(May 18)
Oh, Most Merciful Lady! We now resort to Your intercession, do not despise our prayers, but graciously hear us: wives, children, mothers and those possessed by a serious illness of drunkenness, and for this from their mothers, Church of Christ, and the salvation of those who fall away, heal our brothers and sisters and relatives. O Merciful Mother of God, touch their hearts and quickly raise them from the falls of sin, bring them to saving abstinence. Pray to Your Son, Christ our God, that He may forgive us our sins and not turn His mercy away from His people, but may He strengthen us in sobriety and chastity. Accept, O Most Holy Theotokos, the prayers of mothers who shed tears for their children, wives who weep for their husbands, children of the orphaned and needy, those left astray, and all of us, to the icon Your falling ones. And may this cry of ours, through Your prayers, come to the Throne of the Most High.
Cover and keep us from the evil deception and all the snares of the enemy, in the terrible hour of our exodus, help us to pass through the airy ordeal without stumbling, through Your prayers deliver us eternally condemnation, may the mercy of God cover us forever and ever. Amen.