Ode I

Irmos: There is none like unto Thee, O all-glorious Lord; for with Thy mighty hand Thou didst deliver the people whom Thou hadst acquired, O Thou Who lovest mankind.

Today the luminous feast hath arrived, filling the whole world with joy. Tabitha returneth to this life from the sleep of death, showing forth the path to salvation.

Theotokion: O most hymned Virgin who hath brought into the world joy, peace and salvation, with the merciful Tabitha entreat thy Son, the Almighty, that He have mercy upon His people; for He is the way to salvation for His faithful.

Irmos: O Thou Who wast born of the Virgin, drown Thou, I pray Thee, the three parts of my soul in the depths of dispassion, as of old Thou didst drown the mounted captains of Pharaoh; that, in the mortality of my body, as on a timbrel, I may chant a hymn of victory.

Even though, having ascended into heaven, the Destroyer of death and hell reigneth at the right hand of the father, yet doth He also abide inseparably within His Church, according to His true promise; and He now raiseth up His disciple, who was adorned with the virtues, in full health, from the midst of the dead, at the word of His apostle, showing forth to His faithful the path to salvation.

Theotokion: Conceiving the beginningless Son of God, O pure one, thou gavest flesh to Him, and He became man in His ineffable mercy; wherefore, worshipping Him, we piously glorify thee, the cause of the deification of all.

As a Wellspring of mercy, He Who hath promised to have mercy upon the kindly of heart raised up from corruption the blessed Tabitha, who loved her neighbor, unto the edification of all, showing forth through her life the path to salvation.

Ever most greatly illumined with the light of the Holy Trinity, O holy ones, ye are become constant luminaries; wherefore, celebrating today your radiant feast with faith, we rejoice in splendor.

Desiring to behold on earth the Word Who shone forth for our sake from the Virgin, O athletes, and confessing Him to be consubstantial, with most mighty resolve ye suffered a violent death.

Showing yourselves to be followers and disciples of the wise Paul, O divinely eloquent ones, ye preached the Son as equal in honor with the Father; wherefore, hewn down with the sword, ye have sanctified the earth with the outpouring of your blood, O athletes.