Irmos: The King of heaven, Whom the hosts of angels hymn, praise and exalt ye supremely for all ages!
Emulating the cherubim and seraphim, and trusting in God’s mercy, day and night the venerable Thais hymned God.
Theotokion: Wounded with divine love for thee, O Virgin, we in no wise know peace, yet do we supremely exalt thee without ceasing.
The beams of thy miracles shine forth radiantly like the sun, and reveal all the splendor of thy life and the divine faith which shineth within thee; and they cry out: Hymn the Lord, all ye works of the Lord, and exalt Him supremely forever!
Irmos: Stretching forth his hands, Daniel shut the lions’ mouths in the pit; and the young lovers of piety, girded about with virtue, quenched the power of the fire, crying out: Bless the Lord, all ye works of the Lord!
Joyously Thais crieth out: “Him Who hath washed away my transgressions shall I hymn and supremely exalt unto the ages!”
Theotokion: The noetic armies hymn thy mighty works, O all-pure Virgin, and all the patriarchs, the prophets and the apostles manifestly proclaim them, as do the choirs of the martyrs and all the multitude of the venerable. And with them we also render homage unto thee.
Binding thyself faithfully to Christ with an unbreakable bond, thou didst cleave unto Him, and through union with Him hast remained inseparable from His love. Through faith in Him, O Pelagia, thou didst noetically become a member of Him, abiding inseparably with Him.
Irmos: Madly did the Chaldæan tyrant heat the furnace sevenfold for the pious ones; but, beholding them saved by a higher Power, he cried out to the Creator and Deliverer: Ye children, bless; ye priests, hymn; ye people, exalt Him supremely for all ages!
If once thou didst abide in the den of the passions, O Thais, yet was thy soul preserved like Daniel in the lions’ den, and lo! thou dost now glorify God with the angels in Heaven.
Theotokion: Of His own will, for mercy’s sake, the Creator fashioned Himself into man through thy pure blood, preserving thee, even after thy birthgiving, all pure and immaculate, and cleansing the image of God within man which had been defiled. Wherefore, though God in essence, yet having become man by nature, He is depicted on icons in company with thee.
Having received understanding in thy heart, through the Spirit thou didst manifestly forsake all the vainglory of life; wherefore, thou didst astonish men by thy sudden transformation, O honored one, and hast filled even the heavens with gladness.
Most strictly doth the company of the fathers set as law for those who honor God the relative worship and the restoration of the sacred icons of Christ; and as their right dutiful children, the lovers of piety celebrate their annual commemoration and lovingly venerate the icon of Christ.
Seven times did the haughty ones subjugate the humble and put down the resistance of the lovers of virtues, thereby calumniating their divine acts. But the fathers of the Seventh Council who assembled in Nicæa straightway cast down their arrogance with sevenfold swiftness.
The blows and wounds inflicted by the childish are as the arrows of infants against the mature, as saith the Psalms. With divine power are the many tongues disabled of those who utter blasphemies against the Most High and each one who doth not acknowledge the Father, and the Son and the Holy Spirit to be One God, the sole Cause of all.
Translated by Isaac Lambertsen. Edition menaion.en.lambertsen.