Irmos: As God of peace and Father of compassion, Thou didst send Thine Angel of Great Counsel, Who granteth us peace. Therefore, guided to the light of knowledge divine, and waking at dawn out of the night, we glorify Thee, Who lovest mankind.
“Wherefore trouble ye yourselves in vain?” the martyrs cried out together to the most iniquitous judge. “He Who giveth power standeth before us, He Who alone is invincible in might, for Whose sake we are enduring wounds most mightily!”
Theotokion: Thou wast shown to surpass the holy angels, O pure Virgin who gavest birth unto the Angel of Great Counsel, Emmanuel, Who by His condescension made men heavenly, in His unutterable compassion, O Maiden.
Sudden was the conversion of the wondrous Hermogenes to the Lord; for he was cleansed in the laver of baptism, and received the light of the hierarchal office by the judgment of God, illumining with his teachings those who were in the night of evil.
Abandoning the worthless mentality of the rhetors, ye were caught in the nets of the unlettered apostles when the Spirit made you truly wise as martyrs and through faith made you mighty in strength against every storm of torment.
Translated by Isaac Lambertsen. Edition menaion.en.lambertsen.