How shall we praise you, most courageous among earthly rulers, Vladimir? How shall we give thanks to you, since by your knowledge of the Lord and the flattery of idols is abundant, since by your command Christ is glorified throughout the whole earth? How did you believe? How did you seek Christ? Tell us, your servants, where can I smell the stench of the Holy Spirit from? You have not seen Christ, nor walked on Him, how will you become His disciple? You have not seen the apostle come to your land, you have not seen driving out demons in the Name of Christ, healing the sick, raising the dead. Wonderful miracle! And you, the king and ruler, seeing all this, being from the saints, a man who did not believe, but rather betrayed them to passion and torment, but you, O blessed one, without seeing or hearing all of these, came to you Christ, understanding that One is the Creator of invisible and visible, heavenly and earthly, and as He sent into the world, for our salvation, His beloved Son. And having thought this, you entered the holy font.
And now, a thousand years have passed since the Baptism of Russia, look upon your land and see your children. See your people, how they live, how they preserve the essence of the Lord, how they keep their faith according to your tradition, how they glorify Christ, how they worship His Name. See and cities, shining with majesty, see churches blooming, see Christianity growing, see and your city Kiev, such saints of God, resting in incorruption, shining, and incense We are fragrant, and we announce the praises and divine songs of the saints. And having seen all this, rejoice and be glad and praise the Good God, the Builder of all.
Seeing that your faithful sowing through your intercession and intercession was not quickly dried up by the heat of unbelief, but by the rain of God’s haste it was disposed to become abundantly fruitful, rejoice in the spirit in the rulers Apostle, he did not raise the dead body, but raised us up in soul! Rejoice, our comforter and teacher of good faith! You are, O honorable head, a garment for the naked, a feeder for the greedy, refreshment for the womb, a helper for widows, a resting place for the strange, a protector for the offended, an enrichment for the poor.
Having received retribution from this good deed in Heaven and seeing the sweet face of God, do not cease praying for your land and for your children, in whom the dominion is trustworthy, may it be glorified in our land I will take away orthodoxy and may the Lord not forsake us, even as we continue to wander, so many centuries have passed, and even as we continue to sin against our Lord and Master, like the new purchase of a slave, in everything displeasing to his master. We raise our hands to you and pray to you: pray to the Lord of all, may he extend, until the end of the world, His mercy on our fatherland and His people, driving away the military, peace establishing, satisfying the famine, scattering cities, restoring His Church, preserving His inheritance, saving men, and wives, and babies, and bearing His grace, in the unity of faith together we cheerfully and joyfully glorify our Lord Jesus Christ, with the Father and with the Holy Spirit, the Indivisible Monotheistic Trinity, reigning in Heaven and on earth, now, and forever and ever. Amen.