Oh, our good shepherd, great holy Patriarch Tikhon, like you appeared in a mountain city - your good deeds still shine before people. 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, to you, for you who have great boldness before the Creator of all things, we now fall down and fervently pray: beg the Lord, yes He will give us the determination to acquire the piety of our fathers, which you have acquired from your youth. In your life you were a zealous defender and guardian of the true faith, and help us to unshakably observe the Orthodox faith. Your quiet soul has greatly succeeded in divine humility, teach us 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 flatter. Hey, 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 are the misfortunes that rise 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 establish silence and piety and unhypocritical love on the Russian land. With your prayers may he preserve you from internecine warfare, may he strengthen our Holy Orthodox Church, may it not become depleted of true shepherds, good workers, rightly ruling the word of the Gospels of truth. God bless the lost sheep of Christ’s flock.
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 Divnago in His saints, God in the Trinity, Father and Son and Holy Spirit forever and ever. Amen.
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