Kontakion in the Plagal of the Fourth Tone Let us the faithful praise with fitting hymns that lover of the Holy Trinity, great Maximus, who clearly taught the divinely-given Faith: that we should give glory unto Christ our God, Who, though but one hypostasis, hath in very truth two natures, wills, and energies. Let us cry to him: Rejoice, divine herald of the Faith.

Maximos the Confessor

Reading from the Synaxarion:

The divine Maximus, who was from Constantinople, sprang from an
illustrious family. He was a lover of wisdom and an eminent theologian. At
first, he was the chief private secretary of the Emperor Heraclius and
his grandson Constans. When the Monothelite heresy became
predominant in the royal court, out of hatred for this error the Saint
departed for the Monastery at Chrysopolis (Scutari), of which he later
became the abbot. When Constans tried to constrain him either to accept
the Monothelite teaching, or to stop speaking and writing against it
- neither of which the Saint accepted to do - his tongue was
uprooted and his right hand was cut off, and he was sent into exile where
he reposed in 662. At the time only he and his few disciples were
Orthodox in the East (See also April 13).

Apolytikion in the Plagal of the Fourth Tone
You are a guide of Orthodoxy, a teacher of piety and modesty, a
luminary of the world, the God inspired pride of monastics. O wise
Maximos, you have enlightened everyone by your teachings. You are the harp
of the Spirit. Intercede to Christ our God for the salvation of our
souls.