Ode V

Irmos: Waking at dawn, we cry to Thee: Save us, O Lord! For Thou art our God, and we know none other than Thee.

As thou art the adornment of the martyrs, O martyr of Christ, be thou an invincible rampart and an aid for the faithful.

Theotokion: God the Word, to Whom thou gavest birth, O all-immaculate one, do thou earnestly entreat in behalf of us who praise thee.

Irmos: Waking at dawn, we cry to Thee: Save us, O Lord! For Thou art our God, and we know none other than Thee.

Delighting in that loftier union which is of blessings which surpass understanding, O Theodore, save those who honor thee.

Theotokion: O all-immaculate Virgin, thou restoration of Adam, the Lord is with thee, and through thee God is with us! Understand this, ye nations, and submit yourselves!

Overcome by the love of the Creator, thou didst shed the attachments of life and wast well-pleasing unto God.

When thou wast in the Kazan’, thou didst enlighten those who knew not the true God and didst teach them to labor for the one God. Wherefore, thou rejoicest with the apostles, receiving the reward of an evangelist of Christ.

With divine zeal thou didst emulate in glory Gurius, Barsanuphius and Germanus, who are wondrous among the saints, O Hermogenes, and assisted by their supplications, thou hast passed over to the habitations of the holy hierarchs, standing before the one Chief Shepherd, Whom do thou beseech, that we all be saved.

With mercy thou didst chastise, and in chastising thou didst show mercy, O holy hierarch; and with this wisdom thou didst protect thy newly-enlightened children and all thy sheep from the ravenous wolves.

Thou wast a bulwark of Orthodoxy, didst protect those who were weak in faith, and didst call upon Tsar Theodore to care for the salvation in Christ Jesus of his nation, showing forth the saving transfiguration of the land.

The city of Moscow, and with it all of Russia, wept bitterly when the usurper seized the throne; yet thou alone, as a mighty champion, didst stand against his impiety, and didst boldly confess the Orthodox Faith with boldness.

With hymns let us bless Hermogenes the confessor, who was undaunted by threats of death and the cruel words of the ungodly enemy.

Before Him upon Whom the ranks of the angels and all the saints gaze, rejoicing, thou now standest, O Hermogenes, and as a confessor thou dost ever mediate for Orthodox Russia.