The Baptist of Christ, the honest Forerunner, the ultimate prophet, the first martyr in grace, the mentor of fasters and hermits, the teacher of purity and the neighbor of Christ! I pray to you, I come running to you: do not reject me from your intercession, but raise me up, having fallen into many sins: renew my soul with repentance, as with the second baptism: cleanse me, my defiled sin, and compel me to enter, and even if nothing bad enters, into the Kingdom of Heaven.