Irmos: Wherefore hast Thou turned Thy face from me, O Light never-waning? And why hath a strange darkness covered me, wretch that I am? But turn me, and guide my steps to the light of Thy commandments, I pray.
The sound of thy words, transmitted like a clap of thunder, smote the minds of the ungodly with the word of grace and illumined the hearts of the faithful with the most splendid rays of the precepts of God.
Theotokion: As one joyous, thou didst receive the beautifying magnificence of Him who hath created all things by His will alone, and Who, with divine comeliness and the light of the Orthodox Faith, hath made us comely, O Mother of God.
Thou wast like unto a merchant seeking goodly pearls, O thou who art most rich; and thou didst find the one Pearl which is truly beyond price. And, amazed at its divinely wrought luster, O holy hierarch, thou didst confess God.
Thou didst love the wellspring of wisdom, O wisdom-loving father, and, held fast by zeal and love for it, thou becamest great, and ever pourest forth rivers of divine precepts, O divinely eloquent one.
Translated by Isaac Lambertsen. Edition menaion.en.lambertsen.