Ode I

Irmos: Let us chant unto the Lord, Who led His people through the Red Sea, for He alone hath gloriously been glorified.

Theotokion: We honor thee, O Maiden, as the ladder reaching to heaven, whereon God Who hath made men heavenly established Himself.

Canon of the venerable martyr, the acrostic whereof is: “I praise thy manly suffering, O martyr,” the composition of Joseph, in Tone VIII —

Irmos: Having traversed the water as though it were dry land, and escaped the evil of Egypt, the Israelite cried aloud: Let us chant unto our Deliverer and God!

Theotokion: The Word of God the Father became supernaturally incarnate of thy sacred blood, O Virgin Mary. Him do thou entreat, that He mortify the movements of my flesh.

O divinely wise one, grant enlightenment to me who honor this thy light-bearing commemoration, driving the darkness from my soul.

From childhood thou didst offer thyself wholly to thy Creator, and with the fire of asceticism thou didst utterly consume the passions of thy body.

Thou didst ascend the heights of torment, O martyr, without sparing thy flesh, and as a virgin wast counted worthy of thy noetic bridal chamber.

Canon of the venerable one, the acrostic whereof is: “I honor thy most splendid life, O blessed one,” the composition of Joseph, in the same tone––

Resplendent with divine brilliance, O most blessed Abramius, by thy supplications deliver those who celebrate thy light-bearing feast from the gloom of the passions.

Divine desire set thy soul afire and quenched the burning of the flesh, O blessed father, and caused thee to live on earth immaterially.

Having mortified thy members on earth with fasting and all manner of sore afflictions, O wise father, thou wast accounted worthy of the more sublime life in the heavens, O God-bearing Abramius.