Irmos: Occasionally immerse Pharaoh’s chariot, the miracle-worker, / striking the rod of Moses in the shape of a cross, / and dividing the sea, and saving Israel, the fugitive pedestrian, // singing the song of God.
Reverend Fathers of Athos, pray to God for us.
God of all, grant me the gift of words, to Your servant, who is now beginning to praise with songs like the fathers who brightened up at Mount Athos, who fulfilled Your will.
Reverend Fathers of Athos, pray to God for us.
The Holy Assembly of the Athos Fathers, existing in Athos, we honor with hymns, friends of the Blessed Virgin and Christ God, zealous saints, our warm representatives and unceasing prayers about the salvation of our souls.
Reverend Fathers of Athos, pray to God for us.
I honor the Great Lavra of the holy creator in songs, Great Athanasius,
the image and mark of the father who was in Athos, in his visions and deeds.
Most Holy Theotokos, save us.
Rejoice, Most Holy Lady, who sanctified Athos with Your coming; rejoice,
who overthrew the idols there; Rejoice, you who planted true faith in Mountain; Rejoice, you who drove away unbelief from there.
Another canon, voice 1.
Reverend Fathers of Athos, pray to God for us.
I must praise the glorious Agapius of Vatopedi, who heard the voice of the Mother of God, and enslaved himself, and delivered his master and his sons, for he is free from eternal torment.
Reverend Fathers of Athos, pray to God for us.
Athanasius, the red branch of the Simensky monastery, I praise the life, / of the Divine Akakiy and the Venerable Gabriel of Iveron, / who took the miraculous icon of the Goalkeeper from the sea.
Glory to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.
Why not the honorable Gennady, who saw in Vatopedi the miraculous flow of oil from the Mother of God? How can I keep silent about God-bearing George, the creator of the Iveron monastery?
And now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.
Theotokos: When God divided the languages according to the number of His angels, then foreseeing Thee, O Virgin, to be like His Most Pure Mother, set apart this great Mountain for Thee as an inalienable inheritance.