Irmos: O Thou Who lovest mankind, accept me, who am held fast by many sins, and who fall down before Thy compassion; and save me, as Thou didst the prophet, O Lord.
Kontakion & Ikos of the resurrection, in the tone of the week.
Theotokion: Of old, the Creator of all wrought a wonder through thy most precious icon, O Virgin, and saved the Imperial City from the incursion of aliens. Thus be thou now also a protection and aid for the land of Russia, O Lady and Queen, saving it from all the assaults of the enemy.
O venerable Zosimas, Sabbatius and Germanus, who loved Christ, ye turned away from the world in accordance with the Gospel, crossing over to the trackless and barren islands of Solovki. And ye accustomed yourselves to all the virtues, emulating the wise bee, and became eminent receptacles of the Holy Spirit, O all-wise ones.
Let us hymn the venerable Tryphon, great in wonders, the enlightener of Kola, who shone forth in the uttermost ends of the lands of the north, delivered the people from bitter slavery to the demons, and illumined them with holy baptism.
Rejoice, O wilderness which before wast barren and uninhabited, but now dost blossom like a lily and is filled with a multitude of monks! Leap up, ye mountains of Valaam and all ye groves, praising Sergius and Germanus, together with Arsenius of Konev and Alexander of Svir, the most lauded fathers.
Thou didst pass over the rolling deep of this life, having the Mother of God as pilot, O venerable Cyril. And thou, O Joseph, boast of Volotsk, and Nilus the unacquisitive, who wisely pastured the flocks of your disciples by the still waters and on the meadow of abstinence, and dwell now with them invisibly: Pray ye for us who keep your memory.
Like the sun thou didst shine forth among the assemblies of the monastics, and from the days of thy youth wast sanctified, emitting the virtues of thy life like beams of radiance, O Dimitrius of Priluki, our venerable and God-bearing father.
Having lived in God-pleasing manner, thou didst make the fastness of the wilderness useful and spiritually profitable, like cities, pouring forth a wellspring of healings upon those who with faith honor thee, O venerable Dionysius.
Join chorus, O Russian Thebaïd! Adorn yourselves, O wilderness and forests of Olonetz, Belozersk and Vologoda, which produced a holy and glorious multitude of fathers, who by their wondrous life instruct all not to cleave unto the world, but to take their cross upon their shoulders and follow after Christ.
Translated by Isaac Lambertsen. Edition menaion.en.lambertsen.