Holy and great Archangel of God Michael, the first primate of the Mysterious and Essential Trinity, the guardian and guardian of the human race, crushing with his army the head of the proud Star in heaven and putting to shame 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 the leader and invincible companion of our Christ-loving army, crowning it with glory and victories over our peers, so that all who oppose us will 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, which shines on your lightning-like brow, so that we may understand that God’s will for us is good and perfect, and that we may know all that we should do and that which we should despise and abandon. Strengthen our weak will and weak will with the grace of the Lord, 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, being carried away, in the likeness of foolish children, by the soon-to-perish beauties of this world, as if for the sake of the corruptible and the earthly, the eternal and heavenly things are foolish to forget. For all of these, ask us from above for the spirit of true repentance, unfeigned sadness for God and contrition for our sins, so that we may spend the remaining number of days of our temporary life, not in pleasing our feelings and working with our passions, but in blotting out the evils we have committed, with tears of faith and contrition of 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 malice under Heaven, who are accustomed to block the souls of mankind from rising to heaven; May we, guarded by you, reach without stumbling those glorious villages of paradise, where there is no sorrow, no 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. Amen.