O Joyful North Star of the Church of Christ,
Guiding all men to the Heavenly Kingdom;
Teacher and Apostle of the True Faith,
Intercessor and Defender of the oppressed,
Adornment of the Orthodox Church in America;
Blessed Father Herman of Alaska,
Pray to our Lord Jesus Christ
For the salvation of our souls!
We bless you,
We bless you,
O Blessed Father Herman,
And we honor your holy memory.
Instructor of monastics,
And conversor with the Angels.
Having lived in fasting on the earth, and passed to a dwelling of joy
in heaven, O holy Father Herman, thou didst show thyself a vigilant
and obedient settler in a distant land: whilst in thy heart thou
didst keep wondrous Valaam and thy fatherland, the Russian land, and
didst spread the Orthodox Faith with apostolic zeal, and for the
first fruits of thy labors, the Aleutian and Alaskan peoples, thou
didst make ample room in thy heart for love, nursing them and
providing them the teaching of the Gospel. Hear now us who pray in
the land of thy foreign sojourn, hear also the groaning of the land
of thy fathers, accept us who pray to thee in every place of God's
dominion! Obtain by thine intercession a speedy softening of our
hardened souls, pray that we may understand what is the will of God;
and though we have done nothing good before God, may we make a good
beginning. For as thou too hast said, O meek preacher, if only from
this day and hour, let us strive to love God above all. For our God
in truth is love, and to Him belongs glory unto the ages, to the
Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit; now and ever, and
unto ages of ages. Amen.
