(July 23)
Oh, All-Merciful Lady, Virgin Mary! Hear my humble prayer, and contritely hear the voice of Your image now standing. We know, O my Creator Mother, that You are a shameless intercessor for Christians and an immutable intercession to the Creator. I know this too, how my iniquity has surpassed my head, and how a heavy burden weighs me down, and I am no longer worthy to see the height of Heaven, to look below to the Throne of Glory of the Son Yours and our God, but worthy of torment and eternal condemnation. For this reason I fall down to You (with those who are coming together), I ask You tenderly, I cry out to You with tears: make Your most motherly prayer to Him, so that He will not reject us sinners from His presence: but For He is merciful, may He forgive us our sins, voluntary and involuntary, instructing us on the path of salvation, and strengthening us with power from above to keep the commandments of His saints. May he protect us from the temptations of the world, from sinful lusts, from the snares of the devil, and from the attacks of visible enemies.
May he bless the works of our hands, giving this monastery and every city and country an abundance of earthly blessings. May He create for us good and serene days, may He protect His holy Church in peace, and may He unite the distant one, for the Lord is good, Long-suffering and Much-Merciful, from all creation with the Father and Glorified by the Holy Spirit forever and ever. Amen.