The Holy and Great Archangel of God Michael, the first primate of the inscrutable and essential Trinity, the primate of the human race, the guardian and guardian, crushing the hosts with your head the proud Lucifer in heaven and put to shame I will bring down his malice and deceit on earth! We resort to you with faith and we pray to you with love: be an indestructible shield and firmly protect the Holy Church and our Orthodox Fatherland, protecting them with your lightning sword from everyone enemy, visible and invisible. Be the Guardian Angel, the wise light giver and the assistant to those in power. 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 forsake us, O Archangel of God, 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 turn to the Lord and be quickened by Him to do good deeds. Illuminate our minds with the light of God, which shines on your lightning-shaped brow, so that we may understand that there is God’s will for us, good and perfect, and carry out everything that is right for us to do and even despise and abandon. Strengthen our weak will and weak will with the grace of the Lord, so that, having been established in the law of the Lord, we will cease to be dominated by earthly thoughts and the lusts of the flesh, carried away, like senseless children, by the perishing beauties of this world, as if for the sake of the corruptible and the earthly it is madness to forget the eternal and the heavenly.
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 the remaining number of days of our temporary life will not please us feelings and work with our passions, but in erasing the evils committed by us, with tears of faith and contrition of the heart, deeds of purity and holy deeds of mercy.
When the hour of our death and liberation from the bonds of this mortal body approaches, do not leave us, Archangel of God, defenseless against the spirits of wickedness in high places, which are habitual barriers to the soul humanity ascends to the mountain, and, guarded by you, we will without stumbling reach those glorious villages of paradise, where there is no sorrow, no sighing, but endless life, and, blessed behold the bright face of our All-Good Lord and Master, falling with tears at His feet, in joy and tenderness let us exclaim: glory to Thee, our dearest Redeemer, Who for much Thy love for us, unworthy, thou hast deigned to send Thy angels to serve our salvation. Amen.