Irmos: Christ is my power, my God and Lord, the honored Church chanteth in godly manner, crying out with a pure mind, keeping festival in the Lord.
Secretly departing into the inner and material islands, thou didst escape thy visible enemies, and the intense battle of thine invisible enemies was launched against thee.
Theotokion: Living in her young body with perfect understanding, Theoctiste set all her hope in Thy Mother, O God, and reached a goodly age.
Who can recount in any wise the struggles in which, exerting thyself, thou didst engage the princes of darkness, whose darts were of fire and whose words were perplexing?
O the divine grace which preserved thee! How, young in years and alone, thou didst put to shame the horde of noetic Ethiopians, vanquishing them with thy womanly nature!
Translated by Isaac Lambertsen. Edition menaion.en.lambertsen.