Irmos: The three youths in Babylon, having put to mockery the tyrant’s command, cried out amid the flames: Blessed art Thou, O Lord God of our fathers!
Let us marvel at the holy hierarch Joasaph, O ye people, knowing him to be like the wonderworker Nicholas, visiting the hovels of the poor in secret, or preparing firewood for them with his own hands, and even receiving beatings from the gatekeeper.
Theotokion: We all bless thee as the Mother who in thy womb conceived in the flesh the God of all: God the Word, Who hath shone forth preëternally from the Father.
Thou didst perceive the wounds of sin upon the souls of men, O holy hierarch, and didst reprove their secret transgressions with love and longsuffering; wherefore, by thy supplication lead us also to repentance and correction of life, and have mercy on our souls in thine intercession.
Wretch that I am, I have likened myself to the governor who, being himself iniquitous, showed himself to be exceeding cruel to prisoners; but as thou didst set him aright by thine instruction, O father Joasaph, holy hierarch of Christ, so teach me to be merciful to my neighbor and to be strict with myself.
O good warrior of the heavenly King and faithful shepherd of the flock of Christ, make supplication for the Orthodox hierarchs and people, that, having lived a peaceful life on earth, we may be accounted worthy of everlasting life in heaven.
Translated by Isaac Lambertsen. Edition menaion.en.lambertsen.