of the divine battle of preaching; and as a faithful hierarch thou didst strangle with the cords of thy dogmas the vain-minded Arius like a wild beast.
Translated by Isaac Lambertsen. Edition menaion.en.lambertsen.