Holy and great Archangel of God Michael, the first primate of the inscrutable and essential Trinity, the leader and guardian of the human race, crushing the hosts with your head the proud Lucifer in Heaven and put to shame I will bring down his malice and deceit on earth! We resort to you with faith and we pray to you with love: be an indestructible shield and firmly protect the Holy Church and our Orthodox Fatherland, protecting them with your lightning sword from everyone enemy, visible and invisible! Be the leader and companion of our invincible Christ-loving army, crowning it with glory and victories over our adversaries, so that all who oppose us may know that God and His holy Angels are with us. Do not forsake us, O Archangel of God, through your help and intercession, who today glorify your holy name: behold, even though we are many sinners, we do not want to perish in our iniquities, but turn to the Lord and be quickened by Him to do good deeds.
Illuminate our mind with the light of the face of God, which shines on your lightning-like brow, so that we may understand that God’s will for us is good and perfect, and we will do everything that is right for us create, and even despise and abandon. Strengthen our weak will and weak will with the grace of the Lord, so that, having been established in the law of the Lord, we will cease to be dominated by earthly thoughts and the lusts of the flesh, being carried away, like senseless children, by the perishing beauties of this world, as if for the sake of the corruptible and the earthly we are madly forgetting the eternal and the heavenly. Over all of these, ask us from above for the spirit of true repentance, unfeigned sorrow for God and contrition for our sins, so that the number of days remaining for us in our temporary life will not be dependent on pleasing our feelings and work with our passions, but to blot out the evils committed by us, with tears of faith and contrition of heart, deeds of purity and holy deeds of mercy.
When the hour of our death and liberation from the bonds of this mortal body approaches, do not leave us, Archangel of God, defenseless against the spirits of wickedness in high places, which are habitual barriers to the soul. humanity ascends into the mountain, so that, protected by you, we will reach those glorious villages of paradise without stumbling, where there is no sorrow, no sighing, but endless life, and we will be rewarded behold the bright face of the All-Good Lord and our Master, and give glory to Him, together with the Father and the Holy Spirit, forever and ever. Amen.
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