The glory of God's zealot / and the beauty of the church guardian, / close life and many exploits / to the great hierarch of Alexandria, like him, / St. Athanasius, confessor Russian,/ we will diligently praise the faithful./ This one constantly prays/ for the salvation of his earthly Fatherland/ and for everyone living in it,/ loudly crying out with love:/ Holy Rus',/ preserve Orthodox faith, // in which you need affirmation.
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Today Saint Athanasius,/ Christ’s confessor and righteous one,/ in the unevening Kingdom of Glory/ brightly rejoices/ and in the host of all Russian saints/ with an all-composed voice/ the song of victory chanting,/ diligently praying for us// the Eternal Triune God.
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Oh, long-suffering and gracious to the saint and confessor of Christ Athanasius, good shepherd of the pastures of the Russian Church, zealot of Orthodoxy, preacher of repentance, prayers to the pillar, an inexhaustible source of love, a divinely inspired soul!
You, raised by the ancient earth and holy, have appeared from childhood as a vessel chosen by God, zealously serving Him in words and deeds, with warm prayer, unrelenting fasting, and alms. unhypocritical. You have been very diligent in the service of God, you have diligently multiplied your talent for songwriting and you have adorned the Russian Church with many spirit-bearing songs, and most of all you have worked in the glorification of the saints of the Russian land, whom you were honored to see together with the Lord before your death.
For the sake of truth and meekness and righteousness, it is worthy to anoint you as a saint of Vladimir by the grace of the Holy Spirit, who has already been enlightened, you preached the traditions of Orthodoxy steadily in the midst godless persecutors. Even though you remained in captivity, exile and bitter labor for thirty years, reproach, bitterness and wounds for Christ, enduring sweetly, you, the sacred confession, took away Let us accept that you boldly denounced the blasphemous and put to shame your bodiless enemies, teaching your flock through deeds rather than words, that it is fitting to obey God more than man. Moreover, for the bliss of those who were exiled for the truth, for the sake of having become worthy of the Throne of Heaven, pray to our All-Good God, that He may establish the Russian Church, whose shepherds are unshakable in truths faith from heresies and schisms, may her children remain steadfast in the confession of holy Orthodoxy, enduring all the adversities of the time, glorifying with one heart and one mouth wondrous in His holy God, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, unto ages of ages. Amen.
Akathist to Saint Athanasius, Bishop of Kovrov, confessor and hymn writer