O holy, glorious and all-praised Great Martyr Theodore Stratilates! Gathering today in the church and before your holy icon, worshiping people, we pray to you, known to the desires of our intercessor: pray with us and for us, beseeching God from His mercy, yes He will mercifully hear us asking for blessings from Him, and may He fulfill all our requests for salvation and life, may He grant victory to the enemy, and may He preserve our country in peace. We also pray to you, holy victorious Theodore Stratelates: strengthen our Orthodox army in battle with the grace given to you, destroy the forces of the enemies who rise up against us, so that they will be ashamed and They will be put to shame on behalf of the faithful, and let their insolence be crushed, and let them know that the Imam’s Divine help is ever present. Thus, to everyone, in sorrow and the current situation, your powerful intercession will be revealed.
Pray to the Lord God, Creator of all creation, to deliver us from eternal torment, so that we may always glorify the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, and we confess your intercession, now and forever, and in eyelids of centuries. Amen.
The commander and ruler of the city of Herakleia of Pontus, Saint Theodore Stratilates was crucified on the cross and then beheaded by the sword under the emperor Licinius in 319. He is one of the heavenly patrons of the Imperial House of Romanov and the Russian army.