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You, imitating Moses, O God-minded one, received spiritual tablets of the dogmas. For

in the darkness you entered (having entered ) into the thoughts, you were enriched with the light of knowledge.

You, emulating Abraham, O God-bearer, offered another Isaac to the Lord, sacrificing your own, Father, heart, in the fire of conscience.

These the Trinity worthily glorified; these God joined together in faith, confessing to one another in the piety of our unerring confession.

Theotokion. You bore the timeless Son in time; incorrupt, pure, you remained after giving birth to the one for

us incarnate in your womb, O God-bearer, ever-virgin. Ode 5 . Rising early we cry out. The sword, O Father, did not cut off your boldness; exile, O holy one, did not extinguish

your faith. Rome indeed proclaims your zeal, O God-bearer; and the Church, O holy one, trumpets

your words. You kept your faith unshaken in your heart, and you raised your mind up to

heaven, O great-named one. Theotokion. We praise you as the fount of immortality, O Theotokos; for you gushed forth ever-flowing life to the world.

Ode 6 . From the belly of Hades you heard the voice of my cry, and you delivered from

corruption my life, as the lover of mankind. Thrice-blessed one, he who spoke in you, Jesus, marveled at your confession, he who

contended with you. You were not terrified, O holy one, by the arrogance of rulers, nor by the sword, nor by the fire threatening you; for

you were firm in faith. After the end of your life, O Fathers, you perform miracles, providing effective proofs

of your wonders. Theotokion. Beyond mind and reason, O Virgin, nursing the nurturer (209) of all from your breasts,

you do not undergo the things of mothers. Kathisma. Tone 3. Plagal. Of divine faith. Strengthening the inspired dogma, you became a pillar of orthodoxy, and a bulwark,

O God-minded one, of the faith, proclaiming Christ our God in two natures and two wills, O Father Maximus, whom now earnestly entreat to grant us great mercy.

Synaxarion. The contest of our Father among the saints, Maximus the Confessor, who during the

reign of Constantine, called Pogonatus, grandson of Heraclius, having been received with the greatest honors by the former emperors, and being capable in political administrations to direct practical matters, on account of his speech and manner and his long-standing wisdom, was promoted to the rank of protoasecretis, and became a sharer of counsel with the emperors. But since the wicked and degenerate opinion, of the one

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Σύ τόν Μωϋσῆν μιμούμενος, θεόφρον, πλάκας νοεράς ἐδέξω τῶν δογμάτων. Ἐν

γάρ τῷ γνόφῳ εἰσέδυς (εἰσδύς ) τῶν νοημάτων, κατεπλούτησας τό τῆς γνώσεως φῶς.

Σύ τόν Ἀβραάμ ζηλώσας, θεοφόρε, ἄλλον Ἰσαάκ προσῆξας τῷ Κυρίῳ, τήν σεαυτοῦ θυσιάσας, Πάτερ, καρδίαν, ἐν τῷ πυρί τῆς συνειδήσεως.

Τούτους ἡ Τριάς ἐδόξασεν ἀξίως· τούτους ὁ Θεός συνήρμοσε τῇ πίστει, ὁμολογοῦντας ἀλλήλοις τῇ εὐσεβείᾳ τῆς ἀπλανοῦς ὁμολογίας ἡμῶν.

Θεοτ. Ἄχρονον Υἱόν ἐγέννησας ἐν χρόνῳ· ἄφθαρτος, ἁγνή, διέμεινας τεκοῦσα τόν δι᾿

ἡμᾶς σαρκωθέντα ἐν τῇ γαστρί σου, Θεογεννῆτορ ἀειπάρθενε. ᾨδή ε΄ . Ὀρθρίζοντες βοῶμεν. Οὐκ ἔτεμέν σου, Πάτερ, τό ξίφος τήν παῤῥησίαν· οὐκ ἔσβεσεν, ὅσιε, ἡ ἐξορία τήν

πίστιν σου. Κηρύττει μέν ἡ Ῥώμη τόν ζῆλον σου, θεοφόρε· σαλπίζει δέ, ὅσιε, ἡ Ἐκκλησία

τούς λόγους σου. Τήν πίστιν σου ἀσάλευτον ἔστερξας ἐν καρδίᾳ, καί νοῦν ἀνεπτέρωσας πρός

οὐρανόν, μεγαλώνυμε. Θεοτ. Πηγήν ἀθανασίας ὑμνοῦμεν σε Θεοτόκε· σύ γάρ τήν ἀένναον ζωήν τῷ κόσμῳ

ἐπήγασας. ᾨδή ς ΄. Ἐκ κοιλίας ᾄδου κραυγῆς μου ἤκουσας φωνῆς μου, καί ἐῤἑύσω ἐκ

φθορᾶς τήν ζωήν μου, ὡς φιλάνθρωπος. Ἐθαυμάστωσέν σου, τρισμάκαρ, τήν ὁμολογίαν, ὁ ἐν σοί φθεγξάμενος Ἰησοῦς, ὁ

συνάθλήσας σοι. Οὐκ ἀρχόντων τῦφον, οὐ ξίφος, οὐ πῦρ ἀπειλοῦν σοι κατεπλάγης, ὅσιε· τῇ γάρ

πίστει ἦσθα πάγιος. Μετά βίου τέλος, Πατέρες, θαύματα τελεῖτε, ἐνεργεῖς παρέχοντες ἀποδείξεις

τῶν θαυμάτων ὑμῶν. Θεοτ. Ὑπέρ νοῦν καί λόγον, Παρθένε, τόν τροφέα (209) πάντων ἐκ μαζῶν θηλάζουσα,

τά μητέρων οὐχ ὑφίστασαι. Κάθισμα. Ἦχος γ΄. πλ. Θείας πίστεως. ∆όγμα ἔνθεον ἐπικρατύνων, στύλος γέγονας ὀσθοδοξίας, καί κραταίωμα,

θεόφρον, τῆς πίστεως, δυσίν οὐσίαις καί δυσί θελήσεσιν ἀνακηρύξας Χριστόν τόν Θεόν ἡμῶν, Πάτερ Μάξιμε, ὅν νῦν ἐκτενῶς ἱκέτευε δωρήσασθαι ἡμῖν τό μέγα ἔλεος.

Συναξάριον. Ἄθλησις τοῦ ἐν ἁγίοις Πατρός ἡμῶν Μαξίμου τοῦ ὁμολογητοῦ, ὅς ἐπί τῆς

βασιλείας Κωνσταντίνου τοῦ ἐπιλεγομένου Πωγωνάτου, ἐγγόνου Ἡρακλείου, ταῖς μεγίσταις τιμαῖς ὑπό τῶν πρώην βασιλέων δεξιωθείς, καί ἱκανός ἐν ταῖς πολιτικαῖς διοικήσεσι τά πρακτέα ὑφηγεῖσθαι, διά λόγον καί τρόπον καί τήν ἀπό χρόνου σύνεσιν, εἰς τόν τοῦ πρωτοασηκρήτις προεβιβάσθη ἀξίωμα, καί βουλῆς τοῖς βασιλεῦσιν γέγονεν κοινωνός. Ἐπεί δέ ἡ πονηρά καί ἔκφυλος δόξα, τῶν μίαν