Holy bride of Christ, long-suffering martyr Paraskeva! We know that from your youth you have loved with all your soul and with all your heart the King of Glory, Christ the Savior, and you were unfaithful to Him alone, having distributed your possessions the needy and the poor. You shone with the power of your piety, your chastity and righteousness, like the rays of the sun, living holy among the infidels and fearlessly preaching Christ God to them. From the days of your youth, taught by your parents, you have always reverently honored the days of the redemptive passions of our Lord Jesus Christ, for whose sake you yourself voluntarily suffered. You, by the right hand of the Angel of God, marvelously healed from incurable wounds and receiving indescribable lightness, amazed your unfaithful tormentors. You, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and by the power of your prayer in the pagan temple, cast down all the idols to the ground, and crushed me to dust.
You, scorched by the lights, with your single prayer to the omnipotent Lord, you extinguished the natural fire, and with the same flame, miraculously kindled through the Angel of God, burning the frantic lawless people, you brought many people to the knowledge of the true God. You, for the glory of the Lord, having accepted the sword beheading of your head from the tormentors, you have valiantly ended your suffering feat, having ascended with your soul to Heaven, to the palace of your longed-for Bridegroom Christ the King of Glory, joyfully greeting you with this heavenly voice: “Rejoice, ye of righteousness, for the martyr Paraskeva has been crowned!” In the same way, today we greet you, long-suffering one, and, looking at your holy icon, we cry out to you with tenderness: all-honorable Paraskeva! We know that you have great courage in the Lord: pray to Him, the Lover of mankind, and for us who stand and pray for you.
May He give us, like you, patience and complacency in troubles and sorrowful circumstances; May He, through your intercession and intercession, grant a joyful, prosperous and peaceful life, health and salvation, and in all things good haste to our beloved fatherland, may He bestow His holy blessing and peace, and may your holy prayers grant to all Orthodox Christians confirmation in faith, piety and holiness, and success in Christian love and all virtue; may He cleanse us sinners from all filth and vice; May He protect us with His holy angels, may He intercede, preserve and have mercy on everyone with His holy grace and make us heirs and partakers of His Heavenly Kingdom.
And having thus improved your salvation through your holy prayers, intercession and intercession, all-glorious bride of Christ Paraskeva, let us glorify all the most honorable and magnificent name of the wondrous one in our saints the true God, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, always, now and ever, and unto the ages of ages. Amen.
1 Menaion. May 9th.
2 Akathist to the Holy Great Martyr Catherine.
3 Akathist to the Holy Great Martyr Paraskeva, named Friday.