“Espousing our nature, which had willfully fallen away from Thee, O Thou Who lovest mankind, Thou didst deliver it from defilement, joining it inseparably to Thyself through union with Thee which passeth understanding. And Thy prophet, being an image of this, chastely took to wife a former harlot.”

The wondrous Thomas hath disclosed the wellspring of dogmas unto the divinely wise, O Master; for, when he touched Thy side and was taught Thy twofold energies through Thy two Natures, he rightly cried aloud: Thou art my God and Master! Thou art the Lord of glory, Who didst become flesh for my sake!

“Lift up your gates, O ye princes, and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors, and the King of glory shall come in.”

— Psalm 23

“Enduring the breaking of thine own jaw, thou didst shatter the jaws of the lions, O much suffering one, and thou didst valiantly bear the rending away of thy nails, uprooting the cruel savagery of deception; and, cast into the depths of the sea, thou didst drown the malice of the wicked adversary.”

“Thou didst behold the twelve apostles at the dormition of the all-glorious Ever-virgin, the all-pure Theotokos, the Mother of the Lord, and with thee was Dionysius, who described the hierarchies. With them we, the faithful, bless thy most festive and all-holy solemnity, O glorious Hierotheus.”

“With the streams of thy theology are the blossoms of the Word watered which are planted in Orthodox theology and flourish exceedingly, O thou who art pleasing to God; for thou hast preached the unity of essence in the three Persons of the Trinity, the worshipful Monarchy.”

“The Lord is my shepherd; therefore can I lack nothing.”

— Psalm 22

“Having made thy mind equal to that of the angels for the sake of virtue, O most wise father Dionysius, thou didst write a sacred account of the heavenly order of their hierarchies, and therewith didst align the ranks of the Church’s hierarchy, likening them to the ranks of heaven.”