"We do not know, O servant of God, how to serve God. We only support ourselves."
"How, then, do you pray to God?"
And the stooping hermit said:
"We pray as follows: There are three of you and three of us,—have mercy on us!"
And the moment the stooping hermit had said that, all three of them raised their eyes to heaven, and all three said:
"There are three of you and three of us,—have mercy on us!"
The bishop smiled, and said:
"You have heard that about the Holy Trinity, but you do not pray the proper way. I like you, hermits of God, and I see that you want to please God, but do not know how to serve Him. I will teach you, not according to my way, but from the Gospel will I teach you as God has commanded all men to pray to Him."
And the bishop began to explain to the hermits how God had revealed Himself to men: he explained to them about God the Father, and God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost, and said:
"God the Son came down upon earth to save men and taught them to pray as follows. Listen, and repeat after me."