The Venerable & Godbearing Elders of Optina: Canon and Akathist Hymn

Excerpt from the Canon:

Ye are a rule for monastics, O healers of the infirm and sorrowful. O shepherds of lost sheep, teach us to offer hymnody worthily unto you.

Exalting our instructors, let us say: Ye are a holy seed, O venerable fathers, praise of the land of Russia and confirmation of your children!

Rejoice, O honored Paisius our father, chief shepherd of the monastic folds, who guided ranks of monks to the heavenly pasture and hast instructed the ends of the Russian land!

Theodore, the monk of Svir, with many tears and a life of tribulation endured evils; yet, being steadfast and strong of mind, he spiritually begat a son, Leo, amid his pangs.

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