Almighty God, Master and Creator of all creation, fill everything with Your majesty and support with Your power! We offer unworthy thanks to you, our all-gifted Lord, for you do not turn away our iniquities for our sake, but rather precede us with your mercies. Thou didst send Thy Only Begotten Son for our deliverance, and proclaimed Thy immeasurable condescension to the human race: as Thou desirest and expectest, that we might turn to Thee and be saved: Thou condescending to the weakness of our nature, strengthening us with the omnipotent grace of Thy Holy Spirit, comforting us with saving faith and with the perfect hope of eternal blessings, and guiding Your chosen ones to the heavenly Zion, You keep them as the apple of your eye. We confess, Lord, Your great and unconditional love for mankind and mercy.
But seeing many attempts, we diligently pray to You, All-Good Lord: look at Your Church, and see that Your saving gospel is received joyfully, but the thorns of vanity and passions create it in some with little fruit, in some with no fruit, and in the multiplication of iniquities, heresies, and schism. resisting Your Gospel truth, they retreat from Your heritage, deny Your grace and subject themselves to the judgment of Your Most Holy Word. Most merciful and all-powerful, do not be completely angry, Lord! Be merciful, Your Church prays to You, presenting to You the Author and Perfecter of our salvation Jesus Christ: Be merciful to us, strengthen us in orthodoxy by Your power, but enlighten those who go astray with Your Divine light, so that they understand Your truth: soften their bitterness and open rumors, so that they may know Your voice and turn to You To our Savior. Correct, Lord, the corruption and life of others that is not in accordance with Christian piety: create, so that we may all live holy and immaculately: and thus saving faith will take root and be fruitful in our hearts.
Do not turn Your face away from us, O Lord, reward us with the joy of Your salvation: grant, O Lord, and to the shepherds of Your Church holy zeal, and dissolve their concern for the salvation and conversion of those who go astray with the spirit of the Gospel: so that we may lead all of us, where the perfection of faith, the fulfillment of hope and true love: and there from the faces of the purest heavenly powers we will glorify You our Lord, Father and Son and the Holy Spirit, forever and ever.