O wonderful and glorious miracle worker Demetrius, healer of human ailments! You constantly pray to the Lord our God for all sinners: I pray to you, be my advocate before the Lord and my helper to overcome the passions of the insatiable passions of my flesh and to overcome the arrows of my opponent the devil, with whom my weak heart is wounded and, like a smooth and fierce beast, hungers to destroy my soul. You, Saint of Christ, are my fence, you are my intercession and weapon. You, the great miracle worker, during the days of your exploits in this world, zealous for the Orthodox Church of God, like a true and good shepherd, you kindly denounced the sins and ignorance of people, and taught those who deviated from the path of truth to heresies and schisms to the path of truth. Make haste, then, for me to correct the short-term path of my life, so that I may unfalteringly follow the path of God’s commandments and work without laziness for my Lord Jesus Christ, as my only Master, my Redeemer and my Righteous Judge.
Falling down to this, I pray to you, servant of God, when my soul is delivered from this mortal body, deliver me from dark ordeals: I have no good deeds to justify my justification: do not let Satan become proud of his victory over my weak soul, deliver me from Gehenna, where I cry and gnashing of teeth, and with your holy prayers make me a partaker of the Heavenly Kingdom in the Trinity of the glorified God, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, forever and ever.