To you, as the intercessor and guardian of my life, the accursed tongue falls, I pray: grant me through your prayers, a daily stay pleasing to God and unskillfully to pass away from evil deeds and thoughts. Open my ears, so that I may hear and understand the deeds and words of God that are beneficial to my soul, and may see through my inner eyes, possessed by the darkness of sin. Pray for me, who sins all the time, so that the sword of the wrath of the Lord does not girdle me: for my iniquity has exceeded my head, and like a heavy burden has weighed down on me. But You, my Lord, Lord, look upon me and have mercy on me, and bring my soul out of the prison of sin, before I even leave here and come to Your terrible judgment. Receive Your holy Angels who pray for us, who always stand around Your throne with fear, and with those prayers, more than Your Most Pure Mother, deliver me from Your terrible and terrible Judgment: For You are the Lamb of God, take away the sins of the whole world, crucified on our Cross for the sake of salvation.
Heed my prayer, and send the guardian angel of my soul and body, so that I may instruct that I will get rid of all enemies, visible and invisible, and be honored to receive Your mercy with all those who have pleased You from all eternity: for You are our God, and I resort to You, and I trust in You: even though I have warmed more than man, I have not departed from You, nor have I lifted up my hand to another to God. I pray to You, Lord Jesus Christ, I bless You, and I worship You from the One Trinity, with the Father and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
[From the book Akathists with canons]