Irmos: Becoming vanquishers of the tyrant and the flame by Thy grace, taking exceeding care to keep Thy commandments, the children cried out: Bless the Lord, all ye works of the Lord!
Theotokion: Thou art the boast of Christians, O Mistress; thou art a weapon against our enemies and a bulwark for those who flee to thee. On thee do we now call for help, O Lady: Let not the foe — who praise thee not, nor thy Son, nor venerate thine icon — rise up against thy people; but vanquish them and save thou our souls.
Adorn thyself, O city of Kazan’, having as thine intercessors the venerable and holy hierarchs Gurius, Barsanophius and Germanus, who expelled from thee the darkness of unbelief, and the martyr John, and Stephen and Peter, who forsook the ungodliness of their fathers and won passage to the heavenly homeland through the sword of their compatriots.
Having studied the sacred Scriptures from thy youth, O God-bearing Stephen, thou didst cultivate the stony hearts of the people of Perm with the plough of thy words; and having sown the divine seed therein, didst bring forth beautiful fruit for Christ.
Be glad, O land of Siberia; for in thee the Lord hath revealed His favored ones: the righteous Symeon of Verkhoturya, and the holy hierarchs of Irkutsk: Innocent, Sophronius and John, the new and wondrous luminaries and wonderworkers.
O divinely wise hierarch Dimitrius, recorder of the lives of the saints and good lover thereof: By thy supplications show us to share in their glory.
O holy hierarch Metrophanes, first pastor of Voronezh, who showed great courage, fearing neither the threats of the Emperor nor death, and who saved thy soul in simplicity: Entreat God in our behalf.
Thou didst gather spiritual treasure from the corrupt world, as a bee gathereth sweet honey from ephemeral blooms, O father Tikhon; and therewith thou dost sweeten us all.
Truly wondrous and indescribable are thy miracles, O Theodosius our father; for thou art shown to be the adornment of the city of Chernigov, the glory of the Church of Russia, the heavenly preacher of the Orthodox Faith, and a sure witness to the Truth.
Truly thou wast a light to the world, O John our father; for having adorned thy soul with divine works, thou wast shown to be an exemplary pastor of the Orthodox Church, and wast a model for all the faithful in word and life. Wherefore, we call thee blessed.
Translated by Isaac Lambertsen. Edition menaion.en.lambertsen.