212. Молитва пред окончанием молебного пения, в новый 1847 г., и в воспоминание седмисотлетия царствующаго града Москвы

(Printed in the Works of St. Ot. 1847 and in the collection of 1848) Lord God Almighty, having established the heavens with Your Word and the Spirit of Your mouth with all their power, placing the lights in the firmament of heaven into signs, and in times, and in days, and in years, and the existence of Your visible creatures in the circles of times, concluding the blessings of the first fruits of times, and sanctifying the dates of their fulfillment! Thou, O Lord, the mouth of Thy Prophet Moses, the first in the months of summer, called this month, in which Thou didst prefigure the saving sacrament of the Lamb slain before the foundation of the world, Our Lord Jesus Christ, as the lamb of deliverance of the Passover, to Thy people Israel. Thou, in Thy ancient law, set forth Thy feasts within the bounds of weeks of days and weeks of weeks, in memory of Thy good deeds; and the fulfillment of the week of years and the week of seven years, in renewing the memory of Your destinies, crowned you with the summer of abandonment, with the blessing of effortless abundance. Behold, now Thy new Israel has passed from the ancient image to the newly revealed truth, the first in months, and the new summer begins from the appearance in the manger of Bethlehem of the Lamb, taking away the sins of the world, our Lord Jesus Christ, and from the beginning of His all-saving sacrifices on the cross, in the passive shedding of the blood of Circumcision. The reigning city of this city not only sees the beginning of the month and summer before itself, and does not count weeks of days and years, but, having remembered the seven centuries that have passed over it, it imagines Your destinies, and in thinking about the destinies of its eighth century, before Your face, the King of ages, it reveres. We confess Your ancient mercies, and we give thanks for the present, and we pray for the future. We glorify Your gracious election, and your rich Providence for us, as if you once grew the entire small city into a great city; and, before the coming to pass, that this city would be glorious in all the Russian cities, and that its enemy would lay hands on its shoulders, and that You would be glorified in it, You foretold it as Your saint Saint Peter; You also established the brought throne of Orthodoxy here, and you planted the root of the All-Russian Monocracy here, and you exalted the throne of the Kingdom, and you granted to the extinguished lamp of the royal family to shine with greater lordship, and you granted your saints to live here and honor them in the fragrance of the shrine, and With your prayers, you once protected this city from misfortunes, like an adamantine wall, and then you quickly delivered the needy city, and in our days, when you were about to perish, you raised it from ashes and destruction, and decorated it with new splendor, and filled it with abundance. Father of bounties and Lord of mercy! Look with mercy on this grateful confession of ours, and do not leave Your mercy from us. Bless the crown of the new summer with Your goodness: and the crown of seven centuries, which is on the verge of this reigning city, may not fade away. Renew and multiply Your blessings on Your exalted servant, Your Most Pious Most Autocratic Great Sovereign, Our Emperor Nicholas Pavlovich, and on His sovereign family. Grant them longevity and prosperity, and success in the affairs of the kingdom and in all virtues. Keep Your holy Church unshakable on the basis of Your Divine word, on the rock of the Apostolic faith, and let no daring human wisdom touch the ark of God. Rivers, Lord, peace upon Thy people, and upon those who turn their hearts to Thee. Let Your salvation be near those who fear You, bring glory to our land. Let mercy and truth meet in her, and let truth and peace kiss each other. Do not betray us, look into false vanity and frenzy, but let us look at all Your commandments and not be ashamed. Grant us grace and good zeal, so that Your eternal kingdom and its righteousness, first and most of all, we seek, for all that is good for temporary life will be added to us, through the intercessory and patronizing prayers of the Most Blessed Ever-Virgin Mother of God and Saints Peter, Alexy, Jonah and Philip, with them in the communion of faith in You, the One Trinitarian God, the Beginningless To the Father and the Co-Eternal Son and the Co-Eternal Holy Spirit, we offer due thanksgiving, and worship, and glory, forever and ever. You might be interested in: