Irmos: I have heard, O Lord, the mystery of Thy dispensation; I have understood Thy works, and have glorified Thy divinity.
Seeing Hermogenes to be a struggler for the virtues, arrayed in prayer as in a garment, the Monastery of the Savior rejoiced; for the sacred archimandrite came to restore the community and make piety steadfast.
Thee do I set as my helmsman, O favored one of God; guide me with the sail of the Spirit and divine winds, O most glorious one.
Theotokion: O Mother of God, for us didst thou give birth unto Him Who shone forth eternally from the Father, yet became subject to time. Him do thou beseech, that He save those who praise thee!
Irmos: I have heard, O Lord, the mystery of Thy dispensation; I have understood Thy works, and have glorified Thy divinity.
From every threat do thou deliver those who bless thee with faith and honor thy divine memory, we pray thee, O most blessed Theodore.
Theotokion: The holy Hermogenes hymned thee as the Lady, Queen and Mistress who helpeth all of us who have recourse to thy mighty protection. With him accept thou our entreaties, and save our souls.
Neither life, nor death, nor things present, nor things to come, nor fire, nor wounds were able to separate thee from Christ, O divinely wise one.
“Declare among the nations the works of God, which the Lord Almighty hath revealed to us through the icon of His Mother,” thou didst say, O holy hierarch, “that the heathen may not say: ‘Where is the God in Whom they believe?’, and that their mouths may be stopped!”
The icon of the all-pure one was embraced by the earth, yet was it not held fast, that it might serve to make steadfast the newly enlightened ones who were becoming lost in the darkness of ignorance, and to reveal the light of the truth, as the holy hierarch Hermogenes thought.
Thou art the excellent singer of the praises of the all-immaculate one! Thou art the confirmation of those who are weak in faith! Thou art the enlightenment of those benighted in the darkness of unbelief! And my spirit doth hymn thee!
Thou didst shoulder the easy and light burden, O Hermogenes, when thou didst receive the angelic habit, that thou mightest attain the stature of a perfect man.
As the namesake of Hermolaus thou didst reach maturity, and, living in community, thou becamest like unto Hermogenes. And, lo! like a lamp which faileth not in its light, thou wast set upon the lamp-stand of the Church of Kazan’.
Fitting is it for one who is all-wise to enlighten those who lack wisdom, for one who is strong to strengthen the weak; and meet was it for Hermogenes to become a bishop, making all strong in the Lord.
Translated by Isaac Lambertsen. Edition menaion.en.lambertsen.