Irmos: This is our God, Who became incarnate of the Virgin and hath deified our nature! And, hymning Him, we cry aloud: Glory to Thy power, O Lord!
Theotokion: God hath come forth from Thæman, the Holy One from thee, the mountain overshadowed and densely wooded, O all-immaculate and all-blessed one; wherefore, all the earth is full of thy glory, O Theotokos.
He who devised evil against thee was struck dead in an instant; yet thou, O innocent lamb, didst raise him from the dead by thy supplication, crying: Glory to Thy power, O Lord!
Irmos: Great is the mystery of Thy dispensation, O Christ! For, foreseeing it with divine vision from above, Habbakuk cried out to Thee: Thou hast come for the salvation of Thy people, O Thou Who lovest mankind!
Theotokion: Moses, who beheld God, was taught a great mystery when he saw the unburnt bush: the bush is the weakness of human nature, and the fire is the divinity of the only-begotten Son of God; for our God is a Fire which devoureth our sins, as the divine apostle saith.
Having loved the heavenly Father more than thine earthly father, and choosing the Church of Christ as thy mother, thou didst wed thyself to Christ, the Son of God, O all-glorious passion-bearer.
O divinely elect child of Rome, thy native city ever hath recourse with love to the shrine of thy relics; and throughout all the earth, from noonday even unto the midnight lands, Christians send up prayers to thee.
No secret false heretical teaching could stay concealed from thee, O venerable Maximus; but through the grace of the worshipful Holy Spirit they were all unmasked by thee.
Thou not only showed thyself to be a true and faithful champion of the mystical dogmas of the Orthodox Faith, but thou wast shown to be a finely honed scythe for the mowing down of all heresies under the sun.
Thou wast truly shown to be an initiate of the mysteries of the Holy Spirit, a lover of the life of heaven and a teacher of the law of the Lord, O all-wise Maximus.
Translated by Isaac Lambertsen. Edition menaion.en.lambertsen.