Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask Him. A bishop, accompanied by his mother and two nuns, is traveling on a ship across the White Sea in Russia.
Many pilgrims are also on board.
Hearing a fisherman tell of three strange old hermits who live on a remote island, the bishop resolves to go there and deliver some religious instruction to them. After being rowed ashore, the bishop spends the entire day on the island teaching the Lord's Prayer to the hermits, who have considerable difficulty learning it. Finally satisfied that he has done God's work, the bishop is rowed back to the ship at day's end and sails away from the island. As the moon shines over the water and the bishop is sitting on deck with his mother, she notices a disturbance behind them on the water. It turns out to be the three hermits, who are running over the water toward them.