O Most Blessed Lady, Protector of the Christian race, refuge and salvation of those who resort to You! We know, truly we know how much we have sinned and been angry, O Merciful Lady, the Son of God born in the flesh of You. But to the imams there are many images of those who angered His mercy before me: tax collectors, harlots and other sinners, to whom forgiveness of their sins was given, for the sake of repentance and confession. Thou, therefore, imagining the images of those who had mercy on my sinful soul, and looking at the great mercy of God, which I received, dared even I, a sinner, to resort with repentance to Your mercy. O All-Merciful Lady! Give me a helping hand, and ask Thy Son and God, through Thy motherly and most holy prayers, forgiveness for my grave sin.
I believe and confess that to the one whom You gave birth to, Your Son is truly the Christ, the Son of the Living God, Judge of the living and the dead, rewarding everyone according to his deeds: I also believe and confess You to be the true Mother of God, the source of mercy, the consolation of those who mourn, a strong and unceasing Intercessor to God, fiercely loving the Christian race and the Helper of repentance: Truly, there is no other help and protection for us except You, Most Merciful Lady, and no one, trusting in You, was ashamed when, and by You begging God, no one was quickly abandoned. For this sake and I pray to Your innumerable goodness: open the doors of Your mercy to me who have gone astray and fallen into the darkness of the depths, do not disdain me, who is unclean, do not despise my sinful prayer, do not abandon me, the accursed one, as an evil enemy seeks to snatch me away to destruction: but beg for me Thy Merciful Son and God, born of You, may He forgive my great sins and deliver me from my destruction, as I, with all who have received forgiveness, will sing and glorify the immeasurable mercy of God and Your unashamed intercession for me in this life and in the endless eternity.