Today the prophecy of the First-Called Apostles has been fulfilled:/ Behold, on these mountains grace has risen and faith has multiplied./ And those who had become dilapidated by unbelief,/ were born from the divine font,/ and were people of renewal, / royal sanctification, holy language, Christ's flock, / to whom you appeared as the first shepherd, / who first served with Baptism. / And now, standing before the Master Pray to Christ God for all the sons of Russia to be saved // and have boldness, as a hierarch of God and a clergyman.
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