Holy and great Archangel of God Michael, the first primate angel of the inscrutable and all-essential Trinity, the guardian and guardian of the human race, crushing with your armies the head of the proud Star in heaven and always repressing his malice and deceit on earth! We resort to you with faith and we pray to you with love: be an indestructible shield and a strong shield for the holy Church and our Orthodox Fatherland, protecting them with your lightning sword from all enemies, visible and invisible. Be a wise mentor and assistant to our most pious emperor, bringing enlightenment and strength, joy, peace and consolation to him at the throne of the King of Reigns. 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, O Archangel of God, forsake us 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 to turn to the Lord and be quickened by Him to do good deeds. Illuminate our minds with the light of God, so that we can understand that God’s will for us is good and perfect, and we can do everything that we should do and that we should despise and abandon. Strengthen by the grace of the Lord our weak will and weak will, so that, having established ourselves in the law of the Lord, we will cease to be dominated by earthly thoughts and the lusts of the flesh, and for the sake of the corruptible and the earthly, the eternal and the heavenly, we will not forget. 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 we may complete the remaining number of days of our temporary life in erasing the evils we have committed.
When the hour of our end and liberation from the bonds of this mortal body approaches, do not leave us, Archangel of God, defenseless against the spirits of malice in the heavens, who are accustomed to block the souls of mankind from rising to heaven: may we be protected by you, without ancestry Let us reach these glorious villages of paradise, where there is no sorrow or sighing, but endless life, and we will be worthy to see the bright face of our All-Good Lord and Master and give glory to Him, together with the Father and the Holy Spirit, forever and ever.