Irmos: Once, in Babylon, the youths who had come forth from Judæa trod down the flame of the furnace with their faith in the Trinity, chanting: O God of our fathers, blessed art Thou!
Thee, O divinely wise one, do I have as an intercessor for my life, an aid to my salvation and a protector who giveth confirmation unto those who cry: O God of our fathers, blessed art Thou!
Theotokion: The Lord of all issued forth from thy womb, incarnate, O Virgin. Wherefore, believing thee in Orthodox manner to be the Theotokos, we cry out to thy Son: O God of our fathers, blessed art Thou!
Irmos: In Babylon, the pious youths did not worship the golden image, but, bedewed in the midst of the fiery furnace, they chanted a hymn, saying: O supremely exalted God of our fathers, blessed art Thou!
As a sacrifice beauteous and most sacred didst thou bring thyself to the Lord, O most blessed one, and thou wast utterly consumed by the fire of thy torments, O glorious one, crying out: O God of our fathers, blessed art Thou!
Theotokion: O ye who amid perils, sorrows and sickness are weighed down by many sins, come ye to the fervent helper, the Mother of the Lord Most High; for she shall heal and comfort, and bring thee peace.
Partaking of the living inspiration of the Spirit of God, O blessed one, thou dost drive away evil spirits and heal infirmities, and criest out, rejoicing: O God of our fathers, blessed art Thou!
Burning with the fire of cruel malice, Orthodox Russia was like unto a fiery furnace in the days of destruction and grievous sedition; yet, bedewed by the power of thy words, O holy hierarch, even to this day it chanteth in Orthodox manner: O God of our fathers, blessed art Thou!
Hermogenes, the holy hierarch of God, was shown to be the father of all Russia in the days of sorrow and evil circumstances; wherefore, summon him and with him chant unto the name of the Most High: O God of our fathers, blessed art Thou!
“Pray ye and fast, and transform yourselves into new men, clothed in the virtue of the love of God and piety, that the Lord may grant peace and love to us all, mighty unity to our land, and victory and triumph over the enemy to our nation.”
Warmed with love for thy homeland and burning with zeal for the Faith more than fire, O holy hierarch, thou didst consume the thorns of sin-loving sedition, restoring and making steadfast a life which had grown old.
Fat bulls — seditious usurpers, foreign rulers and ungodly traitors — surrounded Russia; yet when confronted by thy righteousness, O holy hierarch, they vanished like smoke before the face of fire, that Orthodox Russia might rejoice in the Lord, and that Orthodoxy might triumph.
The holy hierarchs of Christ—Philaret of Rostov, Ephraim of Kazan’, Theoctistus of Tver’ and Galacteon of Suzdal’—were thy godly laborers and helpers, through whom thy words were sent forth to all the earth and thy sound unto the ends of Russia, O holy hierarch Hermogenes.
Translated by Isaac Lambertsen. Edition menaion.en.lambertsen.