From the beginning your life, reverend,/ through the cunning of good foolishness was hidden from men in Heaven before the Angels, was revealed:/ and even though on earth you stumbled in darkness when you walked,/ but in your thoughts krills ascended to the heights,/ we are covered in ever-present light,/ you inherited in the Fatherland;/ and did not demand earthly imaginary red churches,/ but in the Heavenly villages the brightest You have acquired mansions;/ not by dressing in soft garments,/ but by loving hair shirt more than anything else/ and for this reason, more than all earthly possessions, have you acquired heavenly treasures;/ and on earth This fleshly one copulates with the incorporeal,/ You served the Heavenly Queen and You enjoyed the angelic songs offered to You,/ And many people, who want to, cannot enjoy it./ This For the sake of the Most High Creator, His image / and the Mother of God who gave birth to Him / from the heights of the air on your hand, / like a cherubic borne gift, / from it your eyes are given an ever-present light understand,/ and, as a cloud flowing with dew, through your prayers the whole world has been mercifully watered,/ and now in the last times, your holy finger, as the fountain of Eden for the healing of the ailments of the world,/ pray, our mentor, miracle worker Joseph, // to grant us peace and great mercy.
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