Oh, our good shepherd, the great holy Patriarch Tikhon! As you have appeared as a city on high, your good deeds still shine before men. We, like you, stand before the Throne of the Most Holy Trinity, with great boldness in prayers before the Lord. Look now at us, sinners and unworthy of your children, for you, because you have great boldness before the Creator of all things, now we fall down and fervently pray: pray to the Lord, that He will give us determination to acquire the piety of our fathers, which you have acquired from your youth. In your life you were a zealous protector and guardian of the true faith, help us to unshakably observe the Orthodox faith. For your quiet soul has greatly succeeded in Divine humility: teach us also to nourish our minds not with the turbulent human wisdom, but with the humble knowledge of the will of God.
In the face of the fierce enemies of Christ, you boldly confessed the true God: with your prayer strengthen us, the faint-hearted, so that we too will always and everywhere resist the spirit of godlessness and flattery. To her, saint of God, do not despise us who pray to you (names), for we ask not only for deliverance from troubles and sorrows, but for strength and firmness, generosity and love, in order to endure these misfortunes, rising up against us. Ask us for unflagging patience even until the end of our lives, peace with the Lord and remission of sins. Holy Father! Tame the winds of unbelief and unrest in our country, may the Lord bring silence and piety and unhypocritical love to the Russian lands: with your prayers may He save you from internecine strife war, may it strengthen our Holy Orthodox Church: may it not become depleted of true shepherds, good workers, rightly administering the word of the Gospel truth; God forbid also the lost sheep of the flock of Christ.
Most of all, pray to the Lord for strength, so that the Russian land will be reborn with holy repentance and with one heart and one mouth glorify the wondrous God in His saints in the Trinity, and the Son and the Holy Spirit, forever and ever. Amen.
Minea is additional. 26.09 St. Tikhon, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia
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