“Quick to Hear” Icon of the Mother of God - Troparion & Kontakion
Troparion — Tone 4
Let us hasten to the Theotokos amid our misfortunes, and fall down now before her holy Icon, / crying out with faith from the depths of our soul: / “Hearken quickly to our prayer, O Virgin, / inasmuch as you are called ‘Quick to Hear,’ / since we your servants have you as a speedy helper in our needs.”
Kontakion — Tone 8
(Podoben: “You sought the Heights...”)
Tempest-tossed upon the sea of life, we sink beneath the waves of the passions and temptations; / therefore, stretch forth your hand to us, O Lady, as your Son did to Peter; / and hasten to deliver us from misfortunes that we may cry out to you: “Rejoice, most good one, who are quick to hear.”