May God rise again and may His enemies be scattered, and may those who hate Him flee from His presence. Like smoke disappears, let them disappear; just as wax melts in the face of fire, so let demons perish on behalf of those who love God, and those who sign the sign of the cross, and who say in joy: Rejoice, most honorable and life-giving Cross of the Lord, drive away the demons with the power of our drunken Lord Jesus Christ, who descended into hell and trampled the power of the devil, and who gave us His honorable Cross to drive away every adversary. O most honorable and life-giving cross of the Lord! help me, with the Holy Lady the Virgin Mary, and with all the Saints forever. Amen. May God rise again and may His enemies be destroyed, and may those who hate Him flee from His face! As the smoke disappears, so they will disappear!
Just as wax melts from the warmth of fire, so demons will disappear from the presence of those who love God, who sign themselves with the sign of the cross and cry in triumph: Rejoice, Most Glorified and Life-Giving Cross of the Lord, driving away demons by the divine power of our Lord Jesus Christ crucified on you, who descended into hell, trampling down the forces of the devil there, and who gave us His glorified Cross to drive away every enemy. O Most Glorified and Life-Giving Cross of the Lord! Do not forsake us with your help, along with the intercession of our Lady, the Blessed Virgin Mary and all the Saints forever! Yes it will!
Explanation
Arise, Lord, and with Your resurrection scatter and defeat those who are hostile to You and those faithful to You! As the smoke of the earth disappears, so may they also disappear, although the smoke of their torment, at Thy terrible judgment, will not cease to smoke forever! (Rev. 19:3). Just as wax melts and disappears from the warmth of fire, so demons will melt and disappear from the warmth of our faith in You, for You are the fire that consumes everything unclean (Heb. 12:29), and from the image on us of the image of Your Cross, on which You bore our sins in Your body, so that we, having died to sin, would live to righteousness (1 Pet. 2:24)! We solemnly glorify this image of our salvation, through which You satisfied the truth of God, or the Lord sent You to reconcile everything with Himself, both earthly and heavenly, giving us peace through the blood of Your Cross (Col. 1:20)! We victoriously sing and magnify Your Holy Cross as the banner of our own victory, because everything born of God conquers the world, and the victory by which we conquer is our faith! (1 John 5:4).
If Thy earthly garments, O Lord, were granted the power of healing, and from Thy Image, miraculously inscribed on linen, the dying were raised, then from Thy Cross, this universal altar, on which Thou, the Lamb of God, was slain for our sins, and on which Thy most pure blood and the tears of Thy Most Pure Mother were poured out, the highest power of miracles will not be poured out. and life-giving! On this cross, stretching out Your almighty arms, as if with a desire to embrace the whole world, not excluding Your enemies, You said: Father! in Thy hand I commend My Spirit (Luke 23:46) and bowed down, the crowned head from the Father and the thorn-bitten head from the children! But when the hellish act of betrayal revealed You lifeless on the cross, You, as the owner of the living and the dead, breathed joy into the souls of the righteous, and, having set an example of meekness and humility on earth, You appeared in hell as the Almighty God and the terrible Judge! Having trampled down the forces of the devil and brought the righteous out of the shadow of death into heaven, You have given the earth Your victorious banner - Your cross: let our hearts not be troubled by hell and not be afraid (John 14:27) Oh, the glorified Cross of the Lord!
Overshadowed by Your Holy image and observed by life-giving power, we will not be afraid of any enemy! Let us not fall painfully before his temptations and we will not lose love and gratitude to the One who suffered on you, for the sake of our salvation! For through you it was not the spirit of sickness that God gave us, but the spirit of power and love and sound mind (2 Tim. 1:7): But you, marking us as chosen children of the Church of Christ, together with the intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos for us, who adopted us at Your foot, and the prayers of all the Saints, who by you opened the doors of the Kingdom of Heaven, do not forsake us with Your help - forever! Let it be true!
Prayer before bed
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In Your hands, Lord Jesus Christ, my God, I commend my spirit; You bless me, you have mercy on me and grant me eternal life. Amen.
Into Your hands, Lord and my God, Jesus Christ, I commend my soul! Bless and have mercy on me and grant me eternal life in Your Kingdom! Truly I pray to You!
Explanation
God! Having accomplished the feat of our salvation and fulfilled the eternal will of Your Father, You rested on the cross with the words: Father! I commend my Spirit into Your hands! Now, having completed the day of my life, according to Your goodness and longsuffering, and remembering the words of Your Prophet: Prepare yourself daily as if you were to die today (Is. 38:1), going to sleep, I repeat Your words, according to Your example, and according to the teaching of Your Apostle, who said: God has not determined us to receive wrath, but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us, so that whether we are awake or asleep, we live with Him (1 Thess. 5:9), plunging into the sleep of earthly rest and overshadowed by the image of Your life-giving cross, I pray Your goodness: raise me from this likeness of death again to life and activity in Your Name, in fulfillment of the words of the same Apostle, that if we are united with You by the likeness of death, we must also be united by the likeness resurrection (Rom.6:5)! I know, Lord, that I am a great sinner before You, but I also know the infinity of Your mercy; and therefore with all my heart I cry to You: Father!
I have sinned against heaven and before You! forgive and bless me, like the child-loving Father of the prodigal son! God! be merciful to me, a sinner, and have mercy on me as a publican! And remember me, Lord, in Your kingdom, as a thief who believed in You! Yes it will!