O holy reverend father, most blessed Sebastian, the first educator of this desert, and the founder of the monastic life in it, and the founder of this monastery! For you were a man in body, but you appeared in your life like an Angel: for your mouth, like a seraphim, glorified God day and night, and your bright life mirrored the speed of purity and chastity. Behold, I am an unworthy servant who dares to fall before your honest and wholesome relics: do not deny me, who worships you with faith and love and you, saint of Christ Sebastian, praying to you: be my teacher and enlightener, calming spiritual and bodily passions healing illnesses and instructing on the path of salvation. O blessed Father Sebastian! Be merciful to my more sorrowful and sinful soul, and present my salvation to the Lord, flowing under your roof, so that by your intercession, Father, I will be saved from enemies visible and invisible, and I will praise God, glorified in the Trinity of Saints, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and ever forever and ever.