With divine love and spiritual living/ having been inflamed from youth, O Reverend,/ and everything that is red in the world, having hated,/ you have loved Christ alone with all your heart, O Father,/ lightly We have taken the yoke upon us, / by Divine Providence and the Most Pure Mother of God we are guided by a miraculous appearance / to reach the desert / and in it you labored for many years / in many labors and tears, / with all the suffering of the flesh exhausting yourself./ Now God, having seen your labors,/ multiply your children in the desert./ But since you have boldness towards God,/ pray for us, your servants, Father Reverend Leonidas,/ yes He will deliver us from all the slander of the enemy // and save our souls.
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