We are inflamed with divine love from youth, having hated everything red in the world, you loved the One Christ, and for this sake you moved into the desert, you created an abode in it, and having gathered a multitude of monks, you received the gift of miracles from God, Father Methodius, and you were an interlocutor and companion in Christ St. Sergius, with him from Christ God ask our blessed Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich for health and salvation and great mercy for our souls.