All-wise and All-merciful Lord, our Savior, who enlightened the ends of the world with the radiance of Your coming and called us to Your Holy Church, with the promise of an inheritance of incorruptible and eternal blessings! Look mercifully upon us, your unworthy servants, and do not remember our iniquities, but according to your immeasurable mercy. Forgive us all our sins, even if we transgress Your holy will, but are not rejected by You, our God and Savior: We sin against You alone, but we also serve You alone, we believe in You alone, we resort to You alone, and we want to be Your servants. Remember the weakness of our nature and the temptations of the enemy and the charms and temptations of the world that are everywhere, for whose sake without You, as if You were telling us, we cannot do anything. Purify and save us yourself: Enlighten our minds yourself, to unshakably believe in You, our only Savior and Savior: move our hearts yourself to fully love You, our only God and Creator: direct our feet, to walk without stumbling in the light of Your commandments. Hey, Lord our Savior!
Show us Thy great and rich mercy: grant that we may live all the days of our life in reverence and righteousness, and so at Thy second and glorious coming we will be worthy to hear from Thee a merciful calling into the Kingdom of Heaven, which we, Thy sinful and unworthy servants, may receive and glorify Thee in the enjoyment of its ineffable beauties together with Your Beginningless Father and the Ever-Essential Divine Spirit forever and ever.
Incomprehensible and All-Sung by the Wisdom of God, that is, the Only Begotten Son and Word of God! Receive this prayer song from our unworthy and vile lips, even if there is no red song in the mouths of sinners. Moreover, just as the thief was saved with a single word, and the publican was justified with a sigh, and the daughter of Canaan was healed with a mother’s petition: so now he is merciful to our prayers. Because You, O Lord, are Good and Lover of mankind, You enlighten those who come into the world, and forgive the sins of sinners, and fill the foolish with reason, and make wise, and thirsty souls for good words with Your teaching, just as You gave the Samaritan the water of life, and fornicators are chaste. If you establish it, you will open paradise to the thief.
For You are truly the Giver and Instructor of all good things, and the Preserver of life, Christ our God, and to You we send glory and praise, honor and thanksgiving and glorification, and we do worship, with Your Beginning Father, and with the Most Holy and Good and Life-giving Spirit, and with Your Most Holy and Immaculate Matter, the Lady our Mother of God and Ever-Virgin Mary, with all Your saints, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
Seated on a fiery throne in the highest with the Father Without Beginning and Your Divine Spirit, You deigned to appear on earth as a man, fulfilling the eternal Council of the Holy Trinity for us, Jesus Christ: for this reason You suffered in the flesh, that You might save the world and exalt Your chosen ones, Where ever, like God, you reign in glory. Glory to Your All-Good Council: glory to Your wise vision: glory to Your ineffable condescension, O One Lover of Mankind.
Wisdom of the Father, the radiance of glory and the image of His hypostasis, who founded the heavens and the earth in the beginning, bless Your heritage, preserve in peace the emperor, Your church and city, and Your people saved.
The great and ineffable power of the Wisdom of God, Sophia the Preeminent, the most venerable church, the fiery throne of Christ our God, the Word of God and the flesh of God indescribably dwelt in Thee, the Invisible One appeared and the Inviolable One came from Thee and lived with people, catching the enemy and freeing people from the ancient oath! We pray to you, the Lady, who are burdened with our sins, to have mercy and save our souls: as a humane and merciful Queen, look upon your people and have mercy, intercede from the misfortunes and cruel sorrows, and preserve our cities unharmed, where now your most holy name is gloriously glorified.
1. We magnify You, Only Begotten Son of God Jesus Christ, Who through Your wisdom in the beginning created and all-mercifully redeemed the fallen race from eternal death
2. We magnify You, the Son and Word of God, the Wisdom of God, as You give us reason and fill You with wisdom.
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the Living God, Creator of heaven and earth, Savior of the world! Behold, unworthy and most sinful of all, humbly bowing the knee of my heart before the glory of Thy Majesty, I sing and magnify Thy immeasurable suffering, and I offer thanks to Thee, the King of all and God, for Thou hast deigned to descend from Thy heavenly throne and become incarnate of the Most Pure Virgin Mary, for the sake of human salvation: You are incorporeal, you have acquired a carnal nature to the Divinity: you are rich, you became poor by your will, so that you may enrich man in Your Kingdom: you bore the labors and all sorts of human troubles, like a man, and help everyone in all their sorrows and needs: forty days By fasting, you showed everyone the way to abstinence: you were tempted by many from the evil ones, delivering everyone from all kinds of temptations.
We know, O All-Powerful Master, that all this was not necessary for You, but for the sake of the salvation of mankind You endured everything: You were betrayed for thirty pieces of silver, that You might redeem man from the fierce work of the enemy: from the merciless Jews, like a gentle Lamb, You were snatched away, the human race from being devoured by a mental wolf: to Thou didst appear before Annas and Caiaphas in judgment, saving everyone from the condemnation of eternal fire: bound, mocked, spat upon, slandered by false witnesses and condemned to a reproachful death, man was freed from all misfortune, torment and from eternal death: To Pilate, no evil whoever did this, you were betrayed, and sent to Herod, and again scolded, delivering a man from evil circumstances and from the reproaches of the enemy. What then shall I repay to You, Lord, Lover of Mankind, for all that You have endured for the sake of a sinner?
We do not know, for the soul and the body and all that is good are from You, and all of mine is Your essence, and I am Yours: just for Your countless mercy, O Merciful Lord, I hope, I sing Your ineffable long-suffering, I magnify Your inscrutable look, I glorify Your immeasurable mercy, to which You bowed down for my sake condemned, so that I may be justified. Bien is tied to the pillar, the Savior, and without mercy, O merciful one, absolve me, I pray, from my sins: crowned with thorns, the thorns of sin are uprooted from my soul: with a reed bien on the head, crush the head of the serpent that bites me with the sting of sin: in a scarlet robe cursed and betrayed by the tormentor, enlighten me, O Most Holy King, with my spiritual robe, so that I may enter into Your all-red palace: imputed to the robbers and bearing the cross on Your frame, the robber enemy, who seeks to kill my soul, with Your cross. We know You, long-suffering Jesus, who is fiercely wounded: from the top of Your Holy head, even to the foot of the scabbard, there is no place in You that is intact.
What shall I say about Your ineffable love for mankind, O Christ the Savior; Just in the contrition of my heart, worshiping Your most pure passion and lovingly kissing You, I cry out: have mercy on me, a sinner. Be willing to be nailed to the cross, nail my heart with Thy commandments: raised up with the cross on Mount Calvary, lift up my thoughts to heaven, so that I may always philosophize on the high: I will drink the bile with the bitterness, sweeten my heart, saddened by sin, with Thy love, and drink the thirsty stream of Thy sweetness: Extend Your most pure hand to receive all, accept me, a sinner: having nails to my feet, although always being sinners, be with me a sinner, forbidding my feet from every evil way: having an open heart, show me Your grace, a sinner: the most pure head on the cross O bower, hear my unworthy prayer. O wonderful and immeasurable depth of mercy, Christ God!
For Thy enemies who crucified God, praying to God the Father, grant this grace to me, a sinner, love my enemies and pray for them: Paradise has opened to the repentant thief, look, My Light, upon me, a sinner, grant repentance, and open for me the doors of Thy mercy, and remember me, unworthy in Thy Kingdom. Finally, Your most holy spirit, betrayed in the hands of God the Father, accept, Creator, my spirit at the time of my death: taken from the cross and laid in the grave as if dead, Savior, living in the unapproachable light, take from me the heavy burden of sin, and do not disdain, Lover of mankind, to dwell in the tomb of my unworthy heart, to mortify my carnal wisdom: for it is not for anyone to be Your mortal creation, but for You, the Lord and my living God, by Your, O All-Merciful, mercy, I am vouchsafed to see You, my Creator and Savior, for accepting the death of the cross, crowned with glory and honor, in the light of Your inviolable glory: together with Your beginningless Father, and with the Most Holy and Good and Life-giving and By Your Consubstantial Spirit, Thou reignest before the ages, now and ever, and unto ages of ages.
O All-Honorable and Life-Giving Cross of the Lord, sanctified by the blood of Christ our God! You are the sign of victory against our enemies, visible and invisible: you will appear at the hour of the terrible judgment of Christ. I humbly worship you, honestly touch you and kiss you kindly, offering this prayer to the one crucified on you, that He may heal me by His power in you from all mental and physical ailments, and preserve me from enemies visible and invisible, and place me at His right hand uncondemned at His judgment. Hey, Life-Giving Holy Cross!
On you the Savior, dying for people who died by sins, gave up His spirit as a man, poured out blood and water, and with these three one, which is more needed than all, He created salvation for us, to the glory of the source of living waters of God the Father, but for myself from the blood of virgins God the Son was incarnated, and God the Holy Spirit, quickening the spirit of man: these three in the One Godhead may I also glorify help from the water of baptism received by immaculate faith, in the Communion of the flesh and blood of the Lord with undoubted hope, and in repentance with a contrite spirit, and unfeigned love, so that not only in this life is more deplorable, like water flowing by, but in the future blessed life I will glorify the Lord with the help of your strength, the blessed Cross, and I worship Him with the very face of faith, the desire for possession and the pleasure of the beloved, the One in the Trinity glorified for endless centuries.
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the Living God, Creator of heaven and earth, Savior of the world! Now, unworthy and most sinful of all, humbly bowing the knee of my heart before the glory of Thy Majesty, I sing the Cross and Thy suffering, and I offer thanks to Thee, the King of all and to God, for Thou hast deigned to bear all the labors and all kinds of troubles, misfortunes and torments as a man, so that He may sympathize with all of us in all sorrows, needs and embitterments. You will be a Helper and Savior. We know, Omnipotent Master, that all this was not needed by You, but for the sake of human salvation, that You might redeem us all from the cruel work of the enemy, You endured the cross and suffering. That I will repay Thee, O Lover of Mankind, for all that Thou hast suffered for me for the sake of a sinner; We do not know: for soul and body and all that is good are from You, and all that is mine is Yours, and I am Yours.
I hope in Thy innumerable mercy, O Blessed Lord, I sing Thy ineffable long-suffering, I magnify Thy inscrutable exhaustion, I glorify Thy immeasurable mercy, I worship Thy most pure passion, and lovingly kissing Thy wounds, I cry out: have mercy on me, a sinner, and do not Thy Holy Cross will be fruitless in me, but may I commune here with Thy suffering in faith, and be worthy to see the glory of Thy Kingdom in heaven.
I thank Thee, Lord, King of all, who reigns over heaven and earth and the underworld: I thank Thee, the Originless, All-Powerful King Almighty: I thank Thee, all-good, all-merciful, teacher of the lost, who came to earth from heaven and was incarnate from the Virgin Mary, ours for the sake of salvation, and who was one and a man like me, except for passions and every sin, not in a ghost, but in the truth, dispassionate, unjustly suffered by the wicked, and grant me dispassion, condemned for the multitude of my sins. I sing of Your ineffable long-suffering, O Lord: I magnify Your inscrutable foresight, I glorify Your immeasurable mercy, in whose image you have justified the condemned. I worship Your passion, in the image of which I, the most dishonest, have changed passions: I kiss Your cross, in which You condemned my sin and freed me from the condemnation of death: I kiss the nails thereof, in the image of an oath You took the prohibition: I kiss the ulcers, in the image of my obedience the ulcers were healed.
I kiss the cane, with which you signed the release and with which you wounded the head of the obstinate serpent: I kiss the copy, which tore my handwriting to pieces and opened the source of immortality: I kiss the lip, watered by my father and brought to Thy most pure lips, with which my disobedience turned bitter into sweet. O immeasurable depth of Thy mercy, O Christ our Savior! In the same way, we humbly fall with gratitude to You, and we kindly bow to Your Life-giving Cross, by which You saved us from working for the enemy. We confess that You are the only Holy, the only Mighty and the only Giver of Life, and I apply your will to all. You, Lord, have given strength to the devil and to his army, and we send up glory to you, with Your Originless Father, and with Your Most Holy and Good and Life-Giving Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
Great and incomprehensible God, Father without beginning, co-existent with the Son and the Soul, existent that does not exist, save the perishing, give life to the dead, create according to Your will in heavenly power and in the earthly settlement, and manage all kinds of wondrous providence! Incline Your ear from Your holy heights, and receive Your humble and unworthy servants for us, in whose image You have revealed Your great salvation from troubles and all-destroying, with your heart and lips, this prayer of gratitude, confession and praise offered to You. For thou didst not do unto us according to our iniquity, O Lord, thou didst reward us according to our sin.
You spoke of old to the sons of Israel, that if they do not listen to Your voice, to keep and do all Your commandments, You will bring a cold-faced tongue upon them, who will crush them in their cities, until their walls are destroyed: we know that this terrible word has come on us and on our fathers: nevertheless, Your rebuke not fearing and neglecting Thy mercy, we left the path of Thy righteousness and walked in the wills of our hearts, and did not resist the temptation to have in Thy mind and heart the God of minds and hearts: and even the fatherly tradition, imputing it to nothing, angered Thee about strangers. For their sake, like the children of Israel of old, we too are in a cruel situation, and because of their zealous instruction, we have these violent and beastly enemies. But You, Lord God, generous and merciful, long-suffering and abundantly merciful and true, keep the truth, and show mercy in thousands, take away iniquities and untruths and sins, forsake us for a little while, with great mercy you had mercy, and visited us with the rod of unrighteousness, just as a father generously shows his sons, so you have shown mercy to us.
For Thou hast looked upon our sorrow and upon the consumption of the reigning city, in which Thy name has been called upon from the years of old, and upon our prayers, not trusting in our righteousness before Thee, but upon Thy many bounties, O Lord: and Thou hast given us a backbone of wicked co-conspirators, and crowned our most pious Tsar Alexander Pavlovich Thou art the weapon of Thy good pleasure, that from the face of Thy Christ Thy enemies will vanish like smoke, and those who love Thee will shine forth like the east of the sun in their strength. We have seen, O Lord, we have seen, and all the nations have seen in us, for You are God, and You cannot: You have killed and created life, You have slain and healed, and there is no one who will take it out of Your hand. Therefore, our heart is established in our Lord, our horn is exalted in our God, we rejoice in Your salvation. We thank Thee, Lord, for Thou hast punished us in time, so as not to give us over to death forever.
Grant us, Lord, the memory of this glorious visit of Yours to hold firmly and unceasingly in ourselves, as if we were confirmed in You by filial fear and faith and love, and protected by Your strength, always, as today, we sing and glorify Your holy name. Confirm Your blessing on our most pious, autocratic, great sovereign, Emperor Nicholas Alexandrovich of all Russia, and may Your Good Spirit rest upon him. Grant in the pious state the shrine of its shepherd, the ruler of justice and truth, the people of peace, the law of strength and the success of faith. O Most Merciful Lord! add Thy mercy to those who lead Thee: but be revealed to those who do not seek Thee: also turn the enemies of our hearts to Thee: and be known with all tongue and mind in Thy One True Christ. Yes, from the East of the sun to the West, with all their tongues, but with one heart, all the nations exclaim to You with a voice of joy.
Proclamation
Glory to You God, Savior of all, forever and ever.
Sovereign Lord our God, Source of life and immortality, all creatures, visible and invisible, set times and seasons in Your power, and rule all things by Your wise and all-good providence! We give thanks for Your bounties, even as You surprised us in the past time of our life. We pray to Thee, All-Bountiful Lord: bless the crown of the coming summer with Thy goodness: save Thy beloved servant, the most pious, the most autocratic, our great sovereign, Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich of all Russia: and his wife, Alexandra Feodorovna: his mother, the most pious empress, Empress Maria Feodorovna: his heir, the blessed sovereign Tsarevich and Grand Duke Alexy Nikolaevich, and the entire reigning house. Multiply the days of their life in unshakable health, and grant them success in all virtues. Grant Thy goodness from above and to all Thy people, health and salvation and good haste in everything.
Deliver Thy holy Church, this city and all cities and countries from every evil situation, grant peace and tranquility to them: to You, the Beginningless Father, with Your Only Begotten Son, Your All-Holy and Life-Giving Spirit, in one being glorified by God, always bring thanksgiving and glorify Your Most Holy Name.
Proclamation
Glory to Thee God, our Benefactor, forever and ever.
Give thanks to Thy unworthy servants, O Lord, for Thy great good deeds upon us; we glorify Thee, bless, thank Thee, sing and magnify Thy compassion, and slavishly cry out to Thee in love: O our Benefactor, glory to Thee.
As a servant of indecency, having been honored with Your blessings and gifts, Master, we earnestly flow to You, giving thanks according to our strength, and we glorify You, as the Benefactor and Creator, crying out: Glory to You, Most Generous God.
To the Creator of all creation, having placed times and seasons in Your power, bless the crown of the summer of Thy goodness, O Lord, preserving the emperor and Thy city in peace, through the prayers of the Mother of God, and save us.
Verbal litanies from the deacon, the priest secretly says this prayer:
Lord Jesus Christ, the Only Begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, the True God, the source of life and immortality, light from light, who came into the world to enlighten it! Illuminate our thoughts with Your Holy Spirit, and accept us, who bring majesty and thanksgiving to You, about Your wondrous great actions from the ages, and even in the last centuries Your saving vision, in which we clothed ourselves in our weak and poor mixture, and descended to work measures, like the King of all, even with a slave hand in the Jordan You endured baptism, and having sanctified the watery nature, sinless one, gave us birth again by water and the Spirit, and arranged for our first liberation. Celebrating the remembrance of His Divine Sacrament, we pray to You, Lord, Lover of Mankind: sprinkle upon us, Thy unworthy servants, according to Your Divine promise, pure water, a gift of Thy mercy, so that over this water the petition of us sinners will be favorable to Thy goodness, and to Thy blessing upon us and all Thy faithful people. be granted, for the glory of Thy holy and worshiped name.
For all glory, honor and worship is due to You, with Your Originless Father, and Your Most Holy and Good and Life-Giving Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
And he said to himself: Amen, and as the deacon performed the litany, the priest began this prayer in a loud voice:
Great art thou, O Lord, and marvelous are thy works, and not one word will suffice for the singing of thy wonders [three times].
You, by will of those who do not exist, brought all things into being, by Your power you support creation, and by Your providence you build the world. You, a creature composed from the four elements, crowned the circle of summer with four times. All the powers of intelligence tremble to you: the sun sings to you, the moon praises you, the stars are present to you: the light listens to you, the abysses tremble to you, the springs work for you. You have stretched out the sky like a skin: You have established the earth on the waters: You have fenced the sea with sand: You have poured out the air with your breath. The angelic forces serve You, the faces of the archangels bow to You: the many-eyed cherubim and the six-crested seraphim, standing around and flying around, are covered with the fear of Your unapproachable glory. You, this indescribable God, without beginning and unspeakable, came to earth, taking on the form of a servant, becoming in the likeness of humanity: you did not, O Master, endure mercy for the sake of Your mercy, to see the human race tormented by the devil, but you came and saved us.
We confess grace, we preach mercy, we do not hide beneficence: you have freed the nature of our race, you have sanctified the virgin womb with Your Nativity: all creation sings praises to You who appeared. You are our God, you appeared on earth and lived with men: You sanctified the streams of the Jordan, sending down Your Holy Spirit from heaven, and you crushed the heads of the serpents nesting there.
And the priest said this three times, and blessed the water with his hand for each verse:
For Yourself, O Lover of Mankind, come now through the influx of Your Holy Spirit and sanctify this water.
And give her the grace of deliverance, the blessing of the Jordan: create with her the source of incorruption, the gift of sanctification, the resolution of sins, the healing of ailments, the destructive of demons, impregnable to resisting forces, filled with angelic strength: so that all who draw and partake of it may have it for the cleansing of souls and bodies, for the healing of passions, for the sanctification of houses, and for all benefit pretty much. For you are our God, who through water and the Spirit renewed our nature, which was promised by sin: You are our God, who drowned the sin of Noah with water: You are our God, who freed the Jewish race from the work of Pharaoh Moses by the sea: For you are our God, breaking up the stone in the desert, and flowing waters, and flooding streams, and thirsty people Thy satiate: Thou art our God, Who exchanged Elijah for Israel by water and fire from the deception of the Baal.
Even now, Master, sanctify this water with Your Holy Spirit [three times].
Grant to all who touch it and partake and anoint with it sanctification, health, cleansing and blessing.
And save, Lord, Thy servant, the most pious, the most autocratic, our great sovereign, Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich of all Russia [three times].
And his wife, the most pious empress, Empress Alexandra Feodorovna.
And his mother, the most pious empress, Empress Maria Feodorovna.
His heir, the blessed sovereign Tsarevich and Grand Duke Alexy Nikolaevich, and the entire reigning house.
Save, O Lord, and have mercy on the most holy welcoming Synod.
And keep them under Thy roof in peace, subdue to them every enemy and adversary, grant them all the petitions for salvation and eternal life: and through the elements and men and angels, both visible and invisible, glorify Your most holy name, with the Father and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
Priest: peace to all.
Lik: And to your spirit.
Deacon: Bow your heads to the Lord.
Lik: To you, Lord.
The priest bow down and pray:
Incline, O Lord, Thy ear, and hear us, who were willing to be baptized in the Jordan and sanctified the waters: and bless all of us, who by bowing our necks signify the working imagination: and grant us to be filled with Thy sanctification, these waters by communion: and may it be unto us, Lord, for the health of soul and body.
Proclamation
For You are our sanctification, and We send up glory and thanksgiving and worship to You, with Your Originless Father and Your Most Holy and Good and Life-giving Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
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.
Master Christ God, who healed my passions with Your passions and healed my ulcers with Your wounds! Grant me, who have sinned a lot to You, tears of tenderness: dissolve my body, from the smell of Your life-giving body, and delight my soul with Your Honest Blood, from the sorrow with which my opponent gave me to drink: elevate my mind to You, down low, and lift me from the abyss of destruction, for I am not the imam of repentance, I am not the imam of tenderness, I am not the imam of tears comforting, leading children to their heritage. Having darkened my mind in worldly passions, I cannot look to You in illness, I cannot warm myself with tears of Love for You. But, Master Lord Jesus Christ, treasure of good things, grant me complete repentance and a laborious heart to seek Thy: grant me Thy grace and renew in me the images of Thy image. Forsaken Thee, do not forsake me: go forth to seek me: lead me to Thy pasture, and number me among the sheep of Thy chosen flock: educate me with them from the grain of Thy Divine Sacraments, through the prayers of Thy Most Pure Mother and all Thy saints.
We have sinned, been lawless and untruthful before You, Most Good Master: we have transgressed Your saving commandments and our sacred vows, even in Holy Baptism before Your holy altar, before Angels and men we have created: having transgressed the Honest Blood of Your covenant, by which we were sanctified, we received the communion of redemption: spirit grace dishonored, the terrible and supernatural sonhood negligent: every scripture, Divine law and God-inspired teaching, the emphasis of the air is vain, and the broadcast is only one, empty deeds, imputed to us: in the name of only and words the honest Gospel of true Christianity contains penance: the hand of the imam to everyone diligent to theft and covetousness, but quickly and boldly to all untruths and evil flowing, they are ready to seize and trample the brotherly part, devouring the wretched: the mouth, sacred prayers and words of God's organ, all uncleanness, idle talk and perjury, created by the demon into the organ: the eyes and all our feelings fornication and all defilement have been fulfilled in abundance: in us, the reigning mind of Divine grace has trampled down the seed, and Thy harlots, Christ, who created harlots, have found a repository of aphids and all uncleanness instead of the church of God.
For this reason, Most Good Master, much of Your love for mankind has been converted into coldness by repentance, and many of Your good gifts have been insanely turned over to us for execution: by no means inferior to the good things that exist for us, inferior to the illnesses of our neighbors that were better, righteously upon us, Your righteous punishment of ulcers by feat. But do not reprove us with Your wrath; punish us with Your wrath, O Lord. You are the only one who has sinned, but we worship You alone, and with a contrite heart, as a pure sacrifice, we offer our confession to You: weaken, O Master of Mankind, heal the righteously inflicted wound: may the multitude of Your bounty overcome the evil assembly of our sins, and may Your countless goodness cover the abyss of the bitter sea of our tears. The imams are in the hands of Your love for mankind, the image and majesty: the thief, the publican, the harlot and the prodigal son, who are all more proficient in repentance than us, have ascended into the Kingdom of Heaven.
With them, accept us who confess and bow down to Thee, O Master: and even if we defend those of all kinds of conversion and repentance, let Your immeasurable goodness fill what is lacking, and moreover, we will truly defend everything that is lacking. We bring to You the sobs of the poor and the voices of babies, the humble and simple part of those praying of all ages, worthy of Your generosity and forgiveness. To this end, for the mercy and mercy of those who bow down to Thee, the cross and free death, even though for our ungrateful sake Thou hast endured the exploits of some of the apostles, saints, fasters, and martyrs of blood: before all, the common hope and salvation of all, especially the word that gave birth to Thee without a seed: whose prayers are philanthropically received, hear us, Jesus Sweetest, we pray to You, and below only for us, but also for them: help our most pious, autocratic, great sovereign, Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich of all Russia and the entire royal house, the entire chamber, the army and their entire power, grant victory to the adversaries, and protect their kingdom with peace.
Save and have mercy on the Most Holy Governing Synod, with all the pious bishops, and all the consecrated rites and church rites, and grant them the whole, serene, faithful right, according to the tradition of the saints, the apostle and the holy father, at the ecumenical councils legitimized by the Holy Spirit, to correct the word of Your truth: those who have erred from the Orthodox faith call heretics and apostates to the knowledge of the truth: enlighten the infidels, so that they may lead you: bring sinners to repentance: grant purity and abstinence to the virgins, shrines to the married: education to the widows and the orphans, protection to the poor, return to the wandering, refuge to the floating: grant forgiveness to the repentant, consolation to the weeping, to the good to abide in goodness, to the average to be the best, to come to the correction of those who sin.
To her, Sweetest Jesus, we pray to Thee: grant forgiveness from our sins, prosperity of mind, health of body, a contented life, peace in our days, goodness of the air, prosperity of the earth, restoration of the Orthodox faith, and the unification of Thy holy churches, the overthrow of heresies, the counsels of the wicked, destruction, the fire of love and all piety, purity in prayer heartfelt, in adversity, patience and generosity, in hope, joy: and all that is beneficial to our mental and physical health and salvation, and more than the splendor of Your glory, grant a befitting petition, and fulfill it according to Your immeasurable generosity, delivering us from the impending righteous rebuke, destruction, cowardice, flood, fire, sword and every deadly plague: and not wanting the death of a sinner, grant us time for repentance, so that we may be freed from present evils and future eternal torments, by the grace and love of Thy Father without beginning, with whom Thou art blessed, with Thy Most Holy, Good and Life-giving Spirit, now and ever and unto the ages of ages.
Lord Jesus Christ, my God, visiting His creation, to Him my passions and the weakness of our human nature and the strength of our adversary were revealed! You Yourself cover me from his malice, for his strength is strong, but our nature is passionate and our strength is weak. Therefore, O Good One, knowing our weakness and bearing the inconvenience of our powerlessness, save me from the confusion of thoughts and the flood of passions, and make me worthy of Your holy service, lest I corrupt its sweetness in my passions, and find myself cold and bold before You. Lord, my sweet Jesus, have mercy and save me.
Master Lord Jesus Christ, our God, who, ineffable for the sake of Your love for mankind, at the end of the ages was clothed in flesh by the Ever-Virgin Mary! We glorify for us Your saving providence, Your servants, Master: we sing songs to You, as we know You for the sake of the Father: let us bless You, for whose sake the Holy Spirit has come into the world. We worship Your Most Pure Mother in the flesh, who served such a terrible mystery: we praise Your angelic countenance, as the singers and servants of Your majesty: we bless the Forerunner John, who baptized You, O Lord: we honor the prophets who proclaimed You: we glorify Your holy apostles: we celebrate the martyrs, We glorify your priests and worship your saints, and we cherish all your righteous people. Such and such a many and ineffable face of the Divine we bring in prayer to You, the All-Bountiful God, Thy servants: and for this sake we ask forgiveness for our sins, grant us all of Thy for the sake of the saints, more abundantly than Thy saints’ bounties: for blessed art Thou unto the ages [Prayers 1st, 2nd, 3rd according to the book Akathists with canons].
To you, Lord, the only good and unforgettable evil one, I confess my sins: to you I fall into an unworthy cry: I have sinned, Lord, I have sinned, and I am not worthy to look up to the heights of heaven from the multitude of my iniquities. But, my Lord, Lord, grant me tears of compunction, the only blessed and merciful one, for with them I beg You to be cleansed before the end from all sin: for it is a terrible and menacing place for the Imam to pass, bodies separated, and a multitude of dark and inhuman demons will hide me, and no one will accompany or deliver me to help. Thus I bow down to Your goodness, do not betray those who offend me, below let my enemies boast about me, Good Lord, below let them say: you came into our hands and you were betrayed to us. Neither, Lord, do not forget Your bounty, and do not reward me for my iniquity, and do not turn Your face away from me: but You, Lord, punish me, both with mercy and generosity, but let not my enemy rejoice over me, but extinguish his reproaches against me and abolish all his actions. And give me a reproachful path to You, O Good Lord, that even though I have sinned, I will not resort to another doctor and will not stretch my hand to a foreign god.
Do not therefore reject my prayer, but hear me with Your goodness, and strengthen my heart with Your fear: and let Your grace be upon me, Lord, like fire that burns up unclean thoughts within me. For you are, O Lord, light more than any light: joy more than any joy: peace more than any peace: true life and salvation that endures forever and ever [According to the complete prayer book].
Chosen Voivode and Lord, hell to the Winner! Because you have been delivered from eternal death, I will praise You, Your creation and servant. But because you have unspeakable mercy, free me from all troubles, calling: Jesus, Son of God, have mercy on me.
Lord, I have sinned in heaven and before You! Accept our conversion and repentance, accept our groaning and tears, accept the repentance of us sinners, accept our sobbing and cry even to death. Receive us, the accursed, who lived without cold: receive us, O Lover of Mankind, who have greatly angered Thee: receive us, Master, who have spent our whole lives in debauchery, in all wickedness and uncleanness: receive us, O Lord God, who have transgressed Thy commandments: receive us, Master, unworthy Thy servants, and do not reward us according to the work of our hands. We confess to You, Master, that because of our sin we are not worthy even of life: we confess, Lord, that we are not worthy even to look at this sun, because we have not carried such a sin, we have not carried a single such atrocity, which we have not committed in our repentance. But accept us, Lord, as the prodigal son, accept us as the thief, accept us as the harlot and the tax collector. Lord, convert us! Lord, give us reason, and do not be angry with us, but be merciful to our sin! You are our God, and don’t we know otherwise to You? Lord, pluck us from our enemies and do not enter into judgment with Your servants. Lord, You are God, and we are Your people.
We have sinned, we have committed lawlessness and untruth, we have created evil, we have sinned in everything, we have disobeyed Your commandments, and for this reason we have strayed far from You. But have mercy, O Lord, on the works of Your hands: have mercy, O Master, on you, who by the cunning of the serpent drove you out of paradise: have mercy on us and clothe us in a tunic of joy and clothing of salvation: have mercy on us, whom the devil deprived of Your help! Merciful, have mercy on you who have forsaken You and those who serve him: have mercy on those who have gone astray: have mercy on those who have not kept Your commandments and have followed the evil deeds of the demons: have mercy on those who have defiled themselves with sins: have mercy on you who remain under the power of the devil: have mercy on those defiled by debauchery. Have mercy, O Most Merciful: have mercy, Kinder: have mercy, Long-suffering, having committed all evil, all desecration, covetousness and unrighteousness behind our hands. The desecrator of the soul you created in Your image, the desecrator of the body, the desecrator of the feeling.
Our tongue appears like a sharp sword, directed against our neighbor, our eyes cast out flames, our hands are full of blood, our feet are quick to commit evil, our lips are defiled by slander, and, to put it briefly, we desecrate both the earth and the air. Truly, our unrighteous deeds have reached even to heaven, our thefts have exceeded the mountains, our covetousness has surpassed the clouds, our vices have reached the sky, our sins are unforgivable, our crimes have no excuse, our sins are incorrigible, and the earth cannot bear our atrocities. Moreover, Lord, the imams need Your mercy. You weigh the weakness of our nature: have mercy, O Lord, on the creation of Your hands. Behold, we appeal to Thy mercy: do not deprive us of Thy help, send down Thy mercy to us unworthy, grant to us sinners Thy intercession, show us Thy face, and we will be saved.
Lord our God, who sits on the cherubim, raising up the power and sending Your only begotten Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, may he save the world by the cross and burial and by His Resurrection: Who has now come to Jerusalem to the wave of death, the people sitting in darkness and the shadow of death, having received the signs of victory, branches of trees and branches date, foretelling the Resurrection! O Master, Himself, in imitation of one on this pre-festive day, preserve the branches and branches of trees in the hands of those who carry them, and like the people and children, preserve the hosannas of those who offer You: for that we too, in spiritual songs and singing, may be worthy to achieve the life-giving and three-day resurrection, in Christ Jesus our Lord: with Him art thou blessed, with Your Most Holy and Good and Life-giving Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
Assuring the general resurrection before Your passion, You raised Lazarus from the dead, O Christ our God. Likewise, we, like the fathers of victory bearing signs of victory, cry out to You, the Conqueror of death: Hosanna in the highest, blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord.
According to the Great Litany the exclamation:
For You are the purification of our souls, and to You we send glory, to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
And according to the amine, the primate prays loudly with this prayer:
Most Good God, unapproachable by Divinity, who is perceived in the image of the servant servant, and, in the image of saving humility, the feet of Thy disciples were washed with Thy most pure hands and opened with laziness! Look down now upon us, unworthy Thy servants, imitating Thy glorious condescension: and make it worthy for us to be washed away from carnal defilements, and from spiritual impurities, sowing waters with a touch. Grant us the invisible influx of the Most Holy Spirit: strengthen us from the flattering serpent that gnaws at our heels, so that once you have been cleansed, we may serve You favorably, above the serpents and scorpions and all the forces of the enemy who are transitory. For all glory, honor and worship is due to You, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
Peace to all.
Bow your heads to the Lord.
And the primate prays secretly:
Lord our God, who showed us the measures of humility in Your highest condescension, and called the last will of the first, grace us in serving each other: exalt us with Divine humility, keep us from filth, always washed with tears, cleansed by the enlightenment of the purifying grace of Yours: may the truth always fall upon You, we will find mercy and bounty at Your terrible judgment.
Exclamation:
For You are a Merciful and Lover of Mankind, and we send up glory to You, with Your Beginningless Father, and Your All-Holy and Good and Life-giving Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
According to the Gospel, the primate says this prayer for everyone to hear:
Lord our God, who through the multitude of Your mercy exhausted Himself and received the form of a servant, who, during Your saving and life-giving and free Passion, deigned to sup with Your saints, the disciples and apostles: and therefore He girded Himself with laziness, and washed the feet of the disciples, giving them an image of humility and love, a hedgehog to each other, and saying: as I have done to you, so do you to each other! Even now, Master, in the midst of Your unworthy servants, those who follow Your image, having come to wash away all the filthiness and impurity of our souls, so that, having washed away the dust that has clung to us from sins and wiped away each other through lazy love, we will be able to please You all the days of our lives and find grace before You. For You are the One who blesses and sanctifies all things, O Christ our God, and we send up glory to You, with Your Originless Father, and Your All-Holy and Good and Life-giving Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
Nailed for us on the cross, Jesus Christ, the Only Begotten Son of God the Father, an inexhaustible Abyss of mercy, love and generosity! We know that for the sake of my sins, out of unspeakable love for mankind, you deigned to shed your blood on the cross, even though I, accursed and ungrateful, have trampled upon my bad deeds and held nothing against me. Now, from the depths of lawlessness and uncleanness, my mental eye has looked upon You crucified on the cross as my Redeemer, with humility and faith in the depths of Your mercy I cast myself down, asking for the forgiveness of my sins and correction of my foul life. Be merciful to me, my Lord and Judge, do not cast me away from Your presence, but with Your omnipotent hand turn me to You and guide me on the path of true repentance, so that from now on I will lay the beginning of my salvation. With Your divine sufferings, tame my carnal passions: with Your shed blood, cleanse my spiritual defilements: with Your crucifixion, crucify me to the world and its lusts: with Your cross, protect me from the invisible enemies who are trapping my soul.
Having been nailed to the flesh, nail my flesh to Thy fear, so that, having turned away from evil, I may do good before Thee. Having bowed Your head on the cross, bend my exalted pride to the ground of humility: You who have tasted bile with your lips, put my unclean lips in storage: having a heart opened with a spear, create a pure heart in me: with all Your wounds, wound me sweetly into Your love, so that I may love You my Lord with all my soul, with all my heart, with all my strength and with all by thought. Show me the All-Blessed One, who delivers my soul from death: show Himself the All-Sweet One, who delights me in sorrows and misfortunes with Your love, and whom I first hated, angered, drove out from myself and like nailing my sins to the cross, whom I will now love, joyfully accept, and sweet His cross until the end of my life I'll carry it.
From now on, O All-merciful Redeemer, do not allow my will to be fulfilled, since evil is and is indecent, lest I again fall into the hard work of the sin that reigned in me: but Your good will, which wants to save me, may it always be fulfilled in me, handing me over to You, I imagine the crucified Lord of my heart with the intelligent comb of my heart and pray from the depths of my soul, and in In my separation from my mortal body, I will see You alone on Your cross, in the hand of Your protection, accepting me and keeping me from the airy spirits of malice, indwelling with sinners who have pleased You with repentance.
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the Living God, Creator of heaven and earth, Savior of the world! Now, unworthy and most sinful of all, humbly bowing the knee of my heart before the glory of Thy Majesty, I sing the Cross and Thy suffering, and I offer thanks to Thee, the King of all and to God, for Thou hast deigned to bear all the labors and all kinds of troubles, misfortunes and torments as a man, so that He may sympathize with all of us in all sorrows, needs and embitterments. You will be a Helper and Savior. We know, Omnipotent Master, that all this was not needed by You, but for the sake of human salvation, that You might redeem us all from the cruel work of the enemy, You endured the cross and suffering. That I will repay Thee, O Lover of Mankind, for all that Thou hast suffered for me for the sake of a sinner; We do not know: for soul and body and all that is good are from You, and all that is mine is Yours, and I am Yours.
I hope in Thy innumerable mercy, O Blessed Lord, I sing Thy ineffable long-suffering, I magnify Thy inscrutable exhaustion, I glorify Thy immeasurable mercy, I worship Thy most pure passion, and lovingly kissing Thy wounds, I cry out: have mercy on me, a sinner, and do not Thy Holy Cross will be fruitless in me, but may I commune here with Thy suffering in faith, and be worthy to see the glory of Thy Kingdom in heaven.
Glory to Thee, Lord Jesus Christ, my God, for Thou hast once again vouchsafed me, unworthy, having passed through the field of holy fasting, to worship Thy Divine passion and to see the all-joyful day of Thy glorious Resurrection from the tomb of the Resurrection, and Thou hast freed the souls of the righteous who have been bound for centuries in hell. This is the Divine liberation, my Savior, and I wish that you may resolve me, bound by many sins, and may you cause the life-giving light of Your Resurrection to shine in my dark soul: I see your countless bounties and your ineffable love for mankind, as if you did not bring me into existence from non-existence, and the image Having adorned your likeness, you made me the ruler of all the earthly creatures, but even then, having fallen from the heights and enslaved to the enemy, you forsook me in no way, but, having redeemed me with your priceless blood, you provided me with the grace of Baptism, so that I may ascend to the first wealth. However, the accursed one, having become a carnal mind, turned back and again I am a slave of sin, until one by one I destroyed all the gifts of Thy grace.
And now for what I will do, we do not know: but having remembered the words of Your most pure lips, as if You did not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance, I come again with faith and humility to Your life-giving tomb, not myrrh, below the aromas of piety [for I am naked and empty of good deeds], but I have not rejected forgiveness more than hope I will receive from You my sin, and renewal for my unclean life. Look upon me now that I repent and wish to serve you, and do not reject me from the grace of Your Resurrection. You deign life-giving death and burial, put to death my fierce passions, so that I may appear to the world as dead and buried. Having raised the dead by Your glorious rising, raise up my soul, mortified by sins, and awaken my conscience, which is most needed in the world.
By Your ascension to heaven, renewing the path to heaven for the human race, tear me away from the vain and soul-sucking blessings of earthly things, and make me heavenly wise, so that by living and pleasing no one, but by serving and working with You, my Lord and God, I will be worthy to see You face to face, my Redeemer, for accepting death on the cross with glory and honor. crowned, and at the right hand of Your Majesty, with the Archangels and Angels and with all those redeemed by You, I will give you Glory and worship, with the Father and the Holy Spirit, forever and ever.
Almighty God and Lord Almighty, like Your servant Moses, in the exodus of Israel from Egypt and in the liberation of Your people from the bitter work of Pharaoh, You commanded the lamb to be slaughtered, prefiguring on the cross the Lamb slain by the will of us, who takes away the sins of the whole world, Your beloved Son, our Lord Jesus Christ! and now, humbly pray to Thee, look upon this bread, and bless and sanctify it: for we too are Thy servants, in honor and glory and in remembrance of the glorious Resurrection of that same Son of Thy Lord Jesus Christ, to whom from the eternal work of the enemy and from the insoluble bonds of hell we receive permission, freedom and transference, before Thy Majesty now into this all-light, Glorious and saving day of Easter, this we bring: we who bring this, and kiss it, and eat from it, make us partakers of Your heavenly blessing, and take away all sickness and illness from us, by Your power, giving health to everyone.
For You are the source of blessing and the giver of healing, and we send up glory to You, the Beginning Father, with Your Only Begotten Son, and Your Most Holy and Good and Life-giving Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
Abiye the priest sprinkles the artos with sacred water, saying:
This artos is blessed and sanctified by sprinkling the sacred water, in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, amen. [Thrice.]
Lord Jesus Christ, our God, the bread of angels, the bread of eternal life, who came down from heaven, who fed us in these all-bright days with spiritual food of Your Divine blessings, for the sake of the three-day and saving Resurrection! Look now, we humbly pray to Thee, to our prayers and thanksgivings, and as Thou hast blessed the five loaves of bread in the desert, and now bless this bread, that all who eat from it may be granted bodily and spiritual blessings and health, by the grace and bounty of Thy love for mankind. For You are our sanctification, and we send up glory to You, with Your Originless Father, and Your All-Holy, Good and Life-giving Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
Good Lover of Mankind, Most Merciful Lord, who bore our ailments and healed us with Your wounds! Before Your Majesty, we slavishly fall down and humbly pray: look, O Compassionate One, upon Your servants, and just as in ancient times You healed the weakened man who had been lying sick for thirty-eight years, and so now, O Good Healer, visit Your servants with Your mercy and bounties. You said to the weakened people of old: Arise, take up your bed and walk.
Likewise, we, sinners and unworthy Thy servants, relying on Thy Divine words, humbly falling before Thy Majesty, touchingly ask Thy Divine mercy and ineffable love for mankind: open to us the doors of Thy mercy and forgive all our sins, voluntary and involuntary, in the image of Thy goodness we have angered and Your love for mankind has irritated us: heal our sinful illness: transform our mental and physical illnesses into health, transform our infirmities into strength, transform our sorrows into joy and sorrows into consolation: take away from us all despondency and oblivion: strengthen our minds and keep our goals, so that we can always learn from Your commandments: correct all our troubles, Do Your good and perfect will. For You are the Good Healer, upliftment of the weak, physician to the sick, healing to the sick, guardian of health to the healthy, and we send glory to You, with Your Beginning Father, and Your Most Holy and Good and Life-giving Spirit, now and ever and unto the ages of ages.
Look down from heaven, O Lord our God, hear the prayer of Your servants who pray to You, and do not cast us away from Your face, who in sorrow and illness come running to You and cry out: have mercy on us who sin against You, and deliver us from all bitterness and weakness, for You alone are the healer of our souls and bodies.
Most Pure, Undefiled, Without Beginning, Invisible, Incomprehensible, Unsearchable, Unfailing, Invincible, Countless, Gentle Lord, who alone has immortality, is unapproachable in the living light, having created heaven and earth, and the sea, and everything created on them: first ask, give petitions to everyone!
We pray to you and ask you, Lord, Lover of Mankind, Father of the Lord and God and our Savior Jesus Christ, for us for the sake of men and for our salvation, who came down from heaven, and became incarnate from the Holy Spirit and Mary, the Ever-Virgin and Most Glorious Mother of God: who first taught words, followed and showed deeds, having endured the saving passion, give us a signature Thy humble and sinful and unworthy servant, bring prayers to You, on our knees and knees, about our sins and about human ignorance: You Yourself, Most merciful and Lover of mankind, hear us, on the day we will call on You, and even more on this fiftieth day, after the Ascension of our Lord Jesus Christ into heaven and His sitting at the right hand of You and The Father, sent down the Holy Spirit and His holy disciples and apostles, who sat upon one of them, and were filled with all His inexhaustible grace, and spoke in other tongues Your greatness, and prophesied. Now, as we pray to You, hear us, and remember us, the humble and condemned, and return the captivity of our souls, having Your mercy prayed for us.
Receive us who fall to You and cry out: we have sinned. We have been committed to You from the womb, from the womb of our mother, You are our God: but as if our days have disappeared in the vanity, we are naked of Your help, hesitant of any answer. But daring in Thy bounty, we call: do not remember the sins of our youth and ignorance, and cleanse us from our secrets, and do not reject us in old age, when our strength becomes impoverished: do not leave us before, even we will not return to the land: grant us the privilege to return to You, and grant us favor and grace: measure up our iniquities with Thy bounties: having set the abyss of Your bounties against the multitude of our sins. Look down from the height of Thy holiness, O Lord, upon Thy people who are coming and who expect rich mercies from Thee: visit us with Thy goodness, deliver us from the violence of the devil: establish our life with Thy holy and sacred laws: assign a faithful guardian angel to Thy people, gather everyone into Thy Kingdom: grant forgiveness to those who trust in Thee, Forgive them and us their sins: cleanse us through the action of Your holy spirit: destroy the machinations of the enemy against us.
This prayer is also added:
Blessed are you, Lord, Master Almighty, who enlightened the day with the light of the sun and illuminated the night with fiery dawns, making us worthy to pass the length of the day and draw near with the firstfruits of the night! Hear our prayers and those of all Thy people, and having forgiven us all our voluntary and involuntary sins, accept our evening prayers, and send down a multitude of Thy mercy and Thy generosity upon Thy property: cover us with Thy holy angels: arm us with the weapon of Thy righteousness: protect us with Thy truth: guard us with Thy power: deliver us from every situation, every slander that lies against us: grant us this evening, with the coming night, perfect, holy, peaceful, sinless, without temptation, without dreams, and all the days of our life, through the prayers of the Holy Mother of God and all the saints who have pleased You from the ages.
At the end of the litany the exclamation:
For it is Thine to have mercy and to save us, O Lord our God, and to Thee we send glory, to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
Lord Jesus Christ our God, Thy peace given by man and the gift of the Most Holy Spirit, still in life and with us, forever grant as an inalienable inheritance to the faithful: this grace was most manifested by Thy disciple and apostle today, and having established these tongues with fiery lips, in the image of the whole human race the knowledge of God with His tongue received into the hearing of the ear, enlightened by the light of the Spirit, and We have changed the charms of darkness, and the sensual and fiery tongue of the dispensation and supernatural action of faith in You, learned, and to bless You with the Father and the Holy Spirit in the One Divinity and the power and authority we have been enlightened! Therefore, You, Father’s radiance, His unchanging and immovable outline of beings and natures, the source of wisdom and grace, open my sinner’s mouth too, and teach me how it is worthy and for their needs to pray: You know many of my sins, many, but Your compassion will overcome these immeasurable ones: for fear I stand before You, into the abyss of Your mercy I have plunged the despair of my soul.
Feed my belly, in a word, control all creation with the power of ineffable wisdom, a quiet refuge for the stormy, and tell me the way, I will go further. Grant the spirit of Thy wisdom to my thoughts, grant the spirit of reason to my madness: with the spirit of Thy fear my autumn deeds, and renew the right spirit in my womb, and establish the knowledge of my thoughts with the spirit of the master: so that I may be instructed by Thy Good Spirit every day for useful things, I may be deemed worthy to do Thy commandments and to remember Thy glorious things ever. the coming and tormenting of what we have done. And let me not be despised by the corruptibles to be seduced by the reds of this world, but desire to strengthen the treasures of future perceptions. Thou hast declared, O Master, that even if anyone asks for Thy name, he freely receives from Thy Ever-Existing God and Father. In the same way, I, a sinner, at the coming of Your holy Spirit, I pray for Your goodness: if you have asked, reward me for salvation. To her, Lord, rich in every good deed, to the Giver and Giver of the Good, for You are the One who gives abundantly what we ask!
You are compassionate and merciful, having been a sinless companion of our flesh, and bowing your knees to those who bow their knees to You, the purification of our sins. Grant therefore, O Lord, to Thy people Thy bounty: hear us from Thy holy heaven: sanctify us with the power of Thy saving right hand: cover us with the shelter of Thy wing: let us not despise the work of Thy hand. We sin against You alone, but we also serve You alone: we cannot bow down to an alien god, nor can we stretch our hands lower, O Master, to another God. Forgive us our sins, and accept our kneeling prayers, extend a helping hand to all of us, accept the prayer of all, like a pleasant incense acceptable before Your most good Kingdom.
This is also added:
Lord, Lord, deliver us from every arrow that flies in the days, deliver us from every thing that passes in darkness. Accept the evening sacrifice, the offering of our hands: grant us the privilege to pass through the night without blemish, untested from the evil ones: and deliver us from all confusion and fear that comes to us from the devil. Grant tenderness to our souls and care for our thoughts during Thy terrible and righteous trial trial. Nail our flesh with Thy fear, and mortify our souls that exist on earth, so that in sleepy silence we may be enlightened by the sight of Thy destinies. Take away from us every inappropriate dream and harmful lust: raise us up during prayer to be established in the faith and to excel in Your commandments.
At the end of the litany the exclamation:
By the beauty and goodness of Your only begotten Son, with whom You are blessed, with Your Most Holy and Good and Life-giving Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
The ever-flowing, animal and enlightening Source, co-essential with the Father, the creative power, who beautifully fulfilled all the vision for human salvation, Christ our God, broke the bonds of death and the rivets of hell, and trampled down many evil spirits: He brought for Himself the immaculate slaughter for us, and gave the Most Pure Body as a sacrifice for all sin. inviolable and impassable, and by this terrible and inscrutable sacred rite, an eternal life bestowed upon us: he descended into hell, and crushed the eternal faiths, and showed the sunrise to those who sit in darkness: the beginning of the evil and deep serpent, caught by God-wise flattery, and tied with chains of darkness in Tartarus and the fires are unquenchable, and in the outer darkness your innumerable strength has been strengthened with strength: the great wisdom of the Father, the great helper who has appeared and enlightened those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death!
You, ever-present glory, Lord and beloved Son of the Most High, ever-present in the light of the ever-present light, sun of righteousness, hear us praying to You, and give rest to the souls of Your servants, our fathers and brothers who have fallen before us, and others who are related in the flesh, and all of our own in the faith, of whom we create memory now: for in You is the power of all, and in the hand Yours contains all the ends of the earth. Master Almighty, God the Father and Lord of mercy, the Creator of the mortal and immortal race and of all human nature, which is composed and resolvable, life and death, between being here and going there: measure the years of the living and set the times of death: bring down to hell: bind in weakness and let go in strength: real Build as needed and manage the future usefully: cheer the mortal sting of the wounded with the hopes of resurrection!
For Himself, Lord of all, God our Savior, Hope of all the ends of the earth and those who are in the seas far away, likewise, and on this last and great saving day of the Pentecost feast, He showed us the mystery of the Holy and consubstantial and co-essential and inseparable and unchangeable Trinity, and the influx and coming of Your Holy and Life-giving Spirit in the form of fiery tongues poured out on Thy saints, the apostles poured out those evangelists of our pious faith, and showed confessors and preachers of true theology: even on this all-perfect and saving feast of purification, you are worthy to receive prayer for those held in hell, and give us great hopes of weakening the contents of the defilements that I contain, and Your consolation is sent down: hear us humble and Your servants praying to You, and rest the souls of Your servants, who have fallen before the dead, in a place of light, in a greener place, in a place of coolness, from where all sickness, sorrow and sighing have been cast away, and restore their spirits in the villages of the righteous, and grant them peace and weakness: for Not in the dead will they praise Thee, O Lord; those who exist in hell will dare to bring confession to Thee: but we bless Thee alive and pray, and offer purifying prayers and sacrifices to Thee for their souls.
This prayer is also added:
Great and eternal God, Holy, loving of mankind, who has made us worthy at this hour to stand before Your unapproachable glory to sing and praise Your wonders! Cleanse us, Thy unworthy servants, and grant us grace, so that with a contrite heart, we can proudly bring You the thrice-holy praise and thanksgiving of Your great gifts, which You have created for us and always create in us. Remember, Lord, our weakness, and do not destroy us with our iniquities: but do great mercy with our humility, so that having escaped the darkness of sin, we will walk in the days of righteousness, and, clothed in the weapons of everything, we will abide unscathed from all the wiles of the evil one, and with boldness we will glorify for all of You the only true and lover of mankind. God. Thine is truly a great and eternal sacrament, the Lord of all and the Creator, the temporary resolution of Thy creatures, and the hedgehog's union for now, and the rest of the hedgehog forever.
We confess grace to you for everyone, about our entrances into this world and our departures, whose hopes of resurrection and incorruptible life are promised to us by your false promise, which we will receive in your future second coming: for you are the ruler of our resurrection, and the unwashed and humane-loving judge of those who have lived, and the Lord and the Lord of rewards, and sharing with us sincerely flesh and blood, for the sake of extreme condescension: and our irresistible passions, sometimes willingly put us into temptation, we accept generosity as mercy, and in it you yourself suffered, having been tempted, your self-promised helper was tempted to us: in the same way you brought us into your dispassion.
Accept therefore, O Master, our prayers and supplications, and give rest to all fathers and mothers and children, and brothers and sisters, only-begotten and born-born, and all previously departed souls in the hope of the resurrection of eternal life: place their spirits and names in the book of living things, in the bosom of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, in the land of the living, in the Kingdom of Heaven, in heavens of sweetness, Thy bright angels leading all into Thy holy abodes, co-raising our bodies on the day that Thou hast determined according to Thy saints and false promises. For there is no death, Lord, for Thy servant, which comes to us from the body and comes to Thee our God, but repose from the saddest to the most useful and sweetest, and to peace and joy. Even if we have sinned against You, be merciful to us in this way: not a single one is pure before You from defilements, even if there is only one day of his life, unless You are the only one who appeared on earth, our sinless Lord Jesus Christ, in whom we all hope to receive mercy and remission of sins.
For this reason, for our sake, for God is good and a lover of mankind, weaken, forgive, forgive our sins, voluntary and involuntary, both in knowledge and in ignorance, presented and forgotten: even in action, even in thought, even in words, even in all our lives and movements. And grant to those who have departed freedom and weakness, but bless us who are here, granting us and all Your people a good and peaceful end, and opening the womb of mercy and love for mankind to us at Your terrible and terrible coming, and making Thy Kingdom worthy of us.
This prayer is also added:
The Great and Most High God, who alone has immortality, lives unapproachable in the light, who created all creation with wisdom, dividing in the midst of light and in the midst of darkness, and having placed the sun in the region of the day, and the moon and stars in the region of the night: having made us sinners worthy to precede Thine in confession and to offer the evening service to Thee! Yourself, O Lord of Mankind, correct our prayer as if it were incense before You, and accept it into the stench of fragrance: grant us the present evening and the peaceful night that comes: clothe us with the weapons of light, deliver us from the fear of the night and from every thing that passes in darkness: and grant us sleep, which you have granted for the repose of our weakness, from all the devil's dream has been changed. To her, Master, the giver of all good things, as though we are touched on our beds, let us remember Your holy name in the night, and with the teaching of Your commandments illuminated, in the joy of our souls we will rise to the praise of Your goodness, prayers and supplications to Your compassion, offering for our sins and for all Your people, theirs, through the prayers of the Most Holy Theotokos, visit us in mercy.
At the end of the litany the exclamation:
For you are the rest of our souls and bodies, and we send glory to you, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
Lord our God, who bowed down the heavens and came down to save the human race! Look upon Thy servants and Thy wealth. For you, the terrible and man-loving judge, Your servants have bowed their heads and subdued their necks, not expecting help from people, but expecting Your mercy and Your longing for salvation: keep them at all times, both in the present hour and in the evening, and in the passing night, from every opposing action of the devil, vain thoughts and memories the crafty ones.
Proclamation:
May the power of Your Kingdom be blessed and glorified, Father and Son and Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
Who from the Father's and Divine bosom exhausted Himself, and descended from heaven to earth, and perceived our entire nature and deified it, but again ascended to heaven, and sat at the right hand of God and the Father, and sent down the Divine and holy and Consubstantial and one-powerful and one-glorious and co-eternal Spirit to His holy disciples and apostles, and thus enlightening them, with the same the whole universe, Christ our true God, through the prayers of the Most Pure and Immaculate Holy Mother, the glorious saints, the most praiseworthy preachers of God, and the spirit-bearing apostles, and all the saints, will have mercy and save us, for he is good and a lover of mankind.
Almighty Master, All-Wise and All-Good Lord, the Light-originating Son and the Pre-Eternal Parent and Life-giving Spirit of Yours, eternal and ever-present to the self-creator, His majesty is innumerable, and his glory is unspeakable, and his mercy is immeasurable! We thank Thee, for Thou hast called us from non-existence, and in Thy valuable image Thou hast bestowed upon us, unworthy, not only to know and love Thee, but also to call our father Thee. We thank Thee, God of mercy and generosity, for Thou didst not forsake us who transgressed Thy commandment in the midst of sin and the shadow of death, but Thou didst favor Thy only begotten son, by whom all men were created, to send to our earth for the sake of salvation, and through His incarnation and most pure passion and Resurrection from the torment of the devil and aphids mortals let us be free. We thank Thee, God of love and strength, for after the ascension of our Savior into heaven, He prayed by His cross, sending down Thy Holy Spirit upon His chosen disciples and apostles, so that the whole world might be enlightened by the word of the teachings of Christ.
Therefore, O humane-loving Master, hear now the humble prayer of us, unworthy of Your children, and just as You created us according to Your goodness, and just as You redeemed us according to Your great mercy, so also save us according to Your unconditional mercy: because of our deeds, imams are lower than the wall of salvation, but the hope of righteous revenge and separation from Your bright face envelops our souls. Even if men will repay even one idle word on the day of judgment: how can we give an answer to our countless iniquities that have sinned before You? For this reason, because of our desperate justification from our deeds, to Yours alone, every mind and every word surpassing, we resort to goodness, even though we have a solid foundation of hope, we pray to You: cleanse those who have sinned, O Lord! lawless, forgive me, Master! by the anger of You, be reconciled, long-suffering! And save the rest of our mind, conscience and heart from worldly defilements, deliver and save us from the multi-rebellious storm of passions and falls, voluntary and involuntary, known and unknown, and guide us into a quiet haven of faith, love and eternal hope in life.
Remember us in Thy mercy, Lord, grant us all the forgiveness that leads to salvation, and above all, give us a pure and sinless life: make us worthy to love you with all our hearts and to do Thy holy will in everything, through the prayers of our Most Pure Lady Theotokos and all Thy saints. For You are a good and loving God, and we send up glory and thanksgiving and worship to You, with Your Only Begotten Son, and with Your Most Holy and Good and Life-giving Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
The Only Begotten Son and Word of God, who deigned to be incarnate and endure death for our salvation, now, with Your most pure flesh, sit in heaven on the throne with the Father and rule the whole world in righteousness! Do not forget us, who are in the depths and tempted by many misfortunes and sorrows, even though we are very unclean and unworthy of us, but we believe in You as our Savior and Lord, and we know no other intercessor and hope of salvation. Grant, O All-merciful Redeemer, the memory of Your most pure and terrible passions, how You even descended to hell with Your most pure soul, so that you may free us from the power and torment of hell. Let us put all this together in our hearts, so that we may be guarded from our passions and sins, and let us love truth and virtue, which are most pleasant to You, even if we have any gift to You. Weigh, O All-Merciful One, since the weakness of our spirit and flesh is great, but our enemy is strong and cunning, who walks like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour: do not leave us with Your all-powerful help, and be with us always, protecting and covering, instructing and strengthening, delighting and cheering our spirit.
We, throwing ourselves into the bosom of Thy love and mercy, commit our whole life, temporary and eternal, to You, our Master, Redeemer and Lord, begging from the depths of our souls, yes, through our destinies, make it possible for us to pass through the comfortably gloomy life of this earthly vale and reach Thy god-red palace, which Thou hast promised prepare for all those who believe in Your name and for those who follow Your divine steps.
Heavenly King, All-merciful Comforter, True Soul, proceed from the Father eternally and always rest in the Son, unenviable Source of divine gifts, sharing them with everyone as you wish, to whom we too were unworthy of sanctification, designated on the day of our former baptism! Look upon the prayer of Thy servant, come to us, dwell in us, and cleanse our souls, so that we may be prepared for the dwelling of the Most Holy Trinity. Hey, O All-Blessed One! Do not abhor our uncleanness and sinful wounds, but heal me with Your all-healing anointing. Enlighten our mind, so that we understand the vanity of the world and what is in the world: revive our conscience, and incessantly proclaim to us what is right to do and what to reject: correct and renew our heart, so that it does not exude other evil thoughts and inappropriate desires: and extinguish the flame of our passions with Your dew-bearing breath, so that The blessed image of God is darkened in us.
Drive away the spirit of idleness, despondency, covetousness and idle talk from us, give us the spirit of love and patience, the spirit of meekness and humility, the spirit of purity and truth, so that, having corrected our weakened hearts, we will not be lazy in following the path of the commandments of the saints, and thus, avoiding all sin and doing all righteousness, we will be granted a peaceful death and I will not be ashamed to receive and enter into heavenly Jerusalem, and there to worship You, together with the Father and the Son, the Trinity, Consubstantial and indivisible, forever and ever.
To the Most Holy Trinity, Consubstantial Power, all good wines! What shall we repay Thee for all that Thou hast repaid to us sinners and unworthy, before we were born into this world, for all that Thou hast repaid to everyone from us all the days and which Thou hast prepared for all of us in the world to come? It is fitting, then, for so much good deeds and generosity, not just in words, but more than in deeds, to give thanks to Thee, who keep and fulfill Thy commandments: but we, being aware of our passions and evil customs, have cast down countless sins and iniquities from our youth. For this reason, as unclean and defiled, I do not mean to appear before Your three-bright face without cold, but to speak below Your most holy name, which is sufficient for us, if You Yourself had not deigned to announce for our joy that the pure and righteous are loving, and sinners who repent are merciful and accept with joy.
Look then, O Divine Trinity, from the height of Thy holy glory upon us who have sinned many times, and accept good will instead of good deeds, and give us the spirit of true repentance, so that, having hated every sin, we will live in purity and truth until the end of our days, doing Thy most holy will and glorifying with pure thoughts and good deeds the most holy and majestic is Your name forever and ever.
The Almighty and Life-giving Holy Trinity, and the source of light, even every peaceful and worldly creature, for one goodness from those who do not exist, brought, and provided, and contained: likewise, according to Your other ineffable blessings about the earthly race, and granted us repentance for the sake of carnal infirmity until death! Do not leave us, accursed in our evil deeds, to die, and to be beneath the evildoer and the envious and the destroyer. See, O Merciful One, how much is there slander and enmity against us, as much as our passion is weakness and negligence. But do Thy infinite goodness upon us, we pray, every day and hour that angers Thee, make honest and life-giving commandments a crime. And all the sins that we have sinned in our deeds, or in words, or in thoughts, until now, in our deeds, or in words, or in thoughts, forsake and fast. Vouchsafe us the rest of our lives to end our lives in repentance and tenderness and observance of Your holy commandments.
If, having been seduced by sweetness, having sinned in many ways, or by vile lusts, unhelpful and harmful, having been seduced by the sender; if, moved by anger and speechless rage, whom we have insulted; if we have embraced the tongue of the inevitable and obstinate and strong nets; involuntarily, knowingly or unknowingly, from admiration or teaching we crawl madly: if evil thoughts and vain desecrate the conscience: if we have sinned in any other way, undertakings and customs we have suffered evil: forgive us and leave everything, O All-Bountiful, All-Merciful and Much-Merciful One, and grant us other courage and the power to do Thy good and is pleasing and perfect: let the nightly and dark evil be reduced by light-like repentance, and as we walk gracefully in the days, and being purified, let us declare ourselves unworthy of Thy love for mankind, praising Thee and magnifying forever.
We thank Thee, Lord, Lover of Mankind, King of the ages and Giver of good things, who destroyed the hostility of the mediastinum and gave peace to the human race. Grant us, Thy servants, peace through Thy honorable robe: root Thy fear in everyone, and establish love for each other: quench all strife, zeal and temptations. For You are our peace, and we send up glory to You, together with the Father and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
O marvelous our Creator, humane-loving Master, most merciful Lord! For the sake of us, man, and for our salvation, you deigned to endure terrible passions, spitting, beatings and strangulation, and the cross and death. I remember all this with faith, and with reverence I honor Your multi-healing robe, which You deigned to wear according to the flesh, and with a contrite and humble heart I pray to You: do not disdain my sinful prayer, do not reject my tears and sighs, hear me, like the Canaanite, do not despise me, like a harlot, show me, a sinner, the great mercy of Thy love for mankind, protect me with Thy honest robe, have mercy and strengthen me, so that I may endure all the troubles and misfortunes sent from You with thanksgiving, in the hope of eternal blessings: rather, turn my sorrow into joy, so that I, the accursed one, will not fall into despair and perish. For You are the source of mercy and the unashamed hope of our salvation, Christ our God, and we send up glory to You, with the Beginningless Father, and with Your Most Holy and Good and Life-giving Spirit, now and ever and unto the ages of ages.
Today, let us return to the divine and celibate robe of our Savior God, who deigned to wear this flesh and pour out His holy blood on the cross, with which redeem us from the work of the enemy. Thus we cry out to Him with gratitude: save our Orthodox Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich: protect both the bishops, and the city, and all the people with Your honorable robe, and save our souls, as a lover of mankind.
O Lord, Holy One, living in the highest, looking down upon all creation with Your all-seeing eye! We bow to You, souls and bodies, We pray to You, Holy of Holies: stretch out Your invisible hand from Your holy dwelling, and bless us all, and forgive us every sin, voluntary or involuntary, committed in word or deed. Grant us, Lord, tenderness and tears of contrition to cleanse our many sins, grant Your great mercy to Your world and to us, Your unworthy servant. For blessed and glorified is Your name, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
Good Lover of Mankind, Most Merciful Lord, who bore our ailments and healed us with Your wounds! Before Your Majesty, we slavishly fall down and humbly pray: look, O Compassionate One, upon Your servants, and just as in ancient times You healed the weakened man who had been lying sick for thirty-eight years, and so now, O Good Healer, visit Your servants with Your mercy and bounties. You said to the weakened people of old: Arise, take up your bed and walk.
Likewise, we, sinners and unworthy Thy servants, relying on Thy Divine words, humbly falling before Thy Majesty, touchingly ask Thy Divine mercy and ineffable love for mankind: open to us the doors of Thy mercy and forgive all our sins, voluntary and involuntary, in the image of Thy goodness we have angered and Your love for mankind has irritated us: heal our sinful illness: transform our mental and physical illnesses into health, transform our infirmities into strength, transform our sorrows into joy and sorrows into consolation: take away from us all despondency and oblivion: strengthen our minds and keep our goals, so that we can always learn from Your commandments: correct all our troubles, Do Your good and perfect will. For You are the Good Healer, upliftment of the weak, physician to the sick, healing to the sick, guardian of health to the healthy, and we send glory to You, with Your Beginning Father, and Your Most Holy and Good and Life-giving Spirit, now and ever and unto the ages of ages.
Looking down from on high, accepting the wretched, visited by our embittered sins, O Lord, All-Merciful, through the prayers of the Mother of God, grant great mercy to our souls.
Let's pray to the Lord.
Lord, have mercy.
Bless, Lord, the fruit of this new vine, with the blessing of the air, and the drops of rain, and the silence of time, in this most ripest hour of favor to come: may it be in us from that birth of the vine that we partake in joy, and bring you the gift for the cleansing of sins, in the sacred and holy body of Thy Christ, with which we are blessed Thou art with Thy Most Holy and Good and Life-giving Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
Be aware that where grapes are not found, apples are brought to the church on this day, and this prayer is said for those who bring the first fruits of vegetables:
Master, Lord our God, from Yours to bring to You according to the commandment and granting of Your eternal blessings, grant this reward, even the widow according to the strength of the offering was accepted with pleasure, accept and now brought from Your servant [name], and in Your eternal treasures vouchsafe this reward: grant to him also Your worldly blessings abundant perception, with all that is beneficial to it. For Your name is blessed, and Your Kingdom, of the Father and the Son of the Holy Spirit, is glorified, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
O Most Blessed Lord Jesus Christ, our God! You, from the ancient times of human nature, washed Your face with holy water and wiped it with a rubbish, and you deigned to depict it miraculously on the same ubrus and sent it to the Edessa prince Abgar for the healing of his illness. Behold, now we, Thy sinful servants, possessed by our mental and physical ailments, seek Thy face, O Lord, and with David in the humility of our souls we call: do not turn Thy face away from us, and turn away in anger from Thy servants: be our helper, do not reject us and do not forsake us. O All-Merciful Lord, our Savior! Imagine for Yourself in our souls, living in holiness and truth, that we will be Your sons and heirs of Your Kingdom, and so we will not cease to glorify You, our Most Merciful God, together with Your Beginning Father and the Most Holy Spirit, forever and ever.
Lord, generous and merciful, long-suffering and abundantly merciful! Hear our prayer and listen to the voice of our prayer: do a sign for good with us: guide us on Thy path, to walk in Thy truth: make our hearts glad in fearing Thy holy name. You are great and work miracles, You are the One God, and there is no one like You in God, Lord, strong in mercy and good in strength, to help and comfort and save those who trust in Your holy name. For You are the God of mercy and generosity and love for mankind, and we send up glory to You, with Your Originless Father, and with Your Most Holy and Good and Life-giving Spirit, now and ever and unto the ages of ages.
God, wonderful in advice, great in mercy, inscrutable in deeds, ineffable in wisdom! What kind of thanksgiving, what kind of honor will we, Thy mortal creation, bring to Thee, as Thy Only Begotten Son, the radiance of glory and the image of Thy hypostasis, ours for the sake of salvation, according to Thy fatherly favor, from His heavenly dwelling to us? Christ the Savior, the joy of the world and the sweetness of the Angels! What glory, what praise will we give to You, Your sinful servants, with Your divine blood from the jaws of hell and deliverance from death? We confess with our hearts, we preach with our lips, that Your death, O Savior, is our life, and Your Resurrection is our spiritual rebirth.
And thus, by Your invisible grace, You are always with us, and this coexistence, desiring to be captured, Your Most Pure and Divine face was miraculously depicted on the ubrus, which, as many-wonderful and multi-healing, reverently kissing, we worship Your mercy, all-generous and all-sweet Jesus and our Lord, and bending the knee of our hearts, we pray with all-zealous faith in You: grant unanimity to Your Holy Church, preserve under the shelter of Your mercy Your anointed, most pious, most autocratic, great sovereign of ours, Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich of all Russia and the entire reigning house: create peace and prosperity in their days: bless them, and bless us all, Your gracious blessing. May it be, O All-merciful Creator, that by Your grace we will protect and cover this city from every evil situation, for whose sake we presently offer our prayers from our hearts. Grant that all of us, learning by Your holy commandments, may be worthy of being in Your eternal rest, which You have prepared for those who love You forever and ever.
Lord Jesus Christ, our Savior! Before Thy miraculous and miraculous icon, we bow down and earnestly pray to Thee: have mercy and save us, Thy unworthy servants, from famine, cowardice, flood, fire, sword, pestilence, foreign invasions, internecine warfare, sudden death, human slander: and protect and protect us from all evil. have mercy on us, Lord. For You are our God, we hope in You and we boast in You, holy Master, may you not destroy us forever and ever.
We worship Your most pure image, O Good One, asking for forgiveness of our sins, O Christ our God: for by the will of Thou didst deign to ascend in the flesh to the cross, that Thou mightest deliver what Thou hast created from the work of the enemy. We also cry out to You with gratitude: You have filled all with joy, O our Savior, who came to save the world.
Lord our God, great in counsel and wondrous in deeds, Creator of all creation, keep Your covenant and Your mercy to those who love You and keep Your commandments, accept the tears of all who are touched in their needs: for this reason You came in the form of a slave, not frightening us with a ghost, but give true health to the body and say: Behold, you were healthy You are the one who does not sin: but you also made your eyes healthy from the clay, and you commanded to wash yourself, you created the light to dwell in the word: you disturbed the waves of opposing passions, and dried up the dirty sea of this life, and tamed the heavy-bearing sweetness of the waves! Himself, the Lover of Mankind, the King, who gave us to dress in snow-light clothes, from water and spirit, and with the communion of sow water and the sprinkling of Thy blessing, bestowed upon us, washing away the filth of passions.
To her, we pray, visit our, O Blessed One, infirmity, and heal our mental and physical ailments by Thy mercy: through the prayers of the All-Pure, Most Blessed Lady of our Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary: by the power of the Honest and Life-Giving Cross: the intercession of the honest heavenly forces of the disembodied: honest, glorious the prophet, Forerunner and Baptist John: the glorious and all-praised saints the apostle: our reverend and God-bearing fathers: like our holy fathers, great hierarchs and ecumenical teachers, Basil the Great, Gregory the Theologian and John Chrysostom: like our holy fathers, Athanasius and Cyril, the patriarchs of Alexandria: like our holy father Spyridon, Trimifuntsky wonderworker: like our holy father Nicholas, Archbishop of Myra, wonderworker: like our holy father, Methodius and Cyril, Slovenian teachers: Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Grand Duke Vladimir: like our holy father of all Russia, miracle workers, Peter, Alexy, Jonah and Philip: holy and glorious great martyr George the Victorious: holy and glorious great martyr Demetrius the Myrrh-streamer: holy and good-victorious martyrs: holy and righteous Godfather Joachim and Anna: saints and proclamation you are
glorious wonderworkers, silverless Cosmas and Damian, Cyrus and John, Panteleimon and Ermolai, Samon and Diomedes, Mokias and Anicetas, Thalaleos and Tryphon: and the holy [name] whom we commemorate, and all Thy saints.
And save, Lord, Thy servant, the most pious, the most autocratic, our great sovereign, Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich of all Russia. [Thrice.]
And his wife, the most pious Empress Alexandra Feodorovna.
And his mother, the most pious Empress Maria Feodorovna.
His heir, the blessed sovereign Tsarevich and Grand Duke Alexy Nikolaevich, and the entire reigning house.
Save, Lord, and have mercy on the Most Holy Governing Synod, grant them mental and physical health, and be merciful to this Christian life that works for You in everything. Remember, Lord, every bishopric of the Orthodox, the right of those who rule the word of Thy truth, and the entire priestly and monastic order, and their salvation. Remember, Lord, those who hate and love us, our serving brethren, those who stood before us and departed with blessed wine, and who commanded us unworthy to pray for them. Remember, Lord, our present brothers in captivity and sorrow, and have mercy on them according to Your great mercy, and deliver them from all needs. For You are the source of healing, Christ our God, and we send up glory to You, with Your beginningless Father, and with Your Most Holy and Good and Life-giving Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
Peace to all.
Bow your heads to the Lord.
The priest says secretly:
Incline Your ear, O Lord:
Proclamation:
For You are our sanctification, and We send up glory and thanksgiving and worship to You, with Your Originless Father and Your Most Holy and Good and Life-giving Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
Great God, work miracles that are countless! Come now to Your servant who prays to You, O Master, and send Your Holy Spirit, and sanctify this water: [saying this, he blesses the water with his right hand three times:] and grant to those who drink from it and to Your servant who receives and sprinkles it, change from passion, remission of sins, healing from illness, and liberation from all evil, affirmation and sanctification of the house, and cleansing from all filth, and driving away the slander of the devil. For Your most honorable and magnificent name, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, is blessed and glorified, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
Great God, work miracles that are countless! Come to Your praying servant, Master: send Your Holy Spirit, and sanctify this water, and give it the grace of deliverance and the blessing of the Jordan: create a source of incorruptibility, a gift of sanctification, a solution to sin, healing of ailments, destruction of demons, unapproachable to opposing forces, filled with angelic strength: for all who draw and those who receive from it have it for cleansing the soul and body, for healing harm, for changing passions, for the remission of sins, for driving away all evil, for sprinkling and consecrating houses and for all similar benefits. And if this water sprinkles in the houses or places of those who live faithfully, and takes away all uncleanness, and delivers from all harm, let a destructive spirit settle down there, let the harmful air below, let every dream and slander of the hidden enemy flee, and if there is something, the hedgehog will either see the health of the living, or let it be reflected by the sprinkling of sowing water. For Your most honorable and magnificent name, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, is blessed and glorified, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
Lord our God, Great in counsel and wondrous in deeds! You are the God who sanctified the streams of the Jordan through the influx of Your Most Holy Spirit. Therefore, at this hour, we humbly pray to You, Your unworthy servants: come, Master, and sanctify this water with Your Holy Spirit, and manifest by Your power from above to be Your servant who drinks from it, who is anointed and sprinkled with it, for the change of passions, for the remission of sins, for the healing of diseases and for the repelling of all evil, for the sanctification and blessing of houses and the cleansing of every place from all filth. For Thou art the One who blesses and sanctifies all things, O Christ our God, and to Thee we send up glory, with Thy Beginning Father, and with Thy Most Holy and Good and Life-giving Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
Send grace from heaven, O Life-Giver, and sanctify this water, and show purification to all impurities.
Lord Jesus Christ our God, God of all mercy and generosity, whose mercy is immeasurable and whose love for mankind is an unsearchable abyss! We fall before Your Majesty with fear and trembling, as a servant of unworthiness, thanksgiving to Your mercy for Your good deeds, on Your servants [or on Your servant] who were, now humbly offering, as the Lord, Master and Benefactor we glorify, praise, sing and magnify, and again give thanks, Your immeasurable and ineffable mercy humbly begging: so that now you have granted the prayers of Your servants to accept and mercifully fulfill, and in the past, in Your sincere love and in all virtues, You may receive the blessings of all Your faithful, Your holy Church and this city [or this whole, or this monastery] from everyone relieving evil situations and thereby granting peace and tranquility, You, together with Your beginningless Father, and Your Most Holy and Good and Consubstantial Spirit, in one being glorified by God, always offer thanksgiving and vouchsafe to speak and sing praises.
And Abiye loudly proclaims:
Glory to Thee God, our Benefactor, forever and ever.
Great and wondrous God, who governs all things with inscrutable goodness and rich providence, whose wise but untested destinies accept the varied limits of human life and cohabitation! We confess with gratitude that you did not do it to us because of our iniquities, but you repaid us according to our sins. We have become sinners, O Lord, and lawless, and worthy of Your extreme disgust. But You, O innumerable goodness, are merciful and long-suffering, and repent of the evils of men, Master, having punished us with a brief visit to the former sorrows, You have abundantly fulfilled the wishes and joys of our hearts, having justified Your beloved servant, the most pious, the most autocratic, our great sovereign, the emperor, to reign over us. Nikolai Alexandrovich of all Russia. Make him wise and instruct him to carry out this great service to You without any hesitation: grant him reason and wisdom to judge Your people in truth, and to preserve Your property in silence and without sorrow.
Show him victorious as an enemy, terrible as a villain, merciful and trustworthy as a good one. Warm his heart to show concern to the poor, to welcome the strange, to intercede for those who are attacked. The government subordinate to him, directing him on the path of truth and righteousness, and repelling partiality and bribery, and all the people entrusted to You to His power in unfeigned loyalty: make his father rejoice over his children, and surprise Your mercy on us. Multiply the days of his life in indestructible health and unchangeable well-being: grant in his days to all of us peace, silence and prosperity, the prosperity of the air, the land of fruitfulness, and everything necessary for temporary and eternal life. O our Most Merciful Lord, God of bounties and Father of great joy! Do not turn Your face away from us and do not disgrace us from our hopes; we pray to You, trusting in You, and praying to Your bounty.
For You alone weigh what we demand, and first grant requests, and confirm gifts, and every good gift, and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from You, the Father of lights: To You be glory and power, with Your Only Begotten Son, and Your All-Holy and Good and Life-giving Spirit, now and ever and unto the ages of ages.
Lord our God, Great and Merciful! In the tenderness of our hearts, we humbly pray to You: preserve under the shelter of Your goodness from every evil situation the state of our most pious sovereign, Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich: protect him on all his paths with Your holy Angels, so that nothing will happen to the enemy, and the son of iniquity will not embitter him: fill him with long days and strength strength, may he accomplish everything for Your glory and for the good of his people. We, rejoicing in Your all-good providence for him, will bless and glorify Your all-holy name, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
God of hosts, King of kings and Lord of lords! In Your hand is the heart of the king and the power of the whole earth. You place kings on their thrones and say about them: by me kings reign; do not touch my anointed ones. Look with Your merciful eye on our suffering country, in which, because of our iniquities, disorder and discord, civil strife and opposition to our king and the authorities established by him, have multiplied greatly. There is also pestilence, famine, and all kinds of illnesses, and there is no peace, no weakness, no peace in our homes, lower in our cities and towns. O Omniscient and Most Merciful! You weigh our misfortune, see the bitterness, hear the sobs of the poor, the groans of the orphans and widows and the voices of innocent babies suffering in public need. Thou didst spare Nineveh, a great city full of lawlessness, for the sake of its repentance and for the sake of the infants, who were like thy right hand, not knowing their own self: have mercy on us sinners, have mercy on our fatherland, have mercy for the sake of our babies, orphans and widows, who shed their tears before You, O Merciful One!
See, Lord, how people, who have no understanding, not only say in their hearts: there is no God, but also in the hearing of people, especially the young ones, they say corrupted, and they try to turn the least brethren from the path of Your commandments into the path of obstinate and destructive ones. But all essence is possible for You, O Almighty Master! For with Thy one word You not only heal the blind, the deaf and the dumb, but also raise the dead: thus have You now spoken with Your omnipotent word in the hearts of these sowers of wickedness: Enlighten their minds, darkened by pride, awaken their conscience with vain wisdom, envy and destructive passions put to sleep, turn their will to the fulfillment of Your life-giving commandments, so that they too will know how sweet the essence of Your words is to the human heart, and how good Your yoke and Your burden are light. May Thy name be glorified, O Lord our Savior, even in these perishing brothers of ours, and may our wicked adversary the devil be put to shame, who sows tares in Thy field, which is Thy holy Church! O Lord, Merciful God, Wise God, Almighty God!
Again and again we fall before You and cry tearfully in repentance and tenderness of heart: we have sinned, been lawless, unrighteous before You, and truly righteously we are punished for our deeds. Remember the faith and humility of our fathers, hear the warm prayers of Your holy saints who have shone in our land: have mercy on the Russian land, quench all sedition, discord and disorder, dying hearts, overwhelmed by passion, save Your beloved servant, our king, protect his throne with righteousness and peace, exclaim in his heart good and peaceful about Your Church and about Your people, send him advisers filled with wisdom and doing his will impartially, keep his judgments unpaid, breathe courage into the hearts of our guardian powers: and to whom he judged for the faith, the Tsar and the Fatherland in the days of tribulation, lay down your soul, thereby forgive all their sins and the crowns of martyrdom crown in Your Kingdom.
Illuminate all of us with the light of Thy Gospel law, warm our hearts with the warmth of Thy grace, confirm our will in Thy will, so as in ancient times, so now on our earth, and in us Thy all-holy name, of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, will be glorified, now and ever and unto the ages of ages.
God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, blessed forever, who with the veil of His flesh hast renewed for us in the firstborn Church in heaven the entrance inscribed, where the dwelling of those who celebrate and the voice of rejoicing! Yourself, Lover of Mankind, look upon us, Thy sinful and unworthy servants, who celebrate the renewal of the venerable church [name], in the image of Thy Most Holy Church, that is, our very body, who slaughtered Thy church [and the death of Thy Christ] the all-praised Apostle Paul, Thou hast vouchsafed to call: and establish it until the end of the age, unshakable and glorified in You: and make us worthy in it to bring praise and glorification without shame to Your glory, and to Your Only Begotten Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, and to Your Holy Spirit, in mind and every feeling, who worship You in Your passion, Divine bounties worthy to appear: and Your favorable the goodness of these prayers, for us and all Your people, offered to Your ineffable compassion: through the prayers of our Most Pure Lady Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary and all the saints.
Lord our God, who created the creation with a single word and brought into being, this variously adorned images ineffable, who brought Your Spirit gathered over her and poured out this solar light on her to renew her: who inspired your saint Moses with some kind of praise, add a fair amount of praise to your kindest creation, and decide to see the light of you as good, and call this day: for we also see it, and this brightest sun, renewing creation every day, We glorify Thee on the true day, the Sun, and Thy unevening light: Who by Thy Son commanded us to renew our nature by Thy Holy Spirit, for by this righteous gift to shine like the sun! We pray to You and ask You, the Father of the Word, our Lord and God: look with your merciful eye upon us, Your sinful and unworthy servants, who dwell in this heavenly house, the universe of praise, the true altar of Your ineffable glory, and send down Your Most Holy Spirit on us and on Your inheritance.
And according to the divine David, renew the right Spirit in our hearts and strengthen us with the Master’s Spirit: and grant to our most pious, autocratic, great sovereign, Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich of all Russia, victorious and victories against visible and invisible enemies: but grant us unanimity and peace. To those who have created this building and the consecration of the church, out of love for You, God carefully, grant forgiveness of sins: grant them the same petitions for salvation: raise me up to do Your commandments: grant them renewal of the gift of Your Holy Spirit: so that without condemnation they will worship You, the One True God, and Whom You sent, Jesus Christ, through the prayers of the Theotokos, [and whose church is] and of all Thy saints.
Who created Your Church on the rock of faith, O Blessed One, in that correct our prayers, and accept people in faith crying to You: save us, our God, save us.
As the beauty of the former firmament, and the lower one, showed you the beauty of the holy village of Your glory, Lord: establish this forever and ever, and accept in it our prayers continually offered to You by the Mother of God, the Life and Resurrection of all.
Master Lord our God, you alone have immortality, you are unapproachable in the living world, you kill and give life, you bring down to hell and you raise up! Thou didst in wisdom create man, and again return him to his land, tormenting the spiritual duty: We pray to Thee, accept the soul of Thy servant, and rest him in the bosom of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob: and give him the crown of Thy righteousness, a portion of those who are saved, for the glory of Thy elect: and for them thou shalt labor in this world for Thy name's sake, will receive a rich reward in the abodes of Thy saints, through the grace and generosity and love for mankind of Thy Only Begotten Son, our Lord Jesus Christ.
We thank Thee, our Lord God, for Thine is the hedgehog of immortal life, and the glory is incomprehensible, and love for mankind is ineffable, and the Kingdom is unfailing, and You have no hypocrisy: for You have set a limit to the common life of all mankind, and life will be fulfilled. We also ask You, O Lord: to give Your servant and fellow servant our former name, in the hope of the resurrection of the eternal life of the departed, rest in the bosom of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob: just as You have placed that servant on earth in the Church, so also in Your heavenly altar, O Lord, show that You have adorned all spiritual people with this dignity, and in accept the angelic glory that is not condemned: You yourself glorified life on earth, and you Himself established the outcome of his life in the entrance of Your righteous saints: his spirit is numbered with all those who have pleased You from all eternity. For You are the resurrection and the life and rest of Your departed servant named, Christ our God, and we send up glory to You, with Your Beginning Father, and Your Most Holy and Good and Life-giving Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
Lord of the forces, those who mourn with joy and those who cry with consolation, and all who are in cowardice, this intercession! Weeping for the departed, having comforted the departed with Your compassion, heal every disease that lies in their hearts, and Your servant named, in the hope of the resurrection of the eternal life of the deceased, rest in the bosom of Abraham. For You are the resurrection and life and repose of Your servant named, Christ our God, and we send up glory to You, with Your Originless Father, and Your Most Holy and Good and Life-giving Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
Every day and hour, falling in my contrite and humble heart, I confess to You, the Almighty, Lord Jesus Christ our God, who came into the world to seek the lost and save the lost, of whom I am the first: I have lost my way from the right path that leads to life, I have strayed into the wilds of lust, I am a sinkhole in the mire of my iniquities, I was gored by the thorns of my deeds: seeing me, the enemy, sick with sins, wants to inflict even more cruel harm on my accursed soul. But I pray to You, the Only Savior, I call upon You, the All-merciful Lover of Mankind, for help: do not disdain me, O most gracious Lord, and do not cast me away from Your face, even if I have done all the evil before You: for I resort to You and confess all my sins. I have come near to all Thy commandments, obeying the dumb lusts: working the flesh to defile the soul.
Trusting in Thy abundant bounty, I offer Thee this sinful prayer: having listened to me, O Lord, having promised to listen to those who faithfully call upon Thee: send Thy Angel to me, that He may rebuke all those who fight with me with an evil spirit, that those who seek my soul may be ashamed and disgraced, and that all striving may be required from my heart, from may the rising of hostile lust always be with me, guard me, and instruct me in all good deeds, and on every day bring my unworthy prayers to You, God and the Creator. Therefore, You, Most Holy King, worshiped by all creation, love the righteous, never depart from You, and have mercy on sinners, turning in repentance to You who calls everyone to salvation, direct my feet to Your commandments, nail my flesh to Your fear, cleanse my heart with orthodoxy, fill my lips with grace, tame my tongue humbly say, sanctify your soul with the Holy Spirit, correct your thoughts and not cling to earthly things, elevate your mind with the wing of prudence, and make all of me unworthy, so that I may appear worthy before You.
And as you have vouchsafed me to pass on the days that have passed, so grant me, O Lover of mankind, the days to come, without stumbling, to pass peacefully and pleasingly: so that in this life, remembering and magnifying Your most holy name, and thereby enlightened, I will remain without any darkness even until the day and hour of my departure: and when I am separated my soul from my body, grant to me, my Most Blessed Creator, to find joy before the majesty of Your glory in eternal life, through the prayers of Our Most Pure Lady Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary, who gave birth to You, and all the saints who have pleased You from time immemorial: for blessed and glorified are You forever and ever.
[From the book Akathists with canons.]
Sovereign Lord! Yours is the day and Yours is the night, all creation works for you, and every breath glorifies you: I am the accursed one, having ended my entire life fornication, I am possessed by fear, as I remembered the first days, and to this day, in the nyaz, I have created all the evil that has no place: and for this reason I do not have boldness towards you, for my iniquities are great and immeasurable My sins, my enemies always chill me. But, O my Lord, O Lord, who opened the mouth of my mouth, and open my mouth, that I may pray in prayer that is pleasing to You: behold, my soul is left like a waterless land, and cannot bear fruit from itself: but give to me from the seeds of Your Holy Spirit, and water me with the dew of Your grace, that I may bring You the fruit of repentance.
Lord Jesus Christ, if all mankind wants to be saved, hear my prayer, through the prayers of your saints, your apostles, as they pray for us, and I ask your forgiveness, as you always listen to their prayers: with their prayer, save me a sinner, heal the diseases of my heart, heal the scabs of my soul, kindle my womb with the flame of your fear, and the thorns of my sins, and my soul coolness with love: for I wish for You, the true light and the giver of light, from You alone I ask for mercy, save me: satisfy my hungry and thirsty soul from the flow of your countless mercy: cover me with the grace of Your love for mankind from all evil, so that we may be protected by You, I will get rid of many snares the evil one, who kicks me all day long, and let not my enemies boast about me, Thy servant, who trusts in Thee: save me by Thy mercy, that I may repay my vows, repent of my sins until my last breath, and glorify Thy most holy name, with the Father and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto the ages of ages.
[From the book Akathists with canons.]
Holy Lord, you live in the highest and look upon the humble, and with your all-seeing eye look upon all creation! We bow our knees to You, our souls and bodies, and we pray to You: stretch out Your invisible right hand from Your holy dwelling, bless Your people who pray to You and expect great and rich mercy from You, and as you are good and a lover of mankind, correct the works of our hands, giving us Your peaceful and sublime goodness. For it is Yours to have mercy and save us, and we send up glory to You, with Your Originless Father and Your Life-Giving Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
Drawing of the icon of the Mother of God - could not be copied
O Most Holy Lady Lady Theotokos! Thou art the highest angel and archangel of all, and the most honorable of all creatures: Thou art the helper of the offended, the hopeless hope, the poor Intercessor, the sad consolation, the hungry Nurse, the naked robe, the healing of the sick, the salvation of sinners, the help and intercession of all Christians. O All-Merciful Lady, Virgin Mary and Lady! By Thy mercy save and have mercy on our most pious, autocratic, great sovereign, Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich of all Russia: his wife, the most pious empress Empress Alexandra Feodorovna: his mother, the most pious empress Empress Maria Feodorovna: his heir, the most pious sovereign Tsarevich and great Prince Alexy Nikolaevich, and the entire reigning house.
Save, O Lady, and have mercy on Thy servant, the Most Holy Governing Synod, and the Right Reverend metropolitans, archbishops and bishops, and the entire priestly and monastic rank, and the governing synclite of the faithful, and military leaders, city governors and the Christ-loving army, and well-wishers, and all Orthodox Christians in Thy robe. protect with honesty: and pray, Lady, from You, without seed, Christ our God, incarnate, may gird us with His power from above against our invisible and visible enemies. O All-Merciful Lady Lady Theotokos! Raise us from the depths of sin, and deliver us from famine, destruction, from cowardice and flood, from fire and sword, from the presence of foreigners and internecine warfare, and from sudden death, and from the attack of the enemy, and from corrupting winds, and from deadly plagues, and from all evil.
Grant, O Lady, peace and health to Thy servant, all Orthodox Christians, and enlighten their minds and the eyes of their hearts to salvation: and make us, Thy sinful servants, worthy of the Kingdom of Thy Son, Christ our God: for His power is blessed and glorified, with His Father without beginning, and with the Most Holy and Good and By His life-giving Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
Undefiled, unblasphemous, incorruptible, pure Virgin, Bride of God to the Lady, who united God the Word with man through Your glorious Nativity, and united the abandoned nature of our race with the heavenly one, even the unreliable One Hope and the struggling Help, ready intercession of those who flow to You, and Refuge for all Christians! Do not disdain me, a sinner, a filthy one, having created all the foul thoughts and words and deeds that were indecent for myself, and with the mind of laziness the sweets of the life of a former slave. But as the Mother of the philanthropic God, have mercy on me, a sinner and fornicator, and accept my hedgehog prayer brought to you from profane lips: and Your Son and our Lord and Lord, using your motherly boldness, pray that He will open for me the philanthropic womb of His goodness, and having despised my countless sins, converted me to repentance, and he will show me the skillful worker of His commandments.
And appear to me ever as merciful and merciful and loving, in this wretched life, a warm Representative and Helper, driving away resistant invasions, and instructing me to salvation, and during my exodus, keeping my damned soul, and driving away the dark visions of evil demons far from it, on the terrible day of eternal judgment relieving torment, and the ineffable glory of Your Son and God our heir showing me: may I grant, my Lady, the Most Holy Theotokos, through Your intercession and intercession, the grace and love for mankind of Your Only Begotten Son, our Lord and God Jesus Christ, to Him belongs all glory, honor and worship, with His Beginning Father, and By His Most Holy and Good and Life-Giving Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
Accept, O All-Powerful, Most Pure Lady, Lady Theotokos, these honorable gifts, the only ones applied to You, from us, Your unworthy servants, chosen from all generations, manifested above all creatures of heaven and earth. Because for Your sake the Lord of hosts was with us, and through You we knew the Son of God, and became worthy of His Holy Body and His Most Pure Blood. Blessed are you, too, in the birth of generations, O God-blessed One, the brightest of the cherubim and the most honest of the seraphim. And now, all-sung Most Holy Theotokos, do not cease praying for us, Thy unworthy servants, that we may be delivered from every evil advice and from every situation, and that we may be preserved unharmed from every poisonous pretext of the devil. But even to the end, through Your prayers, keep us uncondemned: for through Your intercession and help we are saved, we send glory, praise, thanksgiving and worship for everything in the Trinity to the One God and the Creator of all, now and ever and unto the ages of ages.
My Most Holy Lady Theotokos! With Your saints and all-powerful prayers, take away from me, Your humble and cursed servant, despondency, oblivion, foolishness, negligence, and all the nasty, evil and blasphemous thoughts from my cursed heart and from my darkened mind, and extinguish the flame of my passions, as I am a beggar and damned: and deliver me from many and cruel memories and enterprises, and free me from all evil actions: for Thou art blessed from all generations, and glorify Thy Most Honorable name forever and ever.
My Most Blessed Queen, my Hope to the Mother of God, refuge of the orphaned and strange to the Intercessor, to the grieving Joy, to the offended to the Patroness! See my misfortune, see my sorrow: help me as I am weak, guide me as I am strange. Let me resolve my offense as if it were my will: for I have no other help except You, no other Representative, no Good Comforter, except You, O Mother of God, for preserve me and cover me forever and ever.
To You, Most Pure Mother of God, I, the accursed one, fall down and pray: Consider, O Queen, how I continually sin and anger Your Son and my God. and even if I repent many times, I find myself lying before God: I repent, trembling, lest the Lord strike me, and little by little I do the same again. This leader, my Lady, Lady Theotokos, I pray, have mercy, strengthen me, and grant me good deeds. Weigh you, O my Lady Theotokos, as an imam in complete hatred of my evil deeds and with all my thoughts I love the law of my God. But we do not know, Most Pure Lady, why I create hatred and transgress what is good. Do not, O Most Pure One, allow my will to be fulfilled, for it is displeasing, but may the will of Thy Son and my God be done in me, may He save me, and give me understanding, and give me the grace of the Holy Spirit, so that I may cease from this place from committing filth and so on may live in the commandments of Thy Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, to whom all things are due. glory, honor and worship, with His Originless Father, and His Most Holy and Good and Life-Giving Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
Undefiled, unblasphemous, incorruptible, the Most Pure Mother of God, the Immaculate Lady, the Heavenly Queen, the Mother of the King of the highest powers, the Creator of heaven and earth, the one joy of the Intercessor to the whole world, who gave birth to our Lord Jesus Christ, the Savior of all on earth! Falling down crying out to You: accept this prayer song of thanksgiving from Your unworthy servant and from my vile lips: do not despise me, O Most-Posted Queen. For no one who comes to You is quickly put to shame: or whoever calls on You is not heard from You? For all the elements, heaven and earth, air and sea, obey You, and all the opposing souls tremble with fear, fearing Your holy name, leading You, Mother of God. Who again placed hope in You when you died? Those who refuse to worship Your written image, which all the powers of heaven honor: all the tribes of the earth, the Christian race and every age of the faithful, we worship with glorification, Most Pure One, with reverent reverence.
For we are not the imams of any other God than Your Son, with the Father ever and the Holy Spirit, in the One Divinity, glorified and worshiped from all creation, and to You, according to the Lord God, Lady Theotokos, we confess, Our True God, Mother, and kindly honor all of us, Lady. Be merciful for us to create Thy Son, and moreover, show me Thy usual mercy, if you can, as much as you want: pray for me, as I have departed from Him for my countless and nasty iniquities, and have angered His mercy, and have grieved His humane kindness and much mercy and mercy, as I am not worthy of Him. He would have had mercy, if you had not propitiated Him for me, the Lady Queen and Mother of God, for all things are possible for You from Him. For this reason I resort to You, warmly Helper and quick Intercessor: for I am not an Imam other than You as an Intercessor to Him. To her, the Queen, my Lady, the Most Pure Lady Theotokos, I have no other highest thing on earth and in heaven, like You according to my Lord God Jesus Christ: and in You all my hope is imam, Most Pure Virgin.
At the same time, looking at Your most holy image, as if I behold the true You, the Mother of God: falling with heartfelt faith and love from the soul, I bow to You with the Eternal Child held in Your hand, our Lord Jesus Christ, magnificantly honoring You, and offering prayer songs and prayers to You, I am horrified and tremble for my unworthiness, and I cry to You: have mercy on me, Mother of God, and show me Your ancient mercy to the poor. As sometimes in ancient times, by Your omnipotent leadership, You saved Your reigning city from the Scythian governor, the bestial, the crafty boar, the representative of the demon, the proud Khagan: and with the raging sea, the darkness of the army was drowned by You, crying out and attacking Your city: and again, rain from heaven You have boiled the burning Kamyks, you have boiled the darkness of ships in the howling sea: and now there is only one Mother of God, one and only You who exist, show me Your philanthropic intercession.
Defeat the invisible armies of Satan, who have captivated my spiritual city, and wounded my reigning soul in it with the arrow of iniquity, and cut me off with the sword of fornication, and with the sinful [alas!] copy of the perforated one: for I was left barely alive, and shut up in the ditch of sin. I have imposed insensibility and petrification of my heart, as if I was barely felt, unable to free myself from the enslavement of those. But to You, the Mother of my Lord, I cry with sobs of tears: come to my aid soon, so that I do not completely perish: snatch me from the hands of those, and take me out of the sinful ditch: build up my soulful city again, and rule the Lord of mind in it, and strengthen the senses over all, unapproachable and fearful of the enemy, show: let everyone know, as I am supported by You. Saving, O Lady Virgin, you have saved my soul, just as you sometimes saved your city, trusting in you, for glory and intercession of the faithful, for the shame of the wicked, and forever for their endless torment, for greatness and praise from generation to generation of the faithful Christian race.
Moreover, I preach Your help loudly, and remembering Your great intercession of the terrible voivodeship, I will inscribe to you the chosen victorious voivode your servant, the Mother of God, and offer a prayerful akathist thanksgiving: accept it, and bring it to your Son and God, and about me to the Queen, with the howls of heaven and from the faces of all the saints, offer it to him. On the day of judgment, do not forget me, and my unworthy prayer, and my faith, which is towards You: and remember all my hope placed in You. Comfort the offended me, and alleviate bodily embitterment, but first of all, consume mental illness and bodily passions with Your invisible intercession and intercession: so that I may pass the path of this short-lived life kindly and without stumbling, and I will receive its eternal goodness, and I will glorify Your firm intercession: for you are blessed, with the Son and God born of You, now and to endless ages.
O Great King, Almighty, merciful Lord, Jesus Christ my God! Behold, in supplication to You, I, a great sinner, offer Your all-immaculate Mother, the Most Pure Lady, the Virgin Theotokos, and the all-merciful Lady, the Prayer Book throughout the whole world for the Christian race, who gave birth to You in the flesh of Christ our God, ineffable for the sake of Your mercy, which is upon us. Therefore, through your prayers, Lord Jesus Christ, our God, show me Your greatness, grace and mercy: grant me remission of sins, and grant me the heir of Your Kingdom, with all the saints, forever and ever.
Most Immaculate Lady, Queen of heaven and earth, Most Pure Virgin Mother of God! Humbly falling, I pray to You: help me, O most powerful Lady, the only sinner, accept my unworthy prayer, and bring it to Your only begotten Son, my God, for he may be merciful to the more passionate and sorrowful soul of my soul: For myself, for the multitude of my iniquities, I do not dare to say goodbye and ask for forgiveness, but I offer You the Intercessor and Warm Prayer Book, like a mother to the God born from You, you have boldness, and nothing is impossible for You, even if you truly desire it. Do not despise my tears, do not abhor my sighing, do not reject my heart disease, revive the one killed by my passions. The unevening light that has shone upon us, enlighten my soul, darkened by atrocities: You who have given birth to a physician, heal my soul’s incurable ulcers: troubled by the storm of life, direct me to the path of repentance. Accept, O all-merciful Lady, this prayer service of mine, and offer it to the man-loving God.
O beautiful Palato Lady, create for me a home of the Divine Spirit: luminous heavenly Seine, direct spiritual grace in me, a sinner. I lift up my unworthy hands, and I correct my unclean heart and lips to praise You, All-Immaculate One, and deliver me from the dirty tricks that have strangled me. All unclean thoughts from the heart of my wife, correct my tongue with useful words, give tears to my fingers to wash away the filth of sin, arrange my nose without stumbling to do the Divine commandments to walk. Turn my hands towards the highest for favorable action, open my ears to diligently hear the commandments of the Divine Gospel, so that I can do what I can, We strengthen You, O omnipotent Queen: and grant me the time of repentance and free me from sudden death. At the end, stand before me, all-merciful Mother, in the separation of my soul from my passionate body, from the air tax collectors and dark princes, taking me away, and tearing apart the handwriting of my many sins, and vouchsafe me at the right hand of blessed standing at the Last Judgment.
You are the light of my darkened mind, You are the consolation of my soul, You are the hope of my salvation, You are the only shameless Intercessor to God: Make Him merciful to me, O Lady, and show me the everlasting blessings of an heir in the future life, where there is a dwelling for all who rejoice: for even there, by being merciful to the Prayer Book, I will be honored with greatness, and glorify the magnificent name of Your Son, Christ the Savior and our God, with His Originless Father, and the All-Holy, Good and Life-Giving Spirit, forever and ever.
O Most Holy Virgin, Mother of the Lord of the highest powers, Queen of heaven and earth, our city and country, our all-powerful Intercessor! Receive this song of praise from us, unworthy Thy servants, and lift up our prayers to the throne of God Thy Son, that He may be merciful to our iniquities and add His grace to those who honor Thy all-honorable name and with faith and love worship Thy most pure [or miraculous] image. We are not worthy of being pardoned by Him, unless You propitiate Him for us, Lady, for all things are possible for You from Him.
For this reason, we resort to You, as to our undoubted and quick Intercessor: hear us praying to You, surprise us with Your great and rich mercy, show us Your heavenly help and intercession, and ask God Your Son as our shepherd for zeal and vigilance for souls, as a city ruler for wisdom and strength, as judges of truth and impartiality, reason and humility as a mentor, love and harmony for spouses, obedience for children, patience for those who are offended, fear of God for those who are offended, complacency for those who mourn, abstinence for those who rejoice: the spirit of reason and piety, the spirit of mercy and meekness, the spirit of purity and truth have been sent down to us all. Hey, Most Holy Lady! Have mercy on Thy weak people: gather the scattered, guide the erring on the right path, heal the sick, support old age, bring up the youth with integrity, raise infants, and look upon us all with the mercy of Thy intercession: raise us up from the depths of sin and Enlighten the eyes of our hearts to the vision of salvation.
Be merciful to us here and at the Last Judgment of Your Son: having ceased in faith and repentance from this life, our fathers and brothers will live in eternal life with the angels and with all the saints. For you are, Lady, the glory of heaven and the hope of earth, You, according to God, are our Hope and Intercessor of all those who flow to You with faith. We therefore pray to You, and to You, as the Almighty Helper, we commit ourselves and each other and our whole life, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
O Most Holy Virgin, Mother of Christ our God, Queen of heaven and earth! Hear the much-painful sighing of our souls, look down from Thy holy height upon us, who with faith and love worship Thy most pure [and miraculous] image. Because we are immersed in sins and overwhelmed by sorrows, looking at Your image, as if You were alive and living with us, we offer our humble prayers. Imams have no other help, no other intercession, no consolation, except You, O Mother of all who mourn and are burdened! Help us the weak, assuage our sorrows, guide us astray on the right path, heal our painful hearts and save the hopeless, grant us the rest of our lives in peace and repentance, grant us a Christian death, and at the Last Judgment of Your Son the merciful Representative will appear to us, may we always sing, magnify and glorify You, as good Intercessor of the Christian race, with all those who pleased God, forever and ever.
O Most Holy Virgin, Mother of the Lord Most High, Intercessor and Protection of all who resort to You! Look down from Thy holy height upon me, a sinner, falling before Thy most pure [and miraculous] image: hear my warm prayer and offer it before Thy beloved Son, our Lord Jesus Christ: beg Him to illumine my gloomy soul with the light of His Divine grace, that He may deliver me from all need, sorrow and illness, yes He will grant me a quiet and peaceful life, health of body and soul, may he pacify my suffering heart and heal its wounds, may he guide me to good deeds, may he cleanse my mind from vain thoughts, may he teach me to fulfill His commandments, may he deliver me from eternal torment and may he not deprive me of His Heavenly Kingdom. O Most Pure Mother of God! You, Joy of all who mourn, hear me too: You, called the Quenching of Sorrow, assuage my sorrow: You, the Burning Bush, save the world and all of us from the harmful fiery arrows of the enemy: You, the seeker of the lost, do not allow me to perish in the abyss of my sins, for in You, according to God, all my hope and hope.
Be an Intercessor for me in temporary life and an Intercessor for eternal life before Your beloved Son, our Lord Jesus Christ. Teach me therefore to serve with faith and love, and to reverently honor You, Most Holy Mother of God, most blessed Mary, until the end of my days.
O Most Pure Lady Lady Theotokos! Accept our unworthy prayer, and save us from the slander of evil people and from sudden death, and grant us repentance before the end. Be compassionate to our prayer, and grant joy instead of sorrow. And deliver us, Lady, from all misfortune and adversity, sorrow and illness and from all evil. And we are worthy, Thy sinful servants, at the right hand at the second coming of Thy Son, Christ our God, and heirs of the existence of the Kingdom of Heaven and eternal life with all the saints throughout the endless ages of ages.
To whom shall I cry, Lady? To whom shall I resort in my sorrow, if not to You, Queen of Heaven? Who will accept my cry and sighing if not You, Most Immaculate, the Hope of Christians and Refuge? Who will protect You more in adversity? Hear my groaning, and incline Your ear to me, the Lady Mother of my God, and do not despise me who requires Your help, and do not reject me, a sinner. Enlighten and teach me, O Queen of Heaven: do not depart from me Thy servant, O Lady, for my grumbling, but be my Intercessor Mother. I entrust myself to Your merciful protection: lead me, a sinner, to a quiet and serene life, so that I may weep for my sins. To whom shall I resort when I am guilty, if not to You, the hope and refuge of sinners, I am inspired by the hope of Your ineffable mercy and Your bounty; About the Lady Queen of Heaven! You are my hope and refuge, protection and intercession and help. To my most gracious and speedy Intercessor: cover my sins with Your intercession, protect me from enemies visible and invisible: soften the hearts of evil people who rebel against me. O Mother of the Lord my Creator!
You are the root of virginity and the unfading color of purity. O Mother of God! Give me help to those who are weak with carnal passions and sick at heart, for one thing is Yours and with You the imam of Your Son and our God intercession: and by Your wonderful intercession may I be delivered from all troubles and misfortunes, O Most Immaculate and Glorious Mother of God Mary. Likewise, with hope I say and cry out: Rejoice, O Blessed One: Rejoice, O O Joyful One: Rejoice, O Most Blessed One, the Lord is with Thee.
Be aware that in some churches this prayer, or the so-called hymn to the Most Holy Theotokos, is sung in voice 5.
To whom shall I cry, Lady? To whom shall I turn in my sorrow, if not to You, the Queen of Heaven? Who will hear my cry and receive my sighs, if not You, Most Immaculate, the Hope of Christians and the Refuge for us sinners? Who will protect You more in adversity? Hear my groaning and incline Your ear to me, the Lady and Mother of my God. Do not despise the one who seeks Your help and do not reject me, a sinner, Queen of Heaven. Teach me to fulfill the howl of Your Son and grant me the desire of His holy commandments. For the sake of my murmuring, which happened in sorrows, do not retreat from me, but provide protection and intercession for the one of little faith. With your intercession, cover my sins, protect from visible and invisible enemies, soften the hearts of those who are hostile to me, and warm with this love of Christ. Grant to me, who is weak, Your all-powerful help, so that I may overcome my sinful passions, so that through repentance and good correction of my life I will be cleansed, and be able to pass through the rest of my earthly journey in obedience to the Church of Your Son without blemish.
At the hour of my death, present to me, the hope of all Christians, and confirm my faith on that difficult day, and after my departure, offer up your all-powerful prayer for me, that the Lord may have mercy on me and make me partake of His endless joys forever and ever.
To whom shall I cry, Lady? To whom shall I turn in my grief, if not to You, Lady Theotokos, Queen of Heaven? Who will accept my cry and sighing if not You, O Most Immaculate One, the Hope of Christians and the Refuge for us sinners? Incline, O Most Pure Lady, Your ear to my prayer. Mother of my God, do not despise me who requires Your help, hear my groaning, and the cry of my heart, O Lady Queen Theotokos! And give me spiritual joy, and strengthen me, who is impatient, sad and careless towards Your praise. Understand and teach me how You should pray, and do not depart from me, the Mother of my God, for my grumbling and impatience: but be my protection and intercession in my life, and lead me to the quiet haven of Divine peace, and number me in the face of Your chosen one flock, and there deign me to sing and glorify Thee forever and ever.
O Wonderful and Highest of all creatures, Queen Theotokos, Mother of the Heavenly King Christ our God! Hear us, Thy sinful and unworthy servants, at this hour praying and falling to You with sighs and tears and tenderly saying: lead us from the pit of passions, O Lady: deliver us from all sorrow and sorrow, protect us from all misfortune and evil slander and from the unrighteous and cruel slander of the enemy. You can, O Gracious Mother of God, not only save Your people from all evil, but also provide them with every good deed and save them: are You not other Representatives in troubles and situations and warm Intercessors for us sinners to Your Son, Christ our God. Pray to Him, O Lady, that through Your salvation we may glorify in the future the all-holy name of Your Son and our God, together with the Father and the Holy Spirit, now and to endless ages.
O All-Merciful Lady, Virgin Mother of God! Hear our humble prayer, and hear the voice of those now contritely approaching Your image. For we know, O our Creator Mother, that You are the unshameful intercession of Christians and the immutable intercession to the Creator: we also know that our soundlessness has surpassed our head and that a heavy burden has burdened us, and we are no longer worthy to see the heights of heaven, to look lower to the throne of glory of Your Son and our God, but worthy Torment and eternal condemnation will appear.
For this reason, we fall to You, we ask You with tenderness, we cry to You: lift up Your motherly prayer to him, so that He will not reject us sinners from Your presence, but, as He is merciful, may He forgive us our sins, voluntary and involuntary, instructing us on the path of salvation and strengthening us with holy power to the creation of His commandments: may He save 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 city [or this village, or this holy monastery] and every city and country an abundance of earthly blessings: preserving health and strengthening the scepter of our most pious emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich, may he create good and serene days for all of us: may he protect the Church with peace Let him unite his holy one, and the one who is separated, for the Lord is good, long-suffering and abundantly merciful, glorified from all creation with the Father and the Holy Spirit forever and ever.
Most Holy Theotokos, save us!
O Most Pure Lady, my Lady Theotokos, Heavenly Queen! Save and have mercy on me, Your sinful servant, from vain slander, from all misfortune and misfortune and sudden death. Have mercy on me in the hours of the day and in the morning and in the evening, and at all times preserve me: keep me standing, and sitting, and on every path walking, and in the night hours sleeping, provide, cover and protect. Protect me, Lady Theotokos, from all my enemies, visible and invisible, and from every evil situation. In every place and at every time, be the Mother of God, an insurmountable wall and a strong defense.
O Most Holy Lady, Lady Virgin Mary! Accept my unworthy prayer, and save me from sudden death, and grant me repentance before the end.
Most Holy Theotokos, save us!
You appear to me, the Guardian of all life, Most Pure One: You deliver me from demons at the hour of death: You give me peace even after death.
We take refuge under Your mercy, O Virgin Mother of God: do not despise our prayers in sorrow, but deliver us from troubles, O One Pure and Blessed One.
Most Holy Theotokos, save us!
What will we bring to Thee, or what will we reward Thee, O Most Gracious Lady Lady, Intercessor of the Christian race, for all Your countless good deeds, which You always show to all who call on Your name and Your help to those who ask? Whoever flows to You is put to shame and leaves You unheard, O Most Merciful Mother? We, O Most Pure One, for the multitude of our sins and iniquities, are not worthy of calling Thy sweet name, let alone bring hymns from desecrated walls to Thee, and it is more convenient for us to love silence. But may we not appear unmemorable and ungrateful before You, we dare to bring You this kneeling praise: but You, Merciful Mother, do not hesitate to accept it, as it is lifted up from the abundance of hearts that love You. You Yourself, Lady, with Your grace touch our hearts, so that, like melted wax, they will shed before You in tearful blessings and praises.
We thank Thee, the All-Singing One: we do not conceal Thy good deeds, but loudly proclaim them, so that all who hear will flock to Thee, the only and shameless Intercessor of the Christian race, and may they ceaselessly praise Thee, the All-Singing One, forever and ever.
My Most Blessed Queen, My Most Holy Hope, Refuge for the Orphan and Strange Intercessor, Help for the needy and Protection for the embittered! See my misfortune, see my sorrow: I am overwhelmed by temptation everywhere, and I have no one to intervene. You Yourself, help me as I am weak, guide me as I am strange, guide me as I am lost, heal and save me as I am hopeless. I have no other help, no other intercession, no consolation except You, O Mother of all who mourn and are burdened! Look upon me, a sinner and in the bitterness of my existence, and cover me with Your most holy omophorion, that I may be delivered from the evils that have befallen me, and I will always praise Your revered name.
O Most Holy Theotokos, the highest cherub and the most glorious seraphim, who gave birth to Christ our God, great angelic surprise, fulfillment of prophecies, God-chosen Maiden, Queen of heaven and earth, joy of all who mourn, those offended by the Intercessor, those hungry for the Nourisher, those overwhelmed by Refuge, the sick Visitation, the weak Protection and Intercession, the orphaned Patroness, floating in Silence, traveling in Haste, toiling in Rest, naked in Robe, beggars inexhaustible Wealth, mothers in quiet Joy, babies in Fortress, Help ready in everything for all the helpless, our Christian race is unfailing to the Patroness! O All-Merciful Virgin Lady Theotokos! You alone have been given by the Almighty to intercede and save us in everything: You are the faithful and speedy Medicine of our sinful passions and the first Prayer Book to Christ our God for the forgiveness of our sins. O All-Singing Mother, Virgin Mary!
Hear the voice of Thy servants praying, and those who stand before Thy miraculous icon, and lift up our eyes to it, as if to You Abiding with us, and fall with love from the soul, and cry out to You in psalms: hear, O daughter, and see, and incline Thy ear, and hear our prayer, as You have heard the multitude of the faithful at all times. bysha. Because everyone, in their sorrow, asks You for help, deliverance and intercession, and You fulfill their requests and delight their souls with joy. O Most Gracious and Most Merciful Lady Queen Theotokos! You, even if you desire, can ask everything from Your Son Christ our God: do not reject us from Your intercession, grant us freedom from our troubles and sorrows, and deliver us, All-Immaculate One, from visible and invisible enemies and from evil people who slander us, and do not allow famine, cowardice, flood, fire and sword to fall on cities and lands. ours, be our constant help, and pray to Your Son and our God, that on the terrible day of Judgment He will place us at the right hand, for the sake of Your intercession. To him be glory and power, with his beginningless Father and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
Mother of God Queen, Lady Virgin Mary, Mother of our God! Your Son and God did not despise all sinners who resort to Him, but saved everyone and brought them to true understanding. But I, the accursed one, have profaned the vows of Baptism, and have not kept the commandments of Thy Son and my God. Therefore, O Lady, I come running to You: teach me to do His will, so that He will save me and bring me into true reason, and give me the grace of the Most Holy Spirit, so that I will not be enveloped in the snare of the enemy. I have not found any other help since my youth except You, my Lady Theotokos. Even though I angered you many times, I was ungrateful for Your mercy and became a cursed person, but You did not disdain me. I have fallen into the depths of madness, my mind has been ruined, but I continually cry out to You: have mercy, O Lady, and raise me up from the abyss of sin, give me a helping hand to the downtrodden, strengthen the weak, cleanse the filthy, save the perishing: so that all sinners, who have seen Your mercy on me unworthy, will come running under Your blood and they will glorify Your Son, with the Father and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
O Our Most Holy Lady Theotokos, Heavenly Queen, our Most Blessed Hope, surpassing the Maiden, hope for the hopeless, salvation for sinners, refuge for the orphans, for the strange Representative, for the naked, for the naked, comfort and joy for the grieving, for the offended, for the Patroness and for all those in troubles and misfortunes, help and intercession! O All-Merciful Lady Virgin Mary! See our misfortunes, sorrows and misfortunes: help us who are weak, sad and despondent, sorrowful and desperate, and take away all sorrow from us. Weigh our offense: resolve it, O All-Immaculate One, as you will and are able: do not let us fall into despair. The imams would have no other help than Your Son, Christ our God, and You, O Mother of God, O our Lady! Moreover, we look at Your most pure image with sighing and contrition of heart, and we bow our knees to the ground, crying: look with a merciful eye, All-Sung Mother of God, and hear us, offering: do not reject, but deign to have mercy: do not detest our sighing.
No one who comes to You is disgraced and comes from You, but asks for grace and accepts the gift for the benefit of the petition forever and ever.
O Most Pure Lady, Lady Theotokos! We resort to You, Pure One: For You are the insurmountable Wall, intercession and protection for all who resort to You with faith and hope. We pray to Thee, Most Blessed One: hear the prayer of Thy unworthy servants and stand for the departed servants of Thy name. You constantly intercede for those who Orthodoxy revere Thee and resort to Thy protection: however, Thy intercession, Lady, is especially beneficial to us after our death. In the same way, we pray to Thee, O Most Holy Theotokos, Lady of the world, the Hope of the unreliable: be today the Intercessor to those born of Thee for Thy departed servants, and beg Thy Son, our God, to give them forgiveness and remission of sins: much more can a mother’s prayer do for the mercy of the Master. The Lord accepts every word of petition from You: accept therefore our prayers and supplications for the souls of Your departed servants.
Help them, O Lady, with Thy motherhood to the Lord, with the boldness to achieve a quiet refuge in Heavenly Jerusalem: help them, O zealous Intercessor, to appear shamelessly at the terrible second coming of Thy Son, where each of them will either be glorified or ashamed by their deeds: help them, O Blessed One, before the face of Him who sits on the throne of glory be justified, so that they will not be ashamed before the angels and all the saints; below, let the demons be rejoiced. O All-Singing Mother, Lady Theotokos! We pray to Thee, intercede, save, preserve and take away from future torment Thy departed servants named, may they not perish forever, but may they be saved by Thy prayers and pass from death to the belly: send them, O Blessed One, to reach the longed-for fatherland and see the blessings of heaven. For You are the only Blessed One among women, the multi-powerful Intercessor, Hope, Cover and Refuge of all who flow to You, You are the bridge leading those who exist from earth to heaven and the opening of the heavenly doors of Your people forever and ever.
We praise You, Mother of God: You, Mary, the Virgin Mother of God we confess: You, the Daughter of the Eternal Father, the whole earth magnifies. All the Angels and Archangels and all the principalities humbly serve You: All the powers, thrones, dominions and all the exalted powers of heaven obey You. The Cherubim and Seraphim rejoice and cry out with an unceasing voice: Holy Mother of God, the heavens and earth are full of the majesty of the glory of the Fruit of Your womb. To you the glorious and angelic face of Her Creator the Mother praises: To you the multitude of martyrs magnifies the Mother of God: To you the glorious host of confessors of the God of the Word the Church names: To you the lordly troops of all virginity preach the image: To you all the heavenly hosts praise the Queen of Heaven. Throughout the entire universe, the Holy Church glorifies you, venerating the Mother of God: she extols you, the true King of Heaven, the Maiden. You are the Angel Lady, You are the door of heaven, You are the ladder of the Kingdom of Heaven, You are the palace of the King of glory, You are the ark of piety and grace, You are the abyss of bounties, You are the refuge of sinners.
You are the Mother of the Savior, you, for the sake of freedom for the captive man, received God in your womb. You trampled down the enemy: You opened the doors of the Kingdom of Heaven. You stand at the right hand of God: You pray to God for us, O Virgin Mary, who will judge the living and the dead. Therefore we ask You to be the Intercessor before Your Son and God, who redeemed us with His blood, so that we may receive the reward in eternal glory. Save Thy people, O Mother of God, and bless Thy inheritance, for let us be partakers of Thy inheritance: save and keep us even unto the ages. Every day, O Most Holy One, we wish to praise and please You with our hearts and lips. Likely, Most Merciful Mother, now and always preserve us from sin: have mercy on us, Intercessor, have mercy on us. May Thy mercy be upon us, as we trust in Thee forever. Amen.
[According to the manuscript of the Assumption Church in the village of Podyablonnago, Nizhny Novgorod diocese.]
Let us now diligently approach the Mother of God as a proselytizer of sin and humility, and let us fall down in repentance, calling from the depths of our souls: Lady, help us, having mercy on us: struggling, we are perishing from many sins: do not turn away Thy servants from vanity, for You are the only hope of the Imams.
Let us never be silent, Mother of God, in speaking Your strength to those who are unworthy: if You had not stood before us to pray, who would have delivered us from such troubles? Who would have kept them free until now? We will not retreat, O Lady, from You: for Your servants always save you from all evil ones.
O Most Holy Virgin, Mother of Christ our God, Queen of heaven and earth! Hear the much-painful sighing of our souls, look down from Thy holy height upon us, who with faith and love worship Thy most pure [and miraculous] image. Because we are immersed in sins and overwhelmed by sorrows, looking at Your image, as if You were alive and living with us, we offer our humble prayers. Imams have no other help, no other intercession, no consolation, except You, O Mother of all who mourn and are burdened! Help us the weak, assuage our sorrows, guide us astray on the right path, heal our painful hearts and save the hopeless, grant us the rest of our lives in peace and repentance, grant us a Christian death, and at the Last Judgment of Your Son the merciful Representative will appear to us, may we always sing, magnify and glorify You, as good Intercessor of the Christian race, with all those who pleased God, forever and ever.
O Most Pure Lady Lady Theotokos! Accept our unworthy prayer, and save us from the slander of evil people and from sudden death, and grant us repentance before the end. Have mercy on our prayer, and grant joy instead of sorrow. And deliver us, Lady, from all misfortune and adversity, sorrow and illness and from all evil. And we, Thy sinful servants, are made worthy to be at the right hand at the second coming of Thy Son, Christ our God, and heirs of the existence of the Kingdom of Heaven and eternal life with all the saints throughout the endless ages of ages.
O Most Holy and Most Blessed Mother of the Sweetest Lord Jesus Christ! We fall down and worship You before Your holy and most honorable icon, with which You have performed wondrous and glorious miracles, You have saved our dwellings from fiery flames and lightning thunder, You have healed the sick, and You have fulfilled all our good requests for the good. We humbly pray to You, O omnipotent Intercessor of our race: grant us the weak and sinners Your maternal intercession and care. Save and preserve, O Lady, under the shelter of Your mercy, our blessed sovereign, Emperor Nicholas Alexandrovich of all Russia, the Holy Church, this city [or this whole, or this monastery], our entire Orthodox country, and all of us who fall to you with faith and love and ask with touched tears of Your intercession. Hey, Lady All-Merciful! Have mercy on us, who are overwhelmed by many sins and who do not have the boldness to approach Christ the Lord, and ask Him for mercy and forgiveness: We therefore offer you to Him for supplication, His existing Mother.
Prostration to Him, O All-Blessed One, Thy God-receiving hand, and intercede for us before His goodness, asking us for forgiveness of our sins, a pious peaceful life, a good Christian death and a good answer at His Last Judgment. At the hour of God’s menacing visitation, even if our houses are set on fire, or if we are frightened by lightning thunder, Thy merciful intercession and sovereign help will be revealed to us: yes, we are saved by Thy all-powerful prayers to the Lord, we will escape God’s temporary punishment here, and we will inherit the eternal bliss of heaven there, and with all the saints Let us sing the most honorable and magnificent name of the worshiped Trinity, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, and Your great mercy towards us, forever and ever.
O Most Holy Virgin, Mother of the Lord Most High, Intercessor and Protection of all who resort to You! Look down from Thy holy height upon me, a sinner, falling before Thy most pure [and miraculous] image: hear my warm prayer and offer it before Thy beloved Son, our Lord Jesus Christ: beg Him to illumine my gloomy soul with the light of His Divine grace, that He may deliver me from all need, sorrow and illness, yes He will grant me a quiet and peaceful life, health of body and soul, may he pacify my suffering heart and heal its wounds, may he guide me to good deeds, may he cleanse my mind from vain thoughts, may he teach me to fulfill His commandments, may he deliver me from eternal torment and may he not deprive me of His Heavenly Kingdom. O Most Pure Mother of God! You, Joy of all who mourn, hear me too: You, called the Quenching of Sorrow, assuage my sorrow: You, the Burning Bush, save the world and all of us from the harmful fiery arrows of the enemy: You, the seeker of the lost, do not allow me to perish in the abyss of my sins, for in You, according to God, all my hope and hope.
Be an Intercessor for me in temporary life and an Intercessor for eternal life before Your beloved Son, our Lord Jesus Christ. Teach me therefore to serve with faith and love, and to reverently honor You, Most Holy Mother of God, most blessed Mary, until the end of my days.
Queen of Heaven, Our Lady, Lady of the Universe, Most Holy Theotokos, Undefiled, Unglamorous, Imperishable, Most Pure, Pure Ever-Virgin, Mary Bride of God, Mother of the Creator of creation, Lord of glory and Lord of all! Through you the King of kings and Lord of lords has come and appeared to us on earth. You are God's mercy incarnate, You are the Mother of Light and Life, just as You once carried Him in Your womb, and in Your arms You had the Child, the Word of the Eternal, God, and so You have always carried Him with You.
For this reason, according to God, we resort to You, as if to an unbreakable wall and intercession: look with mercy, O All-Sung Mother of God, on our fierce bitterness, and heal our souls and bodies of illness: drive away from us every enemy and adversary: deliver from hunger, pestilence, from ulcers, from many waters and corrupting airs, and from sudden death: and like the three youths in the cave of Babylon, preserve and keep us, so that, like the people of God of old, all good things will come to us who honor You: but let all who hate us be ashamed and dismayed, and everyone will understand that the Lord is with You, O Lady, and through You God is with us. In the days of autumn, Thy grace shines upon us, and in the darkness of night, enlighten us with light from above, useful to all: turn our sorrow into sweetness, and wipe away the tears of Thy servants who have sinned and are in need, fulfilling every request for all good: for all things are possible, as You will, Mother of the Word and Life. The Father has crowned thee the Daughter, the Son the Mother the Virgin, the Holy Spirit the Bride, that thou mayest reign as the Queen, standing at the right hand of the Holy Trinity, and have mercy on us, as hashesh, now and ever, and unto ages of ages.
In the fires of the burning bush, seen in ancient times by Moses, the mystery of His incarnation from the unartificed Virgin Mary, Who, even now, as the Creator of miracles and the Creator of all creation, glorified Her holy icon with many miracles, bestowing it on the faithful for healing from ailments and for protection from fiery ignition. For this reason, we cry out to the Most Blessed: Hope of Christians, deliver those who trust in You from severe troubles, fire and thunder, and save our souls, as you are merciful.
In a bush, burning with fire and unburnable, Moses showed Thy Most Pure Mother, O Christ God, the fire of the Divinity, unburnt in her womb, and remaining incorruptible at Christmas: By your prayers deliver us from the flames of passions, and save Thy city from the fiery incinerations, for you are abundantly merciful.
O Most Holy Lady Theotokos! Look with mercy at the prayers of us sinners and Your humble servants, and pray to God Your Son, may He grant us and all those who flow to You mental and physical health and everything necessary for eternal and temporal life, may He forgive us every sin, voluntary and involuntary, may He deliver us from all sorrows and illnesses, and misfortunes, and every evil situation. To her, our Blessing Queen, our indestructible Hope and invincible Intercessor! Do not turn Your face away from us for the multitude of our sins: but stretch out to us the hand of Your motherly mercy and work with us a sign for good. Show us Thy rich help and success in every endeavor: turn us away from every sinful undertaking and evil thought, so that we may always glorify Thy most honorable name, and being grateful to Thy honest [or miraculous] image of worshiping, we magnify God the Father, and His Only Begotten Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit, with all saints forever and ever.
Delighted Lady, Glorified Mother of generosity and philanthropy, All-merciful Intercessor for the whole world! Diligently, Thy servants, resorting to Thy Divine intercession and falling down upon Thy wonderful image with tenderness, we pray: create a warm prayer for Thy Son and our God, O All-Sung Queen and Lady, that for Thy sake He may deliver us from all illnesses and sorrows, and free us from all sins, and show us heirs of His Heavenly Kingdom: great and indescribable, like Mother, you have boldness towards Him and all that you can, as much as you desire, is the only Good and Blessed One forever and ever.
O Most Holy Lady Theotokos, Queen of heaven and earth, the highest Angel and Archangel and all creatures, the Most Honest, Pure Virgin Mary, Good Helper to the world and affirmation and deliverance to all in all their needs! Look now, O All-Merciful Lady, at Your fish, with a tender soul and a contrite heart, praying to You, and falling with tears to You, worshiping Your most pure and wholesome image, and earnestly asking for Your help and intercession in all sorrows, sorrows and misfortunes. O All-Merciful Virgin, Pure Mother of God! Be an intercessor for us to Your Son, Christ our God. We sinners are not the imams of any other help, except to You, Lady: You are our hope, You are our Intercessor and Representative, You are protection for the offended, joy for the sorrowful, refuge for the orphans, Guardian for widows, glory for virgins, joy for the tearful, visitation for the sick, healing for the weak, salvation for sinners.
For this reason, O Mother of God, we resort to You, and we look at Your image, and we worship with love, the prayer singing is offering and crying out: have mercy on us, Mother of God, and fulfill our petitions, for all that is possible is through Your intercession before God, to Him belongs all glory, honor and worship, now and ever and unto the ages of ages.
Thy Nativity, O Virgin Mother of God, is a joy to proclaim to the whole universe: from Thee has arisen the Sun of righteousness, Christ our God, and having destroyed the oath, given blessing, and having abolished death, given us eternal life.
O Most Holy Virgin, Mother of Christ our God, Queen of heaven and earth! Hear the much-painful sighing of our souls, look down from Thy holy height upon us, who with faith and love worship Thy most pure [and miraculous] image. Because we are immersed in sins and overwhelmed by sorrows, looking at Your image, as if You were alive and living with us, we offer our humble prayers. Imams have no other help, no other intercession, no consolation, except You, O Mother of all who mourn and are burdened! Help us the weak, assuage our sorrows, guide us astray on the right path, heal our painful hearts and save the hopeless, grant us the rest of our lives in peace and repentance, grant us a Christian death, and at the Last Judgment of Your Son the merciful Representative will appear to us, may we always sing, magnify and glorify You, as good Intercessor of the Christian race, with all those who pleased God, forever and ever.
My Most Blessed Queen, my Hope to the Mother of God, refuge of the orphaned and strange to the Intercessor, to the grieving Joy, to the offended to the Patroness! See my misfortune, see my sorrow: help me as I am weak, guide me as I am strange. Let me resolve my offense as if it were my will: for I have no other help except You, no other Representative, no Good Comforter, except You, O Mother of God, for preserve me and cover me forever and ever.
Offering to the Queen, Mother of the Lord heaven and earth, Angels Joy, prophets Sweetness, apostles Glory, saints adornment, martyrs fortress, saints joy, praise of the universe, unreliable Hope, sorrowful consolation, sick health, poor inexhaustible wealth, rich inexhaustible treasure, salvation for sinners, and help and intercession for all Christians! To You, O Blessed Lady of God, we, Your sinful servants, resort to You, and for You, the All-Blessed Lady Theotokos, we ask for immediate help: illuminate our minds with the light of true knowledge of God, warm our hearts to accept the saving commandments of Your Son and our God: heal, Lady, the incurable ulcers of our souls and bodies with Your omnipotent prayers, and grant us, O All-Good One, everything useful for salvation: protect us, holy Angels, from all troubles: grant us good and useful deeds, so that we may live the time of our life in peace and repentance: grant us a peaceful and shameless end to our Christian life. To her, Lady, Queen of Heaven!
Hear this voice of our prayer: and upon leaving this temporary life, help us to comfortably pass through all the airy ordeals of the ruler of the darkness of this age, and grant us permission to dwell in the heavenly abodes with the elect: so that in the light of the saints, with all the heavenly powers, we sing the magnificent name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and ever forever and ever.
Accept, O All-Blessed and All-Powerful Lady Lady Theotokos the Virgin, these prayers, with tears, now offered to You from us, Your unworthy servants, who send up to Your celibate image the singing of those who send forth with tenderness, as if You yourself are here and heed our prayer. For every request you fulfill, you alleviate sorrows, you give health to the weak, you heal the weakened and sick, you drive away demons from demons, you deliver the offended from insults, you cleanse lepers and you are kind to little children: again, Madam Lady Theotokos, you free us from bonds and prisons and heal all manifold passions: for all things are possible through Your intercession to Your Son, Christ our God. O All-Singing Mother, Most Holy Theotokos! Do not cease to pray for us, Your unworthy servants, who glorify You and honor You, and who worship Your most pure image with tenderness, and who have irrevocable hope and undoubted faith in You, the Ever-Virgin, Most Glorious and Immaculate, now and ever and unto the ages of ages.
We now diligently approach the Mother of God with sin and humility, and let us fall down in repentance, calling from the depths of our souls: Lady, help us, having mercy on us: struggling, we perish from many sins: Thy servants do not turn away Thy vanity, Thy and the imam’s only hope.
O Most Holy Virgin, Mother of Christ our God, Queen of heaven and earth! Hear the much-painful sighing of our souls, look down from Thy holy height upon us, who with faith and love worship Thy most pure [and miraculous] image. Because we are immersed in sins and overwhelmed by sorrows, looking at Your image, as if You were alive and living with us, we offer our humble prayers. Imams have no other help, no other intercession, no consolation, except You, O Mother of all who mourn and are burdened! Help us the weak, assuage our sorrows, guide us astray on the right path, heal our painful hearts and save the hopeless, grant us the rest of our lives in peace and repentance, grant us a Christian death, and at the Last Judgment of Your Son the merciful Representative will appear to us, may we always sing, magnify and glorify You, as good Intercessor of the Christian race, with all those who pleased God, forever and ever.
O Most Holy Virgin, Mother of the Lord of the Highest Powers, Queen of heaven and earth, our city and country, our all-powerful Intercessor! Receive this song of praise from us, unworthy Thy servants, and lift up our prayers to the throne of God Thy Son, that He may be merciful to our iniquities and add His grace to those who honor Thy all-honorable name and with faith and love worship Your most pure [or miraculous] image. For we are not worthy of mercy from Him, unless You propitiate Him for us, Lady, for all things are possible for You from Him. For this reason, we resort to You, as to our undoubted and speedy Intercessor: hear us praying to You, overshadowing us with Your all-powerful protection, and ask God Your Son for our shepherd zeal and vigilance for souls, for the city ruler wisdom and strength, for judging truth and impartiality, for a mentor reason and humility, for a husband love and consent, obedience for children, patience for those who are offended, fear of God for those who are offended, good spirit for those who grieve, abstinence for those who rejoice, for us all the spirit of reason and piety, the spirit of mercy and meekness, the spirit of purity and truth.
Hey, Most Holy Lady! Have mercy on Thy weak people: gather the scattered, guide the erring on the right path, support old age, make young chaste, raise infants, and look upon all of us with the gaze of Thy merciful intercession: raise us up from the depths of sin and enlighten the eyes of our hearts to the vision of salvation. Be merciful to us here and there, in the land of earthly arrival and at the Last Judgment of Your Son: having ceased in faith and repentance from this life, our fathers and brothers will live in eternal life with the Angels and with all the saints. For you are, Lady, the glory of heaven and the hope of earth, You, according to God, are our Hope and Intercessor of all those who flow to You with faith. We therefore pray to You, and to You, as the Almighty Helper, we commit ourselves and each other and our whole life according to Christ God, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
My Most Blessed Queen, My Most Holy Hope, Refuge for the Orphan and Strange Intercessor, Help for the needy and Protection for the embittered! See my misfortune, see my sorrow: I am possessed by temptation everywhere, and I have no one to intervene. You yourself, help me as I am weak, guide me as I am strange, instruct me as I am lost, heal and save me as I am hopeless. There is no other help, no other intercession, no consolation except You, O Mother of all who grieve and are burdened! Look upon me, a sinner and in the bitterness of my existence, and cover me with Your most holy omophorion, that I may be delivered from the evils that have befallen me, and I will always praise Your revered name.
Today, people of good faith brightly celebrate, overshadowed by Your coming, O Mother of God, and looking to Your most pure image, we tenderly say: cover us with Your honorable cover, and deliver us from all evil, begging Your Son, Christ our God, to save our souls.
It is worthy to magnify Thee, the Mother of God, the Most Honest Cherub and the Most Glorious without comparison, the Seraphim.
We magnify You, Most Holy Virgin, and honor Your honorable protection: Saint Andrew saw You in the air, praying to Christ for peace.
O Most Holy Virgin, Mother of Christ our God, Queen of heaven and earth! Hear the much-painful sighing of our souls, look down from Thy holy height upon us, who with faith and love worship Thy most pure [and miraculous] image. Because we are immersed in sins and overwhelmed by sorrows, looking at Your image, as if You were alive and living with us, we offer our humble prayers. Imams have no other help, no other intercession, no consolation, except You, O Mother of all who mourn and are burdened! Help us the weak, assuage our sorrows, guide us astray on the right path, heal our painful hearts and save the hopeless, grant us the rest of our lives in peace and repentance, grant us a Christian death, and at the Last Judgment of Your Son the merciful Representative will appear to us, may we always sing, magnify and glorify You, as good Intercessor of the Christian race, with all those who pleased God, forever and ever.
O Most Holy Lady Lady Theotokos! Accept our unworthy prayer, and save us from the slander of evil spirits and evil people and from sudden death, and grant us repentance before the end. Have mercy on our prayer, and grant joy instead of sorrow. And deliver us, Lady, from all misfortune and adversity, sorrow and illness and from all evil. And we, Thy sinful servants, are made worthy to be at the right hand at the second coming of Thy Son, Christ our God, and heirs of the existence of the Kingdom of Heaven and eternal life with all the saints throughout the endless ages of ages.
O Most Holy Virgin, Lady Theotokos, the Only Begotten God of the Word, all visible and invisible creatures, Creator and Master, the One Lord of the Trinity, God and man, who gave birth to more than nature and words, the Divine receptacle, all shrines and grace Receiver, in Neyzha the fulfillment of the Divinity abides, with the blessing of God and the Father and the action Chosen by the Holy Spirit from all creation, glory and unspeakable joy of the Angels, the royal crown of the apostles and prophets, the wonderful and all-praiseworthy courage of the martyrs and the wedding of the sufferers, everlasting and incorruptible rewards to the immutable Intercessor, honor and glory to the venerables, unlost path to the Teacher, source of light, an inexhaustible river of mercy, an inexhaustible sea of all miracles and spiritual gifts!
We pray to You and ask You, merciful Mother of the Lover of Mankind, to have mercy on us, Your humble and unworthy servant: look mercifully on our captivity and heal the contrition of our souls and bodies, destroy visible and invisible armies, and every pillar of the fortress, weapon in battle, Invincible Voivode and Champion, make us unworthy from the face of our enemies, show us Your ancient mercies and wonders. For there is only one King and Master, Thy Son and God, and Thou art truly the Mother of God, blessed of all generations, who gave birth to the true God according to the flesh, and for this sake Thou art all able and mighty to act, even as Thou wilt in heaven and on earth.
Fulfill every request for the benefit of everyone, Lady: grant healing to the ailing, silence and control to those floating in the sea, travel and observe with those who travel, comfort the sorrowful, alleviate poverty and all bodily embitterment, but consume mental illness and bodily passions first of all through Your invisible intercession and intercession, for let us end this temporary path of life kindly and without stumbling, and we will receive eternal good for Your sake in the Kingdom of Heaven. Our faithful Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich, who trusts in Your intercession and calls upon You as an Intercessor and Helper against his present enemies, invisibly strengthen him: take away the diseases of his soul and heart, preserve his power peaceful and unshakable, and deliver him from troubles, O Lady, with Your prayers.
Much more than this, entrusted to You, this city and every city and country from famine, destruction, cowardice, flood, fire and sword, from the presence of foreigners and internecine warfare and from vain death, and have turned away all anger righteously moved towards us, by the good will and grace of Your only begotten Son, To Him belongs all glory, honor and worship, with His Beginning Father and the Ever-existing and Life-giving Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
Most Holy Lady, Lady Theotokos, hope of all who trust in You, Intercessor of the sad, Refuge of the desperate, widows and orphans, Nourisher! Hear and have mercy on us, Thy sinful and unworthy servants, who bow down with tenderness to Thy most pure image: pray, O merciful Lady, Thy Son and our Lord Jesus Christ, that He may turn away His righteous anger, that He may forgive our sins and iniquities, for that we may be worthy of His goodness to end our life in repentance and receive His mercy is with all His chosen: for blessed and glorified are you forever and ever.
Delighted Lady, Glorified Mother of generosity and philanthropy, All-merciful Intercessor to everyone in the world! Thy servants diligently resort to Thy intercession, and to Thy most wonderful image with tenderness we pray: create a warm prayer for Thy Son and our God, O All-Singing Queen Theotokos, so that for Thy sake He will deliver us from all illnesses and sorrows, and free us from all sins, He will show us the heirs of His Heavenly Kingdom: great and unspeakable for Mother has the boldness to Him, and you can ask everything from Him, for one is the Most Blessed One forever.
O Most Holy Virgin, Mother of Christ our God, Queen of heaven and earth! Hear the much-painful sighing of our souls, look down from Thy holy height upon us, who with faith and love worship Thy most pure [and miraculous] image. Because we are immersed in sins and overwhelmed by sorrows, looking at Your image, as if You were alive and living with us, we offer our humble prayers. Imams have no other help, no other intercession, no consolation, except You, O Mother of all who mourn and are burdened! Help us the weak, assuage our sorrows, guide us astray on the right path, heal our painful hearts and save the hopeless, grant us the rest of our lives in peace and repentance, grant us a Christian death, and at the Last Judgment of Your Son the merciful Representative will appear to us, may we always sing, magnify and glorify You, as good Intercessor of the Christian race, with all those who pleased God, forever and ever.
To whom shall I cry, Lady? To whom shall I turn in my grief, if not to You, Lady Theotokos, Queen of Heaven? Who will accept my cry and sighing if not You, O Most Immaculate One, the Hope of Christians and the Refuge for us sinners? Bow down, O Most Pure Lady, to Your prayer. Mother of my God, do not despise me who requires Your help, hear my groaning, and the cry of my heart, O Lady Queen Theotokos! And give me spiritual joy, and strengthen me, who is impatient, sad and careless towards Your praise. Understand and teach me how You should pray, and do not depart from me, the Mother of my God, for my grumbling and impatience: but be my protection and intercession in my life, and lead me to the quiet haven of Divine peace, and number me in the face of Your chosen one flock, and there deign me to sing and glorify Thee forever and ever.
O Most Pure Lady Lady Theotokos! Accept our unworthy prayer, and save us from the slander of evil people and from sudden death, and grant us repentance before the end. Have mercy on our prayer, and grant joy instead of sorrow. And deliver us, Lady, from all misfortune and adversity, sorrow and illness and from all evil. And we, Thy sinful servants, are made worthy to be at the right hand at the second coming of Thy Son, Christ our God, and heirs of the existence of the Kingdom of Heaven and eternal life with all the saints throughout the endless ages of ages.
To whom shall I cry, Lady? To whom shall I turn in my sorrow, if not to You, the Queen of Heaven? Who will hear my cry and receive my sighs, if not You, Most Immaculate, the Hope of Christians and the Refuge for us sinners? Who will protect You more in adversity? Hear my groaning and incline Your ear to me, the Lady and Mother of my God. Do not despise the one who seeks Your help and do not reject me, a sinner, Queen of Heaven. Teach me to fulfill the howl of Your Son and grant me the desire of His holy commandments. For the sake of my murmuring, which happened in sorrows, do not retreat from me, but provide protection and intercession for the one of little faith. With your intercession, cover my sins, protect from visible and invisible enemies, soften the hearts of those who are hostile to me, and warm with this love of Christ. Grant to me, who is weak, Your all-powerful help, so that I may overcome my sinful passions, so that through repentance and good correction of my life I will be cleansed, and be able to pass through the rest of my earthly journey in obedience to the Church of Your Son without blemish.
At the hour of my death, present to me, the hope of all Christians, and confirm my faith on that difficult day, and after my departure, offer up your all-powerful prayer for me, that the Lord may have mercy on me and make me partake of His endless joys forever and ever.
O Most Holy Lady, Lady, Virgin Mother of God! Accept our unworthy prayer, and save us from vain death, and grant us repentance before the end.
O Most Holy Mother of the Virgin, Glorious Lady and Most Blessed Queen, all-red Joy of the worldly minds, the unfaithful Teacher of the world, adorned with the Divine glory of Your unspeakable purity, the seventh-imprinted Book, in which the Most Good Word, the Only Begotten Son of God, was written for us! O sweet Source of mercy for the whole world! O Heavenly Lordship! O heavenly sweetness! O Most Blessed Mother of God of the Ever-Virgin and Protection of all who resort to You, Glory to the virgins and Joy to all the saints! Bring constant hope to me, a sinner, heal the illness of my barren heart, and grant grace to my spiritual eyes. For you, most glorified Virgin Lady, I commend my whole life and all those who are blessed to You, the only Pure Virgin Mother of God and the Queen of Heaven, for You are blessed forever and ever.
The insolence of those who hate the image of the Lord and the power of the ungodly came to Nicaea, and sent an inhumane widow, piously venerating the icon of the Mother of God, to torture. But during the night with your son, let the icon go into the sea, crying out: Glory to You, O Pure One, like the impenetrable sea of Thy splashes: Glory to Your justice, one imperishable.
O Thy holy icon, O Lady Theotokos, healing and healing are given abundantly with faith and love to those who come to her: so visit my weakness, and have mercy on my soul, O Good One, and heal my body with Thy grace, O Most Pure One.
We magnify You, Most Holy Virgin, God-chosen Youth, and honor Your holy image, through which you bring healing to all who come with faith.
O Most Holy Lady Lady Theotokos! Thou art the highest angel and archangel of all, and the most honorable of all creatures: Thou art the helper of the offended, the hopeless hope, the poor Intercessor, the sad consolation, the hungry Nurse, the naked robe, the healing of the sick, the salvation of sinners, the help and intercession of all Christians. O All-Merciful Lady, Virgin Mary and Lady! By Thy mercy save and have mercy on our most pious, autocratic, great sovereign, Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich of all Russia: his wife, the most pious empress Empress Alexandra Feodorovna: his mother, the most pious empress Empress Maria Feodorovna: his heir, the most pious sovereign Tsarevich and great Prince Alexy Nikolaevich, and the entire reigning house.
Save, O Lady, and have mercy on Thy servant, the Most Holy Governing Synod, and the Right Reverend metropolitans, archbishops and bishops, and the entire priestly and monastic rank, and the governing synclite of the faithful, and military leaders, city governors and the Christ-loving army, and well-wishers, and all Orthodox Christians in Thy robe. protect with honesty: and pray, Lady, from You, without seed, Christ our God, incarnate, may gird us with His power from above against our invisible and visible enemies. O All-Merciful Lady Lady Theotokos! Raise us from the depths of sin, and deliver us from famine, destruction, from cowardice and flood, from fire and sword, from the presence of foreigners and internecine warfare, and from sudden death, and from the attack of the enemy, and from corrupting winds, and from deadly plagues, and from all evil.
Grant, O Lady, peace and health to Thy servant, all Orthodox Christians, and enlighten their minds and the eyes of their hearts to salvation: and make us, Thy sinful servants, worthy of the Kingdom of Thy Son, Christ our God: for His power is blessed and glorified, with His Father without beginning, and with the Most Holy and Good and By His life-giving Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
My Most Blessed Queen, My Most Holy Hope, Refuge for the Orphan and Strange Intercessor, Help for the needy and Protection for the embittered! See my misfortune, see my sorrow: I am possessed by temptation everywhere, and I have no one to intervene. You yourself, help me as I am weak, guide me as I am strange, instruct me as I am lost, heal and save me as I am hopeless. There is no other help, no other intercession, no consolation except You, O Mother of all who grieve and are burdened! Look upon me, a sinner and in the bitterness of my existence, and cover me with Your most holy omophorion, that I may be delivered from the evils that have befallen me, and I will always praise Your revered name.
O Most Holy Lady, Lady Theotokos! With fear, faith and love before Your honest [and miraculous] icon, we pray to You: do not turn Your face away from those who come running to You. Pray, merciful Mother, to Thy Son and our God, the Lord Jesus Christ, to keep our country peaceful, to strengthen the power of our most pious, autocratic, great sovereign, Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich, and to preserve His holy, unshakable Church, and to deliver from unbelief, heresies and schism. There are no other imams of help, no other imams of hope, except You, Most Pure Virgin: You are the all-powerful Helper and Intercessor of Christians. Deliver all those who pray to You with faith from the falls of sin, from the slander of evil people, from all temptations, sorrows, illnesses, troubles and from sudden death.
Grant us the spirit of contrition, humility of heart, purity of thoughts, correction of sinful lives and the remission of sins, so that by all of us, who gratefully sing of Thy greatness and mercy shown over us here on earth, we will be worthy of the Heavenly Kingdom, and there with all the saints we will glorify the most honorable and magnificent name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit forever and ever.
O Most Holy Lady Lady Theotokos! Thou art the highest angel and archangel of all, and the most honorable of all creatures: Thou art the helper of the offended, the hopeless hope, the poor Intercessor, the sad consolation, the hungry Nurse, the naked robe, the healing of the sick, the salvation of sinners, the help and intercession of all Christians. O All-Merciful Lady, Virgin Mary and Lady! By Thy mercy save and have mercy on our most pious, autocratic, great sovereign, Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich of all Russia: his wife, the most pious empress Empress Alexandra Feodorovna: his mother, the most pious empress Empress Maria Feodorovna: his heir, the most pious sovereign Tsarevich and great Prince Alexy Nikolaevich, and the entire reigning house.
Save, O Lady, and have mercy on Thy servant, the Most Holy Governing Synod, and the Right Reverend metropolitans, archbishops and bishops, and the entire priestly and monastic rank, and the governing synclite of the faithful, and military leaders, city governors and the Christ-loving army, and well-wishers, and all Orthodox Christians in Thy robe. protect with honesty: and pray, Lady, from You, without seed, Christ our God, incarnate, may gird us with His power from above against our invisible and visible enemies. O All-Merciful Lady Lady Theotokos! Raise us from the depths of sin, and deliver us from famine, destruction, from cowardice and flood, from fire and sword, from the presence of foreigners and internecine warfare, and from sudden death, and from the attack of the enemy, and from corrupting winds, and from deadly plagues, and from all evil.
Grant, O Lady, peace and health to Thy servant, all Orthodox Christians, and enlighten their minds and the eyes of their hearts to salvation: and make us, Thy sinful servants, worthy of the Kingdom of Thy Son, Christ our God: for His power is blessed and glorified, with His Father without beginning, and with the Most Holy and Good and By His life-giving Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
My Most Blessed Queen, my Hope to the Mother of God, refuge of the orphaned and strange to the Intercessor, to the grieving Joy, to the offended to the Patroness! See my misfortune, see my sorrow: help me as I am weak, guide me as I am strange. Let me resolve my offense as if it were my will: for I have no other help except You, no other Representative, no Good Comforter, except You, O Mother of God, for preserve me and cover me forever and ever.
O Most Holy Virgin, Mother of Christ our God, Queen of heaven and earth! Hear the much-painful sighing of our souls, look down from Thy holy height upon us, who with faith and love worship Thy most pure [and miraculous] image. Because we are immersed in sins and overwhelmed by sorrows, looking at Your image, as if You were alive and living with us, we offer our humble prayers. Imams have no other help, no other intercession, no consolation, except You, O Mother of all who mourn and are burdened! Help us the weak, assuage our sorrows, guide us astray on the right path, heal our painful hearts and save the hopeless, grant us the rest of our lives in peace and repentance, grant us a Christian death, and at the Last Judgment of Your Son the merciful Representative will appear to us, may we always sing, magnify and glorify You, as good Intercessor of the Christian race, with all those who pleased God, forever and ever.
O Most Holy Virgin, Mother of the Lord Most High, Intercessor and Protection of all who resort to You! Look down from Thy holy height upon me, a sinner, falling before Thy most pure [and miraculous] image: hear my warm prayer and offer it before Thy beloved Son, our Lord Jesus Christ: beg Him to illumine my gloomy soul with the light of His Divine grace, that He may deliver me from all need, sorrow and illness, yes He will grant me a quiet and peaceful life, health of body and soul, may he pacify my suffering heart and heal its wounds, may he guide me to good deeds, may he cleanse my mind from vain thoughts, may he teach me to fulfill His commandments, may he deliver me from eternal torment and may he not deprive me of His Heavenly Kingdom. O Most Pure Mother of God! You, Joy of all who mourn, hear me too: You, called the Quenching of Sorrow, assuage my sorrow: You, the Burning Bush, save the world and all of us from the harmful fiery arrows of the enemy: You, the seeker of the lost, do not allow me to perish in the abyss of my sins, for in You, according to God, all my hope and hope.
Be an Intercessor for me in temporary life and an Intercessor for eternal life before Your beloved Son, our Lord Jesus Christ. Teach me therefore to serve with faith and love, and to reverently honor You, Most Holy Mother of God, most blessed Mary, until the end of my days.
O Most Pure Lady Lady Theotokos! Accept our unworthy prayer, and save us from the slander of evil people and from sudden death, and grant us repentance before the end. Have mercy on our prayer, and grant joy instead of sorrow. And deliver us, Lady, from all misfortune and adversity, sorrow and illness and from all evil. And we, Thy sinful servants, are made worthy to be at the right hand at the second coming of Thy Son, Christ our God, and heirs of the existence of the Kingdom of Heaven and eternal life with all the saints throughout the endless ages of ages.
To whom shall I cry, Lady? To whom shall I resort in my sorrow, if not to You, Queen of Heaven? Who will accept my cry and sighing if not You, Most Immaculate, the Hope of Christians and Refuge? Who will protect You more in adversity? Hear my groaning, and incline Your ear to me, the Lady Mother of my God, and do not despise me who requires Your help, and do not reject me, a sinner. Enlighten and teach me, O Queen of Heaven: do not depart from me Thy servant, O Lady, for my grumbling, but be my Intercessor Mother. I entrust myself to Your merciful protection: lead me, a sinner, to a quiet and serene life, so that I may weep for my sins. To whom shall I resort when I am guilty, if not to You, the hope and refuge of sinners, I am inspired by the hope of Your ineffable mercy and Your bounty; About the Lady Queen of Heaven! You are my hope and refuge, protection and intercession and help. To my most gracious and speedy Intercessor: cover my sins with Your intercession, protect me from enemies visible and invisible: soften the hearts of evil people who rebel against me. O Mother of the Lord my Creator!
You are the root of virginity and the unfading color of purity. O Mother of God! Give me help to those who are weak with carnal passions and sick at heart, for one thing is Yours and with You the imam of Your Son and our God intercession: and by Your wonderful intercession may I be delivered from all troubles and misfortunes, O Most Immaculate and Glorious Mother of God Mary. Likewise, with hope I say and cry out: Rejoice, O Blessed One: Rejoice, O O Joyful One: Rejoice, O Most Blessed One, the Lord is with Thee.
Be aware that in some churches this prayer, or the so-called hymn to the Most Holy Theotokos, is sung in voice 5.
O Most Holy Lady Theotokos, Queen of heaven and earth, the highest Angel and Archangel and all creatures, the Most Honest, Pure Virgin Mary, Good Helper to the world, and affirmation for all people, and deliverance for all needs! Look now, O All-Merciful Lady, upon Your servants, praying to You with a tender soul and a contrite heart, falling with tears to You and worshiping Your most pure and wholesome image, and asking for Your help and intercession. O All-Merciful and Most Merciful Pure Virgin Mary! Look, O Lady, at Thy people: for we are sinners and imams of no other help than to You and from You, Christ our God born. You are our Intercessor and Representative, You are protection for the offended, joy for the sorrowing, refuge for the orphans, Guardian for widows, glory for the virgins, joy for the weeping, visitation for the sick, healing for the weak, salvation for sinners.
For this reason, O Mother of God, we run to You, and looking at Your most pure image with the Eternal Child held in Your hand, our Lord Jesus Christ, we offer you tender singing and cry: have mercy on us, Mother of God, and fulfill our request, for all that is possible is through Your intercession: for glory befits You now and ever and unto the ages. centuries.
Zealous Intercessor, Mother of the Lord Most High! Pray for all of Thy Son, Christ our God, and cause all to be saved, into Thy sovereign protection for those who seek refuge. Intercede for all of us, O Lady Queen and Lady, who are in adversity and in sorrow and in illness, burdened with many sins, standing and praying to You with a tender soul and a contrite heart, before Your most pure image with tears, and those who have irrevocable hope in You for deliverance of all evils. Grant what is useful to everyone, and save everything, O Virgin Mother of God: for Thou art the Divine protection of Thy servant.
O Most Holy Lady and Mother of God, supreme Cherub and most honorable Seraphim, God's chosen Youth, joy to all who mourn! Give consolation to us who are in sorrow: is there no other refuge and help for you from the imams? You alone are our Intercessor of joy, and as the Mother of God and the Mother of Mercy, standing at the Throne of the Most Holy Trinity, you give us help: no one who comes to You leaves in shame. Hear also us, now on the day of sorrow before Your icon and praying to You with tears: take away from us the sorrows and sorrows that lie ahead in this temporary life, so that through Your omnipotent intercession we are not deprived of eternal, endless joy in the Kingdom of Your Son and our God, to Him belongs all glory, honor and worship, with His beginningless Father, and with His Most Holy and Good and Life-giving Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
My Most Blessed Queen, my Hope to the Mother of God, refuge of the orphaned and strange to the Intercessor, to the grieving Joy, to the offended to the Patroness! See my misfortune, see my sorrow: help me as I am weak, guide me as I am strange. Let me resolve my offense as if it were my will: for I have no other help except You, no other Representative, no Good Comforter, except You, O Mother of God, for preserve me and cover me forever and ever.
Hope of the unreliable, Strength of the helpless, Shelter of the overwhelmed, Protection of the flocked, Intercession of the offended, Heavenly Manno, delighting the hungry, drink of heavenly rest for the thirsty, Mother of the Most Blessed Christ God, Most Blessed and Immaculate Virgin! We zealously resort to You, we wholeheartedly bow our knees to Your protection. Do not despise our crying and tears. Even though our unworthiness and the damnation of our sins terrify us, we see that this whole-giving holy image of Thy, upon which Thy grace and power, like an inexhaustible sea, still fills us with the hope of salvation. For in the place of the blind we saw, the deaf heard first, the sick received healing, the afflicted were comforted, all abounding in every request. Having looked at these pardons, blinded the eyes of the soul and lame the feelings of the soul, now I come running here. Enlighten us and correct us, Lady: weigh all our sorrow and all misfortune. Do not despise our prayers, do not disdain us sinners: we know that you can do everything, great will, O Our Blessing Hope and Consolation!
From our youth we have been committed to You: do not forsake us, but depart from us now and ever and unto ages of ages.
O Most Holy Virgin, Mother of Christ our God, Queen of heaven and earth! Hear the much-painful sighing of our souls, look down from Thy holy height upon us, who with faith and love worship Thy most pure [and miraculous] image. Because we are immersed in sins and overwhelmed by sorrows, looking at Your image, as if You were alive and living with us, we offer our humble prayers. Imams have no other help, no other intercession, no consolation, except You, O Mother of all who mourn and are burdened! Help us the weak, assuage our sorrows, guide us astray on the right path, heal our painful hearts and save the hopeless, grant us the rest of our lives in peace and repentance, grant us a Christian death, and at the Last Judgment of Your Son the merciful Representative will appear to us, may we always sing, magnify and glorify You, as good Intercessor of the Christian race, with all those who pleased God, forever and ever.
O Most Pure Lady Lady Theotokos! Accept our unworthy prayer, and save us from the slander of evil people and from sudden death, and grant us repentance before the end. Have mercy on our prayer, and grant joy instead of sorrow. And deliver us, Lady, from all misfortune and adversity, sorrow and illness and from all evil. And we, Thy sinful servants, are made worthy to be at the right hand at the second coming of Thy Son, Christ our God, and heirs of the existence of the Kingdom of Heaven and eternal life with all the saints throughout the endless ages of ages.
To whom shall I cry, Lady? To whom shall I resort in my sorrow, if not to You, Queen of Heaven? Who will accept my cry and sighing if not You, Most Immaculate, the Hope of Christians and Refuge? Who will protect You more in adversity? Hear my groaning, and incline Your ear to me, the Lady Mother of my God, and do not despise me who requires Your help, and do not reject me, a sinner. Enlighten and teach me, O Queen of Heaven: do not depart from me Thy servant, O Lady, for my grumbling, but be my Intercessor Mother. I entrust myself to Your merciful protection: lead me, a sinner, to a quiet and serene life, so that I may weep for my sins. To whom shall I resort when I am guilty, if not to You, the hope and refuge of sinners, I am inspired by the hope of Your ineffable mercy and Your bounty; About the Lady Queen of Heaven! You are my hope and refuge, protection and intercession and help. To my most gracious and speedy Intercessor: cover my sins with Your intercession, protect me from enemies visible and invisible: soften the hearts of evil people who rebel against me. O Mother of the Lord my Creator!
You are the root of virginity and the unfading color of purity. O Mother of God! Give me help to those who are weak with carnal passions and sick at heart, for one thing is Yours and with You the imam of Your Son and our God intercession: and by Your wonderful intercession may I be delivered from all troubles and misfortunes, O Most Immaculate and Glorious Mother of God Mary. Likewise, with hope I say and cry out: Rejoice, O Blessed One: Rejoice, O O Joyful One: Rejoice, O Most Blessed One, the Lord is with Thee.
Be aware that in some churches this prayer, or the so-called hymn to the Most Holy Theotokos, is sung in voice 5.
Accept, O All-Blessed and All-Powerful Lady Lady Theotokos the Virgin, these prayers, with tears, now offered to You from us, Your unworthy servants, who send up the singing of Your celibate image with tenderness, as if You yourself are here and listening to our prayer. For every request you fulfill, you alleviate sorrows, you bestow health on the weak, you heal the weakened and sick, you drive away demons from demons, you deliver the offended from insults, you cleanse lepers and have mercy on little children: also, to the Lady Lady Theotokos, and from bonds and prisons You free and heal all manifold passions: for all things are possible through Your intercession to Your Son, Christ our God. O All-Singing Mother, Most Holy Theotokos! Do not cease to pray for us, Your unworthy servants, who glorify You and honor You, and who worship Your most pure image with tenderness, and who have irrevocable hope and undoubted faith in You, the Most Glorious and Immaculate Ever-Virgin, now and ever and unto the ages of ages.
O Most Holy Lady Theotokos, Most Blessed Mother of Christ God our Savior, Joy to all who mourn, visiting to the sick, Protection and Intercessor to the weak, widows and orphans to the Patroness, sad mothers to the all-reliable Comforter, weak infants to the fortress, and to all the helpless always ready help and faithful refuge! You, O All-Merciful One, have been given grace from the Almighty to intercede for everyone and deliver them from sorrow and illness; you yourself have already endured fierce sorrow and illness, looking at the painful suffering of Your beloved Son and Him crucified on the Cross in sight, when the weapon Simeon foretold of Your heart passed through. Moreover, O beloved Mother of children, listen to the voice of our prayer, console us in the sorrow of those who exist, like an intercessor faithful to joy. Standing before the Throne of the Most Holy Trinity, at the right hand of Your Son, Christ our God, you can, if you wish, ask for everything useful to us.
For this reason, with heartfelt faith and love from the soul, we fall to You as the Queen and Lady, and we dare to cry out to You in psalms: hear, O Daughters, and see, and incline Your ear, hear our prayer, and deliver us from current troubles and sorrows: You fulfill the requests of all the faithful, as joy to the sorrowing, and peace and consolation to their souls. Serve it. Behold our misfortune and sorrow: show us Thy mercy, after consolation to our hearts wounded by sorrow, show and surprise us sinners with the riches of Thy mercy, give us tears of repentance to cleanse our sins and satisfy the wrath of God, so that with a pure heart, good conscience and undoubted hope we may resort to Thy intercession and intercession.
Accept, our All-Merciful Lady Theotokos, our earnest prayer brought to You, and do not reject us, unworthy, from Your mercy, but grant us deliverance from sorrow and illness, protect us from all slander of the enemy and human slander, be our constant Helper all the days of our life, as if we will always remain under Your Motherly protection goals and preservation through Your intercession and prayers to Your Son and God our Savior, to Him belongs all glory, honor and worship, with His Beginning Father and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto the ages of ages.
O Most Holy Lady Lady Theotokos! With the fear of many and with faith and love, bringing thanksgiving songs, we pray to Thee before this miraculous icon, which has shone with wondrous miracles: do not shut up Thy mercies to us sinners, O All-Immaculate One, do not reject us who come running to Thee, O Merciful One. Pray to Your Son and God, our Lord Jesus Christ, that by His grace He will erect, establish and preserve this monastery for the salvation of souls who are ignorant of Him. You yourself, as the Good Mother of the Most High, remain persistent from this monastery, your essential heritage, and with your omnipotent prayers cover and protect those who strive here from all troubles and needs of the soul and body. There are no imams of any other help, no imams of other hope, except for You, Most Pure Virgin.
In the same way, we humbly fall, we pray to Thee, Most Blessed Lady: graciously accept the prayers, petitions and thanksgivings of all those who flow with faith to Thy honorable image, deliver them from the fall of sin, from the slander of evil people, from sorrows and troubles, from sudden death and eternal torment, and grant them the spirit of contrition, humility of heart, purity of mind and remission of sins, may all of us, who praise You with gratitude, be worthy of the Heavenly Kingdom, and there, together with all the saints, may we glorify the most honorable and magnificent Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit forever and ever.
O All-Merciful and Most Merciful Lady Queen Theotokos! If you desire, you can ask Your Son, Christ our God, for everything. Accept my prayer, and do not reject from Your intercession the most sinful man of all: grant me freedom from troubles and sorrows, deliver me, O All-Pure One, from visible and invisible enemies and from evil people slandering me, do not let me perish from famine, sword, cowardice, flood and fire, and be my Helper incomparable, for under Your roof I will always be preserved and by Your prayer on the Last Day of Judgment I will appear uncondemned to Your Son and our God, to Him belongs glory and power, with the Beginning Father and the Holy Spirit, now and to the endless ages of ages.
[From a handwritten akathist.]
O Most Holy Lady Theotokos, God-chosen Youth, Joy to all who mourn! Give us consolation in our present sorrow: drive away from us sorrow, illness, temptation and all kinds of adversity of the enemy: hear us sinners, who fall before Your all-honorable icon with a contrite heart, and through Your all-powerful intercession grant us endless joy in the Kingdom of Your Son and our God forever and ever.
To the Lady, the Most Holy Theotokos, the Heavenly Queen, the Most Excellent Maiden, hope for the hopeless, healing for the sick, the orphan Representative, strange refuge, clothing for the naked, comfort and joy for the grieving, the offended Patroness and all those in troubles and misfortunes, speedy help and intercession! O All-Merciful Lady, Virgin Mother of God! See our misfortunes, sorrows and misfortunes: help us the poor and suffering, the sad and despondent, the grieving and desperate, take away all sadness from us, guide us as if we are strange. Weigh our grievances, Immaculate One, and help us if you wish. O Lady, do not allow us to fall into despair: imams have no other help than Your Son, the Eternal God, the Savior Christ, and other Representative and Comforter, except You, O Lady, O Intercessor, O God-chosen Virgin, O Queen of all creation, Most Honest Dove.
In the same way, looking at Your most pure image, with sighing and contrition of heart, we bow our heads and knees and pray to the Mother of God: look with mercy, All-sung Mother of God, hear, Offering us, do not reject us, but deign to have mercy, and do not reject our sighs: no one who comes to You is put to shame from you, but asks for grace and accepts mercy. Pray, Lady Queen and Lady, Virgin Mary, the Eternal God, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, for all of us who worship and pray to You with faith: keep in health, longevity and prosperous stay our most pious, autocratic, great sovereign, Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich, establish his throne in the radiance of glory, as the sun before You, and preserve his entire family as an unceasing inheritance: protect the power of his kingdom with peace and enrich the fruits of the earth with abundance. Let the image of this face of Yours be a wall and a barrier for us and a confirmation, but our enemy is fear and defeat: we, Thy people, look upon the worthlessness of us, may we receive healing from our ills.
Cover and deliver us from every occurrence of sorrow and sorrow. We pray to You and we pray to You, we kiss Your holy image: have mercy, cover and protect and protect with Your intercession, and guide us on the path of salvation in this world, and in the future take away eternal torment: for you are blessed and glorified now, always and to the endless ages of ages.
O Most Holy Lady, Lady Virgin Mary, Mother of the Heavenly King! Accept from us this little song of praise offered to You: For You are the Most Holy of all saints, Angel and Archangel and of all creatures, Most Honest, hope for the hopeless, healing for the sick, Intercessor for the orphans, refuge for the strange, clothing for the naked, consolation and Joy for the grieving, patroness for the offended, and speedy help for all who are in troubles and misfortunes. help and intercession! In the same way, venerating Your holy icon, we pray to You, tenderly calling out: Most Holy Lady, deliver us, Thy sinful and unworthy servants, from all troubles, misfortunes, sorrows and ailments, and guide us on the path of salvation in this present age, in the future take away eternal torment, and make us worthy of the Heavenly Kingdom of the Son Thine and our God: for Thy name be blessed and glorified forever and ever.
Let us now diligently approach the Mother of God as a proselytizer of sin and humility, and let us fall down in repentance, calling from the depths of our souls: Lady, help us, having mercy on us: struggling, we are perishing from many sins: do not turn away Thy servants from vanity, for You are the only hope of the Imams.
Let us never be silent, Mother of God, in speaking Your strength to those who are unworthy: if You had not stood before us to pray, who would have delivered us from such troubles? Who would have kept them free until now? We will not retreat, O Lady, from You: for Your servants always save you from all evil ones.
To the source of ever-flowing mercy, the Most Pure Virgin Mother of God, the father of all people, kings and princes, priests and foreigners, husbands and wives and children, rich and poor, healthy and sick, crying out in repentance and tenderly saying: Lady, help Thy sinful servant, show as Good glory Yours, ever striving to have mercy on us, to ask for the cleansing of our souls and bodies from the source of our life, God, Whom you gave birth to, the only Blessed One.
Today the most glorious city of Moscow shines brightly, having the miraculous icon of our Lady Theotokos: She, who shows miracles to the faithful, sends down healing gifts. For this reason, we also fall into prayer with faith, and look at that most pure image, as if we are seeing our true Lady, the Ever-Virgin Mother of God, and we say tenderly: look, Mother of God, with the eye of mercy, stretch out your most pure hands to us, as this is seen in your icon, and give to all who mourn joy, healing for the sick from all ailments and deliverance from troubles, for You are the speedy Representative for our souls.
Joy to all those who mourn, and those who are offended by the Intercessor, and those who are hungry for the Nourisher, strange consolation, those overwhelmed by refuge, visiting the sick, protection of the weak and Intercessor, the rod of old age, You are the Mother of the Most High God, Most Pure One: we strive, we pray, to be saved by Your servant.
Most blessed Lady, Ever-Virgin Mother of God, who gave birth to God the Word more than any word for our salvation, and received His grace more abundantly than all others, an inexhaustible sea of Divine gifts that appeared and an ever-flowing river of miracles, pouring out goodness to all who resort to You in faith! To Your miraculous image, we pray to You, the All-generous, man-loving Master of the Mother: we are surprised by Your rich mercy, and speedily fulfill our petitions brought to You, Quick to Hear, all for the benefit, for the consolation and salvation of everyone. Visit, O Blessing, Thy servants with Thy grace, and grant to the sick healing and perfect health, to those overwhelmed by silence, to those captivated by freedom, and to the afflicted by various images of comfort.
Deliver, O All-Merciful Lady, every city and country from famine, plague, cowardice, flood, fire, sword and other temporary and eternal punishments, by Your maternal boldness turning away the wrath of God from us: so also from mental relaxation, overwhelming passions and falls, free Your servants, as if Having lived without failure in all piety in this world, and in the future, we will be worthy of eternal blessings, by the grace and love of Thy Son and God, to Him belongs all glory, honor and worship, with His Beginning Father and the Most Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
O Most Holy Virgin, Mother of the Lord Most High, quick to obey the Intercessor of all who come running to You with faith! Look from the height of Your Heavenly Majesty upon me, the indecent one, falling to Your holy icon: hear the humble prayer of the sinner me soon and bring it to Your Son: beg Him to illuminate my dark soul with the light of His Divine grace and cleanse my mind from vain thoughts, so that He may pacify may my suffering heart heal its wounds, may it enlighten me to good deeds and strengthen me to work with fear, may it forgive all the evil I have done, may it deliver me from eternal torment and not deprive me of His Heavenly Kingdom. O Most Blessed Mother of God! You deigned to be named in Your image, Quick to Hear, commanding everyone to come to You with faith: do not despise me, who is sorrowful, and do not allow me to perish in the abyss of my sins. In You, according to God, all my hope and hope of salvation, and I entrust myself to Your protection and intercession forever and ever.
To the Mother of God we are the father of those who exist in troubles, and to Her holy icon let us now fall, calling with faith from the depths of our souls: soon hear our prayer, O Virgin, as the One who is quick to hear: For thee are Thy servants ready to help the imams in their needs.
O Most Holy Lady Lady Theotokos! Thou art the highest angel and archangel of all, and the most honorable of all creatures: Thou art the helper of the offended, the hopeless hope, the poor Intercessor, the sad consolation, the hungry Nurse, the naked robe, the healing of the sick, the salvation of sinners, the help and intercession of all Christians. O All-Merciful Lady, Virgin Mary and Lady! By Thy mercy save and have mercy on our most pious, autocratic, great sovereign, Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich of all Russia: his wife, the most pious empress Empress Alexandra Feodorovna: his mother, the most pious empress Empress Maria Feodorovna: his heir, the most pious sovereign Tsarevich and great Prince Alexy Nikolaevich, and the entire reigning house.
Save, O Lady, and have mercy on Thy servant, the Most Holy Governing Synod, and the Right Reverend metropolitans, archbishops and bishops, and the entire priestly and monastic rank, and the governing synclite of the faithful, and military leaders, city governors and the Christ-loving army, and well-wishers, and all Orthodox Christians in Thy robe. protect with honesty: and pray, Lady, from You, without seed, Christ our God, incarnate, may gird us with His power from above against our invisible and visible enemies. O All-Merciful Lady Lady Theotokos! Raise us from the depths of sin, and deliver us from famine, destruction, from cowardice and flood, from fire and sword, from the presence of foreigners and internecine warfare, and from sudden death, and from the attack of the enemy, and from corrupting winds, and from deadly plagues, and from all evil.
Grant, O Lady, peace and health to Thy servant, all Orthodox Christians, and enlighten their minds and the eyes of their hearts to salvation: and make us, Thy sinful servants, worthy of the Kingdom of Thy Son, Christ our God: for His power is blessed and glorified, with His Father without beginning, and with the Most Holy and Good and By His life-giving Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
To whom shall I cry, Lady? To whom shall I turn in my sorrow, if not to You, the Queen of Heaven? Who will hear my cry and receive my sighs, if not You, Most Immaculate, the Hope of Christians and the Refuge for us sinners? Who will protect You more in adversity? Hear my groaning and incline Your ear to me, the Lady and Mother of my God. Do not despise the one who seeks Your help and do not reject me, a sinner, Queen of Heaven. Teach me to fulfill the howl of Your Son and grant me the desire of His holy commandments. For the sake of my murmuring, which happened in sorrows, do not retreat from me, but provide protection and intercession for the one of little faith. With your intercession, cover my sins, protect from visible and invisible enemies, soften the hearts of those who are hostile to me, and warm with this love of Christ. Grant to me, who is weak, Your all-powerful help, so that I may overcome my sinful passions, so that through repentance and good correction of my life I will be cleansed, and be able to pass through the rest of my earthly journey in obedience to the Church of Your Son without blemish.
At the hour of my death, present to me, the hope of all Christians, and confirm my faith on that difficult day, and after my departure, offer up your all-powerful prayer for me, that the Lord may have mercy on me and make me partake of His endless joys forever and ever.
Today is the day of God's favor, the transfiguration and the preaching of the salvation of men: in the church of God the Virgin clearly appears and announces Christ to everyone. To that we too will loudly cry out: Rejoice, fulfillment of the Creator’s vision.
O Most Holy and Most Blessed Mother of our Sweetest Lord Jesus Christ! We fall down and bow to You before Your holy, miraculous icon, remembering the wondrous sign of Your intercession. It was revealed to Great Novugrad from her during the days of the military invasion. We humbly pray to You, O All-Powerful Intercessor of our race: just as in ancient times You hastened our Father to help us, so now we, weak and sinners, have been granted Your maternal intercession and well-being. Save and preserve, O Lady, under the shelter of Thy mercy, our most pious sovereign, Emperor Nicholas Aleksandrovich of all Russia, and all his Christ-loving army. Establish the holy Church, Your city, [Your abode] and our entire Orthodox country and all of us who fall to You with faith and love and tenderly ask with tears for Your intercession, have mercy and save. Hey, Lady All-Merciful!
Have mercy on us, overwhelmed by many sins, stretch out Thy accepting hands to Christ the Lord and intercede for us before His goodness, asking us forgiveness of our sins, a pious peaceful life, a good Christian death and a good answer at His Last Judgment: may we be saved by Thy all-powerful prayers to Him, bliss We will inherit paradise, and with all the saints we will sing the most honorable and magnificent name of the venerable Trinity, Father and Son and Holy Spirit, and Your great mercy to us forever and ever.
O Most Holy Lady, our Lady Theotokos, Mother of the Heavenly King, our Intercessor and Helper, the most chosen Lady, hope for the hopeless, healing for the sick, the orphan Representative, clothing for the naked, consolation and joy for the grieving, the offended Patroness, help and intercession for all who are in troubles and misfortunes! O All-Merciful Lady, Virgin Mary and Lady! You see our troubles, sorrows and misfortunes: help us who are weak, nasty and uncorrected, sad and embittered: take away this sadness from us, guide us, as if we were strange: You weigh our grievances, resolve them as you can and will. Do not let me, Lady, fall into despair: for imams are no other Helper and Intercessor, nor good Comforter, but You, O Lady, Intercessor, God-chosen Virgin, Queen of all creation! Likewise, we look at Your most honorable image of the Sign with the Eternal Child, kiss with sighs, and bow our heads and knees to the ground. Look with mercy, O All-Sung Mother of God: hear the Most Blessed One: do not reject, but deign to have mercy: do not reject our sighing.
For no one who flows to You is disgraced from You; but everyone asks for grace and receives mercy. Pray to the Lady and Queen, Virgin Mary, Mother of the Eternal Child, our Lord Jesus Christ, held in Your hand, that He may save and protect our blessed Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich and all his inheritance, protect his throne with peace, enrich his kingdom with the fruits of the earth and all good things in abundance, correct it with justice and justice, sanctify and establish it. We pray and pray to You, O All-Merciful Mother: do not despise the prayers of Your servants in the name of You, praying to You: have mercy, O Lady, cover, protect, preserve with Your intercession, and guide us on the path of salvation in this world, and in the future take away eternal torment. For you are blessed and glorified now and always and to the endless ages of ages.
O Most Holy Lady Theotokos! Look with mercy at the prayers of us sinners and Your humble servants, and pray to God Your Son, may He grant us and all those who flow to You mental and physical health and everything necessary for eternal and temporal life, may He forgive us every sin, voluntary and involuntary, may He deliver us from all sorrows and illnesses, and misfortunes, and every evil situation. To her, our Blessing Queen, our indestructible Hope and invincible Intercessor! Do not turn Your face away from us for the multitude of our sins: but stretch out to us the hand of Your motherly mercy and work with us a sign for good. Show us Thy rich help and success in every endeavor: turn us away from every sinful undertaking and evil thought, so that we may always glorify Thy most honorable name, and being grateful to Thy honest [or miraculous] image of worshiping, we magnify God the Father, and His Only Begotten Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit, with all saints forever and ever.
Most Holy Virgin, Mother of our Lord, Queen of heaven and earth! With faith and love, worshiping Your most pure image, we pray to You: just as You have shown Your help to our Father many times in sorrows and misfortunes, so also we sinners have been vouchsafed Your maternal protection and intercession. Behold, all of us, overwhelmed by passions and drowned by sins, are worthy of eternal punishment. But trusting in Your mercy, we cry out to You, O Mother of all who mourn and are burdened: deliver us from the fallings of sin, from the wiles of the evil one, from the slander of evil people and from all troubles, quench our sorrows and sorrows, heal our illnesses, grant us the rest of our life in peace and repentance, and at the Last Judgment of the Son Your appearance to us, Merciful Intercessor, may we all sing and magnify You with all those who have pleased God always, now and ever, and unto ages of ages.
O Most Holy Lady Lady Theotokos! With faith and love, falling before Thy miraculous and multi-healing icon, which Thou hast bestowed a wondrous victory against Thy city's resistance, we pray to Thee: just as in ancient times Thou hast hastened our Father to help us, so grant us, weak and sinful, Thy maternal dullness. Do not turn Your face away from those who come to You: pray, most merciful Mother, Your Son and our God, may He preserve our blessed sovereign Nikolai Alexandrovich under His roof, may He establish peace, silence and piety in His dominion, May He preserve His holy, unshakable Church, and may He deliver from unbelief, heresies and schism. There are no imams of any other help, no imams of other intercession, except for You, Most Holy Virgin. Likewise, save Your city and the entire Orthodox country and all of us from famine, destruction, cowardice, flood, fire, internecine warfare, from the corrupting wind and from deadly plagues: grant us the blessing of the air and the fruitfulness of the earth.
Save and have mercy, O Lady, in every misfortune and need that exists: comfort the afflicted, strengthen the faint-hearted, heal those suffering from various ailments, free those who are cold from unclean spirits, deliver the offended from offense. Remember Thy servants and do not despise our tears and sighs. Have mercy, O Lady, on Your weak people: gather the scattered, guide the erring on the right path, support old age, give chastity to the young. Save and protect us, O Lady, from all the snares of the evil one and from all the slander of the enemy: strengthen our weak will to do the commandments of God, soften the hardness of our hearts, grant us the spirit of contrition, humility of heart, purity of thoughts and correction of sinful lives, so that having been cleansed from sinful defilement, we will be rewarded with peace Christian death and a good answer at the Last Judgment of Your Son. Hey, All-Merciful Lady!
And in the terrible hour of death, show us Your powerful intercession, then hasten to help us who are helpless and with Your sovereign hand snatch us from the power of the cruel world ruler: those who have ceased in piety from this life, make our fathers and brothers live in eternal life with the Angels and with all the saints. For you are, Lady, the glory of heaven and the hope of earth, you, according to God, are our hope and the Intercessor of all those who flow to you and ask for your holy help. Moreover, we look reverently at Your wondrous image, and before it, as if You were more alive, we fall with tenderness and surrender to You all our lives according to Christ God, now and ever and unto the ages of ages.
O Most Holy Lady Theotokos, Mother of the Heavenly King, God-chosen Youth, hope for the unreliable, healing for the sick, for the orphaned Representative, for the grieving, consolation and joy, for the offended Patroness and for all those in trouble and adversity, speedy help and intercession! Help, O Mother of God, us sinners in our sorrow, gladden the hearts of Your people with joy, guide our lives in peace and silence, and do not let us fall into despair. You are the only one, more than all the saints and more than all the heavenly minds, our Representative to God, as the All-Good King, Good Mother. Moreover, we are sinners, looking at Your most pure image of the Sign, we bow our knees with tenderness, and reverently kissing, we pray to You, Blessed Mother: do not reject our humble prayer and show us a sign of Your mercy: no one, running to You with hope, comes from You to shame, but asks for grace and accepts the gift to useful petition, glorifying Your Son and God, and You with Him, forever and ever.
Like an insurmountable wall and a source of miracles, which Your servants, Most Pure Mother of God, have acquired for You, we overthrow the resistant militia. We also pray to You: grant peace to Your city and great mercy to our souls.
O Most Holy Virgin, Mother of the Lord of the Highest Powers, Queen of heaven and earth, our city and country, Omnipotent Intercessor! Receive thanksgiving and glory from us, unworthy Thy servants, and lift up our prayers to the throne of God Thy Son, that He may show us the sign of His mercy and add His grace to those who honor Thy all-honorable name and with faith and love worship Thy miraculous image. We are not worthy of being pardoned by Him, unless You propitiate Him for us, O Lady: everything from Him is possible for You. For this reason, we resort to You, as to our undoubted and immediate Intercessor.
Hear us praying to You, cover us with Your all-powerful protection, and ask from the Lord Almighty our most pious, autocratic, great sovereign, Emperor Nicholas Alexandrovich of all Russia: his wife, the most pious Empress Alexandra Feodorovna: his mother, the most pious Empress Empress Maria Feodorovna: his heir, To the blessed sovereign Tsarevich and Grand Duke Alexy Nikolaevich, and to the entire reigning house, peace, health, salvation and good haste in everything: our shepherd is zeal and vigil for souls, the city ruler is wisdom and strength, the judges are truth and impartiality, the mentor is reason and humility, the husband is love and harmony, the child is obedience, the offended are patience, the offending the fear of God, to those who grieve complacency, to those who rejoice blessings, to those who are sick health, to those who are sick, intercession to those who are admonished, but to us all the spirit of faith and piety, the spirit of mercy and meekness, the spirit of purity and truth. Hey, Queen Presuming!
Have mercy on Thy weak people: gather those who are scattered along the paths of the world, guide those who have gone astray to the right path, strengthen old age, bring up young ones with chastity, raise infants, and look upon us all with the care of Thy motherly mercy: raise us up from the depths of sin and enlighten the eyes of our hearts to see. salvation. Be merciful to us here and there, in the land of earthly arrival and at the Last Judgment of Your Son: those who have ceased in faith and repentance from this life, make our fathers and brothers live in eternal life with the Angels and with all the saints. For you are, Lady, the glory of heaven and the hope of earth, You, according to God, are our Hope and Intercessor of all those who flow to You with faith. We therefore pray to You, and to You, as the Almighty Helper, we commit ourselves and each other and our whole life according to Christ God, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
O Most Holy Virgin, Mother of Christ our God, Queen of heaven and earth! Hear the much-painful sighing of our souls, look down from Thy holy height upon us, who with faith and love worship Thy most pure [and miraculous] image. Because we are immersed in sins and overwhelmed by sorrows, looking at Your image, as if You were alive and living with us, we offer our humble prayers. Imams have no other help, no other intercession, no consolation, except You, O Mother of all who mourn and are burdened! Help us the weak, assuage our sorrows, guide us astray on the right path, heal our painful hearts and save the hopeless, grant us the rest of our lives in peace and repentance, grant us a Christian death, and at the Last Judgment of Your Son the merciful Representative will appear to us, may we always sing, magnify and glorify You, as good Intercessor of the Christian race, with all those who pleased God, forever and ever.
To whom shall I cry, Lady? To whom shall I turn in my grief, if not to You, Lady Theotokos, Queen of Heaven? Who will accept my cry and sighing if not You, O Most Immaculate One, the Hope of Christians and the Refuge for us sinners? Bow down, O Most Pure Lady, to Your prayer. Mother of my God, do not despise me who requires Your help, hear my groaning, and the cry of my heart, O Lady Queen Theotokos! And give me spiritual joy, and strengthen me, who is impatient, sad and careless towards Your praise. Understand and teach me how You should pray, and do not depart from me, the Mother of my God, for my grumbling and impatience: but be my protection and intercession in my life, and lead me to the quiet haven of Divine peace, and number me in the face of Your chosen one flock, and there deign me to sing and glorify Thee forever and ever.
O our Most Holy Lady, Lady Theotokos! Save and have mercy on our most pious sovereign, Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich, autocrat of all Russia, his wife, the most pious empress, Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, his mother, the most pious empress, Empress Maria Feodorovna, the heir of his pious sovereign, the Tsarevich and Grand Duke Alexy Nikolaevich, and all reigning house: Russia and all the loyal subjects of His Imperial Majesty, with Your honest robe, protect from all misfortune and sorrow: preserve the Orthodox faith and the Russian people, and to all Orthodox Christians who resort to Your Divine protection, be a merciful and speedy novice until the end of the age.
O Most Holy Virgin, the All-Blessed Son of the All-Blessed Mother, the protection of the reigning city and the holy church of this church, faithful to the Representative and Intercessor of all who are in sins and sorrows, troubles and illnesses!
Accept this prayer song, from us, unworthy Thy servants, offered to You: and like the sinner of old, who prayed many times before Thy honest icon, You did not despise him, but You granted him the unexpected joy of repentance, and through this zealous intercession to Your Son, You bowed the sinner to the forgiveness of him, So even now, do not despise the prayers of us, Thy unworthy servants, but beg Thy Son and our God, and all of us, with faith and tenderness before Thy celibate image who worship, according to which every need grants unexpected joy: to a sinner, in the depths of evil and passions - all-effective admonition, repentance and salvation: to those who exist in for those who are sorrowful and sorrowful - consolation: for those who are in troubles and bitterness - complete abundance of these: for the cowardly and unreliable - hope and patience: for those living in joy and abundance - unceasing thanksgiving to the Benefactor: for those in need - mercy, for those in illness - healing and strengthening: for those who are dependent on illness - mind - return and renewal of the mind: for those departing into eternal and endless life - memory of death, tenderness and contrition for sins, a cheerful spirit and firm hope in the mercy of the Judge.
O Most Holy Lady! Have mercy on all who revere Your all-honorable name, and show to all Your all-powerful protection and intercession: observe those who remain in goodness until their last death in piety, purity and honest life: do evil good things: guide those who have gone astray to the right path: promote every good deed and that which is pleasing to Your Son: every evil thing. and destroy the ungodly undertaking: in stupidity and evil situations, send invisible help and admonition from heaven to those who exist: from temptations, seductions and destruction, save Thy, from all evil people and from enemies visible and invisible, Thy protect and preserve: float to those who swim: travel to those who travel: wake up to those who are in need and hunger nourisher: give cover and refuge to those who have no shelter and shelter: give clothing to the naked, intercession to those who are offended and unjustly persecuted: invisibly justify slander, reproach and blasphemy to those who suffer: reprove slanderers and blasphemers before everyone: grant reconciliation to those who are bitterly at war, and for all of us to treat each other with love and peace, piety and health with longevity.
Preserve marriages in love and like-mindedness: spouses who exist in enmity and division, die: mothers, children giving birth, grant quick permission: raise babies, young ones be chaste, open their minds to the perception of every useful teaching, instruct the fear of God and abstinence and hard work: from domestic quarrels, consanguineous people in peace and Protect with love: be the Mother of the orphans, turn away from all vice and filth, and the Comforter and Helper of all that is good and pleasing, be the rod of old age: deliver us all from sudden death without repentance, and for all of us the Christian end of our life will be painless, shameless, peaceful and a good answer at the Last Judgment Grant that those who have ceased in faith and repentance from this life may live with the Angels and all the saints: pray to those who died a sudden death to be mercifully thy son, and for all the departed, and especially for these who have no relatives, for the repose of those who pray for them, be the unceasing and warm Prayer Book yourself and Intercessor: let everyone in heaven and on earth lead You as a firm and shameless Representative of the Christian race, and this leading, glorify You and Your Son, with His Beginningless Father and His Consubstantial Spirit, now and ever and unto the ages of ages.
O Most Holy Virgin, Mother of the Lord of the highest powers, Queen of heaven and earth, our city and country, our all-powerful Intercessor! Receive this song of praise from us, unworthy Thy servants, and lift up our prayers to the throne of God Thy Son, that He may be merciful to our iniquities and add His grace to those who honor Thy all-honorable name and with faith and love worship Thy most pure [or miraculous] image. We are not worthy of being pardoned by Him, unless You propitiate Him for us, Lady, for all things are possible for You from Him.
For this reason, we resort to You, as to our undoubted and quick Intercessor: hear us praying to You, surprise us with Your great and rich mercy, show us Your heavenly help and intercession, and ask God Your Son as our shepherd for zeal and vigilance for souls, as a city ruler for wisdom and strength, as judges of truth and impartiality, reason and humility as a mentor, love and harmony for spouses, obedience for children, patience for those who are offended, fear of God for those who are offended, complacency for those who mourn, abstinence for those who rejoice: the spirit of reason and piety, the spirit of mercy and meekness, the spirit of purity and truth have been sent down to us all. Hey, Most Holy Lady! Have mercy on Thy weak people: gather the scattered, guide the erring on the right path, heal the sick, support old age, bring up the youth with integrity, raise infants, and look upon us all with the mercy of Thy intercession: raise us up from the depths of sin and Enlighten the eyes of our hearts to the vision of salvation.
Be merciful to us here and at the Last Judgment of Your Son: having ceased in faith and repentance from this life, our fathers and brothers will live in eternal life with the angels and with all the saints. For you are, Lady, the glory of heaven and the hope of earth, You, according to God, are our Hope and Intercessor of all those who flow to You with faith. We therefore pray to You, and to You, as the Almighty Helper, we commit ourselves and each other and our whole life, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
Accept, O All-Blessed and All-Powerful Lady Lady Theotokos the Virgin, these prayers, with tears, now offered to You from us, Your unworthy servants, who send up to Your celibate image the singing of those who send forth with tenderness, as if You yourself are here and heed our prayer. For every request you fulfill, you alleviate sorrows, you give health to the weak, you heal the weakened and sick, you drive away demons from demons, you deliver the offended from insults, you cleanse lepers and you are kind to little children: again, Madam Lady Theotokos, you free us from bonds and prisons and heal all manifold passions: for all things are possible through Your intercession to Your Son, Christ our God. O All-Singing Mother, Most Holy Theotokos! Do not cease to pray for us, Your unworthy servants, who glorify You and honor You, and who worship Your most pure image with tenderness, and who have irrevocable hope and undoubted faith in You, the Ever-Virgin, Most Glorious and Immaculate, now and ever and unto the ages of ages.
O Most Holy Virgin, the All-Blessed Son of the All-Blessed Mother, the protection of the reigning city and the holy church of this church, faithful to the Representative and Intercessor of all who are in sins and sorrows, troubles and illnesses! Accept this prayer song, from us, unworthy Thy servants, offered to You: and like the sinner of old, who prayed many times before Thy honest icon, You did not despise him, but You granted him the unexpected joy of repentance, and through this zealous intercession to Your Son, You bowed the sinner to the forgiveness of him, So even now, do not despise the prayers of us, Thy unworthy servants, but pray to Thy Son and our God, and to all of us, who worship Thy celibate image with faith and tenderness, according to which every need grants unexpected joy: that all in heaven and on earth may lead Thee, as a steadfast and unashamed Representative of the Christian race, and for this they glorify Thee and Thy Son, with His Originless Father and His Consubstantial Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
Today, faithful people spiritually triumph, glorifying the zealous Intercessor of the Christian race, and flowing to Her Most Pure Image, we cry out: O Most Merciful Lady Theotokos, grant us unexpected joy, burdened with many sins and sorrows, and deliver us from all evil, begging Thy Son, Christ our God, to save our souls.
Zealous Intercessor, Mother of the Lord Most High! You are the help and intercession of all Christians, especially in times of need. Look now from Thy holy height upon us, who with faith worship Thy most pure image, and show, we pray to Thee, Thy quick help to those floating on the sea and to those suffering from the stormy winds of heavy sorrow. Move all Orthodox Christians to salvation in the waters of drowning, and reward those who strive for this with Thy rich mercy and generosity. Behold, looking at Your image, You, who are mercifully present with us, offer our humble prayers. The imams have no other help, no other intercession, no consolation, except You, O Mother of all who mourn and suffer. According to God, You are our hope and Intercessor, and we trust in You, ourselves, and each other, and our whole life to You forever and ever.
O Most Holy Virgin, the All-Blessed Son of the All-Blessed Mother, the reigning city and the holy church of this protection, faithful to the Representative and Intercessor of all who are in sins and sorrows! Do not despise the lightning of us, Thy unworthy servants, but implore Thy Son and our God, so that all of us, who worship Thy miraculous image with love and tenderness, may grant joy according to every need: for sinners - all-effective admonition, repentance and salvation: for those in sorrow and sorrow - consolation: in troubles and for those who remain embittered - complete abundance: for the cowardly and unreliable - hope and patience: for those living in joy and abundance - unceasing thanksgiving to God: for those in illness - healing and strengthening. O Most Holy Lady! Have mercy on all who honor Your honorable name, and show everyone Your all-powerful protection and intercession: protect and preserve people from visible and invisible enemies.
Establish marriages in love and like-mindedness: raise babies, young ones with chastity, open their minds to the perception of every useful teaching: protect consanguineous people from domestic quarrels with peace and love, and grant to all of us love for each other, peace and piety and health with long life: so that everyone in heaven and on earth will lead You as a firm and the shameless Representative of the Christian race, and this knowing one, glorify Thee and Thy Son with Thee, with His Originless Father and His Consubstantial Spirit, now and ever and unto the ages of ages.
O Most Pure Lady Lady Theotokos! Accept our unworthy prayer, and save us from the slander of evil people and from sudden death, and grant us repentance before the end. Be compassionate to our prayer, and grant joy instead of sorrow. And deliver us, Lady, from all misfortune and adversity, sorrow and illness and from all evil. And we are worthy, Thy sinful servants, at the right hand at the second coming of Thy Son, Christ our God, and heirs of the existence of the Kingdom of Heaven and eternal life with all the saints throughout the endless ages of ages.
Accept, Lady Theotokos, the tearful prayers of Your servants who flow to You. We see You on the holy icon, carrying in your arms and feeding with milk Your Son and our God, the Lord Jesus Christ. Even if you gave birth to Him painlessly, even though the mother weighed the sorrow and infirmity of the sons and daughters of human beings. With the same warmth falling upon Thy whole-bearing image and tenderly kissing this, we pray to Thee, All-Merciful Lady: we sinners, condemned to give birth to illnesses and to nourish our children in sorrows, mercifully spare and compassionately intercede, but our babies, who also gave birth to them, from a serious illness and Deliver me from bitter sorrow. Grant them health and prosperity, and their nourishment will increase in strength, and those who feed them will be filled with joy and consolation, for even now, through Your intercession from the mouth of a baby and those who piss, the Lord will bring His praise. O Mother of the Son of God! Have mercy on the mother of the sons of men and on Your weak people: quickly heal the illnesses that befall us, quench the sorrows and sorrows that are upon us, and do not despise the tears and sighs of Your servants.
Hear us on the day of sorrow who fall before Your icon, and on the day of joy and deliverance receive the grateful praise of our hearts. Offer our prayers to the throne of Your Son and our God, that He may be merciful to our sin and weakness and add His mercy to those who lead His name, so that we and our children may glorify You, the merciful Intercessor and the true hope of our race forever and ever.
O Most Holy Lady Theotokos, our Joy and Consolation! Look mercifully at the people coming with faith and love and worshiping Your most pure image: accept our singing of praise and pour out Your warm prayer for us sinners to the Lord, that, having despised all our sins, He will save and have mercy on us. O Precious Lady! Show us Your wonderful mercies: save and have mercy on the most pious sovereign Emperor Nicholas Alexandrovich and the entire reigning house, grant them health and salvation: save the shepherds of the Church and all the Christ-loving army. We pray to You with tenderness, deliver us all from all sorrow, guide us on the path of all virtues and goodness, save us from temptations, troubles and diseases, take away slander and quarrels from us, save us from lightning thunder, from the burning of fire, from famine, cowardice, flood and deadly ulcers: give us Your merciful help in ways, both at sea and on land. Behold, All-Merciful Lady, in undoubted hope we offer our poor prayer to You.
Do not reject our tears and sighs, do not forget us all the days of our life, but always remain with us, and through Your intercession and intercession with the Lord, give us the joy of consolation, protection and help, so that we glorify and magnify and please You throughout all generations, forever and ever.
Hope to all the ends of the earth, Most Pure Virgin, Lady Theotokos, our consolation! Do not disdain us sinners, for we trust in Your mercy: extinguish the sinful flame burning in us and water our withered hearts with repentance: cleanse our minds from sinful thoughts: accept the prayers offered to You with sighs from the soul and heart. Be an intercessor for us to Your Son and God, and turn away His anger with Your motherly prayers. Heal mental and physical ulcers, Lady Lady: quench the illnesses of souls and bodies: calm the storm of evil attacks of the enemy, take away the burden of our sins, and do not leave us to perish until the end, and console our broken hearts with sadness, let us glorify Thee until our last breath.
Virgin Lady Theotokos, who, more than nature and the word, gave birth to the Only Begotten Word of God, the Creator and Ruler of all visible and invisible creatures, the One of the Trinity of God, and God and man, the abode of the Divine, the receptacle of all holiness and grace, in which, by the good will of God and the Father, assisted by the Holy Spirit, the fulfillment dwelled Corporeal deity, incomparably exalted with royal and splendid dignity and superior to every creature, glory and consolation, and the indescribable joy of the Angels, the royal crown of the apostles and prophets, the martyrs, supernatural and wondrous courage, the Champion in ascetic struggles and the Giver of victory, preparing for the ascetic eternal and divine rewards, all exceeding honor, the honor and glory of the saints, the infallible Guide and Teacher of silence, the door of revelations and spiritual mysteries, the source of light, the inexhaustible river of mercy, the inexhaustible sea of all divine gifts and miracles!
We ask and pray to You, most compassionate Mother of the Humane-loving Master: be merciful to us, Your humble and unworthy servant, look with mercy on our captivity and humility, heal the contrition of our souls and bodies, dispel visible and invisible enemies, make us an unworthy pillar strong in the face of our enemies, battle weapons, strong militia, Voivode and irresistible Champion: now reveal to us Your ancient and wondrous mercies, may we take away our enemies from iniquity, for Your Son and One God is King and Master, for You are truly the Mother of God, who gave birth to the True God in the flesh, for all things are possible for You, and if You are willing, the Lady, you have all this power perfection in heaven and on earth, and to grant forgiveness for all things that are useful to everyone: health to those who are sick, and peace and good sailing to those in the sea.
For those who travel, travel and save me, save the captives from bitter slavery, comfort the sad, alleviate poverty and any other bodily suffering: free everyone from mental ailments and passions invisible by Your intercession and instruction, as if we have completed the path of this temporary life, we will inherit it without blemish and without stumbling. and this is eternal good in the Kingdom of Heaven. Our faithful kings, who honor the essence of the terrible name of Your Only Begotten Son, and trust in Your intercession and in Your mercy, and in all have You as their Intercessor and Champion, strengthen invisibly against the present enemies: dispel the cloud of despondency, comfort their souls: deliver me from spiritual distress, instead of it grant they are blessed with light complacency and joy, again affirming the peace and tranquility of their power and kingdom.
With Your prayers, Lady, save this flock most dedicated to You, every city and country, from famine, cowardice, flood, fire, sword, invasion of foreigners, internecine warfare, and turn away all righteously driven anger towards us, by the good will and grace of the Only Begotten Son and Your God, to Him belongs all glory and honor. and worship, with His Originless Father, and with His Ever-Substantial and Life-Giving Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
My Most Blessed Queen, my Hope to the Mother of God, refuge of the orphaned and strange to the Intercessor, to the grieving Joy, to the offended to the Patroness! See my misfortune, see my sorrow: help me as I am weak, guide me as I am strange. Let me resolve my offense as if it were my will: for I have no other help except You, no other Representative, no Good Comforter, except You, O Mother of God, for preserve me and cover me forever and ever.
Accept, O All-Blessed and All-Powerful Lady Lady Theotokos the Virgin, these prayers, with tears, now offered to You from us, Your unworthy servants, who send up to Your celibate image the singing of those who send forth with tenderness, as if You yourself are here and heed our prayer. For every request you fulfill, you alleviate sorrows, you give health to the weak, you heal the weakened and sick, you drive away demons from demons, you deliver the offended from insults, you cleanse lepers and you are kind to little children: again, Madam Lady Theotokos, you free us from bonds and prisons and heal all manifold passions: for all things are possible through Your intercession to Your Son, Christ our God. O All-Singing Mother, Most Holy Theotokos! Do not cease to pray for us, Your unworthy servants, who glorify You and honor You, and who worship Your most pure image with tenderness, and who have irrevocable hope and undoubted faith in You, the Ever-Virgin, Most Glorious and Immaculate, now and ever and unto the ages of ages.
O Most Holy Virgin, Mother of the Lord of the Highest Powers, Queen of heaven and earth, our city and country, our all-powerful Intercessor! Receive this song of praise from us, unworthy Thy servants, and lift up our prayers to the throne of God Thy Son, that He may be merciful to our iniquities and add His grace to those who honor Thy all-honorable name and with faith and love worship Your most pure [or miraculous] image. For we are not worthy of mercy from Him, unless You propitiate Him for us, Lady, for all things are possible for You from Him. For this reason, we resort to You, as to our undoubted and speedy Intercessor: hear us praying to You, overshadowing us with Your all-powerful protection, and ask God Your Son for our shepherd zeal and vigilance for souls, for the city ruler wisdom and strength, for judging truth and impartiality, for a mentor reason and humility, for a husband love and consent, obedience for children, patience for those who are offended, fear of God for those who are offended, good spirit for those who grieve, abstinence for those who rejoice, for us all the spirit of reason and piety, the spirit of mercy and meekness, the spirit of purity and truth.
Hey, Most Holy Lady! Have mercy on Thy weak people: gather the scattered, guide the erring on the right path, support old age, make young chaste, raise infants, and look upon all of us with the gaze of Thy merciful intercession: raise us up from the depths of sin and enlighten the eyes of our hearts to the vision of salvation. Be merciful to us here and there, in the land of earthly arrival and at the Last Judgment of Your Son: having ceased in faith and repentance from this life, our fathers and brothers will live in eternal life with the Angels and with all the saints. For you are, Lady, the glory of heaven and the hope of earth, You, according to God, are our Hope and Intercessor of all those who flow to You with faith. We therefore pray to You, and to You, as the Almighty Helper, we commit ourselves and each other and our whole life according to Christ God, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
Assuage the sickness of my much-sighing soul, which has quenched every tear from the face of the earth: You drive away sickness from people and resolve the sorrows of sinners: For you are all the gainers of hope and affirmation, Most Holy Mother of the Virgin.
O Most Blessed Lady, Protector of the Christian race, refuge and salvation of those who resort to You! We know, truly we know how much we have sinned and been angry, O Merciful Lady, the Son of God born in the flesh of You. But to the imams there are many images of those who angered His mercy before me: tax collectors, harlots and other sinners, to whom forgiveness of their sins was given, for the sake of repentance and confession. Thou, therefore, imagining the images of those who had mercy on my sinful soul, and looking at the great mercy of God, which I received, dared even I, a sinner, to resort with repentance to Your mercy. O All-Merciful Lady! Give me a helping hand, and ask Thy Son and God, through Thy motherly and most holy prayers, forgiveness for my grave sin.
I believe and confess that to the one whom You gave birth to, Your Son is truly the Christ, the Son of the Living God, Judge of the living and the dead, rewarding everyone according to his deeds: I also believe and confess You to be the true Mother of God, the source of mercy, the consolation of those who mourn, a strong and unceasing Intercessor to God, fiercely loving the Christian race and the Helper of repentance: Truly, there is no other help and protection for us except You, Most Merciful Lady, and no one, trusting in You, was ashamed when, and by You begging God, no one was quickly abandoned. For this sake and I pray to Your innumerable goodness: open the doors of Your mercy to me who have gone astray and fallen into the darkness of the depths, do not disdain me, who is unclean, do not despise my sinful prayer, do not abandon me, the accursed one, as an evil enemy seeks to snatch me away to destruction: but beg for me Thy Merciful Son and God, born of You, may He forgive my great sins and deliver me from my destruction, as I, with all who have received forgiveness, will sing and glorify the immeasurable mercy of God and Your unashamed intercession for me in this life and in the endless eternity.
O Most Holy and Most Blessed Virgin, Lady Theotokos, Helper of sinners and Seeker of the lost! Look with Your merciful eye on us, standing before Your holy icon and praying to You with tenderness: raise us from the depths of sin, enlighten our minds, darkened by passions, and heal the ulcers of our souls and bodies. There are no other imams of help, no other imams of hope, except You, the Lady: You weigh all our weaknesses and sins. We run to You and cry: do not abandon us with Your heavenly help, but appear to us ever, and with Your ineffable mercy and bounty save and have mercy on us who are perishing. Grant us correction of our sinful life and deliver us from sorrows, troubles and illnesses, from sudden death, hell and eternal torment. For you are, Queen and Lady, a quick Helper and Intercessor to all who flow to You and a strong refuge for repentant sinners.
Grant us, O Most Blessed and All-Immaculate Virgin, the Christian end of our life to be peaceful and unashamed, and grant us, through Your intercession, to dwell in the heavenly abodes, where the unceasing voice of those celebrating with joy glorifies the Most Holy Trinity, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto the ages of ages.
O zealous, compassionate intercessor of the Lord Mother! I come running to You, the accursed one and the most sinful man above all: listen to the voice of my prayer, and hear my cry and groaning. For my iniquity has surpassed my head, and I, like a ship in the abyss, am plunging into the sea of my sins. But You, All-merciful and Merciful Lady, do not despise me, desperate and perishing in sins: have mercy on me, who repent of my evil deeds, and turn my lost, accursed soul to the right path. On You, my Lady Theotokos, I place all my hope. You, Mother of God, save and preserve me under Your roof, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
My Most Blessed Queen, my Hope to the Mother of God, refuge of the orphaned and strange to the Intercessor, to the grieving Joy, to the offended to the Patroness! See my misfortune, see my sorrow: help me as I am weak, guide me as I am strange. Let me resolve my offense as if it were my will: for I have no other help except You, no other Representative, no Good Comforter, except You, O Mother of God, for preserve me and cover me forever and ever.
O Most Holy Virgin, Mother of Christ our God, Queen of heaven and earth! Hear the much-painful sighing of our souls, look down from Thy holy height upon us, who with faith and love worship Thy most pure [and miraculous] image. Because we are immersed in sins and overwhelmed by sorrows, looking at Your image, as if You were alive and living with us, we offer our humble prayers. Imams have no other help, no other intercession, no consolation, except You, O Mother of all who mourn and are burdened! Help us the weak, assuage our sorrows, guide us astray on the right path, heal our painful hearts and save the hopeless, grant us the rest of our lives in peace and repentance, grant us a Christian death, and at the Last Judgment of Your Son the merciful Representative will appear to us, may we always sing, magnify and glorify You, as good Intercessor of the Christian race, with all those who pleased God, forever and ever.
O Most Holy Lady and Mother of God, the highest Cherub and the most honorable Seraphim, the chosen Maiden, saving all the perishing! Give consolation to us who are in sorrow: is there no other refuge and help for you from the imams? You alone are our Intercessor of joy, and as the Mother of God and the Mother of Mercy, standing at the Throne of the Most Holy Trinity, you give us help: no one who comes to You leaves in shame. Hear also us, now on the day of sorrow before Your icon and praying to You with tears: take away from us the sorrows and sorrows that lie ahead in this temporary life, so that through Your omnipotent intercession we are not deprived of eternal, endless joy in the Kingdom of Your Son and our God, to Him belongs all glory, honor and worship, with His beginningless Father, and with His Most Holy and Good and Life-giving Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
Let us now diligently approach the Mother of God as a proselytizer of sin and humility, and let us fall down in repentance, calling from the depths of our souls: Lady, help us, having mercy on us: struggling, we are perishing from many sins: do not turn away Thy servants from vanity, for You are the only hope of the Imams.
Seek us who are perishing, O Most Holy Virgin, not because of our sins you punish us, but because of your love for mankind: deliver us from hell, illness and need, and save us.
Virgin Mary, Immaculate Mother of Christ our God, Intercessor of the entire Christian race! More than Thy miraculous icon, we pray to Thee diligently: hear us praying to Thee, accept our unworthy thanksgiving for all Thy ineffable good deeds to us, in this place and in other places and cities of the Russian land, revealed and revealed: For Thou art healing for the sick, consolation for the afflicted, correction and admonition for the erring. Give us all protection and a peaceful refuge from all evils, troubles and circumstances, from famine, cowardice, flood, fire, sword, invasion of foreigners, deadly plagues and from evil people’s bitterness. O Most Merciful Mother!
Be ever the loving Prayer Book for the well-being of this Holy Church, for the peace and quiet of the life of this holy monastery: strengthen the priests and those who serve in this holy church: autumn with Thy all-powerful protection the builders and benefactors of this holy monastery, reward them with eternal gifts of Thy bounties: intercede from all misfortunes and preserve with faith and reverence those who flow to Your miraculous icon and pray to You with love here and in every place. Offer up our prayers, like fragrant incense, to the throne of the Most High, who grants us health, longevity and haste in pious labors, so that, guided by Your guidance and covered by Your protection, we may glorify the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, and Your maternal intercession for us, always, now and ever, and unto the ages of ages.
O All-Merciful Lady, Queen Theotokos, Chosen from all generations and Blessed by all generations, heavenly and earthly! Look mercifully at these people standing before Thy holy icon, earnestly praying to You, and act by Thy intercession and intercession with Thy Son and our God, so that no one may come from here with the loss of his hope and be put to shame in his hope, but may each one receive from You everything according to the good will of his heart and according to his need and desire, for the salvation of the soul and the health of the body.
Most of all, protect the autumn and protect with Your protection, merciful Mother, our most pious sovereign, Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich, and his entire reigning house: drive away from him with Your prayers every enemy and adversary, establish his life in peace and silence, so that we may all live a quiet and silent life in all glory and purity: keep his kingdom so that the Kingdom of Christ may be in it: direct his paths and counsels, so that in his days righteousness and abundance of peace may shine, and may his heart rejoice over those who are in his dominion, just as the heart of a father rejoices over his children: against those who are resistant and wicked in their hearts, there will be horror and trembling before his face, so that fear will come to their senses and they will cease from their wickedness. Pray, Merciful Lady, to the Most Heavenly God, that He may always preserve His holy Church in Orthodoxy and the firm faith until the end of centuries.
Look with mercy, O All-Sung, and with the charity of Your merciful intercession on the entire All-Russian kingdom, our reigning cities and this city and this holy church, and pour out Your mercy unsparingly on this rich one, for You are the All-powerful Helper and Intercessor of us all. Bow down to the prayers of Thy servants and by their petition, hear the sighs and prayers in which Thy servants pray in this holy place. If a non-believer, or a foreigner, passes here, prays, hear and mercifully do what will help him and lead to salvation. O All-Singing Mother, Our Blessing Hope! Gather together those who are scattered, infidels and those of other faiths in our countries, teach the true path, those who have fallen away from the pious faith, return them to the Holy Orthodox Catholic Churches and make them numbered: establish peace in our homes, support old age, guide the young, raise infants, intercede for the orphans and widows, the captives set free, heal the sick, remember those who are in court and in imprisonment and in bitter labor, protecting us ever from all evil with Your goodness, and comfort us with Your merciful visit and all the good things done to us.
Grant, O good one, the fruitfulness of the earth, the goodness of the air, and all that is for our benefit, gifts in good time and useful through the prayers of the chosen saints, Saints Cyril and Methodius, in whose church we all stand. May our fathers and mothers, our brothers and sisters, who have departed before, rest in the villages of the saints, in a green place, in a place of peace, where there is no sorrow and sighing. When our departure from this life and resettlement to eternal life is ripe, appear to us, O Most Blessed Virgin, and grant the Christian end of our life painless, without shame and participation in the Holy Mysteries, so that in the future we will all be honored, together with all the saints, with endless life in the Kingdom of Your beloved Son, Lord and Our Savior Jesus Christ, to Him belongs all glory, honor and worship, with the Originless Father and the Holy Spirit, forever and ever.
O Our Most Holy Lady Theotokos, Heavenly Queen, our Most Blessed Hope, surpassing the Maiden, hope for the hopeless, salvation for sinners, refuge for the orphans, for the strange Representative, for the naked, for the naked, comfort and joy for the grieving, for the offended, for the Patroness and for all those in troubles and misfortunes, help and intercession! O All-Merciful Lady Virgin Mary! See our misfortunes, sorrows and misfortunes: help us who are weak, sad and despondent, sorrowful and desperate, and take away all sorrow from us. Weigh our offense: resolve it, O All-Immaculate One, as you will and are able: do not let us fall into despair. The imams would have no other help than Your Son, Christ our God, and You, O Mother of God, O our Lady! Moreover, we look at Your most pure image with sighing and contrition of heart, and we bow our knees to the ground, crying: look with a merciful eye, All-Sung Mother of God, and hear us, offering: do not reject, but deign to have mercy: do not detest our sighing.
No one who comes to You is disgraced and comes from You, but asks for grace and accepts the gift for the benefit of the petition forever and ever.
To whom shall I cry, Lady? To whom shall I resort in my sorrow, if not to You, Queen of Heaven? Who will accept my cry and sighing if not You, Most Immaculate, the Hope of Christians and Refuge? Who will protect You more in adversity? Hear my groaning, and incline Your ear to me, the Lady Mother of my God, and do not despise me who requires Your help, and do not reject me, a sinner. Enlighten and teach me, O Queen of Heaven: do not depart from me Thy servant, O Lady, for my grumbling, but be my Intercessor Mother. I entrust myself to Your merciful protection: lead me, a sinner, to a quiet and serene life, so that I may weep for my sins. To whom shall I resort when I am guilty, if not to You, the hope and refuge of sinners, I am inspired by the hope of Your ineffable mercy and Your bounty; About the Lady Queen of Heaven! You are my hope and refuge, protection and intercession and help. To my most gracious and speedy Intercessor: cover my sins with Your intercession, protect me from enemies visible and invisible: soften the hearts of evil people who rebel against me. O Mother of the Lord my Creator!
You are the root of virginity and the unfading color of purity. O Mother of God! Give me help to those who are weak with carnal passions and sick at heart, for one thing is Yours and with You the imam of Your Son and our God intercession: and by Your wonderful intercession may I be delivered from all troubles and misfortunes, O Most Immaculate and Glorious Mother of God Mary. Likewise, with hope I say and cry out: Rejoice, O Blessed One: Rejoice, O O Joyful One: Rejoice, O Most Blessed One, the Lord is with Thee.
Be aware that in some churches this prayer, or the so-called hymn to the Most Holy Theotokos, is sung in voice 5.
O Most Blessed Lady, Protector of the Christian race, refuge and salvation of those who resort to You! We know, truly we know how much we have sinned and been angry, O Merciful Lady, the Son of God born in the flesh of You. But to the imams there are many images of those who angered His mercy before me: tax collectors, harlots and other sinners, to whom forgiveness of their sins was given, for the sake of repentance and confession. Thou, therefore, imagining the images of those who had mercy on my sinful soul, and looking at the great mercy of God, which I received, dared even I, a sinner, to resort with repentance to Your mercy. O All-Merciful Lady! Give me a helping hand, and ask Thy Son and God, through Thy motherly and most holy prayers, forgiveness for my grave sin.
I believe and confess that to the one whom You gave birth to, Your Son is truly the Christ, the Son of the Living God, Judge of the living and the dead, rewarding everyone according to his deeds: I also believe and confess You to be the true Mother of God, the source of mercy, the consolation of those who mourn, a strong and unceasing Intercessor to God, fiercely loving the Christian race and the Helper of repentance: Truly, there is no other help and protection for us except You, Most Merciful Lady, and no one, trusting in You, was ashamed when, and by You begging God, no one was quickly abandoned. For this sake and I pray to Your innumerable goodness: open the doors of Your mercy to me who have gone astray and fallen into the darkness of the depths, do not disdain me, who is unclean, do not despise my sinful prayer, do not abandon me, the accursed one, as an evil enemy seeks to snatch me away to destruction: but beg for me Thy Merciful Son and God, born of You, may He forgive my great sins and deliver me from my destruction, as I, with all who have received forgiveness, will sing and glorify the immeasurable mercy of God and Your unashamed intercession for me in this life and in the endless eternity.
My Most Blessed Queen, My Hope to the Mother of God, Helper of sinners, refuge of the orphaned and strange, Representative of the grieving, Joy of the offended, Patroness! See my misfortune, see my sorrow: help me as I am weak, guide me as I am strange. Let me resolve my offense as if it were my will: for I have no other help except You, no other Representative, no Good Comforter, except You, O Mother of God, for preserve me and cover me forever and ever.
Virgin Mary, Immaculate Mother of Christ our God, Intercessor of the Christian race! Standing before Thy miraculous icon, our fathers prayed to Thee to show Thy protection and intercession to the Amur country. In the same way, we now pray to Thee: preserve our city and this country from the presence of foreigners and save from internecine warfare. Grant peace to the world, abundance of fruits to the land, and to our blessed Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich and his legacy, health and victory over enemies: keep our shepherds in the shrines, those who work in the holy churches: in the fall, Thy almighty protection will protect the builders and their benefactors. Confirm our brethren in orthodoxy and unanimity; bring to their senses those who have erred and departed from the Orthodox faith and unite them with the Holy Church of Your Son. Be Your protection, consolation and refuge from all evils, misfortunes and circumstances to all who flock to the miraculous: for You are healing for the sick, consolation for the grieving, correction and admonition for the erring.
Accept our prayers and lift them up to the throne of the Most High, so that by Thy intercession we are observed and covered by Thy protection, we glorify the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto the ages of ages.
O Most Holy Lady Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary, the only Hope for us sinners! We resort to You and we pray to You, for you have given great boldness to the Lord God and our Savior Jesus Christ, who was born of You in the flesh. Do not despise our tears, do not abhor our sighs, do not reject our sorrow, do not disgrace our hope in You, but with your motherly prayers beseech the Lord God that He will grant us, sinners and unworthy, to be freed from sins and passions of soul and body, and for the world to die, and for Him alone to live all the days of our life. O Most Holy Lady Theotokos! Travel and protect and protect them, deliver those captives from captivity, free those suffering from troubles, comfort those in sorrow, sorrow and adversity, alleviate poverty and all bodily suffering, and grant to everyone the need for life, piety and temporal life. Strengthen and establish the most pious sovereign Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich and the entire reigning house, and grant him health and salvation and victory and victory over his enemies.
Save, O Lady, all the countries and cities, and this country and this city, to whom this miraculous icon of Thy was given for consolation and protection: [or: save, O Lady, this city and this holy monastery:] deliver me from famine, destruction, cowardice, flood, fire, sword, invasion of foreigners, internecine warfare, and turn away all anger that is righteously driven towards us. Grant us time for repentance and conversion, deliver us from sudden death, and at the time of our exodus appear to us, the Virgin Mother of God, and deliver us from the airy ordeals of the princes of this age, vouchsafe us at the Last Judgment of Christ to stand at the right hand, and make us heirs of eternal blessings, so that we glorify the magnificent name of Your Son and our God, with His Beginning Father, and His Holy and Good and Life-giving Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
O Most Holy Lady, Queen Theotokos! Accept our humble prayer, and do not reject us, our intercession and refuge, and do not disdain us, unworthy, but, like the Merciful Mother, do not stop praying, Whom you gave birth to, may He grant us forgiveness of many of our sins, may the news of our destinies honor us. Have mercy on us, Lady, have mercy on us, for there is no salvation for us from works. Likewise, we cry out to You: have mercy on the slaves.
Show yours and our barren heart fruitful in good deeds. Look down on us unworthy, for You are our hope and protection, life and light to our hearts. For you raised up the Everlasting Light from Your womb, illuminate our soul, and drive away all darkness from our hearts. grant us tenderness, repentance and contrition of heart. Grant us, throughout the days of our lives, to do the will of Thy Son and our God and to please Him alone in everything. O Bogomati! Do not stop praying to those born from You for all those who flow with faith to Your holy [or miraculous] image, and give them quick help and consolation in sorrows and misfortunes: deliver them from slander and human malice, from visible and invisible enemies and all kinds of needs and sorrows. Save our Fatherland, our reigning city, this city [or this holy monastery] and all cities and countries from all troubles and needs, and make the existence of our God merciful to us, turn away all His anger against us, and deliver us from His due and righteous rebuke. O God-loving Lady, Decoration of Angels, Glory to the martyrs and Joy to all saints!
Pray to the Lord with them, that He may help us in repentance to end our course of life. In the hour of death, Most Holy Virgin, deliver us from the power of demons, and condemnation, and answer, and terrible trials, and bitter ordeals, and eternal fire, so that, having been honored with the glorious Kingdom of God, we magnify You and glorify Christ our God, incarnated from You, to Him be glory with the Father and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto the ages of ages.
O Most Holy Lady Theotokos! Look with mercy at the prayers of us sinners and Your humble servants, and pray to God Your Son, may He grant us and all those who flow to You mental and physical health and everything necessary for eternal and temporal life, may He forgive us every sin, voluntary and involuntary, may He deliver us from all sorrows and illnesses, and misfortunes, and every evil situation. To her, our Blessing Queen, our indestructible Hope and invincible Intercessor! Do not turn Your face away from us for the multitude of our sins: but stretch out to us the hand of Your motherly mercy and work with us a sign for good. Show us Thy rich help and success in every endeavor: turn us away from every sinful undertaking and evil thought, so that we may always glorify Thy most honorable name, and being grateful to Thy honest [or miraculous] image of worshiping, we magnify God the Father, and His Only Begotten Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit, with all saints forever and ever.
My Most Blessed Queen, my Hope to the Mother of God, refuge of the orphaned and strange to the Intercessor, to the grieving Joy, to the offended to the Patroness! See my misfortune, see my sorrow: help me as I am weak, guide me as I am strange. Let me resolve my offense as if it were my will: for I have no other help except You, no other Representative, no Good Comforter, except You, O Mother of God, for preserve me and cover me forever and ever.
To whom shall I appeal, Lady? To whom shall I resort in my sorrow? To whom will I bring my tears and sighs, if not to You, Queen of heaven and earth? Who will pluck me from the mire of sins and iniquities, if not You, O Mother of the Belly, Intercessor and Refuge of the human race? Hear my groaning, comfort me and have mercy in my sorrow, protect me in troubles and misfortunes, deliver embitterment and sorrows and all sorts of ailments and illnesses, from visible and invisible enemies, pacify the enmity of those who chill me, so that I will be delivered from slander and human malice: also free me from vile customs of my own flesh. Cover me under the canopy of Your mercy, so that I may find peace and joy and cleansing from sins. I entrust to myself your maternal intercession: be my Mother and hope, protection and help and intercession, joy and consolation and a quick Helper in everything. O wonderful Lady!
Everyone who flows to You without Your all-powerful help does not leave: for this reason, even though I am unworthy, I run to You, so that I will be delivered from sudden and cruel death, the grinding of eternal and eternal torment, and I will be honored to receive the Kingdom of Heaven and to You in the tenderness of my heart the river: Rejoice, Mother of God, our Representative and Intercessor diligent, forever and ever.
With the coming of Your venerable icon, O Mother of God, the God-protected city of Kostroma, now rejoiced, like ancient Israel to the ark of the Covenant, flows to the image of Your face and our God incarnate from You, and through Your maternal intercession to Him ever intercede for all who take refuge in the shadow of Your shelter, peace and greatness. mercy.
Accept, O All-Powerful, Most Pure Lady, Lady Theotokos, these honorable gifts, the only ones applied to You, from us, Your unworthy servants, chosen from all generations, manifested above all creatures of heaven and earth. Because for Your sake the Lord of hosts was with us, and through You we knew the Son of God, and became worthy of His Holy Body and His Most Pure Blood. Blessed are you, too, in the birth of generations, O God-blessed One, the brightest of the cherubim and the most honest of the seraphim. And now, all-sung Most Holy Theotokos, do not cease praying for us, Thy unworthy servants, that we may be delivered from every evil advice and from every situation, and that we may be preserved unharmed from every poisonous pretext of the devil. But even to the end, through Your prayers, keep us uncondemned: for through Your intercession and help we are saved, we send glory, praise, thanksgiving and worship for everything in the Trinity to the One God and the Creator of all, now and ever and unto the ages of ages.
The day of our salvation is the main thing, and since the beginning of time the mystery has been revealed: the Son of God is the Son of the Virgin, and Gabriel preaches grace. In the same way, we cry out to the Mother of God: Rejoice, full of grace, the Lord is with you.
To whom shall I cry, Lady? To whom shall I resort in my sorrow, if not to You, Queen of Heaven? Who will accept my cry and sighing if not You, Most Immaculate, the Hope of Christians and Refuge? Who will protect You more in adversity? Hear my groaning, and incline Your ear to me, the Lady Mother of my God, and do not despise me who requires Your help, and do not reject me, a sinner. Enlighten and teach me, O Queen of Heaven: do not depart from me Thy servant, O Lady, for my grumbling, but be my Intercessor Mother. I entrust myself to Your merciful protection: lead me, a sinner, to a quiet and serene life, so that I may weep for my sins. To whom shall I resort when I am guilty, if not to You, the hope and refuge of sinners, I am inspired by the hope of Your ineffable mercy and Your bounty; About the Lady Queen of Heaven! You are my hope and refuge, protection and intercession and help. To my most gracious and speedy Intercessor: cover my sins with Your intercession, protect me from enemies visible and invisible: soften the hearts of evil people who rebel against me. O Mother of the Lord my Creator!
You are the root of virginity and the unfading color of purity. O Mother of God! Give me help to those who are weak with carnal passions and sick at heart, for one thing is Yours and with You the imam of Your Son and our God intercession: and by Your wonderful intercession may I be delivered from all troubles and misfortunes, O Most Immaculate and Glorious Mother of God Mary. Likewise, with hope I say and cry out: Rejoice, O Blessed One: Rejoice, O O Joyful One: Rejoice, O Most Blessed One, the Lord is with Thee.
O Most Holy Lady Lady Theotokos, Hope of our salvation! Look mercifully at Your people, who stand with faith and love and worship Your most pure image: accept our singing of praise and pour out Your warm prayer for us sinners to the Lord, that, having despised all our sins, He may forgive and have mercy on us. We also pray to You with tenderness: deliver us from all sorrow and deadly ulcers, give us Your merciful help, do not reject tears and sighs, do not forget us all the days of our life: but always remain with us, and through Your intercession and intercession with the Lord, give us joy, consolation, protection and help, so that we glorify Your most blessed and all-sung name forever and ever.
O All-Merciful Lady, Queen Theotokos, Chosen from all generations and Blessed by all generations, heavenly and earthly! We humbly pray to You: look mercifully at these people standing before Your holy and miraculous icon, as if You are Your very being, and accept the prayers and songs now offered to You with tenderness from Your unworthy servants, and grant with faith to those who ask for each request to be fulfilled.
You, called the joy of all who mourn, hear us sorrowful: You, called the quenching of sorrows, quench our sorrow: You, the burning bush, save the world and all of us from the harmful fiery arrows of the enemy: You, the seeker of the lost, do not let us perish in the abyss of our sins: You, odegetria, show us the right path to salvation: You, unfading color purity, grant us help, overwhelmed by carnal passion, and make our hearts chaste: You, God-loving quick-to-hear, hear our prayer at this hour: You, zealous Intercessor, Mother of the Lord Most High and our Mother and Hope, ease our sorrow: grant health to the weak, heal the weakened and sick, and restore from their beds of sickness, cleanse the lepers, grant sight to the blind, free the demons from demons, deliver the offended from insults, send comfort to the grieving, protect widows and orphans, call sinners to repentance and guide them on the path of salvation, grant forgiveness to the repentant, support old age, guide the young, keep little children, peace and friendliness in the home affirm, to those who travel, be a good helmsman to those who swim in the seas, and grant kindness: to our most pious sovereign, Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich, grant victory and conquest to his enemies: eradicate heresies and schisms, those who have fallen away from pious faith on the right path: protect our country with peace: save us all from sudden death, O earth Grant us prosperity and all things beneficial to our mental and physical health and salvation, for we can do everything through intercession to Your Son, Christ our God.
O All-Singing Mother, Most Holy Virgin Mary! Do not cease to pray for us, unworthy, who fall to Your most pure image with tenderness and look at this with fear and love: hear us, Lady, who have only hope in You according to God. Let our fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters, who have already departed, rest in holy villages, in a green place, in a place of peace, where there is no sorrow and sighing. When our departure from this life and resettlement to eternal life is ripe, appear to us, our most blessed hope, and grant us a Christian death that is painless, shameless, peaceful and partaker of the Holy Mysteries, so that in the future we will all be worthy, together with all the saints, of endless blissful life in the Kingdom of the beloved Son Yours, our Lord Jesus Christ, to Him belongs all glory, honor and worship, with His Beginningless Father, and His Most Holy and Good and Life-Giving Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
To whom shall I cry, Lady? To whom shall I resort in my sorrow, if not to You, Queen of Heaven? Who will accept my cry and sighing if not You, Most Immaculate, the Hope of Christians and Refuge? Who will protect You more in adversity? Hear my groaning, and incline Your ear to me, the Lady Mother of my God, and do not despise me who requires Your help, and do not reject me, a sinner. Enlighten and teach me, O Queen of Heaven: do not depart from me Thy servant, O Lady, for my grumbling, but be my Intercessor Mother. I entrust myself to Your merciful protection: lead me, a sinner, to a quiet and serene life, so that I may weep for my sins. To whom shall I resort when I am guilty, if not to You, the hope and refuge of sinners, I am inspired by the hope of Your ineffable mercy and Your bounty; About the Lady Queen of Heaven! You are my hope and refuge, protection and intercession and help. To my most gracious and speedy Intercessor: cover my sins with Your intercession, protect me from enemies visible and invisible: soften the hearts of evil people who rebel against me. O Mother of the Lord my Creator!
You are the root of virginity and the unfading color of purity. O Mother of God! Give me help to those who are weak with carnal passions and sick at heart, for one thing is Yours and with You the imam of Your Son and our God intercession: and by Your wonderful intercession may I be delivered from all troubles and misfortunes, O Most Immaculate and Glorious Mother of God Mary. Likewise, with hope I say and cry out: Rejoice, O Blessed One: Rejoice, O O Joyful One: Rejoice, O Most Blessed One, the Lord is with Thee.
O All-Merciful Lady, Queen Theotokos, Chosen from all generations and Blessed by all generations, heavenly and earthly! Look mercifully at these people standing before Thy holy icon, earnestly praying to You, and act by Thy intercession and intercession with Thy Son and our God, so that no one will leave this place of the empty hope of his hope and be put to shame in his hope, but may everyone receive from You everything according to the good will of his heart, according to need and for your own needs, for the salvation of the soul and the health of the body.
Most especially of autumn, protect with Your protection, Merciful Mother, our most pious sovereign, Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich, and his entire reigning house: drive away from him with Your prayers every enemy and adversary, establish his life in peace and silence, so that we may all live a quiet and silent life in all blasphemy, piety and purity: keep his kingdom so that the Kingdom of Christ may be in it: direct his paths and counsels, so that in his days righteousness and abundance of peace may shine, and may his heart rejoice over those who are in his dominion, just as the heart of a father rejoices over his children: but those who are resistant and wicked in their hearts will tremble before his face, so that they will come to their senses and cease from fear. their cunning and rebellion.
Pray, Merciful Lady, to the Most Heavenly God, that He may always preserve His Holy Church, strengthen our Orthodox bishops with His highest blessing, protect with peace, and mercifully grant the Saints of His Church whole, healthy, honest, long-lived and the right to rule the word of His truth, from all visible and invisible enemies, with all Orthodox Christians will deliver, and in Orthodoxy and the firmament of faith until the end of centuries it is inaccessible??? and will always preserve it. Look with mercy, O All-Sung, and with the charity of Your merciful intercession on our entire All-Russian kingdom, our reigning cities and this city, this holy monastery, this church and the spiritual city that exists here, and pour out your mercy unsparingly on this rich one, for You are the All-Powerful Helper and Intercessor of us all. Bow down to the prayers of all Your servants who flow here to Your holy icon, hear the sighs and voices in which Your servants pray in this holy place.
If a non-believer and a foreigner, passing here, prays, hear, O beloved Lady, and love this mankind, and do mercifully, even to help him and to salvation. Instruct your hardened and scattered hearts in our countries on the path of truth: convert those who have fallen away from the pious faith and bring them closer to the holy Orthodox Church. In the houses of Your people and in the brethren, protect and preserve the holy abodes of the holy abodes, establish brotherhood and humility in the young, support old age, guide the youths, those who are wise at the perfect age, the orphans and widows to step in, the oppressed and in sorrows the present consolation and protect, raise babies, heal the sick, captives of freedom, protect us ever from all evil with Your goodness, and comfort us with Your merciful visit and all the benefits to us. Grant, O good one, the fruitfulness of the earth, the goodness of the air, and all the gifts that are in good time and useful for our benefit, through Your omnipotent intercession before the All-Holy Life-Giving Trinity, in which we all stand in the Church, helping us.
Fathers and mothers who have gone before, our brothers and sisters, and all those who have fallen to this holy icon of Thy from ancient times, rest in the villages of the saints, in a green place, in a place of peace, where there is no sorrow and sighing. When our departure from this life and migration to eternal life is ripe, appear to us, O Most Blessed Virgin, and grant the Christian end of our life painless, shameless, peaceful and partaker of the Holy Mysteries, so that in the future we will all be granted, together with all the saints, endless blissful life in the Kingdom of the beloved Son Yours, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, to whom is due all glory, honor and worship, with the Father and the Holy Spirit, forever and ever.
To You, Most Holy Lady Theotokos, we resort to Your unworthy servants: You, the Most Gracious One, are the only gentle and omnipotent one to Your Son, Christ our God, the Intercessor for us sinners and the shameless Representative. Weigh that His goodness, through the transgression of His Divine commandments, is extremely bitter: for there is no sin, which we have not created, all the fear of God is trampled upon: for this reason, for the sake of both the Spirit of grace and the gift of prenatural sonhood, we rejected, and every aversion and execution worthy of creation was created. Weigh, Offering to the Intercessor, for we have given up Thy mercy and gifts in the madness of oblivion, and have committed unworthy acts of Thy mercy. How about You, Lady Theotokos, strive to the supplication of Your Son and our God to show correction from the evil ones with your promise! But as a liege of damnation, and Your swearing at Him for our sinful representation and intercession, we were imputed to nothing, and so we showed ourselves in great ingratitude and malice, and now bearing our coldness and lowering ourselves, look upon Your most pure image, worthy of being, in repentance before Him.
In the same way we say: We, Lady, how much can Your motherly boldness towards Christ our God: We, like no one else, come running to You, O Compassionate One, with repentance and tenderness, You were put to shame, or call upon You, Most Pure One, not heard from You from your departure: For Thy Son honors You, Bride of God, like Your Mother, graciously accept Your prayers. Have mercy on us, Thy indecent servants, and, in the name of fate, seek for the lost: enlighten our minds with the light of knowledge of God, so that once they are illuminated, we will cut off every evil thought and every form of shameless deeds, but with all our hearts we will love the commandments of the Lord and in them Let's begin to walk blamelessly. Also, O Lady, overthrow heretical rebellion, gather the scattered, return the lost to the one flock of Christ, support old age, bring understanding to the young, widows and orphans, heal the sick and comfort the sorrowing. Grant to our faithful and Christ-loving king strength against his enemies, protect his kingdom with peace and keep it unshakable forever: but grant us all success in faith and good deeds for a long time.
May our former fathers and brethren rest in the brightness of paradise and the villages of the righteous, and with them receive us all in repentance and confession, so that we, with all the saints, may glorify the most honorable name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit forever and ever.
O Most Holy Lady Lady Theotokos! Thou art the highest angel and archangel of all, and the most honorable of all creatures: Thou art the helper of the offended, the hopeless hope, the poor Intercessor, the sad consolation, the hungry Nurse, the naked robe, the healing of the sick, the salvation of sinners, the help and intercession of all Christians. O All-Merciful Lady, Virgin Mary and Lady! By Thy mercy save and have mercy on our most pious, autocratic, great sovereign, Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich of all Russia: his wife, the most pious empress Empress Alexandra Feodorovna: his mother, the most pious empress Empress Maria Feodorovna: his heir, the most pious sovereign Tsarevich and great Prince Alexy Nikolaevich, and the entire reigning house.
Save, O Lady, and have mercy on Thy servant, the Most Holy Governing Synod, and the Right Reverend metropolitans, archbishops and bishops, and the entire priestly and monastic rank, and the governing synclite of the faithful, and military leaders, city governors and the Christ-loving army, and well-wishers, and all Orthodox Christians in Thy robe. protect with honesty: and pray, Lady, from You, without seed, Christ our God, incarnate, may gird us with His power from above against our invisible and visible enemies. O All-Merciful Lady Lady Theotokos! Raise us from the depths of sin, and deliver us from famine, destruction, from cowardice and flood, from fire and sword, from the presence of foreigners and internecine warfare, and from sudden death, and from the attack of the enemy, and from corrupting winds, and from deadly plagues, and from all evil.
Grant, O Lady, peace and health to Thy servant, all Orthodox Christians, and enlighten their minds and the eyes of their hearts to salvation: and make us, Thy sinful servants, worthy of the Kingdom of Thy Son, Christ our God: for His power is blessed and glorified, with His Father without beginning, and with the Most Holy and Good and By His life-giving Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
My Most Blessed Queen, my Hope to the Mother of God, refuge of the orphaned and strange to the Intercessor, to the grieving Joy, to the offended to the Patroness! See my misfortune, see my sorrow: help me as I am weak, guide me as I am strange. Let me resolve my offense as if it were my will: for I have no other help except You, no other Representative, no Good Comforter, except You, O Mother of God, for preserve me and cover me forever and ever.
To You, Most Pure Mother of God, I, the accursed one, fall down and pray: Consider, O Queen, how I continually sin and anger Your Son and my God. and even if I repent many times, I find myself lying before God: I repent, trembling, lest the Lord strike me, and little by little I do the same again. This leader, my Lady, Lady Theotokos, I pray, have mercy, strengthen me, and grant me good deeds. Weigh you, O my Lady Theotokos, as an imam in complete hatred of my evil deeds and with all my thoughts I love the law of my God. But we do not know, Most Pure Lady, why I create hatred and transgress what is good. Do not, O Most Pure One, allow my will to be fulfilled, for it is displeasing, but may the will of Thy Son and my God be done in me, may He save me, and give me understanding, and give me the grace of the Holy Spirit, so that I may cease from this place from committing filth and so on may live in the commandments of Thy Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, to whom all things are due. glory, honor and worship, with His Originless Father, and His Most Holy and Good and Life-Giving Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
O Most Holy Lady Lady Theotokos! Accept our unworthy prayer, and save all of us, who worship Your most pure image with faith and love, from the slander of evil people and from sudden death, and grant us repentance before the end. Have mercy on our prayer, and give us joy instead of sorrow. Behold, looking at Your image, as if You were alive and living with us, we earnestly pray to You: deliver us, O Mother of all who mourn and are burdened, from all misfortune and adversity, sorrow, illness and sadness and from all evil. And we, Thy unworthy servants, are made worthy to be at the right hand of Thy Son, Christ our God, at His Second and Glorious Coming, and heirs of the existence of the Kingdom of Heaven and eternal life with all the saints throughout the endless ages of ages.
O Most Holy and Most Blessed Mother of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, Most Pure Ever-Virgin Mother of God Mary! We fall down and bow to You before Your holy and miraculous icon, since the ancient years You have deigned to glorify here with many miracles and countless healings. We humbly pray to You, our good and merciful Intercessor: through the intercession of Your saint, the Venerable Anthony of Pechersk, listen to the voice of our sinful prayers, do not despise the sighs from the soul, seeing the sorrows and misfortunes that have befallen us, and like a truly loving Mother, striving to help us helpless, sad, in Many and grave sins have fallen and ever angered our Lord and Creator, pray to Him, our Representative, that He may not destroy us with our iniquities, but may He show us His philanthropic mercy. Ask us, Lady, from His goodness for bodily health and spiritual salvation, a pious and peaceful life, fruitfulness of the earth, goodness of the air, well-timed rains and a blessing from above for all our good deeds and undertakings.
Petition, O Lady, from the King of kings and the Lord of lords, our most pious, autocratic, great sovereign, Emperor Nicholas Alexandrovich of all Russia, for victory and victory against all his enemies, and for the entire Orthodox kingdom his mercy of God, prosperity and abundance of all good things. O Queen All-Singing, Mother of God All-Blessed! Extend Your God-bearing hand to Your beloved Son and our God, beg Him to save us all and deliver us from eternal destruction.
As in ancient times, in this place, You showed Your mercy to our Father, O Lady, and now show us, O Mother of God, Your generosity: Heal the sick, comfort the sorrowful, help the needy: hasten to all of us to bear the yoke of Christ in patience and humility, and grant us a pious life end this earthly thing, and receive a Christian, unshameful death and inherit the Heavenly Kingdom, through Your maternal intercession to the Lord and our God Jesus Christ, who was born of You, to Him, with His Beginningless Father and the Most Holy Spirit, is due all glory, honor and worship, now and ever and unto the ages of ages.
Most blessed Queen, Most Pure Virgin Theotokos, glorifying the city of Lyubech of Thy saint, the Venerable Anthony of Pechersk, by the birth and Thy miraculous icon by the appearance! We pray to Thee, O All-Good One, pray for us, born of Thee <...> Christ our God, and by Thy motherly intercession to Him, deliver us from all evil: heal our ailments, quench our sorrows and show us heirs of the Kingdom of Heaven, as it is merciful.
O All-Merciful Lady Theotokos, Heavenly Queen, All-Powerful Intercessor, our shameless hope! We thank You for all the good deeds that the Russian people received from You, from ancient times and to this day, revealed by Your miraculous icon. And now, Blessing the Lady, look upon us, Thy sinful and unworthy servants, show us Thy mercy, and pray to Thy Son, Christ our God, to deliver us from all evil, and to preserve the reigning city, every city and our entire country from famine, destruction, cowardice, flood, fire, sword, invasion foreigner and internecine warfare. Ask our most pious, autocratic, great sovereign, Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich and the entire reigning house, a prosperous and peaceful life, health, longevity, good haste and salvation in everything.
Preserve and make wise the shepherds of the Church, who are worthy to shepherd the flock of Christ and the right to rule the word of truth: strengthen the Christ-loving All-Russian army, give the spirit of advice and reason to the military commander, the mayor and everyone in power: send down Your holy blessing to all Orthodox Christians who worship Thee and pray before Your celibate icon. Be the Intercessor and Intercessor before the throne of the Most High, where you stand. To whom shall we resort if not to You, Lady? To whom shall we bring tears and sighs, if not You, Most Holy Theotokos? There are no other imams of help, no other imams of hope, except for You, Heavenly Queen. We flow under Your protection: through Your prayers send us peace, health, fruitfulness of the earth, goodness of the air, deliver us from all troubles and sorrows, from all ailments and illnesses, from sudden death and from all the bitterness of enemies visible and invisible. Enlighten and teach us, O All-Merciful Intercessor, to pass the path of this earthly life without sin.
You weigh our weaknesses, weigh our sins, but you also weigh our faith and see our hope: in the same way, grant us correction of our sinful lives and soften our evil hearts. Instill in us the right faith, put into our hearts the spirit of the fear of God, the spirit of piety, the spirit of humility, patience and love, success in good deeds: deliver us from temptations, from harmful teachings that are harmful to the soul, from unbelief, corruption and eternal destruction. We therefore ask You, Most Pure Lady, and falling before Your holy icon, we pray: have mercy on us and have mercy on us, and on the Terrible Day of Judgment, through Your intercession and intercession, make us worthy to stand at the right hand of Your Son, Christ our God, to Him belongs all glory, honor and adulation, with His Beginning Father and the Most Holy and By His Good and Consubstantial Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
O Most Holy Lady Lady Theotokos! Thou art the highest angel and archangel of all, and the most honorable of all creatures: Thou art the helper of the offended, the hopeless hope, the poor Intercessor, the sad consolation, the hungry Nurse, the naked robe, the healing of the sick, the salvation of sinners, the help and intercession of all Christians. O All-Merciful Lady, Virgin Mary and Lady! By Thy mercy save and have mercy on our most pious, autocratic, great sovereign, Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich of all Russia: his wife, the most pious empress Empress Alexandra Feodorovna: his mother, the most pious empress Empress Maria Feodorovna: his heir, the most pious sovereign Tsarevich and great Prince Alexy Nikolaevich, and the entire reigning house.
Save, O Lady, and have mercy on Thy servant, the Most Holy Governing Synod, and the Right Reverend metropolitans, archbishops and bishops, and the entire priestly and monastic rank, and the governing synclite of the faithful, and military leaders, city governors and the Christ-loving army, and well-wishers, and all Orthodox Christians in Thy robe. protect with honesty: and pray, Lady, from You, without seed, Christ our God, incarnate, may gird us with His power from above against our invisible and visible enemies. O All-Merciful Lady Lady Theotokos! Raise us from the depths of sin, and deliver us from famine, destruction, from cowardice and flood, from fire and sword, from the presence of foreigners and internecine warfare, and from sudden death, and from the attack of the enemy, and from corrupting winds, and from deadly plagues, and from all evil.
Grant, O Lady, peace and health to Thy servant, all Orthodox Christians, and enlighten their minds and the eyes of their hearts to salvation: and make us, Thy sinful servants, worthy of the Kingdom of Thy Son, Christ our God: for His power is blessed and glorified, with His Father without beginning, and with the Most Holy and Good and By His life-giving Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
Accept, O All-Powerful, Most Pure Lady, Lady Theotokos, these honorable gifts, the only ones applied to You, from us, Your unworthy servants, chosen from all generations, manifested above all creatures of heaven and earth. Because for Your sake the Lord of hosts was with us, and through You we knew the Son of God, and became worthy of His Holy Body and His Most Pure Blood. Blessed are you, too, in the birth of generations, O God-blessed One, the brightest of the cherubim and the most honest of the seraphim. And now, all-sung Most Holy Theotokos, do not cease praying for us, Thy unworthy servants, that we may be delivered from every evil advice and from every situation, and that we may be preserved unharmed from every poisonous pretext of the devil. But even to the end, through Your prayers, keep us uncondemned: for through Your intercession and help we are saved, we send glory, praise, thanksgiving and worship for everything in the Trinity to the One God and the Creator of all, now and ever and unto the ages of ages.
My Most Blessed Queen, my Hope to the Mother of God, refuge of the orphaned and strange to the Intercessor, to the grieving Joy, to the offended to the Patroness! See my misfortune, see my sorrow: help me as I am weak, guide me as I am strange. Let me resolve my offense as if it were my will: for I have no other help except You, no other Representative, no Good Comforter, except You, O Mother of God, for preserve me and cover me forever and ever.
O Most Pure Lady Lady Theotokos! Accept our unworthy prayer, and save us from the slander of evil people and from sudden death, and grant us repentance before the end. Be compassionate to our prayer, and grant joy instead of sorrow. And deliver us, Lady, from all misfortune and adversity, sorrow and illness and from all evil. And we are worthy, Thy sinful servants, at the right hand at the second coming of Thy Son, Christ our God, and heirs of the existence of the Kingdom of Heaven and eternal life with all the saints throughout the endless ages of ages.
To whom shall we cry, Lady? To whom shall we resort in our sorrow, if not to You, Queen of Heaven? Who will accept our tears and sighs, if not You, Most Immaculate, the Hope of Christians and refuge for us sinners? Who is more in Your favor? Incline Your ear to us, Lady, Mother of our God, and do not despise those who require Your help: hear our groaning, strengthen us sinners, enlighten and teach us, O Queen of Heaven, and do not depart from us, Your servant, Lady, for our grumbling, but be our Mother and Intercessor, and entrust us to the merciful protection of Your Son: Arrange for us whatever Your holy will pleases, and lead us sinners to a quiet and serene life, so that we may weep for our sins, and may we rejoice with You always, now and ever, and unto the ages of ages.
O Our Most Holy Lady Theotokos, Heavenly Queen, our Most Blessed Hope, surpassing the Maiden, hope for the hopeless, salvation for sinners, refuge for the orphans, for the strange Representative, for the naked, for the naked, comfort and joy for the grieving, for the offended, for the Patroness and for all those in troubles and misfortunes, help and intercession! O All-Merciful Lady Virgin Mary! See our misfortunes, sorrows and misfortunes: help us who are weak, sad and despondent, sorrowful and desperate, and take away all sorrow from us. Weigh our offense: resolve it, O All-Immaculate One, as you will and are able: do not let us fall into despair. The imams would have no other help than Your Son, Christ our God, and You, O Mother of God, O our Lady! Moreover, we look at Your most pure image with sighing and contrition of heart, and we bow our knees to the ground, crying: look with a merciful eye, All-Sung Mother of God, and hear us, offering: do not reject, but deign to have mercy: do not detest our sighing.
No one who comes to You is disgraced and comes from You, but asks for grace and accepts the gift for the benefit of the petition forever and ever.
Today the most glorious city of Moscow brightly flaunts, as if it has received the dawn of the sun, Lady, Your miraculous icon, to which we now flow and pray to You, we cry out to you: O Most Wonderful Lady Theotokos! Pray from You to the incarnate Christ our God, that he may deliver this city and all Christian cities and countries unharmed from all the slander of the enemy, and save our souls, for he is merciful.
O Most Holy Lady Lady Theotokos! Thou art the highest angel and archangel of all, and the most honorable of all creatures: Thou art the helper of the offended, the hopeless hope, the poor Intercessor, the sad consolation, the hungry Nurse, the naked robe, the healing of the sick, the salvation of sinners, the help and intercession of all Christians. O All-Merciful Lady, Virgin Mary and Lady! By Thy mercy save and have mercy on our most pious, autocratic, great sovereign, Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich of all Russia: his wife, the most pious empress Empress Alexandra Feodorovna: his mother, the most pious empress Empress Maria Feodorovna: his heir, the most pious sovereign Tsarevich and great Prince Alexy Nikolaevich, and the entire reigning house.
Save, O Lady, and have mercy on Thy servant, the Most Holy Governing Synod, and the Right Reverend metropolitans, archbishops and bishops, and the entire priestly and monastic rank, and the governing synclite of the faithful, and military leaders, city governors and the Christ-loving army, and well-wishers, and all Orthodox Christians in Thy robe. protect with honesty: and pray, Lady, from You, without seed, Christ our God, incarnate, may gird us with His power from above against our invisible and visible enemies. O All-Merciful Lady Lady Theotokos! Raise us from the depths of sin, and deliver us from famine, destruction, from cowardice and flood, from fire and sword, from the presence of foreigners and internecine warfare, and from sudden death, and from the attack of the enemy, and from corrupting winds, and from deadly plagues, and from all evil.
Grant, O Lady, peace and health to Thy servant, all Orthodox Christians, and enlighten their minds and the eyes of their hearts to salvation: and make us, Thy sinful servants, worthy of the Kingdom of Thy Son, Christ our God: for His power is blessed and glorified, with His Father without beginning, and with the Most Holy and Good and By His life-giving Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
O Most Holy Lady and Mother of God, supreme Cherub and most honorable Seraphim, God's chosen Youth, joy to all who mourn! Give consolation to us who are in sorrow: is there no other refuge and help for you from the imams? You alone are our Intercessor of joy, and as the Mother of God and the Mother of Mercy, standing at the Throne of the Most Holy Trinity, you give us help: no one who comes to You leaves in shame. Hear also us, now on the day of sorrow before Your icon and praying to You with tears: take away from us the sorrows and sorrows that lie ahead in this temporary life, so that through Your omnipotent intercession we are not deprived of eternal, endless joy in the Kingdom of Your Son and our God, to Him belongs all glory, honor and worship, with His beginningless Father, and with His Most Holy and Good and Life-giving Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
O Most Holy Lady, my Lady Theotokos, Heavenly Queen! You weigh the sorrow of my heart and the sorrow of my soul. I pray to You earnestly: save and deliver me, Your sinful servant, from vain slander, from all troubles and misfortunes and sudden death. Have mercy on me and preserve me at all times, in the days of my toil and on the way I walk, and in the hours of the night when I sleep, supply me, cover me and intercede. Protect me, Lady Theotokos, from all my enemies, visible and invisible, and from every evil situation. In every place and at every time, be with me, O Mother of Grace, an insurmountable wall and a strong intercession always, now and ever, and unto the ages of ages.
O Most Holy and Most Blessed Lady Theotokos, Most Honest Receiver of the Holy Spirit and Immaculate Sanctuary of the Word of God! Rejoice, for You are the joy of Angel and man, for You gave birth to the sweetest Jesus Christ in the flesh through the invasion of the Holy Spirit, and as You wrapped His baby in swaddling clothes, as You nourished His beloved Son with milk and embraced You with your kiss. We pray to Thee, Great Lady: do not reject Thy servants, this miraculous image of Thy who stand before and who have placed all their hope in God upon Thee: for Thou art our hope and refuge, our life and intercession, our fortress and joy. Pray to Thy beloved Son, that our fatherland and every Christian country may be preserved in peace and tranquility, and that the power of our most pious king may be established, and that our holy Orthodox Church will be unshakably upheld, unbelief will be eradicated, heresies and schism will be abolished, and our shepherd will be strengthened in zeal for the right to rule. word of truth.
Please again, O Lady, Thy beloved Son, may He deliver us all from all need, sorrow and illness, may He grant us a quiet and peaceful life, healthy bodily and spiritual salvation, May our suffering hearts pacify and heal the sorrows of our hearts, may He enlighten us to good deeds, May He cleanse our minds from vain thoughts and guide us to fulfillment His commandments, and may He deliver us from eternal torment, and may He grant us the Kingdom of Heaven, in which we will magnify Thee, our Glorious Lady, and glorify the most honorable and magnificent name of the Great God, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and to the endless ages of ages.
O Most Holy Virgin, Mother of the Lord of the Highest Powers, Queen of heaven and earth and our city Yaroslavl, Almighty Intercessor! Receive this song of praise from us, unworthy of Your joy, and lift up our prayers to the throne of God and Your Son, that He may be merciful to our iniquities and add His grace to those who honor Your glorious name and with faith and love worship Your miraculous image. For we are not worthy of receiving mercy from Him, unless You propitiate Him for us, Lady, for all things are possible for You from Him. For this reason, we resort to You, as our most undoubted and speedy Intercessor, and to You, as our Almighty Helper, we commit ourselves and each other and our whole life according to Christ God, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
O Most Holy and Most Merciful Lady Theotokos! Falling before Your holy icon, we humbly pray to You: listen to the voice of our prayer, see our sorrow, see our misfortunes, and like a loving Mother, trying to help us helpless: pray to Your Son and our God, may He not destroy us for our iniquities, but may He show us His mercy in a humane manner. Ask us, Lady, from His goodness for bodily health and spiritual salvation and a peaceful life, fruitfulness of the earth, goodness of the air, and a blessing from above for all our good deeds and undertakings, and for our Orthodox Tsar Nikolai Alexandrovich for victory and victory over all enemies. And just as in ancient times You mercifully looked upon the humble praise of the novice of Athonite, who sang Thee before Thy most pure icon, and Thou didst send an Angel to him, and teach him to sing the heavenly song with which the Angels glorify Thee: so now also accept our fervent prayer offered to Thee, O the All-Singing Queen!
Extend your God-bearing hand to the Lord, in the image of the Infant Jesus Christ, and beg Him to deliver us from all evil. Show, O Lady, Your mercy to us: heal the sick, comfort the afflicted, help the needy, and make us worthy to complete this earthly life piously, to receive a Christian shameless death and to inherit the Heavenly Kingdom, through Your maternal intercession to Christ our God, born of You, Himself, with His Beginning To the Father and the Holy Spirit, due all glory, honor and worship, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
Worthyly glorified and righteously blessed from all the higher ranks, as if she surpasses them without comparison, who gave birth to God and the Creator of all things, exalted above all others, wonderful to the Lady! Pray from You to the incarnate Christ our God, may the unrequited people look upon us, may He preserve us unharmed from all the enemy’s slander and evil slander, for Your mother’s prayer can do much, according to what was said: ask, my Mother, I will not turn away, but I will fulfill all Your requests. For this reason, with the joy of this fulfillment, we cry to Thee: save, O Lady, Thy perishing servants, enlighten those darkened by the wisdom of this age and bring them to the Sweetest Jesus, and we cry with eternal joy: glory to the Father, glory to the Son, glory to the Holy Spirit, glory to Thee, the Most Glorious and Immaculate Virgin Mother of God, blessed and blessed forever and ever.
O All-sung Lady of the world, adorned All-Tsarina, Most Honest Cherub and Most Glorious without comparison Seraphim! Heaven and earth bless Thee, as for eternal reconciliation they are pre-elected from the Life-giving Trinity: Every age and rank of earthly beings magnifies Thee, who without corruption of God the Word gave birth to the living Mother of God: The Archangels and Angels most gloriously glorify Thee, as the most beloved Daughter of God the Father: Cherubim and Seraphim glorify Thee with joy, as the Most Pure Bride of God the Spirit. It is worthy to eat, as truly, to bless Thee, Theotokos, Ever-Blessed and Most Immaculate and Mother of our God. You, O All-Sung Lady, according to God, are the hope of all the ends of the earth and those who live in the seas far away, You are the intercession of the orphaned and wretched, You are the helpless help, and the shameless refuge of the much-sad and desperate, You alone, according to the voice of the Church, do not abandon the despised and rejected by all with Your protection and grace.
O Most Blessed Iati of generosity and mercy, have mercy and save me, Thy all-unnecessary servant named, with a contrite heart falling to Thy holy image, before whom the heavenly harbinger of joy, having pleased Thee with song, taught us to eat and gave us all to bless Thee, the Gracious Mother of our All-Merciful Savior. By the incarnation of the Holy Spirit and to You, Virgin Mary, Your Son was sent from the Father to heal the brokenhearted, to give remission to the captives, sight to the blind, and to release the brokenhearted into joy.
Having more motherly boldness, propitiate Him, may He forgive me, captive by passions, of my sins, may He heal the contrite me with His grace, may He enlighten the darkened one, may He strengthen the weak. The rest of this short and turbulent life may pass in serenity and peace, in repentance and purity, in mortal teaching and to all good deeds: grant me a Christian end that is not shameful, and grant me, unworthy, an heir to be eternal and blessed life, so that with the elect I will worthily and righteously please You, the Ever-Blessed One, and magnify all the Master, ours for the sake of salvation from You became human, with His Beginning Father and His Life-giving Spirit, now and ever and unto the ages of ages.
O Most Holy Virgin Mary, there is only one consolation in our sorrows! By You, Virgin Mother of God, the singing of the novice of Athonite was wonderfully complemented: replenish our spiritual strength, so that we may worthily sing to You, who truly gave birth to the Savior of the world. Offer up a prayer to Your Son for us, so that faith in us sinners will not fail, even as the devil seeks to snatch Your servants and throughout the entire Christian race. We pray for these brokenhearted ones. Help our lack of faith, which sows evil deeds in us, self-love and pride, love of money and voluptuousness, intemperance and drunkenness, may we get rid of them through Your intercession, O Most Pure One, and may we be worthy to receive salvation by the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, to whom honor, thanksgiving and worship are due, with His Beginning Father, and with the Holy One. By the Spirit of one essence with Him, forever and ever.
Let us pray, faithfully, with boldness to the merciful Queen Theotokos, and tenderly cry out to her: send down upon us Thy rich mercies: keep our blessed emperor in health and prosperity: deliver this city from all circumstances: grant peace to the world and salvation to our souls.
Fathers of all Athos, gather together, faithfully celebrating, today rejoicing and brightly exclaiming, all in joy: God's mercy is now gloriously sung from the Angel. In the same way, we glorify the Mother of God forever.
O Most Pure Lady Theotokos, God-loving Mother, hope of our salvation! Look mercifully at this people, standing with faith and love and worshiping Your most pure image: accept our singing of praise and pour out Your warm prayer for us sinners to the Lord, that, having despised all our sins, He will save and have mercy on us. O Precious Lady! Show us Your wonderful mercies: save and have mercy on the most pious sovereign Emperor Nicholas Alexandrovich and the entire reigning house, grant them health and salvation: keep both the church shepherds and all the Christ-loving army unharmed. We pray to You tenderly, deliver us from all sorrow, guide us on the path of all virtues and benevolence, save us from temptations, troubles and diseases, take away slander and strife from us, save us from lightning thunder, from the burning of fire, from famine, cowardice, flood and deadly plagues: give us your merciful help on the way, in the sea and on land, Let us not perish violently. O All-Merciful, God-loving Mother!
With firm hope we send up to You our wretched prayer: do not reject our tears and sighs, do not forget us all the days of our life, but always remain with us, and through Your intercession and intercession with the Lord, grant us joy, consolation, protection and help, so that we glorify and magnify Your most blessed and all-sung name forever and ever.
O Wonderful and Highest of all creatures, Queen Theotokos, Mother of the Heavenly King Christ our God! Hear us, Thy sinful and unworthy servants, at this hour praying and falling to You with sighs and tears and tenderly saying: lead us from the pit of passions, O Lady: deliver us from all sorrow and sorrow, protect us from all misfortune and evil slander and from the unrighteous and cruel slander of the enemy. You can, O Gracious Mother of God, not only save Your people from all evil, but also provide them with every good deed and save them: are You not other Representatives in troubles and situations and warm Intercessors for us sinners to Your Son, Christ our God. Pray to Him, O Lady, that through Your salvation we may glorify in the future the all-holy name of Your Son and our God, together with the Father and the Holy Spirit, now and to endless ages.
All-pure Lady Theotokos! You continually stretch out Your hands to Him who was born of You in our flesh for the sake of salvation. We sinners always sing praises to You, and we confess the Intercessor to the whole world, and we glorify Your Nativity. Today we pray to You and we resort to You, knowing no other helper than You, the Lady. Always having boldness, pray, O Lady, for us, Thy Son, Christ our God, that we may be protected by the right hand of the highest Creator and Provider and Savior of ours always, now and ever, and unto the ages of ages.
My Most Blessed Queen, my Hope to the Mother of God, refuge of the orphaned and strange to the Intercessor, to the grieving Joy, to the offended to the Patroness! See my misfortune, see my sorrow: help me as I am weak, guide me as I am strange. Let me resolve my offense as if it were my will: for I have no other help except You, no other Representative, no Good Comforter, except You, O Mother of God, for preserve me and cover me forever and ever.
O great angelic surprise, the fulfillment of the prophets, the apostolic sermon, the joy of the martyrs, and the all-desiring and sweet sight of all the saints, the Most Blessed Lady, the Virgin Mother of God, the God-loving Mary! Raise Your hand to Your Son and our God Jesus Christ, praying to Him for us sinners and unworthy Thy servants: restrain His righteous wrath against us, and do not let us perish with our iniquities, implore His ineffable goodness, God-loving Virgin: for we are flesh and blood and the work of His most pure hands: even we have sinned, but we know no other God than Your Son. Look then, O Lady Lady, at Thy people standing before Thy holy icon, and tenderly at the nude, as if at Thy Mother of our God Herself, looking and asking from You for great and rich mercies, O Mother of children!
Ask Thy Son, Christ our God, for correction of our lives: for we are disappearing from the wrath of God, because we are so bitter about His goodness and much mercy, constantly crucifying Him with nasty deeds, with hostile envy, consuming each other with anger, wretched and orphaned, offending, despising the fear of God: also with fornication and uncleanness and By drunkenness we are all defiled, like a dumb animal lying in the stinking mud, and the richly woven clothes received from Holy Baptism are finally torn apart. Also, by Your intercession, cover us with an honest robe, saving us from the wrath of God, so that the fire that descends does not burn us, accursed in our sins. but most of all, with all the righteous prophets and apostles and martyrs and all your saints, comfort us with the bright contemplation of your ineffable shrines, and we all call to you with fear: Rejoice, full of grace, the Lord is with you, blessed is the Hope of our souls. O God-loving Queen!
Grant us, Thy sinful servants, to be at the right hand at the Second Coming of Thy Son and heirs of the existence of the Kingdom of Heaven and eternal life with all the saints: for His only power is blessed and glorified forever and ever.
God-loving Queen, inexperienced Virgin, Mother of God Mary! Pray for us, Thy Son who loved and was born of You, Christ our God, grant us forgiveness of sins, peace, abundance of fruits of the earth, health to our Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich and his heir, victory over enemies, holiness for the shepherd and salvation for the entire human race. Save our cities and the entire Russian land from the presence of foreign invaders and from internecine warfare. O Mother God-loving Virgin! About the All-Singing Queen! Cover us with Your robe from all evil, protect us from visible and invisible enemies, and save our souls.
All-sung and All-Glorious Queen Theotokos, Mother of all creation, Creator, Christian Hope and Intercessor, consolation for the sad, quick hope for the hopeless and despairing! We pray to You, be merciful to us sinners, and do not abandon Your servants, and do not reject the prayers of the faithful, who in sorrows and troubles demand deliverance before Your honest image. O Lady, Good Helper! Protect us with Your honorable robe and deliver us from all evils, praying to Your Son, Christ our God, that He may save our souls, for He is merciful.
We magnify Thee, Most Holy Virgin, and honor Thy holy image, whose blessed Prince Andrei is our enemy for victory and for the salvation of all the faithful.
O Most Holy Lady Lady Theotokos! Accept our unworthy prayer, and save all of us, who worship Your most pure image with faith and love, from the slander of evil people and from sudden death, and grant us repentance before the end. Have mercy on our prayer, and give us joy instead of sorrow. Behold, looking at Your image, as if You were alive and living with us, we earnestly pray to You: deliver us, O Mother of all who mourn and are burdened, from all misfortune and adversity, sorrow, illness and sadness and from all evil. And we, Thy unworthy servants, are made worthy to be at the right hand of Thy Son, Christ our God, at His Second and Glorious Coming, and heirs of the existence of the Kingdom of Heaven and eternal life with all the saints throughout the endless ages of ages.
O Most Holy Virgin, Mother of Christ our God, Queen of heaven and earth! Hear the much-painful sighing of our souls, look down from Thy holy height upon us, who with faith and love worship Thy most pure [and miraculous] image. Because we are immersed in sins and overwhelmed by sorrows, looking at Your image, as if You were alive and living with us, we offer our humble prayers. Imams have no other help, no other intercession, no consolation, except You, O Mother of all who mourn and are burdened! Help us the weak, assuage our sorrows, guide us astray on the right path, heal our painful hearts and save the hopeless, grant us the rest of our lives in peace and repentance, grant us a Christian death, and at the Last Judgment of Your Son the merciful Representative will appear to us, may we always sing, magnify and glorify You, as good Intercessor of the Christian race, with all those who pleased God, forever and ever.
Rejoice, Holy Red Mountain, like Heaven: for the glory of God has risen upon You. Jump up, mountains and hills, with joy, for on this holy mountain the icon of God’s Mother, Her honorable tenderness, has been glorified. Rejoice, O people, and be glad, for we have been given an inalienable wealth, a treasure of healing: sound like a trumpet, glorifying Her glorious miracles. And You, Pure One, rejoice, for the Lord is with You.
We thank You, O Most Blessed and Most Pure, Most Blessed Virgin Lady, Mother of Christ our God, for all Your good deeds, which You have shown to the human race, especially to us, the people of Russia named after Christ, for whom the lowest angelic tongue will be pleased with praise. We thank You, for even now You have surprised Your ineffable mercy on us, Your unworthy servants, with the supernatural self-coming of Your most pure icon, with which You have enlightened the entire Russian country.
Likewise, we are sinners, bowing with fear and joy, crying out to Thee: O Most Holy Virgin, Queen and Mother of God, save and have mercy on our most pious, autocratic, great sovereign, Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich of all Russia and the entire reigning house, the Holy Governing Synod, the bishops and all the people, and grant them victory over all enemies them, and save the reigning cities and all the cities and Christian countries, and this holy church, and deliver them from every slander of the enemy, and grant everything for the benefit of everyone, who now come with faith and pray to Your servant and worship Your most holy image: for blessed are You with the Son and God born of You, now and ever forever and ever.
O Most Holy Virgin, Mother of the Lord of the Highest Powers, Queen of heaven and earth, our city and country, our all-powerful Intercessor! Receive this song of praise from us, unworthy Thy servants, and lift up our prayers to the throne of God Thy Son, that He may be merciful to our iniquities and add His grace to those who honor Thy all-honorable name and with faith and love worship Your most pure [or miraculous] image. For we are not worthy of mercy from Him, unless You propitiate Him for us, Lady, for all things are possible for You from Him. For this reason, we resort to You, as to our undoubted and speedy Intercessor: hear us praying to You, overshadowing us with Your all-powerful protection, and ask God Your Son for our shepherd zeal and vigilance for souls, for the city ruler wisdom and strength, for judging truth and impartiality, for a mentor reason and humility, for a husband love and consent, obedience for children, patience for those who are offended, fear of God for those who are offended, good spirit for those who grieve, abstinence for those who rejoice, for us all the spirit of reason and piety, the spirit of mercy and meekness, the spirit of purity and truth.
Hey, Most Holy Lady! Have mercy on Thy weak people: gather the scattered, guide the erring on the right path, support old age, make young chaste, raise infants, and look upon all of us with the gaze of Thy merciful intercession: raise us up from the depths of sin and enlighten the eyes of our hearts to the vision of salvation. Be merciful to us here and there, in the land of earthly arrival and at the Last Judgment of Your Son: having ceased in faith and repentance from this life, our fathers and brothers will live in eternal life with the Angels and with all the saints. For you are, Lady, the glory of heaven and the hope of earth, You, according to God, are our Hope and Intercessor of all those who flow to You with faith. We therefore pray to You, and to You, as the Almighty Helper, we commit ourselves and each other and our whole life according to Christ God, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
O Most Holy Lady Lady Theotokos! Thou art the highest angel and archangel of all, and the most honorable of all creatures: Thou art the helper of the offended, the hopeless hope, the poor Intercessor, the sad consolation, the hungry Nurse, the naked robe, the healing of the sick, the salvation of sinners, the help and intercession of all Christians. O All-Merciful Lady, Virgin Mary and Lady! By Thy mercy save and have mercy on our most pious, autocratic, great sovereign, Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich of all Russia: his wife, the most pious empress Empress Alexandra Feodorovna: his mother, the most pious empress Empress Maria Feodorovna: his heir, the most pious sovereign Tsarevich and great Prince Alexy Nikolaevich, and the entire reigning house.
Save, O Lady, and have mercy on Thy servant, the Most Holy Governing Synod, and the Right Reverend metropolitans, archbishops and bishops, and the entire priestly and monastic rank, and the governing synclite of the faithful, and military leaders, city governors and the Christ-loving army, and well-wishers, and all Orthodox Christians in Thy robe. protect with honesty: and pray, Lady, from You, without seed, Christ our God, incarnate, may gird us with His power from above against our invisible and visible enemies. O All-Merciful Lady Lady Theotokos! Raise us from the depths of sin, and deliver us from famine, destruction, from cowardice and flood, from fire and sword, from the presence of foreigners and internecine warfare, and from sudden death, and from the attack of the enemy, and from corrupting winds, and from deadly plagues, and from all evil.
Grant, O Lady, peace and health to Thy servant, all Orthodox Christians, and enlighten their minds and the eyes of their hearts to salvation: and make us, Thy sinful servants, worthy of the Kingdom of Thy Son, Christ our God: for His power is blessed and glorified, with His Father without beginning, and with the Most Holy and Good and By His life-giving Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
O Most Holy Virgin, Mother of Christ our God, Queen of heaven and earth! Hear the much-painful sighing of our souls, look down from Thy holy height upon us, who with faith and love worship Thy most pure [and miraculous] image. Because we are immersed in sins and overwhelmed by sorrows, looking at Your image, as if You were alive and living with us, we offer our humble prayers. Imams have no other help, no other intercession, no consolation, except You, O Mother of all who mourn and are burdened! Help us the weak, assuage our sorrows, guide us astray on the right path, heal our painful hearts and save the hopeless, grant us the rest of our lives in peace and repentance, grant us a Christian death, and at the Last Judgment of Your Son the merciful Representative will appear to us, may we always sing, magnify and glorify You, as good Intercessor of the Christian race, with all those who pleased God, forever and ever.
O Most Pure Lady Lady Theotokos! Accept our unworthy prayer, and save us from the slander of evil people and from sudden death, and grant us repentance before the end. Be compassionate to our prayer, and grant joy instead of sorrow. And deliver us, Lady, from all misfortune and adversity, sorrow and illness and from all evil. And we are worthy, Thy sinful servants, at the right hand at the second coming of Thy Son, Christ our God, and heirs of the existence of the Kingdom of Heaven and eternal life with all the saints throughout the endless ages of ages.
To whom shall I cry, Lady? To whom shall I turn in my grief, if not to You, Lady Theotokos, Queen of Heaven? Who will accept my cry and sighing if not You, O Most Immaculate One, the Hope of Christians and the Refuge for us sinners? Bow down, O Most Pure Lady, to Your prayer. Mother of my God, do not despise me who requires Your help, hear my groaning, and the cry of my heart, O Lady Queen Theotokos! And give me spiritual joy, and strengthen me, who is impatient, sad and careless towards Your praise. Understand and teach me how You should pray, and do not depart from me, the Mother of my God, for my grumbling and impatience: but be my protection and intercession in my life, and lead me to the quiet haven of Divine peace, and number me in the face of Your chosen one flock, and there deign me to sing and glorify Thee forever and ever.
Accept, O All-Blessed and All-Powerful Lady Lady Theotokos the Virgin, these prayers, with tears, now offered to You from us, Your unworthy servants, who send up to Your celibate image the singing of those who send forth with tenderness, as if You yourself are here and heed our prayer. For every request you fulfill, you alleviate sorrows, you give health to the weak, you heal the weakened and sick, you drive away demons from demons, you deliver the offended from insults, you cleanse lepers and you are kind to little children: again, Madam Lady Theotokos, you free us from bonds and prisons and heal all manifold passions: for all things are possible through Your intercession to Your Son, Christ our God. O All-Singing Mother, Most Holy Theotokos! Do not cease to pray for us, Your unworthy servants, who glorify You and honor You, and who worship Your most pure image with tenderness, and who have irrevocable hope and undoubted faith in You, the Ever-Virgin, Most Glorious and Immaculate, now and ever and unto the ages of ages.
Today, like the Most Bright Sun, the all-honorable icon of Yours, Lady, has risen for us in the air, illuminating the world with rays of mercy: even great Russia, like some Divine gift, having reverently received from above, glorifies You, Mother of God, Lady of all, and joyfully magnifies Christ our God who was born from You. Pray to Him, O Lady Queen Theotokos, that He may preserve all Christian cities and countries unharmed from all the slander of the enemy, and save by faith those who worship His Divine and Your most pure image, the Virgin without art.
O Most Holy and Most Blessed Virgin, Mother of God Mary! We fall down and worship You before Your holy icon, remembering Your glorious miracle, the healing of the truncated right hand of the Venerable John of Damascus from this icon, whose sign is visible to this day on it, in the form of a third hand attached to Your image. We pray to You and ask You, the all-good and all-generous Intercessor of our race: hear us praying to You, and just as you heard Blessed John, who cried out to You in sorrow and illness, so do not despise us who grieve and suffer from the wounds of many different passions, who zealously come to You with a contrite soul. You see, O All-Merciful Lady, our infirmities, our embitterment, our need, I will require Your help, as enemies surround us from everywhere, and there is no one who helps, who is lower than the one who intercedes, unless You have mercy on us, the Lady.
To her, we pray to You, listen to our painful voice and help us to preserve the patristic Orthodox faith until the end of our days, to walk unswervingly in all the commandments of the Lord, to always bring true repentance for our sins to God, and to be honored with a peaceful Christian death and a good answer at the Last Judgment of Your Son and our God, Whom you prayed for us with your mother. through Your prayer, may He not condemn us according to our iniquity, but may He have mercy on us according to His great and ineffable mercy. O All-Merciful One, hear us and do not deprive us of Your sovereign help, so that having received salvation through You, let us sing and glorify You on the land of the living and our Redeemer, the Lord Jesus Christ, born of You, to whom befits glory and power, honor and worship, together with the Father and the Holy Spirit, always, now and ever, and unto the ages of ages.
To whom shall I cry, Lady? To whom shall I resort in my sorrow, if not to You, Mother of God? Who will receive my cry and my sighing, and not you, Most Immaculate, Hope of Christians and refuge for me a sinner? Who is more in Your favor? Incline, O Most Pure Lady, Your ear to my prayer. Mother of my God, do not despise me who requires Your help, hear the groaning and cry of my heart, and give me spiritual joy, strengthen me when I am sad, enlighten and teach me how to pray as You should, and do not leave me for my impatience, O Queen of Heaven, but be my Patroness and Intercessor in my life, May I sing and glorify You and Christ our God born of You forever and ever.
O Most Holy Lady Lady Theotokos, who showed a great miracle to Saint John of Damascus, as if he showed true faith and undoubted hope! Hear us sinners, before Your miraculous icon, earnestly praying and asking for Your help: do not reject this prayer of many for the sake of our sins, but, as the Mother of mercy and generosity, deliver us from illnesses, sorrows and sorrows, forgive the sins we have committed, fill with joy and gladness all who honor Your holy icon, so that we may joyfully sing and Let us glorify Your name with love: for You are chosen from all generations, blessed forever and ever.
O Most Holy Lady and Mother of God, supreme Cherub and most honorable Seraphim, God's chosen Youth, joy to all who are sick! Give consolation to us who resort to You: is it not the imams who have any other refuge and help for You? You alone are the intercessor of our joy, and as the Mother of God and the Mother of Mercy, standing at the throne of the Most Holy Trinity, you can help us: no one else, who flows to You, departs in shame. Hear also us, who now fall tenderly before Your icon and pray to You with tears: take away from us the sorrows and sorrows that are upon us in this temporary life, so that through Your omnipotent intercession we are not deprived of eternal, endless joy in the Kingdom of Your Son and our God, to Him belongs all glory, honor and worship, with His beginningless Father, and with His Most Holy and Good and Life-giving Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
Today, great worldwide joy has risen for us, given to the holy Mount Athos, Thy whole-bearing, Sovereign Mother of God, icon, with the image of Thy three-numbered and indivisibly most pure hands, for the glorification of the Holy Trinity: for Thou convenes the faithful and those who pray to Thee for this to know, as two have held the Son and the Lord, and the third will be revealed to refuge and protection for those who honor You from all misfortunes and troubles, so that all who flow to You by faith receive abundant liberation from all evils and protection from enemies. For this reason, we, together with Athos, cry out: Rejoice, full of grace, the Lord is with you.
O Most Holy Lady, Lady Theotokos! With fear, faith and love before Your honest [and miraculous] icon, we pray to You: do not turn Your face away from those who come running to You. Pray, merciful Mother, to Thy Son and our God, the Lord Jesus Christ, to keep our country peaceful, to strengthen the power of our most pious, autocratic, great sovereign, Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich, and to preserve His holy, unshakable Church, and to deliver from unbelief, heresies and schism. There are no other imams of help, no other imams of hope, except You, Most Pure Virgin: You are the all-powerful Helper and Intercessor of Christians. Deliver all those who pray to You with faith from the falls of sin, from the slander of evil people, from all temptations, sorrows, illnesses, troubles and from sudden death.
Grant us the spirit of contrition, humility of heart, purity of thoughts, correction of sinful lives and the remission of sins, so that by all of us, who gratefully sing of Thy greatness and mercy shown over us here on earth, we will be worthy of the Heavenly Kingdom, and there with all the saints we will glorify the most honorable and magnificent name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit forever and ever.
Once upon a time you defended your city from the Svei, O Mother of God, you showed us mercy, turning away the righteous anger and rebuke of God from the Russian land, and so in the region of the north of your all-honorable face you glorified the image, shedding visible tears for our great-grandfathers, from the adversary at war. You gave the same health to the blind and demonic from sowing many icons, and through Your intercession you stopped the pestilence that had come to people and the pestilence that had come to livestock. Even now You pour out streams of mercy to everyone with undoubted faith in Your all-powerful help to those who come running. Listen to our prayer, and direct the path of our earthly wandering, leading us to this eternal life. Likewise, protect the people of the church from the snares of false prophets and false teachers who prey on the mind of God, and grant us all purity of thoughts. Even if our tears and prayers are not sufficient to cleanse our sins, but may Your omnipotent intercession be added to these, in which we hope, we glorify the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto the ages of ages.
Intercessor of the Russian land from the invasion of Sveisk and the unceasing Prayer Book for us, ask the Lord for peace for the earth and our souls, that the name of God may be hallowed in us forever.
O Most Holy Lady Lady Theotokos! Thou art the highest angel and archangel of all, and the most honorable of all creatures: Thou art the helper of the offended, the hopeless hope, the poor Intercessor, the sad consolation, the hungry Nurse, the naked robe, the healing of the sick, the salvation of sinners, the help and intercession of all Christians. O All-Merciful Lady, Virgin Mary and Lady! By Thy mercy save and have mercy on our most pious, autocratic, great sovereign, Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich of all Russia: his wife, the most pious empress Empress Alexandra Feodorovna: his mother, the most pious empress Empress Maria Feodorovna: his heir, the most pious sovereign Tsarevich and great Prince Alexy Nikolaevich, and the entire reigning house.
Save, O Lady, and have mercy on Thy servant, the Most Holy Governing Synod, and the Right Reverend metropolitans, archbishops and bishops, and the entire priestly and monastic rank, and the governing synclite of the faithful, and military leaders, city governors and the Christ-loving army, and well-wishers, and all Orthodox Christians in Thy robe. protect with honesty: and pray, Lady, from You, without seed, Christ our God, incarnate, may gird us with His power from above against our invisible and visible enemies. O All-Merciful Lady Lady Theotokos! Raise us from the depths of sin, and deliver us from famine, destruction, from cowardice and flood, from fire and sword, from the presence of foreigners and internecine warfare, and from sudden death, and from the attack of the enemy, and from corrupting winds, and from deadly plagues, and from all evil.
Grant, O Lady, peace and health to Thy servant, all Orthodox Christians, and enlighten their minds and the eyes of their hearts to salvation: and make us, Thy sinful servants, worthy of the Kingdom of Thy Son, Christ our God: for His power is blessed and glorified, with His Father without beginning, and with the Most Holy and Good and By His life-giving Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
Accept, O All-Powerful, Most Pure Lady, Lady Theotokos, these honorable gifts, the only ones applied to You, from us, Your unworthy servants, chosen from all generations, manifested above all creatures of heaven and earth. Because for Your sake the Lord of hosts was with us, and through You we knew the Son of God, and became worthy of His Holy Body and His Most Pure Blood. Blessed are you, too, in the birth of generations, O God-blessed One, the brightest of the cherubim and the most honest of the seraphim. And now, all-sung Most Holy Theotokos, do not cease praying for us, Thy unworthy servants, that we may be delivered from every evil advice and from every situation, and that we may be preserved unharmed from every poisonous pretext of the devil. But even to the end, through Your prayers, keep us uncondemned: for through Your intercession and help we are saved, we send glory, praise, thanksgiving and worship for everything in the Trinity to the One God and the Creator of all, now and ever and unto the ages of ages.
My Most Blessed Queen, my Hope to the Mother of God, refuge of the orphaned and strange to the Intercessor, to the grieving Joy, to the offended to the Patroness! See my misfortune, see my sorrow: help me as I am weak, guide me as I am strange. Let me resolve my offense as if it were my will: for I have no other help except You, no other Representative, no Good Comforter, except You, O Mother of God, for preserve me and cover me forever and ever.
To You, Most Pure Mother of God, I, the accursed one, fall down and pray: Consider, O Queen, how I continually sin and anger Your Son and my God. and even if I repent many times, I find myself lying before God: I repent, trembling, lest the Lord strike me, and little by little I do the same again. This leader, my Lady, Lady Theotokos, I pray, have mercy, strengthen me, and grant me good deeds. Weigh you, O my Lady Theotokos, as an imam in complete hatred of my evil deeds and with all my thoughts I love the law of my God. But we do not know, Most Pure Lady, why I create hatred and transgress what is good. Do not, O Most Pure One, allow my will to be fulfilled, for it is displeasing, but may the will of Thy Son and my God be done in me, may He save me, and give me understanding, and give me the grace of the Holy Spirit, so that I may cease from this place from committing filth and so on may live in the commandments of Thy Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, to whom all things are due. glory, honor and worship, with His Originless Father, and His Most Holy and Good and Life-Giving Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
My Most Blessed Queen, My Most Holy Hope, Refuge for the Orphan and Strange Intercessor, Help for the needy and Protection for the embittered! See my misfortune, see my sorrow: I am overwhelmed by temptation everywhere, and I have no one to intervene. You Yourself, help me as I am weak, guide me as I am strange, guide me as I am lost, heal and save me as I am hopeless. I have no other help, no other intercession, no consolation except You, O Mother of all who mourn and are burdened! Look upon me, a sinner and in the bitterness of my existence, and cover me with Your most holy omophorion, that I may be delivered from the evils that have befallen me, and I will always praise Your revered name.
O Most Holy Virgin, Mother of the Lord of the Highest Powers, Queen of heaven and earth, our city and country, our all-powerful Intercessor! Receive this song of praise from us, unworthy Thy servants, and lift up our prayers to the throne of God Thy Son, that He may be merciful to our iniquities and add His grace to those who honor Thy all-honorable name and with faith and love worship Your most pure [or miraculous] image. For we are not worthy of mercy from Him, unless You propitiate Him for us, Lady, for all things are possible for You from Him. For this reason, we resort to You, as to our undoubted and speedy Intercessor: hear us praying to You, overshadowing us with Your all-powerful protection, and ask God Your Son for our shepherd zeal and vigilance for souls, for the city ruler wisdom and strength, for judging truth and impartiality, for a mentor reason and humility, for a husband love and consent, obedience for children, patience for those who are offended, fear of God for those who are offended, good spirit for those who grieve, abstinence for those who rejoice, for us all the spirit of reason and piety, the spirit of mercy and meekness, the spirit of purity and truth.
Hey, Most Holy Lady! Have mercy on Thy weak people: gather the scattered, guide the erring on the right path, support old age, make young chaste, raise infants, and look upon all of us with the gaze of Thy merciful intercession: raise us up from the depths of sin and enlighten the eyes of our hearts to the vision of salvation. Be merciful to us here and there, in the land of earthly arrival and at the Last Judgment of Your Son: having ceased in faith and repentance from this life, our fathers and brothers will live in eternal life with the Angels and with all the saints. For you are, Lady, the glory of heaven and the hope of earth, You, according to God, are our Hope and Intercessor of all those who flow to You with faith. We therefore pray to You, and to You, as the Almighty Helper, we commit ourselves and each other and our whole life according to Christ God, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
O Most Holy Lady and Mother of God, supreme Cherub and most honorable Seraphim, God's chosen Youth, joy to all who mourn! Give consolation to us who are in sorrow: is there no other refuge and help for you from the imams? You alone are our Intercessor of joy, and as the Mother of God and the Mother of Mercy, standing at the Throne of the Most Holy Trinity, you give us help: no one who comes to You leaves in shame. Hear also us, now on the day of sorrow before Your icon and praying to You with tears: take away from us the sorrows and sorrows that lie ahead in this temporary life, so that through Your omnipotent intercession we are not deprived of eternal, endless joy in the Kingdom of Your Son and our God, to Him belongs all glory, honor and worship, with His beginningless Father, and with His Most Holy and Good and Life-giving Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
Virgin Lady Theotokos, who, more than nature and the word, gave birth to the Only Begotten Word of God, the Creator and Ruler of all visible and invisible creatures, the One of the Trinity of God, and God and man, the abode of the Divine, the receptacle of all holiness and grace, in which, by the good will of God and the Father, assisted by the Holy Spirit, the fulfillment dwelled Corporeal deity, incomparably exalted with royal and splendid dignity and superior to every creature, glory and consolation, and the indescribable joy of the Angels, the royal crown of the apostles and prophets, the martyrs, supernatural and wondrous courage, the Champion in ascetic struggles and the Giver of victory, preparing for the ascetic eternal and divine rewards, all exceeding honor, the honor and glory of the saints, the infallible Guide and Teacher of silence, the door of revelations and spiritual mysteries, the source of light, the inexhaustible river of mercy, the inexhaustible sea of all divine gifts and miracles!
We ask and pray to You, most compassionate Mother of the Humane-loving Master: be merciful to us, Your humble and unworthy servant, look with mercy on our captivity and humility, heal the contrition of our souls and bodies, dispel visible and invisible enemies, make us an unworthy pillar strong in the face of our enemies, battle weapons, strong militia, Voivode and irresistible Champion: now reveal to us Your ancient and wondrous mercies, may we take away our enemies from iniquity, for Your Son and One God is King and Master, for You are truly the Mother of God, who gave birth to the True God in the flesh, for all things are possible for You, and if You are willing, the Lady, you have all this power perfection in heaven and on earth, and to grant forgiveness for all things that are useful to everyone: health to those who are sick, and peace and good sailing to those in the sea.
For those who travel, travel and save me, save the captives from bitter slavery, comfort the sad, alleviate poverty and any other bodily suffering: free everyone from mental ailments and passions invisible by Your intercession and instruction, as if we have completed the path of this temporary life, we will inherit it without blemish and without stumbling. and this is eternal good in the Kingdom of Heaven. Our faithful kings, who honor the essence of the terrible name of Your Only Begotten Son, and trust in Your intercession and in Your mercy, and in all have You as their Intercessor and Champion, strengthen invisibly against the present enemies: dispel the cloud of despondency, comfort their souls: deliver me from spiritual distress, instead of it grant they are blessed with light complacency and joy, again affirming the peace and tranquility of their power and kingdom.
With Your prayers, Lady, save this flock most dedicated to You, every city and country, from famine, cowardice, flood, fire, sword, invasion of foreigners, internecine warfare, and turn away all righteously driven anger towards us, by the good will and grace of the Only Begotten Son and Your God, to Him belongs all glory and honor. and worship, with His Originless Father, and with His Ever-Substantial and Life-Giving Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
Accept, O All-Powerful, Most Pure Lady, Virgin Mother of God, this prayer offered to You by us, Your unworthy servants, and do not cease to pray to Your Son, Christ our God, that we may be delivered from all sorrow, anger and need, from all illnesses of soul and body, and remain unharmed from every evil of the situation, but even to the end Through Your prayers, we are not condemned, as if through Your intercession and help we are saved, we send glory, praise, thanksgiving and worship for everything in the Trinity to the One God and the Creator of all, now and ever and unto the ages of ages.
O Most Holy Virgin Theotokos, Most Merciful Lady, supreme Angel and Archangel, Queen of heaven and earth, our Orthodox country's firm defense, our most pious sovereign and the entire reigning house, protection and protection, every home and family of the Christian, the benefactor of those who labor in pious blessing, those in need of inexhaustible wealth, the orphans and widows to nurse, virgins of purity and glory, mothers of quiet joy, youths of wisdom and teaching, mentors and schoolmasters of perfect understanding! We believe in Your sovereign protection over our Orthodox fatherland and over the most pious sovereign, whom You commanded to reign, and over the least of us, redeemed by the Divine blood of Your Son. We believe, as in this icon of Yours, in the blessing from the holy Mount Athos given to us, You Yourself send down Your maternal blessing to all of us and to every house that has hope in You.
Moreover, with reverent awe and with a grateful heart, we bow before this new sign of Thy great love, Lady, unworthy of us. Remembering Your wonderful appearance to the Monk Athanasius of Athos, who was once in need and sorrow and, as the ever-present Steward of his monastery, has received a merciful promise from You, we humbly pray to You: O most merciful Mother of the Christian race! Be also to us, sinful and unworthy servants of Thy wise Housebuilder, who organizes our life for good. Fill our most pious sovereign, Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich, with long days and strength of strength, and prosper him in establishing peace and truth in his empire. Keep every community, every home and family in piety and Orthodoxy, like-mindedness, obedience and contentment: guide those who have gone astray on the right path, support old age, educate children, instruct everyone to sincerely obey the authority ordained by God and observe all commandments.
Relieve and uplift those who are weary, save Your people from all need, illness, famine, destruction, hail, fire, from all evil conditions and all disorder. To this house and to every Christian soul and to our whole country, intercede peace and great mercy now and ever and unto ages of ages.
Terrible and shameless intercession, do not despise, O Good One, our prayers, All-Sung Mother of God, Merciful of the faithful Steward, establish the Orthodox residence, save our blessed Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich, whom You commanded to reign, and grant him victory from heaven, before You gave birth to God, the only Blessed One.
O Most Holy Lady Theotokos, Queen of heaven and earth, the highest Angel and Archangel and all creation, the Most Honest, Pure Virgin Mary, Good Helper to the world, help and affirmation to all Christians, and deliverance to all in all their needs! Look now, O All-Merciful Lady, at Your servants, with a tender soul and a contrite heart, praying to You, adhering to You with tears and worshiping Your most pure and wholesome image, asking for Your help and intercession in their sorrows and misfortunes. Be an Intercessor for us to Your Son, Christ our God: for we, sinners, are not the imams of any other Helper except You, the Lady. You are our hope and hope, You are our Intercessor and Representative, You are protection for the offended, comfort for the sad, joy for the sorrowing, refuge for the orphans, Guardian for widows, glory for the virgins, joy for the tearful, visitation for the sick, healing for the weak, salvation for sinners.
For this reason, O Mother of God, we resort to You, and looking at Your holy image, with love we worship You with the Eternal Child held in Your hand, Our Lord Jesus Christ, and we offer prayer singing, crying out: have mercy on us, Mother of God, and fulfill our petitions for good, for everything is possible in the essence of Your intercession to Your Son and To our God, to whom is due all glory, honor and worship and thanksgiving, with His Beginningless Father and with His Ever-present Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
O All-Merciful Lady, Virgin Mother of God! Listen to my humble prayer, and hear the voice of Your now approaching image with contrition. We know, O my Creator Mother, for You are the unshameful intercession of Christians and the immutable intercession to the Creator: we know this too, for my iniquities have exceeded my head and as a heavy burden has weighed down on me, and I am no longer worthy to see the heights of heaven, to look lower to the throne of glory of Your Son and our God, but I am worthy of the torment that appears and eternal damnation.
For this reason, I fall down to You [with those who are coming together], I pray to You tenderly, I cry to You with tears: lift up Your motherly prayer to Him, so that He will not reject us sinners from His presence, but, as He is merciful, may He forgive us our sins, voluntary and involuntary, instructing us on the path of salvation and strengthening us with the power from above to keep His commandments: may He preserve 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: preserving health and strengthening the scepter of our most pious sovereign Nikolai Alexandrovich, may he create good and serene days for all of us: may he protect His Holy Church with peace, and let the distant one unite him, for the Lord is good, long-suffering and abundantly merciful, glorified from all creation with the Father and the Holy Spirit forever and ever.
Rise up to us, like a luminous sun from the east in splendor, Your icon, Lady, illuminating with glorious miracles all who continually come to her with faith and love and who fervently pray to Your hedgehog for Your Son and God’s greatness. Glory to God, who gave us this by Arseny: glory to him who returned it from Novagrad: glory to him who brought healing to all.
To You, O Mother of God, we prayerfully flow our sins, Your miracles in the Holy Lavra of Pochayev, revealed in remembrance and lamentation of our sins. We know, Lady, we know that it is not right for us sinners to ask anything, except for the Righteous Judge to leave our iniquities to us. All that we have endured in life, sorrows and needs and illnesses, like the fruits of our falls, have languished us, I allow this to God for our correction. Moreover, the Lord brought all this truth and judgment to His sinful servants, who in their sorrows came to Your intercession, the Most Pure One, and in the tenderness of their hearts she cries out to You: Our sins and iniquities, O Good One, do not remember, but rather lift up Your all-honorable hands, stand before Your Son and God, may He forgive us for the cruelty we have committed, may He not turn His face away from His servants for our many unfulfilled promises, may He not take His grace, which contributes to our salvation, from our souls.
To her, Lady, be the Intercessor for our salvation, and not disdaining our cowardice, look upon our groans, even in our troubles and sorrows we lift up before Your miraculous image. Enlighten our minds with tender thoughts, strengthen our faith, confirm our hope, grant us the sweetest gift of love to accept us. By these gifts, Most Pure One, and not by illnesses and sorrows, may our belly be raised to salvation, but protect our souls from despondency and despair, deliver us who are weak from the troubles and needs that come upon us, and human slander, and unbearable diseases. Grant peace and prosperity to the Christian life through Your intercession, O Lady: strengthen the scepter of our blessed king, the believer of Your intercession: establish the Orthodox faith in our country and throughout the world. Do not betray the apostolic and conciliar Church to disparagement, preserve the statutes of the saints forever, unshakable, and save all who come to You from the perishing pit.
Also, bring the heresy of our deceived brethren, or the saving faith of those who have been destroyed by sinful passions, to true faith and repentance, so that together with us, who worship Your miraculous image, they will confess Your intercession. Grant us, O Most Holy Lady Theotokos, even in this belly the victory of truth by Your intercession to behold: grant us grace-filled joy before the end of our perception, just as the inhabitants of Pochaev of old showed by Your appearance the victors and enlighteners of the Hagarians: yes, all of us, with a grateful heart, together with the Angels and prophets and apostles and with all the saints, glorifying Your mercy, let us give glory, honor and worship in the Trinity to the sung God, Father and Son and Holy Spirit, forever and ever.
O Most Holy Virgin, Lady Theotokos! I thank You with all my heart, for You have vouchsafed me, Your sinful and unworthy servant, to appear here and worship on Your holy mountain. Oh, how many blessings have I, such a great sinner, been rewarded with Your mercy! I see, O Most Pure One, and am horrified, and my spirit melts away, always seeing with my own eyes this multi-healing source of Thy grace, which Thou hast ineffably revealed since ancient times in the footsteps of Thy holy foot.
And reverently bowing in the place where Thy feet stand, I pray to Thee, Blessed Hope and salvation of our souls and bodies: wash me with Thy wholesome water from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, quench with Thy blessed streams all the passions of my heart, heal all ailments with drops from Thy ever-flowing source my body, that by You we may instruct, heal and deliver, I sing to You with all diligence: Rejoice, Source of unceasing joy and unspeakable kindness: Rejoice, drowning of unclean lusts: Rejoice, washing away of all kinds of defilements: Rejoice, Most Light-seeing Stream, for the health of the faithful from the mountain the overshadowed thickets granting the grace of healing: Rejoice, Heavenly Dew, from above sending down currents of wisdom to those thirsting for true knowledge: Rejoice, Praise of Pochaev: save us who pray to You, our Hope and consolation.
Before Your holy icon, Lady, those who pray are honored with healing, they accept the knowledge of true faith, and they repel the Hagarian invasions. For those of us who fall before You, ask for remission of sins, enlighten our hearts with thoughts of piety, and offer a prayer to Your Son for the salvation of our souls.
We magnify Thee, Most Holy Virgin, and venerate Thy venerable icon, which Thou hast glorified since ancient times on Mount Pochaev.
O Most Holy Virgin, Mother of the Lord of the Highest Powers, Queen of heaven and earth, our city and country, our all-powerful Intercessor! Receive this song of praise from us, unworthy Thy servants, and lift up our prayers to the throne of God Thy Son, that He may be merciful to our iniquities and add His grace to those who honor Thy all-honorable name and with faith and love worship Your most pure [or miraculous] image. For we are not worthy of mercy from Him, unless You propitiate Him for us, Lady, for all things are possible for You from Him. For this reason, we resort to You, as to our undoubted and speedy Intercessor: hear us praying to You, overshadowing us with Your all-powerful protection, and ask God Your Son for our shepherd zeal and vigilance for souls, for the city ruler wisdom and strength, for judging truth and impartiality, for a mentor reason and humility, for a husband love and consent, obedience for children, patience for those who are offended, fear of God for those who are offended, good spirit for those who grieve, abstinence for those who rejoice, for us all the spirit of reason and piety, the spirit of mercy and meekness, the spirit of purity and truth.
Hey, Most Holy Lady! Have mercy on Thy weak people: gather the scattered, guide the erring on the right path, support old age, make young chaste, raise infants, and look upon all of us with the gaze of Thy merciful intercession: raise us up from the depths of sin and enlighten the eyes of our hearts to the vision of salvation. Be merciful to us here and there, in the land of earthly arrival and at the Last Judgment of Your Son: having ceased in faith and repentance from this life, our fathers and brothers will live in eternal life with the Angels and with all the saints. For you are, Lady, the glory of heaven and the hope of earth, You, according to God, are our Hope and Intercessor of all those who flow to You with faith. We therefore pray to You, and to You, as the Almighty Helper, we commit ourselves and each other and our whole life according to Christ God, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
To whom shall I cry, Lady? To whom shall I resort in my sorrow, if not to You, Queen of Heaven? Who will accept my cry and sighing if not You, Most Immaculate, the Hope of Christians and Refuge? Who will protect You more in adversity? Hear my groaning, and incline Your ear to me, the Lady Mother of my God, and do not despise me who requires Your help, and do not reject me, a sinner. Enlighten and teach me, O Queen of Heaven: do not depart from me Thy servant, O Lady, for my grumbling, but be my Intercessor Mother. I entrust myself to Your merciful protection: lead me, a sinner, to a quiet and serene life, so that I may weep for my sins. To whom shall I resort when I am guilty, if not to You, the hope and refuge of sinners, I am inspired by the hope of Your ineffable mercy and Your bounty; About the Lady Queen of Heaven! You are my hope and refuge, protection and intercession and help. To my most gracious and speedy Intercessor: cover my sins with Your intercession, protect me from enemies visible and invisible: soften the hearts of evil people who rebel against me. O Mother of the Lord my Creator!
You are the root of virginity and the unfading color of purity. O Mother of God! Give me help to those who are weak with carnal passions and sick at heart, for one thing is Yours and with You the imam of Your Son and our God intercession: and by Your wonderful intercession may I be delivered from all troubles and misfortunes, O Most Immaculate and Glorious Mother of God Mary. Likewise, with hope I say and cry out: Rejoice, O Blessed One: Rejoice, O O Joyful One: Rejoice, O Most Blessed One, the Lord is with Thee.
Be aware that in some churches this prayer, or the so-called hymn to the Most Holy Theotokos, is sung in voice 5.
To whom shall I cry, Lady? To whom shall I turn in my grief, if not to You, Lady Theotokos, Queen of Heaven? Who will accept my cry and sighing if not You, O Most Immaculate One, the Hope of Christians and the Refuge for us sinners? Bow down, O Most Pure Lady, to Your prayer. Mother of my God, do not despise me who requires Your help, hear my groaning, and the cry of my heart, O Lady Queen Theotokos! And give me spiritual joy, and strengthen me, who is impatient, sad and careless towards Your praise. Understand and teach me how You should pray, and do not depart from me, the Mother of my God, for my grumbling and impatience: but be my protection and intercession in my life, and lead me to the quiet haven of Divine peace, and number me in the face of Your chosen one flock, and there deign me to sing and glorify Thee forever and ever.
My Most Blessed Queen, my Hope to the Mother of God, refuge of the orphaned and strange to the Intercessor, to the grieving Joy, to the offended to the Patroness! See my misfortune, see my sorrow: help me as I am weak, guide me as I am strange. Let me resolve my offense as if it were my will: for I have no other help except You, no other Representative, no Good Comforter, except You, O Mother of God, for preserve me and cover me forever and ever.
O Most Wonderful and Above All Creatures Queen Theotokos, Mother of the Heavenly King Christ our God, Most Holy Hodegetria Mary! Hear us, sinners and unworthy, who at this hour pray to You with sighs and tears before Your most pure image, falling down and tenderly saying: Lead us from the pit of passions, Good Hodegetria, deliver us from all sorrow and sorrow, protect us from all misfortunes and evil slander and from the unrighteous slander of the enemy. You can, O our Gracious Mother, not only save Your people from all evil, but also provide and save with all good deeds: are other Representatives in troubles and circumstances and warm Intercessors for us sinners to Your Son, Christ our God, not imams. Beseech Him, O Lady, to save us and grant us the Kingdom of Heaven, so that through Your salvation, we glorify You in the future, as the Author of our salvation, and extol the all-holy and magnificent name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, in the Trinity glorified and worshiped God, forever and ever.
O Most Holy Lady Lady Theotokos! With the fear of many and with faith and love, singing thanksgiving to You, we pray to You in front of this honorable icon of Yours, which has shone with wondrous miracles: do not shut up Your mercies to us sinners, O All-Immaculate One, do not reject us who resort to You, O Merciful One. Pray to Your Son and God, our Lord Jesus Christ, that by His grace he may preserve this monastery for the salvation of souls lost to Him in the world. You yourself, as the Good Being of the Most High Mother, remain persistent from this monastery, as your lot and inheritance, and with your omnipotent prayers cover those struggling here and intercede from all troubles and needs of soul and body: there are no imams for other help, not imams <...> hope, except for You, Most Pure Virgin.
We humbly fall to You, we pray to You, Most Blessed Lady: graciously accept the prayers, petitions and thanksgivings of all those who flow with faith to this honorable image of Yours, bringing them to Your Son: deliver them from the fall of sin, from the slander of evil people, from all temptations, sorrows and troubles, from sudden death and eternal torment: and grant them the spirit of contrition, humility of heart, purity of mind, correction of sinful lives and the remission of sins, so that all of us, praising Thy greatness with gratitude, may be worthy of the Heavenly Kingdom and there with all the saints we will glorify the most honorable and magnificent name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, forever and ever.
O Most Holy Lady Theotokos, Queen of heaven and earth, the highest Angel and Archangel and all creatures, the Most Honest, Pure Virgin Mary, Good Helper to the world and affirmation and deliverance to all in all their needs! Look now, O All-Merciful Lady, at Thy fish, with a tender soul and a contrite heart, praying to Thee, and falling with tears to Thee, and worshiping Thy most pure and wholesome image, and earnestly asking for Thy help and intercession in all sorrows, sorrows and misfortunes. O All-Merciful Virgin, Pure Mother of God! Be an intercessor for us to Your Son, Christ our God. We sinners are not the imams of any other help, except to You, Lady: You are our hope, You are our Intercessor and Representative, You are protection for the offended, joy for the sorrowful, refuge for the orphans, Guardian for widows, glory for virgins, joy for the tearful, visitation for the sick, healing for the weak, salvation for sinners.
For this reason, O Mother of God, we run to You, and looking at Your image, with love we worship You with the Eternal Child held in Your hand, our Lord Jesus Christ, and offering prayer songs, crying out: have mercy on us, Mother of God, and fulfill our petitions, for all that is possible is Your intercession before God, to Him all befits glory, honor and worship, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
Let us now diligently approach the Mother of God as a proselytizer of sin and humility, and let us fall down in repentance, calling from the depths of our souls: Lady, help us, having mercy on us: struggling, we are perishing from many sins: do not turn away Thy servants from vanity, for You are the only hope of the Imams.
Let us never be silent, Mother of God, in speaking Your strength to those who are unworthy: if You had not stood before us to pray, who would have delivered us from such troubles? Who would have kept them free until now? We will not retreat, O Lady, from You: for Your servants always save you from all evil ones.
O Most Holy Lady Lady Theotokos! With the fear of many, and with faith and love, we offer this song of thanksgiving to You, we pray to You diligently: do not shut up Your bounties to us sinners, O All-Immaculate One, do not reject us who come running, O Merciful One, but cover and intercede with Your all-powerful prayers, from temptations and troubles and sorrows, delivering us from sudden death and eternal torment: not imams There is no other help, no imams, no other hope, except for You, Most Pure Virgin. We humbly fall to You, we pray to You, Most Blessed Lady: graciously accept the prayers, petitions and thanksgivings of all those who flow with faith to this honorable image of Yours, bringing them to Your Son, so that all of us, gratefully praising Your greatness, may be worthy of the Heavenly Kingdom and there with all the saints we will glorify what is most honorable and magnificent to them Father and Son and Holy Spirit, forever and ever.
O Most Pure Lady Lady Theotokos! Accept our unworthy prayer, and save us from the slander of evil people and from sudden death, and grant us repentance before the end. Be compassionate to our prayer, and grant joy instead of sorrow. And deliver us, Lady, from all misfortune and adversity, sorrow and illness and from all evil. And we are worthy, Thy sinful servants, at the right hand at the second coming of Thy Son, Christ our God, and heirs of the existence of the Kingdom of Heaven and eternal life with all the saints throughout the endless ages of ages.
Today, as the Sun has brightened, pray in the Russian country, at the end of its noon, bring Your all-honorable icon, Lady, to the rightful Grand Duke Demetrius, to the reigning city of Moscow. We brightly celebrate, faithful people, the coming of the venerable image, diligently praying: Lady Theotokos, praying to Thy Son, Christ our God, to deliver the reigning city of Moscow unharmed and all Orthodox Christianity from barbaric captivity and internecine warfare and all the slander of the enemy: To you, the Intercessor of the Imams.
To the Lady Theotokos, the delight of my soul, the withered heart of my God-flowing Stream, the bright Lamp of my darkened mind, the lazy will of my guide, the Guide to my infirmities, the Strength of nakedness, the endowment of poverty, the wealth of incurable wounds, powerful and quick healing, the drying of tears, the quenching of sobs, the transformation of troubles, the relief of illnesses, bond resolution, salvation Hope! Hear my prayer: give me time of repentance, zeal for salvation, strength in the labors of pleasing God: save me from misfortunes and all kinds of evils, in temptation and troubles extend Your helping hand, so that I may rise in the fall and not perish in cruelty. Until I remain in this painful life, do not deprive me of the gifts of Your mercy. Grant Thy goodness to all the Christ-loving brethren standing here and praying. Raise the infants, guide the young, support the old, comfort the faint-hearted, bring the erring to reason, look upon and protect the widows and the orphans, pour out Your rich mercy on all those who love and hate us.
And at the end of my life, at the time of my exodus from my body, be my Intercessor: soften mortal illness, quench melancholy and lead my poor soul to the eternal abode, so that the dark force does not take me and drag me down into the depths of hell. To her, Blessing the Lady Theotokos, tenderness of my soul! Warm my heart, cold in faith and love, with tears of tenderness: send down upon me, the grieving and burdened with sins, for the prayers of the venerable Father Seraphim, Your admirer, the necessary joy and consolation. May I not, O Bride of God, be deprived of the hope of my fruit, but may I be granted this acceptance in God and my Savior, Thy beloved Son, our Lord Jesus Christ. To him be glory and power, honor and worship, with His Originless Father, and His All-Holy and Good and Life-Giving Spirit, now and ever and ever.
Let us fall to the Mother of God with tenderness, all burdened with sins, kissing her miraculous icon of Tenderness and crying out with tears: Mistress, accept the prayer of Your unworthy servants, and grant us who ask Your great mercy.
O Most Holy Lady, Virgin Mother of God, supreme Cherub and Seraphim and holiest of all saints! You, the All-Blessed One, on Tolga, You deigned to reveal Your multi-healing icon to the blessed Saint Tryphon in a fiery way, and with it You performed many and ineffable miracles, and are now doing them, according to Your ineffable mercy towards us. Before Your most pure image we fall and pray, O most blessed Intercessor of our race: in this journey on earth, much sorrow and much rebellion, do not deprive us of Your intercession and sovereign protection. Save and protect us, Lady, from the kindled arrows of the Lucky enemy of our salvation. Strengthen our weak will to do the commandments of Christ, soften our hardened hearts with love for God and our neighbors, grant us heartfelt contrition and true repentance, so that, having been cleansed from the filth of sin, we can bring to the Creator the fruits of good deeds that are pleasing to Him and be honored with a peaceful Christian death and the right answer to the Last God. His impartial Judgment. Hey, Lady All-Merciful!
In the hour of menace, this mortal, most of all, show us Your powerful intercession, then hasten to help us who are helpless, and with Your sovereign hand will snatch us from the power of the fierce world ruler, for truly Your prayer can do much before the face of the Lord, and nothing is impossible for Your intercession, unless you only desire it. Moreover, we look at Your holy image with tenderness, and before it, as if alive, You who exist with us, worshiping, with good hope, we ourselves and each other and our whole life prayerfully commend to You in God, and we magnify You with our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who was born of You, to Him, with His Beginning Father and the Most Holy Spirit, befits all glory, honor and worship, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
Accept, O All-Blessed and All-Powerful Lady Lady Theotokos the Virgin, these prayers, with tears, now offered to You from us, Your unworthy servants, who send up the singing of Your celibate image with tenderness, as if You yourself are here and listening to our prayer. For every request you fulfill, you alleviate sorrows, you bestow health on the weak, you heal the weakened and sick, you drive away demons from demons, you deliver the offended from insults, you cleanse lepers and have mercy on little children: also, to the Lady Lady Theotokos, and from bonds and prisons You free and heal all manifold passions: for all things are possible through Your intercession to Your Son, Christ our God. O All-Singing Mother, Most Holy Theotokos! Do not cease to pray for us, Your unworthy servants, who glorify You and honor You, and who worship Your most pure image with tenderness, and who have irrevocable hope and undoubted faith in You, the Most Glorious and Immaculate Ever-Virgin, now and ever and unto the ages of ages.
Today, Your image, the Most Pure Virgin Mother of God, shines brightly on Tolga, and like the never-setting sun, you have always appeared to the faithful: having seen it in the air, invisibly held by the Angels, the Most Reverend Bishop of the city of Rostov Tryphon flowed towards the revealed luminous pillar of fire, and walked across the waters as if on dry land, and prayed to You faithfully about the flock and about the people. And we, flowing to You, we call: Most Holy Virgin Mother of God, faithfully save You, save our Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich and the bishops and all Russian people from all troubles, according to Your great mercy.
O Most Holy Lady Lady Theotokos! Thou art the highest angel and archangel of all, and the most honorable of all creatures: Thou art the helper of the offended, the hopeless hope, the poor Intercessor, the sad consolation, the hungry Nurse, the naked robe, the healing of the sick, the salvation of sinners, the help and intercession of all Christians. O All-Merciful Lady, Virgin Mary and Lady! By Thy mercy save and have mercy on our most pious, autocratic, great sovereign, Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich of all Russia: his wife, the most pious empress Empress Alexandra Feodorovna: his mother, the most pious empress Empress Maria Feodorovna: his heir, the most pious sovereign Tsarevich and great Prince Alexy Nikolaevich, and the entire reigning house.
Save, O Lady, and have mercy on Thy servant, the Most Holy Governing Synod, and the Right Reverend metropolitans, archbishops and bishops, and the entire priestly and monastic rank, and the governing synclite of the faithful, and military leaders, city governors and the Christ-loving army, and well-wishers, and all Orthodox Christians in Thy robe. protect with honesty: and pray, Lady, from You, without seed, Christ our God, incarnate, may gird us with His power from above against our invisible and visible enemies. O All-Merciful Lady Lady Theotokos! Raise us from the depths of sin, and deliver us from famine, destruction, from cowardice and flood, from fire and sword, from the presence of foreigners and internecine warfare, and from sudden death, and from the attack of the enemy, and from corrupting winds, and from deadly plagues, and from all evil.
Grant, O Lady, peace and health to Thy servant, all Orthodox Christians, and enlighten their minds and the eyes of their hearts to salvation: and make us, Thy sinful servants, worthy of the Kingdom of Thy Son, Christ our God: for His power is blessed and glorified, with His Father without beginning, and with the Most Holy and Good and By His life-giving Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
My Most Blessed Queen, my Hope to the Mother of God, refuge of the orphaned and strange to the Intercessor, to the grieving Joy, to the offended to the Patroness! See my misfortune, see my sorrow: help me as I am weak, guide me as I am strange. Let me resolve my offense as if it were my will: for I have no other help except You, no other Representative, no Good Comforter, except You, O Mother of God, for preserve me and cover me forever and ever.
Today the icon of the Mother of God has risen indescribably to our reigning city of Moscow, and as if with the radiant sun, the whole world has been illuminated by that luminous sun, the heavenly powers and the souls of the righteous are mentally triumphant, rejoicing, but we look at her and cry out to the Mother of God with tears: O All-Merciful Lady, Lady Theotokos, pray from You may Christ our God incarnate give peace and health to all Christians, according to His great and ineffable mercy.
O Most Holy Lady Theotokos, Queen of heaven and earth! Look upon us, Thy sinful and unworthy servants, and pray to Thy Son, Christ our God, to protect us from above with His power, so that we may be forever preserved from all the temptations of the enemy and the charms of demons. You, O All-Merciful Lady Virgin Mother of God, as in ancient times, You astonished the entire Russian country with the glorious walk of Your most venerable icon in the air with the Eternal Child and the visit of that holy city of Tikhfin, but you magnified this place, a deserted existence, with your true self-procession and your most wonderful appearance with St. Nicholas Thou art: even now, O All-Blessed Mother of the Most High God, cover us with Thy all-good cover, making us worthy of Thy invisible grace.
And also in ancient times, in this God-chosen desert place, you deigned to see the divine image of your indescribable radiance, a god-pleasing and reverent man, and you mercifully exclaimed to him: so now are your merciful eyes, O All-Sung Mother of God, with your usual love for us and for all those who earnestly pray Having looked upon You and those who tenderly ask for Your all-powerful help and intercession, be the All-Good Intercessor for the salvation of our souls and bodies before the throne of Your Son and our God. Save then, O Most Holy Virgin Mother of God, our blessed emperor, this monastery and the entire Christian race and all who come with faith and worship the most pure icon of Your appearance, glorifying the Most Holy Trinity, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, and honoring Your merciful intercession with Saint Nicholas, now and ever and forever and ever.
Let us now diligently approach the Mother of God as a proselytizer of sin and humility, and let us fall down in repentance, calling from the depths of our souls: Lady, help us, having mercy on us: struggling, we are perishing from many sins: do not turn away Thy servants from vanity, for You are the only hope of the Imams.
Let us never be silent, Mother of God, in speaking Your strength to those who are unworthy: if You had not stood before us to pray, who would have delivered us from such troubles? Who would have kept them free until now? We will not retreat, O Lady, from You: for Your servants always save you from all evil ones.
O Most Holy Theotokos, Virgin Lady, the highest Angel and Archangel, and all creatures, the Most Honest, the angelic great surprise, the prophetic high sermon, the apostolic glorious Praise, the saints' fair adornment, the martyrs' strong affirmation, the monks' saving instruction, the fasters' inexhaustible abstinence, the acting with Purity and Glory, the mother's quiet joy, the infants wisdom and admonition, widows and orphans to the Nurse, naked clothing, sick health, deliverance of captives, floating on the sea in silence, overwhelmed by a calm refuge, wandering without difficulty for the Mentor, traveling with an easy passage, toiling in a good rest, in troubles of those present an ambulance to the Intercessor, protection and refuge for the offended, hopeless hope, those in need of help, inexhaustible wealth for the poor, constant consolation for the sad, loving humility for the hated, salvation for sinners and assignment to God, firm protection for the faithful of all, invincible help and intercession!
By You, the Lady, we see the invisible, and we offer a prayer to You, O Lady, the sins of Your servants: O Most Merciful and Most Wonderful of the Light of the intelligent Queen, who gave birth to the King Christ our God, the Life-Giver of all, glorified from heaven and praised from earth: angelic mind, shining star, Most Holy Saints, Queen of Queens, The Lady of all, the God-beautiful Maiden, the undefiled Bride, the Chamber of the Most Holy Spirit, the fiery Throne of the invisible King, the heavenly Icon, the Carryer of the Word of God, the fiery Chariot, the Chamber of the Living God, the ineffable composition of the flesh of Christ: the nest of the heavenly eagle, the God-voiced turtle dove, the meek, quiet and gentle dove, Mother loving children, an abyss of mercy, dispelling the cloud of God’s wrath, immeasurable depth, spoken secretly, an unknown miracle, the miraculous church of the One King of all ages, fragrant censer, honest scarlet, richly woven purple, spiritual paradise, life-giving garden branch, beautiful color, prosperous heavenly joy for us, cluster of our salvation, the cup of the Heavenly King, in which the wine of inexhaustible grace was dissolved from the Holy Spirit, Intercessor of the law, the conception of the true faith of Christ, an unshakable pillar, heretics are destructive, the sword of God's wrath against those who oppose God, intimidation of demons, victory in battle, Christians of all, the true Guardian and peace of all things known salvation!
O All-Merciful Lady, Virgin Lady Theotokos, hear us praying to You, and show Your mercy on Your people: pray to Your Son to deliver us from all evil, and preserve the monastery, and the city and the country of the faithful, and people who piously resort and call on Your holy name, from all adversity, destruction, famine, cowardice, flood, fire, sword, invasion of foreigners and civil strife, from every illness and every situation: may not Thy servants be diminished by wounds, nor rebuke, nor pestilence, nor by any righteous wrath of God: but protect and save by Thy mercy, O Lady, praying for us, and the beneficial air Grant us blessings at the time of the fruitful offering: ease, uplift and have mercy, O Merciful Lady, Mother of God, in every misfortune and need that exists. Remember Thy servants, and do not despise our tears and sighs, and renew us with the goodness of Thy mercy, so that we may be comforted with thanksgiving, having found Thee as a Helper.
Have mercy, O Most Pure Lady, on Thy weak people, our Hope: gather those who are scattered, guide those who have gone astray to the right path, bring back those who have fallen away from the pious faith of their fathers, support old age, bring understanding to the young, raise infants, and send glory to Thee: the Church of the Son is much more Yours will be observed and preserved for a long time. O Most Gracious and Most Merciful Queen of heaven and earth, Ever-Virgin Mother of God! By Your intercession, have mercy on our most pious, autocratic, great sovereign, Emperor Nicholas Alexandrovich of all Russia and the entire reigning house, the chamber and all their army, and all Orthodox Christians, preserving them under the roof of Your mercy, with Your honest protection: and pray from You, who was incarnate without seed, Christ our God, yes He will gird us with strength from above against all our visible and invisible enemies, against foreigners and fellow tribesmen who fight against us and against our Orthodox faith.
Save and have mercy, O Lady, the Most Holy Governing Synod and the Right Reverend metropolitans, archbishops and Orthodox bishops, priests and deacons, and the entire clergy, and all the faithful people who worship and pray before Your honorable icon. Look upon all of us with the gaze of Your merciful intercession, raise us up from the depths of sin, and enlighten the eyes of our hearts to the vision of salvation: be merciful to us here, and at the Last Judgment of Your Son, pray for us: having ceased in piety from this life, Your servants will be in eternal life with the Angels and Archangels and with all the saints come, that at the right hand of Thy Son and God may appear: and through Thy prayer grant all Orthodox Christians to live with Christ and to enjoy the joys of angels in heavenly villages.
For You are, Lady, the glory of heaven and the hope of earthly, You are our hope and Intercessor of all those who come to You and Your holy help asking, You are our warm prayer book for Your Son and our God: Your motherly prayer can do much to implore the Lord, and by Your intercession we approach the throne of grace of the Most Holy and Life-giving Mysteries we dare, even if we are unworthy. Moreover, seeing Your all-honorable image and Your hand holding the Almighty on the icon, we rejoice in our sins, falling down with tenderness, and we kiss this love, expectantly, Lady, with Your holy favorable prayers we will milk the heavenly endless life and shamelessly stand on the Day of Judgment at the right hand of Your Son and our God, as yes We glorify Him, together with the Beginningless Father, and the Most Holy, Good, Life-Giving and Consubstantial Spirit, forever and ever.
My Most Blessed Queen, my Hope to the Mother of God, refuge of the orphaned and strange to the Intercessor, to the grieving Joy, to the offended to the Patroness! See my misfortune, see my sorrow: help me as I am weak, guide me as I am strange. Let me resolve my offense as if it were my will: for I have no other help except You, no other Representative, no Good Comforter, except You, O Mother of God, for preserve me and cover me forever and ever.
At Christmas you preserved your virginity, at your Dormition you did not forsake the world, O Mother of God: you reposed yourself to the belly, Mother of the Being of the Belly, and through your prayers you delivered our souls.
O Most Holy Virgin, Mother of Christ our God, Queen of heaven and earth! Hear the much-painful sighing of our souls, look down from Thy holy height upon us, who with faith and love worship Thy most pure [and miraculous] image. Because we are immersed in sins and overwhelmed by sorrows, looking at Your image, as if You were alive and living with us, we offer our humble prayers. Imams have no other help, no other intercession, no consolation, except You, O Mother of all who mourn and are burdened! Help us the weak, assuage our sorrows, guide us astray on the right path, heal our painful hearts and save the hopeless, grant us the rest of our lives in peace and repentance, grant us a Christian death, and at the Last Judgment of Your Son the merciful Representative will appear to us, may we always sing, magnify and glorify You, as good Intercessor of the Christian race, with all those who pleased God, forever and ever.
To whom shall I cry, Lady? To whom shall I resort in my sorrow, if not to You, Queen of Heaven? Who will accept my cry and sighing if not You, Most Immaculate, the Hope of Christians and Refuge? Who will protect You more in adversity? Hear my groaning, and incline Your ear to me, the Lady Mother of my God, and do not despise me who requires Your help, and do not reject me, a sinner. Enlighten and teach me, O Queen of Heaven: do not depart from me Thy servant, O Lady, for my grumbling, but be my Intercessor Mother. I entrust myself to Your merciful protection: lead me, a sinner, to a quiet and serene life, so that I may weep for my sins. To whom shall I resort when I am guilty, if not to You, the hope and refuge of sinners, I am inspired by the hope of Your ineffable mercy and Your bounty; About the Lady Queen of Heaven! You are my hope and refuge, protection and intercession and help. To my most gracious and speedy Intercessor: cover my sins with Your intercession, protect me from enemies visible and invisible: soften the hearts of evil people who rebel against me. O Mother of the Lord my Creator!
You are the root of virginity and the unfading color of purity. O Mother of God! Give me help to those who are weak with carnal passions and sick at heart, for one thing is Yours and with You the imam of Your Son and our God intercession: and by Your wonderful intercession may I be delivered from all troubles and misfortunes, O Most Immaculate and Glorious Mother of God Mary. Likewise, with hope I say and cry out: Rejoice, O Blessed One: Rejoice, O O Joyful One: Rejoice, O Most Blessed One, the Lord is with Thee.
Kedomo wake up, as in some churches this prayer, or the so-called hymn to the Most Holy Theotokos, is sung in voice 5.
Blessed and speedy Intercessor of the faithful, Most Pure Virgin Mary! We pray to You before Your holy and miraculous image, that just as You bestowed Your intercession on the city of Moscow from ancient times, so now You will mercifully deliver us from all troubles and misfortunes, and save our souls, as You are merciful.
To You, God-chosen Youth, Most Holy Virgin Mother of God, Queen of heaven and earth, we fall down and cry: hear the voice of prayer, and do not turn Your face away from us unworthy. Accept, O All-Blessed One, from Thy unworthy servants, who honor Thy all-honorable name and with faith who worship Thee before Thy miraculous image, our warm prayer offered now: lift it up to the throne of Thy Son, Christ our God, that He may be merciful to our iniquities and may not repay us according to our deeds, but wait for His bounty to be added to us. Because we are not worthy, because of our sin, to receive mercy from Him, if not You, Lady, beseech Him for us: for you can ask Him for everything you can, if you have the boldness towards Him.
For this reason, we come to you, as our all-powerful and all-good Intercessor, earnestly praying: ask from the Only Begotten Son of God, Christ our God, who was born of You, for all of us to remain firmly in the patristic Orthodox faith, until the end of our days, and to walk steadily in all the commandments of the Lord, and to live the rest of our lives in all piety and purity, let us be worthy of a peaceful Christian death and a good answer at the Last Judgment of Your Son and our God, and thus we will achieve, under the roof of Your help, eternal life in the Kingdom of the Father of lights, to Him, together with His Only Begotten Son and the Holy Spirit, befits glory, honor and worship, now and ever and to the ages of ages.
O Most Pure Lady Lady Theotokos! Accept our unworthy prayer, and save us from the slander of evil people and from sudden death, and grant us repentance before the end. Be compassionate to our prayer, and grant joy instead of sorrow. And deliver us, Lady, from all misfortune and adversity, sorrow and illness and from all evil. And we are worthy, Thy sinful servants, at the right hand at the second coming of Thy Son, Christ our God, and heirs of the existence of the Kingdom of Heaven and eternal life with all the saints throughout the endless ages of ages.
Accept, O All-merciful, Most Pure Lady, Lady Theotokos, these honorable gifts from us, unworthy Thy servants, who send up the singing of Thy whole-bearing image with tenderness, as if You yourself are here and listen to our prayers and grant with faith to those who ask for the fulfillment of each request. You ease the sorrows of those who mourn, you grant health to the weak, you heal the weakened and sick and drive away demons from demons, you deliver the offended from insults, you forgive sinners, you cleanse lepers, you are merciful to little children, and you relieve the barren from infertility. Also, O Lady the Lady, you free us from bonds and prisons, and heal all kinds of diverse passions, and heal eye diseases, and deliver us from deadly ulcers: for all things are possible through Your intercession to Your Son, Christ our God. O All-Singing Mother, Most Pure Mother of God!
Do not cease to pray for us, Your unworthy servants, who glorify You and honor and worship Your most pure image, and who have irrevocable hope and unquestionable faith in You, the Most Glorious and Most Immaculate Ever-Virgin, now and ever and unto the ages of ages.
O Wonderful and Most Wonderful Queen Theotokos, Mother of Christ our God! Hear us, sinful and unworthy Thy servants, who fall down at this hour and diligently cry out: deliver us from troubles, Lady, and intercede: do not despise our tears and sighs, and deliver us from all sorrow and misfortune, from evil and cruel slander: are You not the warmest Representative and Intercessor to There are no imams to Thy Son, Christ our God: pray unto Him that He may save for Thy sake our souls, now and ever, and unto ages of ages.
O Most Holy Virgin, Mother of Christ our God, Queen of heaven and earth! Hear the much-painful sighing of our souls, look down from Thy holy height upon us, who with faith and love worship Thy most pure [and miraculous] image. Because we are immersed in sins and overwhelmed by sorrows, looking at Your image, as if You were alive and living with us, we offer our humble prayers. Imams have no other help, no other intercession, no consolation, except You, O Mother of all who mourn and are burdened! Help us the weak, assuage our sorrows, guide us astray on the right path, heal our painful hearts and save the hopeless, grant us the rest of our lives in peace and repentance, grant us a Christian death, and at the Last Judgment of Your Son the merciful Representative will appear to us, may we always sing, magnify and glorify You, as good Intercessor of the Christian race, with all those who pleased God, forever and ever.
O Most Heavenly Queen, Mother of God Mary, Divine Light Receiver, Receptacle of God's Word, prophetic mirror, apostolic sermon, crowned with the martyr's suffering, praise to the saint, bright hymn to the saints and helper, and rejoicing to all the saints, wonderful praise to the universal Church, invincible power to the Orthodox Tsar, the bright crown of the bishop, and of all Orthodox Christianity, Divine protection and helper, deliverance from all evils, resolution of sins, to eternal life, Mentor and before Christ, Intercessor for us! Grant, O Lady of God, Thy indescribable and wondrous miracles of intercession and help to those who venerate, and Thy honorable icons of the Sign, revealed to the last generation for salvation and intercession.
Fill our hungry hearts with heavenly food, and fill us with spiritual joy, and grant humility to our thoughts, plant Thy fear in our hearts, and establish unfeigned love in our souls, and instruct us in every way of the Divine commandments, so that we may walk according to the commandments of Thy Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, to Him be glory, with the Father and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and ever.
From Your holy icon, O Lady Theotokos, salvation and healing are abundantly given to all who come to her with faith and love. So visit my weakness, and have mercy on my soul, O Good One, and heal my body with Your grace, O Most Pure One.
Today the Krasnogorsk monastery is brightly flaunting, and with it the Raifa desert rejoices, like the dawn of the sun, rising from the east, having received, O Lady, your miraculous icon, with which we disperse the abyss of temptations and troubles from those crying out truly: deliver our monastery and the entire Christian country from all the slander of the enemy, and save our souls, as you are merciful Intercessor of the Christian family.
The Orthodox people rejoice when they see the Lady Virgin Mary, Your wonderful and miraculous icon, and always accept spiritual and physical healing by Your mercy. In the same way, we, who worship them, earnestly cry out to You: have mercy, O Good Mother, on Your humble servants, and deliver us from every evil and slander of the enemy, praying to Your Son, the Lord Jesus, that, having been saved here, we may receive heavenly residence through His love for mankind and His grace.
We magnify You, Most Holy Virgin, Mother of Christ our God, and honor Your holy image, from which You exude healing to all who flow to You with faith.
My Most Blessed Queen, my Hope to the Mother of God, refuge of the orphaned and strange to the Representative, to the sorrowing to Joy, to the offended to the Patroness! See my misfortune, see my sorrow: help me as I am weak, guide me as I am strange. Let me resolve my offense as if it were my will: for I have no other help except You, no other Representative, no Good Comforter, except You, O Mother of God, for preserve me and cover me forever and ever.
Prayer before the icon of the Most Holy Theotokos of Lyadan, which is in the Lyadan Annunciation Monastery, Minsk diocese
To whom shall I cry, Lady? To whom shall I resort in my sorrow, if not to You, Queen of Heaven? Who will accept my cry and sighing if not You, Most Immaculate, the Hope of Christians and Refuge? Who will protect You more in adversity? Hear my groaning, and incline Your ear to me, the Lady Mother of my God, and do not despise me who requires Your help, and do not reject me, a sinner. Enlighten and teach me, O Queen of Heaven: do not depart from me Thy servant, O Lady, for my grumbling, but be my Intercessor Mother. I entrust myself to Your merciful protection: lead me, a sinner, to a quiet and serene life, so that I may weep for my sins. To whom shall I resort when I am guilty, if not to You, the hope and refuge of sinners, I am inspired by the hope of Your ineffable mercy and Your bounty; About the Lady Queen of Heaven! You are my hope and refuge, protection and intercession and help. To my most gracious and speedy Intercessor: cover my sins with Your intercession, protect me from enemies visible and invisible: soften the hearts of evil people who rebel against me. O Mother of the Lord my Creator!
You are the root of virginity and the unfading color of purity. O Mother of God! Give me help to those who are weak with carnal passions and sick at heart, for one thing is Yours and with You the imam of Your Son and our God intercession: and by Your wonderful intercession may I be delivered from all troubles and misfortunes, O Most Immaculate and Glorious Mother of God Mary. Likewise, with hope I say and cry out: Rejoice, O Blessed One: Rejoice, O O Joyful One: Rejoice, O Most Blessed One, the Lord is with Thee.
Be aware that in some churches this prayer, or the so-called hymn to the Most Holy Theotokos, is sung in voice 5.
Prayer before the miraculous icon of the Most Holy Theotokos of Podolsk, also in the city of Zhitomir
O All-Merciful God, merciful Mother, Most Blessed Lady, Ever-Virgin Mother of God! Hear our groaning and cry and listen to the voice of our prayer. Extend a helping hand to us through Your almighty intercession, so that we may not perish with our iniquities, but may come to repentance in good time. Weigh our weakness and our sorrow, which comes to us from passions and demons. Deliver us from the attacks of demons and from the slander of evil people: for by You the demons are trampled underfoot, and by You they are put to shame. Fulfill our petitions offered to You for good: no one, who flows to You, leaves in shame. Pray to Thy Son and God that He may be merciful to our iniquities and may He not enter into judgment with His servants, for every living person will not be justified before Him. We know that Your motherly prayer can do a lot for the mercy of the Lord, and everything is possible for You from Him. Heal the wounds of our bodies, defiled by sins, and cleanse our souls, darkened by passions. Direct our minds on the right path and confirm our will to do good deeds and keep the commandments of Your Son, so that His mercy will never depart from us.
Moreover, O All-Blessed Lady, cover, protect and save all the orphans and helpless who fall before Your miraculous image, and all of us this day of autumn with Your all-powerful protection. But in the rest of our lives, do not deprive us of Your mercy and many goodness, and give us everlasting hope without shame in our earthly life and after our repose, and with all silent lips and a pure heart, with the disembodied angelic voices and with all the saints, we glorify, praise, sing and magnify Thee now and ever and unto the ages of ages.
O All-Merciful Virgin Mother of God, Mother of generosity and love for mankind, my most beloved Hope and hope! O Mother of the sweet, most beloved and surpassing all love of the Savior, Jesus Christ, lover of mankind and my God, Light of my darkened soul! I fall to You, a great sinner, and I pray to You, Source of mercy, Virgin Mary, who gave birth to the abyss of mercy and the abyss of generosity and love for mankind: have mercy on me, I cry out to You painfully, have mercy on me, all the wounded, who fell into the cruel robbers, and from the clothes in which I was clothed, Father, woe is me, naked In the same way, my wounds became stale and rotten in the face of my madness. But, my Lady Theotokos, I humbly pray to You, look at me with Your merciful eye, and do not disdain me, all that is darkened, all that is defiled, all that is immersed in the mire of pleasures and passions, the cruelty of the fallen and rise up the weak: have mercy on me, and give me a helping hand, in the hedgehog raise me up from the depths of sin. O my joy!
Deliver me from those who have passed me by: enlighten Thy face upon Thy servant, save the perishing, raise up the fallen; for thou canst do all things, as the Mother of the Almighty God. Pour upon me the oil of Thy mercy, and give me the wine of tenderness: for truly You have the only hope of gain in my life. Do not reject me who flows to You, but see my sorrow, O Virgin, and the desire of my soul, and accept this and save me, Intercessor of my salvation.
From my unclean lips, accept prayer, O Undefiled, Pure and Most Pure Virgin Mary! And do not disdain my words, O my Joy! But look upon me and have mercy on me, O Mother of my Creator! During my life, do not leave me: know, O Lady, for I place all my hope in you, and all my hope is in You. Likewise, at the time of my death, stand before me, my Helper, my joy and consolation: do not leave me then, my Hope, and do not disgrace me then. We know, we know, Virgin, that I am guilty of many sins, the accursed one, and I tremble, thinking about this hour: but, my Joy, show me Thy face, surprise me with Thy mercy, Intercessor of my salvation, take me, O Lady, from the cruelty of demons and the terrible and formidable test of air spirits, and from deliver them from their malice, and turn all the sorrow of that day into joy through Your visit, and grant me the privilege of passing comfortably from the beginnings and powers of darkness and reaching to worship on the throne of glory the seated Christ and our God, with His Originless Father and the Most Holy Spirit, forever and ever.
O my Most Holy Lady Theotokos, most honorable of Angels and Archangels, Cherubim and Seraphim, and most holy of all saints, Virgin Mother of God! Save me, Thy humble and sinful servant: Thou knowest, O All-Merciful Lady, for I place all my hope in God in Thee, and I have no other saving refuge except You, O All-Merciful One. You are my fortress, Lady, You are my strength, You are my joy in sorrows, You are my refuge in temptation, You are my correction in the fall, You are my all-reliable salvation, O Mother of the Creator and my Lord! Help me to him who is floating in the abyss of this life, who is fiercely overwhelmed and in misery from the drowning of sin. Give me a helping hand, my Helper, and deliver me from the darkness of the depths, so that I do not wallow in the abyss of despair: for a storm of sins and passions rises up on me, and the waves of iniquities drown me. But You, Merciful Mother, in the haven of dispassion, guide and save me, the hopeless Hope and Intercessor of my salvation.
Goddess, You are my hope, You are my wall and a reliable refuge and a saving refuge for those tormented by the passions found. Save me from all my enemies who persecute my soul and ensnare it with various temptations. On this path, as I walk unwisely, I have hidden many snares: many temptations, many delights, many mental and physical infirmities draw me into the fall of sin: and what I will do in despair, I am perplexed. Even if I want to repent, I am overcome by insensibility and bitterness: if I am forced to cry, I will not have a single drop of heartfelt contrition and tears. Alas for my wretchedness! alas for my poverty! alas my deprivation! To whom shall I resort when guilty, if not to You, Blessed Mother of our Lord and Savior, unreliable Hope, Wall and Protection flowing to You!
Do not reject me, who is filthy: I have given you joy in my life, Virgin Mary, Mother of God, and to You alone in every need I run with boldness: do not forsake me in this life, and at the time of my death, come to the aid of my Helper, so that all my enemies may see You and be ashamed, defeated by You, Lady, Intercessor of my salvation.
Who can please you, O Most Holy Virgin? What lips can sing Your greatness, which surpasses all meaning? All the glorious sacraments performed by You, Mother of God, are beyond meaning and words. The Cherubim were amazed at the beauty of Your virginity and Your brighter purity and the Seraphim were horrified: neither human nor angelic tongue can utter the miracle of Your birth. From You, the flightless and Only Begotten Son of God, God the Word, was indescribably incarnated, born and lived with man, and You, as Your Mother, greatly magnified, the Queen of all creatures, a haven known to us for salvation. In the same way, all who come under Your roof, overcome by various sorrows and illnesses, receive rich consolation and healing and are saved from troubles by You: For You are truly the Mother of all who mourn and are burdened, the sad joy, the sick Healer, the Guardian of the young, the rod of old age, the praise of the righteous, the hope of salvation for sinners and the Guide to repentance: for all are always through Your intercession You help, and you intercede with faith and love for everyone who comes running to You.
Help me too, desperate for my deeds. O zealous intercessor of the Christian race, intercede for me, so that I do not completely perish in sins, for I have no other refuge and protection than You, the Lady of the Mother of the Life: do not forsake me and do not despise me, but, in the image of Yourself, save me, for You are blessed forever and ever.
I give my life as protection to You, and according to God, I place all the hope of my salvation on You, Lady Virgin Mary. I pray to Thee, Thy servant: do not despise me for having committed many sins, but see my sorrow and bewilderment over this, and grant me weakness and consolation, so that the accursed one may not perish completely. Stretch out the right hand of Troy, O Pure One, take me away from the troubles of my deeds, and place me in the pure pasture of the commandments of Christ, my King and God, so that I always do what I can, and be strengthened by You. Deliver me from my cruel sins, O Lady, and send down saving repentance to Your Son and God through Your maternal intercession. The ineffable light that has arisen, enlighten my spiritual darkness, which came to me from my sins. My joy, deliver me from the invisible enemies who have passed me by: sin for my many and heavy, my enemies are fierce, death is near, my conscience denounces me, fiery Gehenna frightens me, the never-ending worm, the gnashing of teeth, the pitch darkness of Tartarus makes me tremble, for they are waiting for me accept my evil deeds for the sake of them. Alas for me! What will I do then and to whom will I resort, so that my soul will be saved?
To You alone, sweet Mary Theotokos, the sorrow of death delights those who trust in You and delivers those who cry to You from the cruelty of Gehenna. Help me too, O All-Blessed One, who has no other help but You, O All-Singing One. Save me from the horrors of the hour of death, and deliver me from the cruelty of demons: save me from the power of evil spirits in the ordeals of the air: manifest, I pray to Thee, then show me Thy bright face, Lady, and do not leave me helpless. O merciful Mother! Bow down for mercy to me, deprived of mercy from my deeds, and beseech Him who You gave birth to in the flesh of Christ, our Savior and God, who shed Your Most Pure Blood on the Cross for us, so that I may receive forgiveness of sins and eternal salvation, and glorify Your ineffable mercy, Mother of God, and Your merciful intercession to endless ages.
Rejoice, Virgin Mary, refuge and intercession of my poor soul, sweet hope of my salvation. Rejoice, you who bore all the Creator in Your wombs. Rejoice, you who gave birth to God in flesh and the Savior to the world. Rejoice, preserving virginity incorruptibly at Christmas. Rejoice, you who received gifts from the Magi, and who saw their worship from You who was born, and who heard the glorious words of the shepherds about Him, and composed this in Your heart. Rejoice, thou who joyfully found Thy Son and God in the church among the teachers of the law. Rejoice, you who received the cruel diseases of the suffering, crucifixion and death of Your Son, the Most Sweet Jesus, and were brightly rejoiced at His Resurrection for three days. Rejoice, you who saw the Ascension of Your Son and God in heavenly glory with His disciples. Rejoice, you who received the Holy Spirit sent down from Him in the upper room of Zion in the form of fiery tongues descended with the disciples of the Lord. Rejoice, you who lived as an angel on earth. Rejoice, having surpassed all the ranks of angels and all the holy faces in purity and holiness.
Rejoice, exalted by the coming to You of Your Son and God at Your Dormition. Rejoice, Thou who joyfully betrayed Thy soul into His holy hands. Rejoice, Gloriously Exalted by Your ascension into heaven with your body. Rejoice, after Your repose you appeared as an apostle of God on the third day. Rejoice, in heaven from the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, crowned with the diadem of the Eternal Kingdom. Rejoice, ever-sung by all the heavenly powers. Rejoice, sitting near the throne of the Most Holy Trinity on the throne of glory. Rejoice, O culprit of reconciliation between God and man. Rejoice, ruler of heaven and earth. Rejoice, for it is impossible for anything to eat Your intercession. Rejoice, for all who faithfully flow to You are saved. Rejoice, for through You the afflicted receive consolation, the sick receive healing, and the needy receive timely help. Rejoice, I pray to You, O joyful Lady, take away the sorrow of sin in me too, and give me the joy of salvation, give me comforting tears, everlasting tenderness, true repentance and perfect correction.
Do not disdain me, Lady, but graciously accept these joyful voices brought by me to the poor, and come to help me during my helplessness in that terrible hour, when my soul is separated from my damned body: then, I pray, come to my aid and deliver me, guilty of eternal punishment, yes I will not be a demon of joy, nor food of hell fire. She, my Lady, do not allow my soul to see the terrible and formidable reproach and demonic torture prepared for the sinner, but foresee and save me Your servant in that terrible hour, so that I may glorify You forever, my only Hope and Intercessor of my salvation.
To you, as the intercessor and guardian of my life, the accursed tongue falls, I pray: grant me through your prayers, a daily stay pleasing to God and unskillfully to pass away from evil deeds and thoughts. Open my ears, so that I may hear and understand the deeds and words of God that are beneficial to my soul, and may see through my inner eyes, possessed by the darkness of sin. Pray for me, who sins all the time, so that the sword of the wrath of the Lord does not girdle me: for my iniquity has exceeded my head, and like a heavy burden has weighed down on me. But You, my Lord, Lord, look upon me and have mercy on me, and bring my soul out of the prison of sin, before I even leave here and come to Your terrible judgment. Receive Your holy Angels who pray for us, who always stand around Your throne with fear, and with those prayers, more than Your Most Pure Mother, deliver me from Your terrible and terrible Judgment: For You are the Lamb of God, take away the sins of the whole world, crucified on our Cross for the sake of salvation.
Heed my prayer, and send the guardian angel of my soul and body, so that I may instruct that I will get rid of all enemies, visible and invisible, and be honored to receive Your mercy with all those who have pleased You from all eternity: for You are our God, and I resort to You, and I trust in You: even though I have warmed more than man, I have not departed from You, nor have I lifted up my hand to another to God. I pray to You, Lord Jesus Christ, I bless You, and I worship You from the One Trinity, with the Father and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
[From the book Akathists with canons]
O holy servant of God's name! Having fought a good fight on earth, you have received in heaven the crown of righteousness, which the Lord has prepared for all who love Him. In the same way, looking at your holy image, we rejoice at the glorious end of your life and honor your holy memory. You, standing before the throne of God, accept our prayers and bring them to the All-Merciful God, to forgive us every sin and help us to stand against the wiles of the devil, so that, having been delivered from sorrows, illnesses, troubles and misfortunes and all evil, we will live piously and righteously in the present world and be worthy of your intercession, even if we are unworthy We see good things on the land of the living, glorifying the One in His saints, glorifying God, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
O most honorable and sacred head and filled with the grace of the Holy Spirit, Savior’s abode with the Father, great bishop, our warm intercessor, named after the saint!
Standing at the throne of all the King and enjoying the light of the Consubstantial Trinity and cherubically with the Angels proclaiming the trisagion hymn, having great and unexplored boldness towards the All-Merciful Master, pray that the flock of Christ people will be saved, helping the most pious in battles, Our most autocratic, great Sovereign, Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich of all Russia, and subdue all the hostile enemies under his nose, arrange for him to reign peacefully and serenely: establish the well-being of the holy churches: the bishops adorn the splendor of holiness: the monastics to the feat of the good current strengthen: preserve the reigning city and all cities and countries well, and keep the holy, immaculate faith, begging: the whole world has died through your intercession, delivered us from famine and destruction, and preserved us from the attacks of foreigners, old comforts, instruct young people, wise wise men, have mercy on widows, orphans interceded, infants grew up, returned captives, healed the sick, and everywhere warmly calling you and flowing to you with faith and diligently falling and praying to you from all misfortunes and troubles through your intercession for freedom.
Pray for us to the all-generous and philanthropic Christ our God, so that on the day of His terrible coming He will deliver us from this evil state, and He will create the joys of the saints as partakers with all the saints forever and ever.
O sacred head, reverend father, most blessed abbot of the name! Do not forget your poor to the end, but always remember us in your holy and auspicious prayers to God. Remember your flock, which you yourself have shepherded, and do not forget to visit your children. Pray for us, holy father, for your spiritual children, as you have boldness towards the Heavenly King: do not keep silent to the Lord for us, and do not despise us, who honor you with faith and love. Remember us unworthy at the throne of the Almighty, and do not cease praying for us to Christ God: for grace has been given to you to pray for us. We do not imagine that you are dead: even though you passed away from us in body, you remain alive even after death. Do not give up on us in spirit, keeping us from the arrows of the enemy and all the charms of the demonic and the wiles of the devil, our good shepherd. Even though your relics are always visible before our eyes, your holy soul with the angelic armies, with the disembodied faces, with the heavenly powers, stands at the throne of the Almighty, worthy of rejoicing.
Knowing that you are truly alive even after death, we bow down to you and we pray to you: pray for us to the Almighty God, for the benefit of our souls, and ask us time for repentance, so that we may pass from earth to heaven without restraint, from bitter ordeals, demons of air princes and from eternal torment, and from Heavenly Let us be the heirs of the kingdom with all the righteous, who from time immemorial have pleased our Lord Jesus Christ: to whom is due all glory, honor and worship, with His Beginning Father, and with His Most Holy and Good and Life-Giving Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
O all-holy servant of Christ, John the Blessed, earthly angel and heavenly man! From your youth you hated the vain world, and you bore the yoke of Christ with diligence, fulfilled His commandments perfectly, and through your many labors you sat on the magnificent throne of God’s glory. Therefore, as you stand before us, pray to the Most Holy Trinity to give peace and health to our blessed emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich and victory to our enemies, and deliver our city of Rostov and all cities and countries and all Orthodox Christians from mental and physical troubles. And just as miracles are constantly being performed in your honest race, so do not leave us in the future, for we always call you: Hail, all-blessed John, our speedy helper, and accept from us the prayers brought to you, ask Christ God to find us great mercy.
O all-blessed John, wonderworker, man of God and faithful servant of the Lord! You are a righteous man, like a flourishing phoenix, planted in the courts of your Lord, ever showering miracles with the manifold grace of God. The city of Rostov, where you ended your hard-working life, is praised in all countries by your miracle-working. O all-honorable head, servant of God, all-blessed John, wondrous miracle worker, our quick helper! We send you and magnify you as the hope of all Christians, the source of miracles, the protector of the faithful, a free physician to the sick, a nourisher and intercessor for widows and orphans, a guardian of chastity and a quick intercessor and helper for all who are in sorrow. Hear us praying to you and running under your roof, show us your many mercy, and intercede for us from the Almighty with your God-pleasing prayers everything useful for the salvation of our souls and bodies: save our city of Rostov and all Christian cities and countries and the people living in them from all bitterness with your help.
In the same way, with faith and love, we honor your holy memory and persistently your most honorable race ahead, even if we are sinners, with tenderness and warm tears we dare to sing to you: Rejoice, for from the youth of the All-Holy Trinity you were a pure abode and you worked diligently throughout your entire life: Rejoice, for with faith in all to those who came, you poured out the river of your miracles in abundance: Rejoice, quick helper to our blessed emperor against his enemies: Rejoice, prayer service for all Christians warm to God: Rejoice, praise and affirmation for our city of Rostov: and just as now, so at our death, ask Christ God to grant us great mercy.
You appeared in the city as in the desert, in humility and purity, and in toil and struggle, and in patience, blessed Father John: we took the Cross of Christ, followed Him, and in prayers and psalmody, you remained day and night, for the salvation of the whole world and the race of Christians. verb. Now, after your resettlement to the Never-Evening Light, flowing to your tomb, the faithful pray to the Lord, the Mother of God and the Forerunner, and receive healing from the Lord through your prayers. Always pray for us, Blessed John, that our souls may be saved.
O Saint Joasaph of Christ, wonderworker of Belograd! We believe in sins and unworthiness, as the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous and their ears are on their prayer, and for this sake we resort to your prayers and ask your intercession for us, according to the apostolic verb, with hope that your love will no longer fall away. In our sins and illnesses we have become like smoking flax and a broken reed, and while we live, we live by the grace of God and through the prayers of His righteous One. So you, righteous father, incline your heart to our prayer, and through your intercession give peace and blessing to the Christian family from the Lord. Strengthen Orthodoxy, and drive away the attacks of the evil and lawless on the Church of God. Pray to the Heavenly Father to deliver us from the enemy invasion, from civil strife and national turmoil, from destructive epidemics and deadly plagues, from famine, fire, flood and other troubles and circumstances. Ask Christ God for strength for our souls and the health we need for our bodies, and healing for sickness: walking for the lame, sight for the blind, strengthening for the weakened, consolation for the sad, and deliverance from all sorrows.
But unite the fallen vines of Christ again with that which you yourself were deemed worthy to be a partaker of, so that by you the most honorable and magnificent name of our God, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, may be glorified, now and ever and unto the ages of ages.
O great servant of God and glorious miracle worker, Saint Joasaph! From distant and near cities and villages, having come together to pray in the place of your deeds and kiss your many-healing relics, from the depths of our hearts we cry to you: with a rod of goodness, like a good shepherd, protect the lost sheep of the flock of Christ, into these courts of the Lord, protect us from temptation, heresies and schisms, teach those who live in the mountains to be wise in their journeys: enlighten our scattered minds and direct them to the path of truth, warm our cold hearts with love for our neighbor and zeal for fulfilling the commandments of God, revive our weakened will by sin and negligence with the grace of the All-Holy Spirit: and following your pastoral voice, let us keep it pure and the truth of our souls, and thus, helping God, we will achieve the Kingdom of Heaven, where together with you we will glorify the most honorable and magnificent name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit forever and ever.
O our great saint and wonderful wonder-worker Joasapha, quick helper to those who fall to you! Mercifully look upon us, unworthy, who pray here with tears of tenderness and bring thanks to you according to our strength. We thank you, servant of Christ, for you heard the prayer of us unworthy and granted us our asking in abundance. We confess with our minds and lips that truly you are a warm prayer book for us and, according to the grace and gift given by you, you grant the salvation we all need: you heal the sick, comfort the sick, pour out peace and joy to sorrowful hearts, make those who cry rejoice, make the sad rejoice: make a parent You congratulate your children, raise your companions from the deathbed, pacify the warring, show mercy to the envious, and punish all kinds of untruths, just as you were a courageous zealot in your life of truth and mercy.
We thank you, saint, for your great blessings shown to us, and we humbly pray to you, we are unworthy: intercede for us at the throne of Christ, and help us to preserve the everlasting memory of your blessings and generosity poured out on us, so that in humility of heart we will complete our life, and may we inherit the heavenly settlement of the Divine, through your prayers, forever centuries.
O great servant of Christ, our holy father Joasaph, quick helper and wondrous miracle worker! Look mercifully upon us who are ill. We, saints of Christ, we confess with our lips and hearts that through our deeds misfortune has befallen us. With the prudent thief we confess to the Lord that we accept that which is worthy in our deeds, and that we tolerate this evil like a servant. With these temporary torments, the merciful Lord crushes our pride and stiff-necked heart, so that we will avoid the eternal punishment prepared for the sinner: for we sow the seeds of a self-willed life, and we reap the thorns of sorrows. Both beings are weak, but having come to warm repentance, we dare to pray for this, so that the wrath of the Lord may be transferred to mercy, and we earnestly ask you, the saint of God and the miracle worker: pour out your warm prayer to Christ our Lord, stand before Him today and pray for those who honor you with love and humility on yours intercession by hope. Behold, in your life, O saint of Christ, you have not even scorned a single person who has grieved or asked for your mercy, or confessed your sins.
Pray to the righteous Judge, that he may turn the wrath of His righteousness into our mercy. By His grace given to you, O merciful saint, heal our infirmities, set us free from severe illnesses, put away death, and grant us strength to repent. Support old age, educate infants, keep youth chaste, establish marriages in purity and humility, grant us all hardworking obedience and a peaceful life through your prayer, so that we may persevere through the feat of this temporary life set before us, looking to the Author of the faith and Perfecter of the Lord Jesus, to Him be glory forever and ever.
On this great and festive day, the day of your glorification on earth, to our holy father Joasaph, glory and great joy to our land, accept this humble and warm prayer of ours. Today we see the fulfillment of the word of the Lord: I will glorify those who glorify Me. Behold, during the days of your earthly life, you sought nothing but to fulfill the will of God and guide the children of your flock for salvation, and for this reason you endured much labor, sorrow, illness and travel. After your death, the merciful Lord glorified you, bestowing incorruptibility and healing powers on your body: you also poured out currents of healing to those who prayed, and you appeared many times to those who called you to the sick and grieving, giving consolation and quick healing. For this reason, as the chosen one of Divine grace leading you, the Church of Christ today has been vouchsafed to glorify you as the new wonderworker of our land.
Bless and have mercy, the bishop of the True God, our most pious Sovereign, Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich: his wife, the most pious Empress Empress Alexandra Feodorovna: his mother, the most pious Empress Empress Maria Feodorovna: his heir, the blessed sovereign Tsarevich and Grand Duke Alexy Nikolaevich, and the entire reigning house. Grant us consolation of heart, consolation and peace and everlasting joy in the Lord. In the days of their lives, preserve the Russian power in peace, strengthen the Tsar’s servants in the truth, grant unshakable courage to the warriors, and preserve all people without sorrow. Eliminate all sedition, and destroy the advice of seditious people, especially bring those same ones to repentance. Give wisdom, purity and righteous living to the shepherds and bishops, just as you yourself were adorned with these. Give good upbringing to infants, teach young ones, and grant health to the sick and grieving. Give patience and hope to those who labor, give humility to the rich and grant mercy to your neighbors.
Grant us all everlasting joy in the Lord, and let us all please you with gratitude, saying this: We magnify you, O holy Father Joasaph, and we honor your holy memory, for you pray for us to Christ our God.
To the beloved Saint of Christ God, the rule of faith and the image of mercy were the people, but through vigil, fasting and prayer you shone like a bright lamp, and you appeared glorified by God: resting in incorruptibility in body, standing before the throne of God in spirit, you flowed with glorious miracles. Pray to Christ God that he may establish our fatherland in Orthodoxy and piety and save our souls.
An excellent prayer book from childhood, chosen by God to the saint of Christ Joasapha, you show the rule of faith and the image of mercy to everyone through a pious life, and with faith you abundantly exude healing to those who flow to you. Pray to Christ God to establish orthodoxy, peace and piety in the Russian state and save our souls.
O wonderful passion-bearer and great servant of Christ, our Father Athanasius! With tenderness we now bend the knees of our hearts and cry to you: bring our prayer to the Merciful and Almighty God, and ask us from His goodness for everything that is for the benefit of our souls and bodies, right faith, undoubted hope, unfeigned love, courage in temptation, patience in evil, success in piety, so that we may not turn the gifts of the All-Good into evil. God, but for the glory of His holy name and for the glorification of your intercession for us. Preserve the holy Church from schisms and heresies, strengthen the faithful, convert those who have gone astray to the path of the right faith: save your fatherland from the enemy and protect it from the weapons of the crusader army. Ask, O saint of Christ, from the King of kings and the Lord of lords, grace and strength and a heavenly blessing to our faithful emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich: grant him health and longevity, victory and victory against his enemies, and his peace and well-being for the whole God-protected kingdom.
Do not forget, miracle-working saint, this holy monastery: preserve and protect with your prayers from all evil. To her, Holiness of God, remember all those who flow to your sacred race, and grant them a good end and inherit the Kingdom of Heaven, so that we glorify the wondrous God in our saints, worshiped in three hypostases, to Him belongs all glory, honor and power forever and ever.
O holy and all-praised, long-suffering and blessed reverend and God-bearing Father Macarius, all-bright lamp, burn and shine the Holy Spirit with radiance, and enlighten all with zeal that flows to you, holy faith is an indestructible treasure, hope is an undoubted wealth, an inexhaustible abyss of love, an immaculate mirror of purity, fasters toiling in the fortress, steadfast devotees of heroism an adornment, a sweet-sung preacher of wisdom, a wise teacher of humility, honest instruction for monks, excellent fertilizer for all the faithful, who call on you in troubles and sorrows, a quick helper and a warm representative for those in need! Hear me praying to you today and with faith and love for your multi-healing and many-wonderful relics.
Show me, the accursed, your ineffable mercy: give glory to the name of God and do not forsake me, a sinner, who trusts in you: we know, we know, man of God, how much the prayer of the righteous can do for good, and what verbal and rational creature cannot confess you, splendidly, holyly and immaculately and righteously among the human race who lived on earth and was glorified in heaven? You, while still in the flesh, did not give sleep to your eyes, nor slumber to your every side, until you saw the unflickering light of the Ever-Essential and Indivisible Trinity. Moreover, your knees were exhausted from fasting, and your flesh was changed for the sake of oil, so that the acceptable and acceptable sacrifice of the Lord would appear. O unspeakable kindness, bright exponent of vigor, holy Macarius!
Raise your eyes now to the Almighty God who is able to save us, and beg Him to turn away His righteous wrath, which is moving against us for our iniquities, and to deliver this church, and every church and city, villages and every country, and His people, from famine, destruction, cowardice, flood, fire, sword, invasion of foreigners and civil strife, Moreover, may He raise us up to do His commandments, and may He not give us up to perish through our iniquities. To her, we pray to you, God-bearing Father Macarius, heal the infirmities of those who require your help, and be for us in this multi-rebellious life a wall and a visor, a strength and affirmation, protection and intercession, and grant us all the days of our lives to live in reverence and truth and in all piety and purity.
Grant us with holy prayers and petitions for salvation, and fulfill our desires for the good: moreover, in the separation of the soul from this corruptible and mortal body, appear to help us quickly, begging for us the impartial, formidable and terrible judge Christ our God, may he deliver us from airy ordeals and eternal languor, and unite us to the saint in the highest to our village, as we live there together with you, let us be worthy to glorify and sing with one heart the most honorable and great name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit to the endless ages of ages.
God, the One who is rich in mercy and inexhaustible in his bounty is Pucino! We sinned before Your Majesty, the lawless, the dishonest, following our evil thoughts, we walked: we neglected Your saving commandments, and reproached Your Beloved: we all turned away together, and all the indecency happened. By the same token, Thy generosity and Thy love for mankind and the wombs of the mercy of our God are for our malice, with those who have died, and we, as if we are not worthy of pardon. But also, Lord, have mercy on us, look upon our weakness, cover the abyss of our evils with the immeasurable breadth of Thy mercy: grant us, O Master, that from now on we may turn to You, instruct us in Thy truth, and correct our hearts to do Thy commandments, through the prayers of the Venerable Martyr Macarius, and for his prayers, make us heirs of the Kingdom Yours forever and ever.
O all-validated, blessed, long-suffering, most graceful, wonderful wonderworker, Venerable Martyr Macarius, our quick helper and warm intercessor, valiant sufferer of the spiritual army of Christ, victorious over all the enemies of the soul! To you, as a true source of miracles, we sinners fall, earnestly pray: help, O servant of God, us sinners and sad people in this present life: beg the Lord God to grant us forgiveness of our sins, as much as we have sinned from our youth throughout our life, in deed, in word, in thought and with all our feelings: and in the outcome of our souls, help us the accursed, beg the Lord God, creator of all creation, deliver us from airy ordeals and eternal torment, so that we always glorify the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, and your merciful intercession, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
O blessed Father Serapion, citizen of Heavenly Jerusalem! Today you stand before the throne of the Unapproachable Light, and there, as if in a mirror, you see all our needs and sorrows. Do not retreat from us in spirit, keeping us from the arrows of the enemy and all the charms of the demonic and the snares of the devil, our good shepherd. Look upon us mercifully, and lead us to the earth's adherents to the heights of heaven: ask through your intercession from our All-Merciful God the peace of His Church, under the sign of the Militant Cross, harmony in faith and unity of wisdom, destruction of vanity and schism, affirmation in good deeds, healing for the sick, consolation for the sad, intercession for the offended, help for the needy and from troubles liberation, and for all sinners, aversion and salvation from their sins. Do not disgrace us, who flow to you with faith: accept our prayers and lift them up before the face of the Lord, so that we may receive your grace and timely help in our needs: strengthen our youth and confirm us in the faith, so that all good things from the mercy of the Master may be worthy of our acceptance through your prayers.
Let us also hasten to bear the yoke of Christ with complacency and patience and spiritual joy, and teach us to pray evermore, that we may be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, to whom you joyfully stand before through your labors and struggles, glorifying with all the saints in the Trinity the glorified Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit forever and ever.
O bound head, our strong prayer book and intercessor, Saint Theodosius! Hear us, calling you with faith and diligently falling before the race of your honest and multi-healing relics [or to your holy icon]. Remember us at the throne of the Almighty and do not stop praying for us to Christ God: for you have been given the grace to pray for us. Through your intercession, ask our All-Merciful God for the peace of His Church, its shepherd, for the strength to zealously strive for the salvation of people, and for our most pious sovereign, Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich, prosperity in the establishment of his kingdom, and for the entire reigning house, God’s mercy and longevity.
Beg the Heavenly Father and give us all the gift that everyone needs, true faith, firm hope and unfailing love, the establishment of our cities, peace, deliverance from famine and destruction, preservation from the invasion of foreigners, growth in faith for the young and infant, comfort and reinforcement for the old and weak, healing for the sick, orphans and widows mercy and intercession, correction for the erring, timely help for the needy, and rule everyone in peace and repentance, unashamedly end your life and be heirs of the Kingdom of Heaven, where you now reside with the Angels and all the saints, glorifying God in the Glorified Trinity, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, forever and ever.
Good shepherd of the flock of Christ, our holy father Theodosius! Falling before your holy and multi-healing relics [or: to your holy icon], we pray to you with faith and love: be our helper and protector in this much-sorrowful and much-rebellious earthly life, guiding us invisibly to the faithful fulfillment of the commandments of Christ and the acquisition of the gospel virtues necessary for our spiritual salvation. Be the intercessor and guardian of our Fatherland, the Orthodox Russian kingdom, and our most pious, autocratic, great sovereign, Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich, and his entire reigning house, preserving and observing them from enemies visible and invisible. Be the representative of your city, in which you have deigned to revere your holy relics, and to all of us who diligently flock to you and call on you for help, protecting us with the cover of your prayers from all troubles and sorrows and illnesses and granting us everything for the benefit of our souls and bodies. Hey, holy and merciful miracle worker!
We believe without a doubt that we can ask all this from our great-gifted God and that your intercession before Him is powerful. For this reason, we ask you: implore His goodness for us, sinners and unworthy, and grant us your holy archpastoral blessing, so that we may live a quiet and God-pleasing life, receive a good Christian death, and together with you we will inherit the Kingdom of Heaven, glorifying the great mercy of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, in To the Trinity we glorify and worship God, and your holy intercession, forever and ever.
Consecrated to the rank of bishop, Saint Theodosius, you were the luminary of your flock, and you also reposed in the eternal abode. Beg from the throne of the King of Glory to deliver us from the evils that befall us and to save our souls, holy one, through your prayers.
O great zealot and teacher of the Orthodox faith, holy and wise Joasapha! Accept the prayer brought to you from us sinners, with warm intercession beseech the glorified God in the Trinity, that He may bestow His rich mercy on us sinners: may He establish the right faith and piety in His holy Orthodox Church: may He give His shepherd holy zeal for the salvation of the verbal flock, so that the believers will observe, non-believers and those who have fallen away from the true faith will come to their senses and convert: may our most pious, autocratic, great sovereign, Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich, give courage and wisdom, and grant victory and victory to his enemies. We all also asked for everything useful in this temporary life and useful for our eternal salvation.
Remember your flock, which you have gathered, do not forget to visit your children and, like a child-loving father, do not despise and reject our prayers, but hold back your hands in prayer to the Lord God, that He may put aside His righteous anger, which is moving against us, and deliver us from enemies visible and invisible, from famine, flood, swords, deadly plagues, foreign invasions and internecine warfare. Hey, our most merciful intercessor, glorious miracle worker! Guide us all in peace and repentance to end our lives and settle with hope in the blessed bosom of Abraham, where the all-sung name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit is glorified, forever and ever.
O most blessed and ever-glorious Father Joasapha! Leading by your great boldness towards God and resorting to your firm intercession, in contrition of heart we pray to you: illuminate us with the light of the grace given to you, and with your prayers help us to calmly pass through the stormy sea of this life and safely reach the haven of salvation. Behold, beings who are enslaved by vain things, sin-loving and infirmities arise from the evils that have befallen us, to whom shall we resort, if not to you, who has shown the inexhaustible wealth of mercy in your earthly life? We believe that even after your departure you acquired a great gift to show mercy for the needy.
Likewise, now falling to the whole-bearing tomb, we tenderly ask you, holy saint of God: having been tempted, help us also who are tempted: by fasting and vigil, trample down the demonic power, and protect us from the attacks of the enemy: those who are perishing with hunger, and ask us from the Lord for an abundance of the fruits of the earth and everything for salvation necessary: disgracing heretical wisdom, protect the Holy Church from heresies and schisms and confusion with your prayers, so that we all may be wise, with one heart glorifying the Holy, Consubstantial, Life-giving and Indivisible Trinity, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, forever and ever.
Like the fertilization of the fasters and the fathers, the beauty, the giver of mercy, the wisdom of the lamp, all the faithful who have come together, let us praise the meekness of the teacher and the shamer of heresies, the wise Joseph, the Russian star, praying to the Lord to have mercy on our souls.
O holy servant of Christ, faithful Prince Joasaph! You, having loved God and Christ from your youth, have rejected all the enticing carnal wisdom, nobility, wealth, honor and glory of princes, counting them for nothing, and despising all the beauties of this world as if they were vanity, you have clung to the One God with all your soul, and have taken the good yoke of Christ upon you, unswervingly along the path of salvation You walked as a disciple and became a disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ. For this reason, the Great Rewarder, having seen the exploits of your labors, in your youth will accept you into His Heavenly village, and crown your honorable head with a crown of glory and incorruption, where now you are filled with ineffable glory and joy, triumphant from the faces of the saints in the unevening days of the Kingdom of Christ.
In the same way, we pray to you, holy of God, and with undoubted faith in your incorruptible relics, we fall and humbly ask: as if you have boldness towards the Holy Trinity, pray for us sinful and indecent servants, and ask us through your prayers for remission of sins, correction of our life, healing from illnesses and all sorts of ailments, from slander and deliverance from the wiles of the devil, and above all, grant salvation to our souls, and grant the heavenly blessings of perception, through the grace and love for mankind, of the Most Holy Life-Giving Trinity, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, forever and ever.
Planted by the waters of abstinence, let us water with streams of your tears, like a summer plant??? life-giving in Vertograd, the Church of God has flourished, blessed Joasapha, increasing the fruits of virtues and nourishing the souls of believers: in the same way, Christ has enthroned you in the heavenly lands. But remember us, who honor your holy memory with love, most faithful, and pray to the Most Holy Trinity for the salvation of our souls.
O our great fathers, saints of Christ and warm representatives to the Savior for our souls, Sergius and Herman! You have appeared as healers in ill health, as helmsmen on the sea, and as safe deliverance for those who are drowning, and as guardians from every deadly invasion, and, moreover, as liberation from unclean spirits and all kinds of slander against us, purification and help. Pray therefore to the Lord Christ for us sinners, that through your prayers we may be worthy on the Day of Judgment to stand and enjoy in the Kingdom of God forever and ever.
O venerable, God-bearing, blessed fathers Sergius and Herman, spectators of the glory of God in the Kingdom of Heaven! Do not despise us sinners in our needs and sorrows, but hasten to help those who come running to you: accept sighs and tears, and heed our humble prayer. Before the Heavenly King, for His blessedness, pray to His goodness to be generous with the place of your settlement and to send an abundance of earthly blessings to every city and country: to our most pious, most autocratic, great sovereign, Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich, to grant victory and victory to his enemies and to preserve his power in peace and silence: but we all are in faith and virtues to affirm, to deliver ever from sinful lusts and from the attacks of visible and invisible enemies: to protect the offended, to heal the sick, to free from the torment of evil spirits, to save those floating on the sea, to help travelers travel, and to assist every faithful in their needs: for of Him all are creation, and of Him is the Kingdom and the power and glory forever and ever.
O venerable and God-bearing fathers Sergius and Herman, earthly Angels and heavenly men, warm prayer books and intercessors for unceasing peace, praise to Balaam and always ready refuge and intercession to all the faithful! With faith and love, falling to the race of your honorable relics, we tenderly pray to you: do not forget your children, who from the rumors of everyday life were gathered together in this desert: do not retreat from us in any way, but by your vigilant intercession protect us from the evil machinations of the enemy: quench the rebellion of passions: strengthen our weakness in spiritual the battles and struggles that are set before us: take away all despondency and sinful sorrow from our hearts, and send down heavenly consolation to us in our labors and sorrows. Save, O Reverend, your holy monastery from all poverty, from fire and sword, from deadly plagues and from every situation.
Pray, blessed ones, we earnestly pray to you, for our blessed emperor, for the entire reigning house, for the Christ-loving army and for the entire Russian state: may the Lord preserve them in peace, health, in all good prosperity: may he grant us victory at the gates and strengthen us in all virtues. Remember in your prayers, saints of God, this surrounding country of Karelian, which has been enlightened by the light of Christ: may the Orthodox faith be established in it, and may all those who rise up against this small flock and strive to tear away the saints from the Church in vain. Hear, our merciful fathers, and every person who comes to you with faith and demands your gracious help: be an intercessor for the orphaned and the offended, a consolation for the grieving, a healer for the sick, a strengthener for the weary, guardians for those on the way, stewards for those floating in the sea, and a calm haven.
In the terrible hour of death, appear to all of us, as the blazing intercessors and dark eyes of demons boldly drive away: so that in peace and repentance, having ended our earthly career, we will achieve eternal blessings of pleasure, and together with you we will sing and glorify the all-holy name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and ever forever and ever.
The Gospel of Christ has appeared to the true novices, O Reverend, the world and all that is in it? As if she had not surpassed love for the sake of Christ, she settled in the sea island, and worked hard in it against the machinations of invisible enemies, but by fasting, vigil and all-night standing of her flesh, she wisely obeyed her nature to her spirit: for this reason, from the almighty right hand, worthy crowns were received by nature. And now to the Most Holy Trinity, pray, blessed Fathers Sergius and Herman, that our Christ-named Emperor may be preserved in peace, and that our souls may be saved.
Fleeing from worldly rumors, silence and piety, the zealots came to the quiet refuge of Valaam from the East, and in it, following the evangelical virtues of Christ, they ascended to the height of perfection of nature: and now, in the triumph of the worldly vision, enjoying the sight of God, the blessed Fathers Sergius and German, the lover of God pray to save all of us who honor you piously.
O holy and righteous Simeon, with your pure soul reside in the heavenly abodes in the presence of the saints, and rest incorruptible on the earth with your body! According to this grace from the Lord, pray for us, mercifully look upon us, many sinners, even if we are unworthy, but with faith and hope in your holy and healing power, and ask us from God for forgiveness of our sins, we fall into misery in multitude all the days of our life. And just as before, you have granted healing to those who were close to death from severe illnesses, and to others you have bestowed many other glorious blessings: deliver us also from mental and physical ailments and from all sorrow and sorrow, and Ask for all that is good for our present life and for eternal salvation that is beneficial to us from the Lord, so that by your intercession and prayers we have acquired everything that is useful to us, even if we are unworthy, gratefully praising you, let us glorify God, wondrous in His saints, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto the ages of ages.
Today the glorious country of Siberia rejoices, having found your holy relics within itself. The bishops, priests, governors and the whole host of people, spiritually rejoicing, cry out to you: O god-wise Simeon, deliver us, who come running to you, from all troubles, asking everyone to submit to each request and deliver this country and the city from the fiery incineration and the filthy invasion and internecine warfare and from all evil. Now, more than the honorable and multi-healing relics, the offering of the relics, the new healer, we all cry out: glory to Him who through you has given healing to everyone.
Fleeing worldly rebellion, you turned all your desire to God, so that in a vision of the sunrise you found grief, and so, without deviating into the wickedness of your heart, but having cleansed your soul and body, you received the grace to sharpen the healing of the faithful and the unfaithful, flowing to the race of your relics, Simeon the righteous. Moreover, according to the gift given to you, ask Christ God for healing for us who are sick with spiritual passions, and pray to save our souls.
O great passion-bearer of Christ and wonder-worker, Great Martyr Nikito! Falling before your holy and miraculous image, glorifying your deeds and miracles and your many compassion for people, we diligently pray to you: show us your holy and powerful intercession to the humble and sinful. Behold, it is a sin for our sake, not the imams of the freedom of the children of God, who boldly ask our Lord and Master for our needs: but we offer you a favorable prayer book to Him and we cry for your intercession: ask us from the Lord for the beneficial gifts for our souls and bodies: right faith, undoubted hope, unfeigned love for everyone, courage in temptation, patience in suffering, constancy in prayer, health of soul and body, fruitfulness of the earth, goodness of the air, contentment of everyday needs, peaceful and pious life on earth, Christian death and a good answer at the Last Judgment of Christ.
Also, O passion-bearer of Christ, from the Heavenly King ask our most pious king for peace, health and salvation, and for victory and victory against enemies, and for the whole God-protected kingdom for its well-being, silence and prosperity. Be a companion and helper to his Christ-loving army against their enemies, and show your holy intercession to all Orthodox people: heal the sick, comfort the afflicted, help the needy. To her, God's servant and long-suffering martyr! Do not forget your holy monastery and all the nuns and worldly people living in it and striving, but hasten to them in humility and patience to bear the yoke of Christ, and graciously deliver them from all troubles and temptations. Bring us all into a quiet refuge of salvation, and grant us heirs to be the Most Blessed Kingdom of Christ through your holy prayers: let us glorify and sing the great generosity of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, in the Trinity glorified and worshiped God, and your holy intercession, forever and ever.
O great luminary, illuminating the ends of the whole world, more passion-bearing than Christ’s Nikito! Today, movingly approaching your icon and kissing this icon, we earnestly pray to you: ask us from Christ our God for forgiveness of sins, correction of life, and all that is good for temporal and eternal life. O most honorable and glorious passion-bearer of Christ! Do not despise our prayer and do not leave us running to you, but look mercifully at us and at our earthly vale: remember us who wander and come, and with the power given to you by God, guide us to the Heavenly Fatherland: strengthen our weakness, protect us from the fall of sin, kindle in us holy love for the Lord, and zeal for our salvation Grant us: plant the fear of Divine in our hearts, and direct our feet to do the commandments of Christ. By your intercession, ask our All-Merciful God for the peace of His Church, for people to be united in faith, to destroy vanities and schisms, and to affirm in good deeds: healing for the sick, consolation for the sad, intercession for the offended, help for the needy.
Most of all, through your prayer, make us all live chastely and righteously and piously in this present age, so that ever the hour of death and the terrible second coming of our Lord and God Jesus Christ are remembered, so that by His grace and love for mankind we observe and save, bitter ordeals from demons, princes of the air, and eternal torment, and in Heavenly Let us worship the throne of God in the kingdom, gratefully and joyfully glorifying the Most Holy and Divine Trinity, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, forever and ever.
To you, as the speedy and chosen intercessor for our salvation, God’s chosen commander, who conquered the enemies with the weapon of the Cross, Great Martyr Nikito, we resort with all our souls: do not turn away from our poverty, heed our prayer, and save us and this monastery from troubles. Stretch out your hand, giving first aid. Guide our minds from harmful distractions, and cleanse, sanctify and strengthen our defiled hearts. Save us from enemies, visible and invisible, so that we may appear victorious over passions, creating holiness in the passion of the Lord, and, having overcome all despondency, let us begin to rejoice in the Lord: and through your intercessions, in humility and simplicity of heart, we will be honored until our last breath to gloriously chant the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit and your divinely crowned glorify exploits and miracles forever and ever.
About the Great Martyr of Christ Nikito! You were brave in battle, and a chaser of the enemy, and an intercessor of the offended, and a representative of all Orthodox Christians. Have mercy on me, a sinner and unworthy, and intercede in troubles and sorrows and sorrows and in every evil adversity, and protect me from every evil and offending person: for you have been given such grace from God to pray for us sinners, suffering in troubles and misfortunes. Deliver us from those who offend and hate us, always be our strong champion against all our visible and invisible enemies: grant victory to our faithful king against his enemies, and strengthen his army in battle, so that by your strong fight all those who do evil to your servant will be put to shame. O great champion Nikito! Do not forget us, who always pray to you and ask you for help and endless mercy, and grant us, sinners and unworthy, the ineffable goodness from God to receive, which is prepared for those who love Him. For to Him belongs all glory, honor and worship, to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
O great passion-bearer of Christ Nikito! Hear the prayer of us sinners who pray to you every day and every hour: deliver us, O Holy Passion-Bearer, from all sorrow and adversity, from sudden death and from all evil: at the hour of separation of the soul from the body, O Passion-Bearer, every evil thought and crafty demons may be received in peace, for our souls may receive our souls in peace into a place of light, Christ the Lord God ours, as from Him the cleansing of sins, and He is the salvation of our souls, to Him belongs all glory, honor and worship, with the Father and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
The Cross of Christ, like some kind of weapon, we zealously accepted, and you came to fight your enemies, and having suffered for Christ, you gave up your sacred soul to the Lord with fire: you were vouchsafed to receive the gifts of healing from Him, Great Martyr Nikito. Pray to Christ God to save our souls.
O holy, praiseworthy martyrs Vero, Nadezhda and Lyuba, and valiant daughters, wise mother Sophia! We come to you now with fervent prayer. What else would be able to intercede for us before the Lord, if not faith, hope and love, these three abiding virtues, in whose image they are named, the very thing that is manifest? Pray to the Lord, that in sorrows and misfortunes He may cover us with His indescribable grace, and preserve Him, and grant His glory, like the Unsetting Sun, to behold. Help us in our humble prayers, may the Lord God forgive our sins and iniquities, and may He have mercy on us sinners, and may Christ God vouchsafe us His bounties, to Whom we ascribe glory, with His Beginning Father, His Most Holy and Good and Life-giving Spirit, now and ever and unto the ages of ages.
We glorify, magnify and bless you, the holy martyrs Vera, Nadezhda and Lyuba, together with the wise mother Sophia, who we worship as the image of God’s wise care. Pray to Saint Vera, the Creator of the visible and invisible, to give us strong, unblemished and indestructible faith. Intercede, holy Hope, before the Lord Jesus for us sinners, so that His hope in God may not be driven away from us, and may He deliver us from all sorrow and need. Confession, holy Lyuba, to the Spirit of truth, the Comforter, our misfortunes and sorrows, may He from above bestow heavenly sweetness on our souls. Help us in our troubles, holy martyrs, and together with your wise mother Sophia, pray to the King of kings and Lord of lords, that he may preserve under His protection our most pious sovereign and autocrat, Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich of all Russia, granting him haste in good things.
Likewise, for all of us, we earnestly pray for your warm intercession before God, so that together with you and with all the saints we will exalt and glorify the most holy and great name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit of God, the Eternal Ruler and the good Creator, now and ever and unto the ages of ages.
Thy martyrs, O Lord, in their suffering received incorruptible crowns from Thee our God: for having Thy strength, they have overthrown the tormentors, crushed the demons of weak insolence. Save our souls with those prayers.
O great saints of God and wonderworkers, holy and blessed princes Theodore, David and Constantine! We fall to your holy and multi-healing relics, we pray with humility, faith and love: extend your favorable prayers to our Lord and Creator, and implore His goodness to grant us everything necessary for eternal salvation, and also necessary for this temporary life: We believe without a doubt that everything is possible for you, as His true saint. For this sake and for these we pray to you: ask us from the Tsar of those who reign and the Lord of those who rule for our Orthodox-Russian kingdom peace, silence and prosperity, to our most pious, autocratic, great sovereign, Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich, health, longevity and victory over the enemies who reign to the city, to our city and to all the city and the whole of Russia, prosperity, abundance and protection from evil, to all the faithful people who honor you and come to venerate your holy relics, the mercy of God and the speedy fulfillment of good petitions. Hey, holy wonderworkers!
Do not disgrace our hope, but through your prayers make us heirs of being the Kingdom of Christ, so that we glorify the love of mankind in the Trinity of the glorified and worshiped God, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, and your holy intercession, forever and ever.
From your youth, clinging to Christ's love, holy, zealously preserved the law and justification of Him, having been enriched with miracles and miraculous gifts, you exude healing: Theodore, David and Constantine, for those who honor you by faith, pray to Christ God, to save our souls.
About the holiness of the Great Martyr of Christ and confessor of the true faith, blessed Prince Michael and Boyar Theodora! Be brave in battle, and drive away the enemy, and protect the offended. Likewise, now, to the heavenly army interceding for us, have mercy on us sinners and unworthy ones, who are in troubles and sorrows and sorrows, and from all evil misfortunes, and protect us from evil and offending people: for such grace has been given to you from God, to pray for us sinners, in troubles and misfortunes. the evil of those who suffer. Be therefore our champions of strength against all our visible and invisible enemies. O great martyr of all honor and confessor of the faith of Christ, Prince Mikhail and boyar Theodora, primates of the Heavenly King! Do not reject our prayer from all Orthodox Christians, but from present troubles and sorrows and sorrows, and also from future torment, deliver us, who faithfully cry out to God: Alleluia.
Having completed your life as a martyr, having adorned your confessions with crowns, to the heavenly east, Michael the Wise with the noble Theodore: pray to Christ God to preserve your fatherland, the emperor and the people, according to His great mercy.
O Reverend Father, Reverend Prince Olezh, zealous servant of Christ, warm prayer book to the Lord, protector in troubles and tireless comforter in sorrows! Look, most blessed one, mercifully at your city and see your children humbly falling down and wanting to serve you. Do not reject those who require your help, but, as a benefactor and protector, pray ever and ever to the Lord and God and our Savior Jesus Christ, that He may bless His anointed one, the most pious sovereign Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich, the reigning house and the entire Russian state, in peace and good faith, I preserve the princes and governors who are formidable with the enemy, instructing the boyars, the city multiplying, preserving your wealth.
Offer up, our God-bearing Father, this small prayer of us sinners to the Master Christ, that the living spirit of righteousness and love, unshakable piety, and wisdom dissolved in meekness may establish in the Holy Para-Orthodox Church: may the shepherd grant zeal for the salvation of people, who will visit the unbelievers and the lost to instruct, convert and attract those who have fallen away: moreover, let all the children of the Orthodox Church be pure from worldly temptations, carnal lusts, superstition, superstitions and enemy obsessions. To her, saint of God, do not despise us who pray to you, but help us with your speedy intercession, so that all troubles, misfortunes and sorrows in this temporary life have escaped, we will find a shameless death, and so having lived on earth pleasing to God, we will be worthy of heavenly life in heaven, where together with you we will glorify philanthropy and generosity in the Trinity glorified God, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, forever and ever.
O blessed Saint Demetrius, great saint of Christ, Chrysostom of Russia! Hear us sinners praying to you, and bring our prayer to the Merciful and Humane-loving God, to whom you now stand in the joy of the saints and in the faces of the Angel: implore His mercy, so that He will not condemn us for our iniquity, but may He deal with us according to His mercy. Ask us from Christ our God for a peaceful and serene life, mental and physical health, earthly prosperity, and all abundance and prosperity in everything, and may we turn the good things given to us from the generous God not into evil, but into His glory and the glorification of your intercession.
Grant us a godly opportunity to cross the path of temporary life: deliver us from airy ordeals, and guide us on the path leading to the villages of the righteous, where those who celebrate the unceasing voice, who behold the indescribable kindness of God’s face: preserve the holy Church from schisms and heresies, strengthen the faithful, convert the erring, and grant to all everything that is appropriate for the salvation and glory of God: save your fatherland from enemies without hatred, but overcome the weapons of the crusader army: and grant us all your archpastoral and holy blessing, so that by it we will get rid of the wiles of the evil one and escape from all misfortune and adversity. Hear our prayer, Father Demetrius, and pray unceasingly for us to the Almighty God, glorified and worshiped in three hypostases, to Him belongs all glory, honor and power forever and ever.
O wonderful and glorious miracle worker Demetrius, healer of human ailments! You constantly pray to the Lord our God for all sinners: I pray to you, be my advocate before the Lord and my helper to overcome the passions of the insatiable passions of my flesh and to overcome the arrows of my opponent the devil, with whom my weak heart is wounded and, like a smooth and fierce beast, hungers to destroy my soul. You, Saint of Christ, are my fence, you are my intercession and weapon. You, the great miracle worker, during the days of your exploits in this world, zealous for the Orthodox Church of God, like a true and good shepherd, you kindly denounced the sins and ignorance of people, and taught those who deviated from the path of truth to heresies and schisms to the path of truth. Make haste, then, for me to correct the short-term path of my life, so that I may unfalteringly follow the path of God’s commandments and work without laziness for my Lord Jesus Christ, as my only Master, my Redeemer and my Righteous Judge.
Falling down to this, I pray to you, servant of God, when my soul is delivered from this mortal body, deliver me from dark ordeals: I have no good deeds to justify my justification: do not let Satan become proud of his victory over my weak soul, deliver me from Gehenna, where I cry and gnashing of teeth, and with your holy prayers make me a partaker of the Heavenly Kingdom in the Trinity of the glorified God, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, forever and ever.
To the zealot of Orthodoxy and the eradicator of schism, Russian healer and new prayer book to God, through your salvation you have made them wise. Spiritual healer, Blessed Demetrius, pray to Christ God for the salvation of our Emperor, Nikolai Alexandrovich and his entire inheritance and power.
O great saint, glorious miracle worker, blessed Joseph, stand before the throne of God with your soul in heaven and enjoy the Trinity glory, rest with your body on earth in the Divine Church and exude various miracles from Him with the grace given to you from above! Look with your merciful eye on the people who are more honest in your race, and as you have acquired boldness from the Lord, ask for the prosperity of your abode, the goodness of the air, the fruitfulness of the earth, for all of us who resort to you with faith and your multi-healing powers piously venerated, from all troubles of soul and body: for by your prayers we instruct, let us comfortably complete the path of our short life on earth, and having improved the endless peace in heaven, we glorify with you the abundance of all good things, the Giver, the One in the Trinity glorify God, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
O our good shepherd and teacher, the great miracle worker Daniel! Hear us sinners who pray to you and call on your holy name. See the weak, caught from everywhere and deprived of every good and their minds darkened by cowardice. Strive, servant of God, to free us captives, and do not leave us sinners as enemies in the joy of being and dying in our evil deeds. Pray for us sinners to our Creator and Master, Who stands before Him with disembodied faces: be merciful to our God, that He may not reward us according to our deeds and the impurity of our hearts, but may He do to us according to His mercy. We trust in your mercy, and we boast in you, and we call on your holy name for help, and we fall upon your whole-bearing tomb and ask for healing: deliver us, O lamp of Christ, from the evil troubles that come upon us, and tame the waves that rise upon us from everywhere, so that they do not attack us to the end and do not get lost in the abyss more sinful. O Reverend Father Daniel!
Hear us sinners, at this hour bringing you a prayer: pray for us to the Master Christ God, for you have gained great boldness towards Him, sincere prayer service for our souls: beg the Heavenly King to forgive us our sins, and grant us endless joy forever and ever.
O venerable and God-bearing Father Daniel! Hear me, unworthy, who at this hour brings you a prayer: pray to Christ God to forgive my sins, for you have gained great boldness towards the Lord. Beseech Him, holy one, with your prayers, to be delivered from eternal torment, and to be the heir of the Heavenly Kingdom with all the righteous, who have pleased our Lord Jesus Christ from all eternity, to Him belongs all glory, honor and worship, with His Beginning Father, and with His Most Holy and Good and Life-giving Spirit, now and ever and unto the ages of ages.
O venerable and God-bearing Father Jono! Desiring to serve the Lord, you settled here, and you labored tirelessly in labor, in vigils, in prayers and fasting, and you were a mentor to monastics, and a zealous teacher to all people. Now, after your departure from the earthly, standing before the Heavenly King, pray to His goodness to show mercy to the place of your settlement, this holy abode, where you constantly abide in the spirit of Your love, and to all your people, who fall in faith to your race, to fulfill their requests for good. Ask our Merciful Lord to grant us an abundance of earthly blessings, even more so for the benefit of our souls, and may we be worthy to end this temporary life in repentance, and on the Day of Judgment may we be worthy of standing and enjoying His Kingdom forever and ever.
Baptist of Christ, preacher of repentance! Do not despise me who repents, but copulating with the heavenly howls, pray to the Lady for me, unworthy, sad, weak and sad, fallen into many troubles, set in motion by the stormy thoughts of my mind. For I am a den of evil deeds, with no end to sinful customs: for my mind is nailed down by earthly things. What will I do? We don't know. And to whom shall I resort, that my soul may be saved? Only to you, Saint John, give the same name of grace, for you are before the Lord through the Theotokos, greater than all born to be: for you have been deemed worthy to touch the top of Christ the King, who takes away the sins of the world, the Lamb of God: pray to Him for my sinful soul, Yes, from now on, at the first ten hour, I will bear a good burden and receive reward with the last. To her, the Baptist of Christ, an honest Forerunner, an extreme prophet, the first martyr in grace, a teacher of fasters and hermits, a teacher of purity and a close friend of Christ!
I pray to you, I come running to you: do not reject me from your intercession, but raise me up, having fallen into many sins: renew my soul with repentance, as with the second baptism, you are the leader of both, wash away original sin with baptism, and cleanse each one from bad deeds with repentance. Cleanse me, the one defiled by sin, and force me to enter, or enter into anything bad, into the Kingdom of Heaven.
Holy Forerunner and Baptist of Christ John! This preacher of repentance, do not despise us who repent, but pray to the Lord Christ for us unworthy slaves, sad, weak, fallen into many sins. We fear death, but we are not sick of our sins and do not care about the Kingdom of Heaven: but do not despise us, the Baptist of Christ, honorable Forerunner, born of all, a teacher of fasting and desert men, a teacher of purity and a neighbor of Christ. We pray to you, we resort to you: do not reject us who ask for your intercession, renew our souls with repentance, which is the second baptism: by your intercession before the Lord, ask for the cleansing of our sins. Unworthy lips cry out to you, and a humble soul prays, a contrite heart sighs from the depths: stretch out your most pure right hand and protect us from enemies visible and invisible. Hey, Lord Jesus Christ! Through the prayers of St. John Thy Baptist, and most especially of Thy Most Pure Mother, our Lady Theotokos, save us Thy sinful servants who repent of our sins.
For You are the God of the repentant, and we place our hope in You as the Savior, glorifying Your most holy name, with Your Originless Father, and with Your Most Holy and Good and Life-giving Spirit, now and ever and unto the ages of ages.
The Baptist of Christ, the honest Forerunner, the ultimate prophet, the first martyr in grace, the mentor of fasters and hermits, the teacher of purity and the neighbor of Christ! I pray to you, I come running to you: do not reject me from your intercession, but raise me up, having fallen into many sins: renew my soul with repentance, as with the second baptism: cleanse me, my defiled sin, and compel me to enter, and even if nothing bad enters, into the Kingdom of Heaven.
First, the barren, the barren, rejoiced: behold, you conceived the Sun as a lamp to appear, illuminating the whole universe, afflicted with blindness. Rejoice, Zechariah, crying out with boldness: the prophet of the Most High is about to be born.
About our reverend and blessed father Nikandra, a patient, fast-hearted faster, preferring silence to the zealot, a wise teacher of those who want to be saved, a quiet punisher of the lazy, a kindly resolver of corrupting passions, a husband of desires, prophetic insight more fulfilled, a forerunner of future blessings the tartar, the adamantine of faith in Christ, the indestructible, unshakable pillar of patience, the obedient perfecter of the commandments of your Creator, the flesh-bearing angel and the fragrant receptacle of the Holy Spirit, a desert dweller and a demon-driver, a humble-wise performer of all virtues, a heavenly man and a cohabitant with the heavenly ranks, By the meekness of the spirit, you have inherited the land of the meek, friend of Christ and servant of the Most Holy Theotokos, even the reliquary of your celibate relics in your church, deign to glorify the miraculous rain abundantly from it on the faithful!
Falling to her with love, we pray to you most wonderfully: do not cease to pray to the Most Holy and Life-Giving Trinity, to bestow upon our blessed emperor health, peace and longevity, and to his enemies victory and victory, and from the slander of the enemy, to preserve his army in peace: to the churches harmony, and to grant peace and abundance of good things to all people. And extinguish, blessed one, with your prayers the kindled demonic arrows hovering at us, so that sinful malice may not touch us. And having mercifully bestowed everything upon all, look also upon me, a humble servant: for I am bound by cruel captives of sins, and dragged, woe is me! into the abyss of the passionate sea uncontrollably. For this reason, I diligently pray to your shrine, O rich one, and I fall before the race of your relics with tears: stand before me on the path of this disastrous life: break the bonds, remove passions, loosen from sinful chains, deliver me from present sorrow and from all evil, release me from painful bonds and beg me for the salvation of my soul, as if yes I will sing and glorify in the Trinity the One God, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
O venerable and blessed Father Nikandra, citizen of the heavenly Jerusalem, friend and supporter of the chosen hosts of heaven, constantly glorifying the Trinitarian God! Look mercifully at us, the race of your honorable relics who are coming, even if you have nailed your thoughts to the pleasures of this age, even to seek the bliss of heaven. You dwell in the heavenly abodes with the worldly spirits of the triumphant Church: but we sinners who dwell in this world are separated from you not only by place, but by our sins and iniquities, by which we anger the Lord at every hour and bring ourselves to our own destruction.
But to you, as we are natural, we run and cry with warm tears: instruct and enlighten us to walk in your footsteps: be on this path a chosen leader for us, just as Moses was of old to the people of Israel: for it is characteristic of you, our Father, compassion for those who mourn and love for mankind for everyone who requires help from you in times of adversity and in good times: I live for you on earth, not only for your salvation did you apply your efforts, but for all those who come to you, you brought a prayer to the Almighty, so that he does not despise the work of his hands and destroy him with his iniquities. For this reason, your fatherly instructions, to walk in the footsteps of the commandments of the Lord, grow in the hearts of your sons, like good seed, bearing fruit: even those who are sick, weakened and sick, grieving and embittered, preach your quick help with praise: and all your life was a mirror. all sorts of virtues. How much were you, a disciple of Christ, on earth: how much are you now in heaven!
You always stand before the throne of the unapproachable God, and in Him, as in a mirror, you see all our needs and petitions: you rejoice with the Angels of God over the one sinner who repents, with great joy: both God’s mercy and His love for the human race are endless, and your boldness towards Him is great. Ask the All-Merciful Giver of all blessings for peace and the holiness of His Church, according to the sign of the Militant Cross, for victory and victory over its invisible enemies, and unity of mind for the faithful in the faith: in the same way, call those who have gone astray from Orthodoxy to the knowledge of the truth, enlighten the unfaithful with the light of the Gospel, bring sinners to repentance and convert, Grant purity and chastity to the virgins, holy things to the married: provide food to the widows and the orphans, shelter to the poor, return to the wandering, refuge to the floating: ask for forgiveness to the repentant, comfort to those who cry, require help, intercession to the afflicted, speedy healing to the sick, and fulfillment of every request for good. Do not reject us, reverend, who call you with faith and love!
Even though we are unworthy of such a father and intercessor, we are desecrated in soul and body: but you, being an imitator of God’s love for mankind, make us worthy of your prayers through repentance. Novgrad and Pskov, and all of Russia, enlightened by your godly life and miracles, preach you to be a warm intercessor. Show us your mercy too, unworthy of us! We believe that you are present with us in spirit, and moreover, you are with us in body: behold, before our eyes are your incorruptible and celibate relics, which the Lord has glorified by the manifestation of many miracles.
Moreover, before us, as I live for you, we fall down and humbly pray: accept our prayers and offer them up on the altar of God’s mercy, so that He may send down to us His omnipotent grace, strengthening us in a good life, and timely and abundant help in our needs: well-being of mind, health of body, health of life. beneficial, peace in our days, goodness in the air, fire of love and all piety, purity of heart in prayer, patience and hope in adversity, joy in hope, and time for repentance, for having escaped real evils, we will be worthy to settle in the blessed abode of heaven, where you now dwell with all God pleasing and glorifying the Trinitarian God, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
The reverend Father Nikandra heard the Divine voice, as in the Gospel: come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest, and accept the cross, and follow Christ. You have left the world, you have moved into the desert, but through fasting and vigil we will receive the heavenly gift, healing the souls of the sick who come to you with faith. In the same way, O reverend, your spirit will rejoice with the Angels.
The luminary of the Invincible Light appeared to our country, O blessed one, valiantly enduring the enemy’s bitterness: beatings and wounds, like a garment of incorruptibility, were imputed to you: but you took on beasts, and received perforations from evil men, you prayed for them, saying: do not put this sin on them. In the same way, you have become like the Lord Christ, our worthy Nikandra, our father: pray for our souls.
About our most detailed and blessed Father Galaktion, strong fence of our country, champion of Orthodox Christians and warm sinner for us to our All-Merciful God Jesus Christ and His Most Pure Mother, prayer book! We tenderly pray to you, the miraculous race of your honest relics that is coming: do not forget us sinners and unworthy, but as a zealous intercessor and intercessor, look mercifully on our weakness, and ask with your prayers from Christ our God, may he sanctify our souls and bodies with your grace, may our minds be enlightened by the light of the knowledge of God, may our conscience be sanctified from dead deeds may he cleanse us, may he protect us from sinful thoughts and destructive despondency, and may he grant us sincere repentance, contrition of hearts, tearful tenderness, abstinence and sobriety, humility and meekness, purity of soul and body, love of poverty and love of strangers, and unfeigned love for each other. O blessed Father Galaktion!
Make us worthy to walk the path of salvation, so that through your prayers the Most Good Christ our God will show His grace and mercy to us sinners, and may He free us from all evil and future torment, and may He grant us the heirs to be His Heavenly Kingdom, glorifying and magnifying Him, together with His Beginning Father, and His Most Holy and Good and Life-giving Spirit, now and ever and ever.
Today our city boasts of you, venerable one: for you have shone as brightly as the sun, illuminating the cities and towns with your miracles. And now, Venerable Martyr Galaktion, the Lord prayed to our city to be delivered from the presence of those who resist, ask Christ God for forgiveness of our sins, and grant deliverance from all sorrow through love to those who honor you and cry out faithfully: Our God is with us, glorifying His saint as He is well-willed.
O sacred head, venerable and God-bearing Father Sergius, by your prayer, and by faith and love for God, and by the purity of your heart, you established your soul on earth in the monastery of the Most Holy Trinity, and was honored with angelic communion and the visitation of the Most Holy Theotokos, and received the gift of miraculous grace, after your departure from the earthly, especially to God drawing near and sharing the heavenly powers, but not retreating from us in the spirit of your love, and your honest power, like a vessel of grace, full and overflowing, left to us! Having great boldness towards the All-Merciful Master, pray to save His servants, who believe in His grace existing in you and flow to you with love. Help our most pious, autocratic, great sovereign, Emperor Nicholas Alexandrovich of all Russia, may his kingdom be well-governed in peace and prosperity, and may all resistance submit under his feet.
Ask us from our Greatly Gifted God every gift that is beneficial to everyone, observance of the immaculate faith, establishment of our cities, peace of peace, deliverance from famine and destruction, preservation from the invasion of foreigners, consolation for the afflicted, healing for the sick, restoration for the fallen, return to the path of truth and salvation for those who are astray, strengthening for those who struggle, to those who do good in good deeds, prosperity and blessing, education for children, instruction for the young, admonition for the ignorant, intercession for orphans and widows, good preparation and parting words for those departing from this temporary life for the eternal, blessed repose for those departed, and grant all of us with your prayers that help us on the day You will be delivered from the Last Judgment, and the right hand of the country will be partakers and hear that blessed voice of the Lord Christ: Come, blessed ones of My Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.
O sacred head, reverend father, most blessed Abvo Sergius the Great! Do not forget your poor to the end, but always remember us in your holy and auspicious prayers to God. Remember your flock, which you yourself have shepherded, and do not forget to visit your children. Pray for us, holy father, for your spiritual children, as you have boldness towards the Heavenly King: do not keep silent to the Lord for us, and do not despise us, who honor you with faith and love. Remember us unworthy at the throne of the Almighty, and do not cease praying for us to Christ God: for grace has been given to you to pray for us. We do not imagine that you are dead: even though you passed away from us in body, you remain alive even after death. Do not give up on us in spirit, keeping us from the arrows of the enemy and all the charms of the demonic and the wiles of the devil, our good shepherd. Even though your relics are always visible before our eyes, your holy soul with the angelic armies, with the disembodied faces, with the heavenly powers, stands at the throne of the Almighty, worthy of rejoicing.
Knowing that you are truly alive even after death, we bow down to you and we pray to you: pray for us to the Almighty God, for the benefit of our souls, and ask us time for repentance, so that we may pass from earth to heaven without restraint, from bitter ordeals, demons of air princes and from eternal torment, and from Heavenly Let us be the heirs of the kingdom with all the righteous, who from time immemorial have pleased our Lord Jesus Christ: to whom is due all glory, honor and worship, with His Beginning Father, and with His Most Holy and Good and Life-Giving Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
O citizen of heavenly Jerusalem, Rev. Father Sergius! Look upon us mercifully, and lead those who are devoted to the earth to the heights of heaven. You are burning in heaven, but we are on earth below, being far from you not only by place, but by our sins and iniquities: but to you, as our kin, we run and cry, instruct us to walk in your song, give understanding and guide. It is characteristic of you, Our Father, to have mercy and love for mankind: living on earth, I will not only care about your own salvation, but also about everyone who flows to you. Your instructions were the reed of a scribe, a cursive writer, who inscribes the words of life on the hearts of people. You didn’t just heal bodily illnesses, but more than spiritual ones, you appeared as an elegant physician: and your whole life was mirrored by all kinds of virtues. Even though you were so holy, more holy than God, on earth: how much are you now in heaven! Today you stand before the throne of unapproachable light, and in it, as in a mirror, you see all our needs and petitions: you are together with the Angels, rejoicing over the one sinner who repents.
And God’s love for mankind is inexhaustible, and your boldness towards Him is great: do not stop crying to the Lord for us. Through your intercession, ask from our All-Merciful God the peace of His Church, under the sign of the Militant Cross: agreement to faith and unity of wisdom, destruction of vanity and schism, affirmation in good deeds: healing for the sick, consolation for the sad, intercession for the offended, help for the needy. Do not disgrace us, who flow to you with faith. Even if we are unworthy of such a father and intercessor: but you, being an imitator of God’s love for mankind, make us worthy by turning from evil deeds to good living. All God-enlightened Russia, filled with your miracles and blessed by your mercies, confesses you to be their patron and intercessor. Reveal your ancient mercies, and those whom your father helped, do not reject us, their children, who are marching towards you in their footsteps. We believe that you are present with us in spirit. Where the Lord is, as His word teaches us, there His servant will be.
You are the faithful servant of the Lord: and God exists everywhere, you are in us, and He is in you, moreover, you are with us in body. Behold your incorruptible and life-giving relics, like a priceless treasure, grant us miracles. Before them, as you live, we fall down and pray: accept our prayers, and offer them to the altar of God’s mercy, so that you may receive grace and timely help for our needs. Strengthen our cowardice and confirm us in faith, so that we undoubtedly hope to receive all the good things from the mercy of the Master through your prayers. Do not cease to rule your spiritual flock, gathered by you, with the rod of spiritual wisdom: help those who struggle, raise up the weakened, hasten to bear the yoke of Christ in complacency and patience: and guide us all in peace and repentance, end our lives and settle with hope in the blessed bosom Abraham, where you now rest joyfully from your labors and struggles, glorifying, with all the saints, God in the Trinity, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto the ages of ages.
Even an ascetic of virtues, like a true warrior of Christ God, you labored in the passion of the great one in your temporary life, in singing, vigils and fasting, and the image became your disciple: in the same way, the Most Holy Spirit dwelled in you, with whose action you are brightly adorned. But since you have boldness towards the Holy Trinity, remember the flock that you gathered wisely: and do not forget, as you promised, when you visited your children, O Reverend Sergius, our Father.
O glorious mother, our speedy helper and intercessor and vigilant prayer book for us! The race of your relics is coming and to this with tenderness, as if you are alive, we pray to you fervently: accept our petition and bring it to the throne of the Merciful Heavenly Father, as you have much boldness towards Him: ask those who flow to you and all Orthodox Christians for eternal salvation and temporary prosperity, for all our good deeds and undertakings are a generous blessing, and quick deliverance from all troubles and sorrows. Hey, our child-loving mother! You, who stand before the throne of God, know the essence of our spiritual and everyday needs: look at her with your mother’s eye, and with your prayers we will turn away all evil from us, and multiply evil and ungodly customs: establish in all the faith a consonant knowledge, mutual love and like-mindedness, and in all our lives, words and writings and deeds, glorified is the all-holy name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, the One God, worshiped in the Trinity, to Him be honor and glory forever and ever.
In you, mother, it is known that you were saved in the image: having accepted the cross, you followed Christ, and in action you taught to despise the flesh, for it passes away, but be careful about the souls, things that are immortal. In the same way, your spirit will rejoice with the Angels, Saint Euphrosyne.
Your holy memory rejoices the Suzdal country, and calls all the faithful to your all-honorable church, where now your all-honorable body lies, Euphrosyne in detail: pray to Christ God for the salvation of our souls.
O great apostle, loud-voiced evangelist, most graceful theologian, seer of ineffable revelations, virgin and beloved confidante of Christ John! Accept us sinners, who come running under your strong intercession. Ask the All-Bountiful Lover of Mankind, Christ our God, who, before your eyes, poured out His blood for us, His indecent servant, may He not remember our iniquities, but may He have mercy on us and deal with us according to His mercy: may He grant us mental and physical health, all prosperity and abundance, instructing us to turn them to His glory, The Creator, Savior and our God: at the end of our temporary life, may he deliver us from the merciless torturers in the airy ordeals, and so may we reach, led and covered by you, the heavenly Jerusalem, whose glory you saw in revelation, now enjoying endless joys. O great John!
Save all Christian cities and countries, this church [dedicated to your holy name], serving and praying in it, from famine, destruction, cowardice and flood, fire and sword, invasion of foreigners and internecine warfare: deliver us from all troubles and misfortunes, and through your prayers from us the righteous wrath of God, and ask for His mercy for us, and together with through you we will be worthy to glorify in the uneven days the most holy name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit forever and ever.
O great and all-praised apostle and evangelist John the Theologian, confidant of Christ, our warm intercessor and quick helper! Pray to the Lord God to grant us forgiveness of all our sins, as much as we have sinned from our youth in our entire life with our deeds, words, thoughts and all our feelings: at the end of our souls, help us sinners to get rid of airy ordeals and eternal torment, and through your merciful intercession we glorify the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit now and ever and ever forever and ever.
Apostle, beloved of Christ God! Hasten to deliver people who are unrequited: they accept you falling and those who have fallen on the Persian side are accepted. Pray to Him, O Theologian, and disperse the present darkness of tongues, asking us for peace and great mercy.
We magnify you, Apostle of Christ and Evangelist John the Theologian, and honor your illnesses and labors, in the image of which you worked in the gospel of Christ.
O servants of God, Schema-monk Kirill and Schema-nun Mary! Hear our humble prayer. Even though your temporary life has naturally ended, you do not depart from us in spirit, always following the commandments of the Lord, teaching us to walk and patiently bear our cross. Therefore, together with our reverend and God-bearing father Sergius, your beloved son, we have acquired the nature of boldness towards Christ God and towards His Most Pure Mother. Even now, be prayer books and intercessors for us, unworthy, who live in your holy monastery. Be the God-gathered retinue of this strong intercessor, so that all who live in this place by faith, who come to pray in this way, may be preserved by your intercession, unharmed from demons and from evil people, glorifying the Holy Trinity, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and ever.
O sacred head, reverend father, most blessed Abvo Gregory! Do not forget your children, whose godly labors and prayerful deeds you have spiritually given birth to: have mercy on us in your holy favorable prayers and edify your flock with your intercession, which you yourself have shepherded: pray for us, Holy Father, your spiritual children, as you have boldness towards the Heavenly King: do not be silent for us Christ, and do not despise us, who honor you with faith and love. Have mercy on us unworthy before the throne of the Almighty, for you have been given the grace to pray for us. Even though you passed away from us in body, even after death you remain alive in Christ. Do not give up on us in spirit, save us from the arrows of the enemy, from the charms of demons and the snares of the devil, our good shepherd. Behold, with the shell of your relics abiding with us, with your holy soul with the heavenly powers you stand at the throne of the Almighty and there you faithfully glorify the Lord.
Moreover, falling with tenderness, we pray to you for the salvation of our souls: ask us time to repent and pass without restraint from earth to heaven through the ordeals of bitter demons, so that by your intercession, having been delivered from eternal torment, we will be worthy to inherit the Kingdom of Heaven with all the righteous, who from the ages have pleased Christ our Lord: to whom belongs all glory and honor and worship, now and to the endless ages of ages.
O our good shepherd and God-wise mentor, Rev. Father Gregory! Hear us praying to you and calling for your speedy intercession for help. See us sinners in our present circumstances: see us weak, caught everywhere, deprived of every good, and darkened in mind from cowardice. Try, O servant of God, do not leave us to remain in sinful captivity, so that we may not joyfully be our enemy and die in our evil deeds. Pray for us, unworthy of the Savior Lord, to whom you stand with disembodied faces. Make our Creator merciful to us in the present world and in the future, so that He will not reward us according to our deeds and the impurity of our hearts, but He will do us according to His goodness. We trust in your intercession, we boast of your intercession, we call upon your intercession for help, and we ask for healing at your unworthy tomb.
Deliver us, saint of Christ, from the evil ones who come upon us, and tame the waves of passions and troubles that rise against us, so that for the sake of your holy prayers the attack will not overtake us, and we will not wallow in the abyss of sins and in the mud of our passions. Pray, Reverend Father Gregory, Christ our God, that he may grant us a peaceful life, forgiveness of sins, and salvation and great mercy for our souls, now and forever.
With the love of Christ, the wise God, having been enlightened, you were showered with virtues: and having hated all carnal pleasure, and having settled in the desert, you labored as a noble in it in this temporary life, in singing and in vigils and in fasting: for this sake, Christ also enriched you with the gift of miracles. But remember us who honor your blessed memory, Reverend Father Gregory, and pray to Christ God to save our souls.
O great saint, glorious miracle worker and God-inspired mentor of your monastery, most blessed Savvo, with your soul in heaven the throne of all the King stands, but with your body rest in this monastery and perform various miracles everywhere with your prayers! Look mercifully at the people who are coming and your intercession to Christ God for the needs of those who are asking: for all of us, due to the multitude of our sins, do not dare to proclaim our honor to heaven: but you, who have acquired boldness, will offer for all, to more honest than those who flow to your race, warm prayers to the Lord, that we may be delivered from famine, flood, cowardice, fire, sword and battle, from people and from the devil, and from all mental and physical illnesses: may we escape these and the Lord, Who we stand before, Working, let us enter into endless peace and glorify there with you all the good things of the Giver of God, always, now and ever, and unto the ages of ages.
O most graceful and great servant of the Lord, Savvo! We praise your glorious miracles, we glorify your holy life. No one can destroy the patience and labors of your saint: you left your fatherland and your family, you reached the wilderness and gathered disciples, you founded a holy monastery, and in it you erected a pillar, you labored on that, preserving your verbal flock: in the same way, the robbers who once found your monastery were unjust. You saw it, and with one of the rods you frightened it with this emphasis. And now, Reverend Father, we are afraid of all the enemies who rise up against us: pray for our most pious emperor and for all the Christ-loving Russian army: beg the merciful God to forgive us our sins and grant us the privilege of enjoying eternal joy together with all the saints, now and ever and unto the ages of ages.
From your youth you have enslaved yourself entirely to God, O blessed one, and for the sake of His love, you left your fatherland and family and moved into the desert: and in it you showed a cruel life, and received miracles from the Lord. Reverend Savvo, pray to Christ God to save our souls.
O bishop of God, holy Gurie, stand now before the throne of Christ in the triumphant Church! Do not forget us, who celebrate your holy memory with love, behold evil from our ascension on high. Good Father, look mercifully upon your children: good shepherd, do not despise your flock, which you have acquired from God. Even if you are excommunicated from sinners by your shrine, do not separate yourself from us sinners with mercy, be present to us with your prayers to God for us. See the city in which you worked a lot, see the people you enlightened, and be everyone’s helper, intercessor, protector, protector, provident and director of our life. I warmly intercede, do not remain silent in crying out to the Lord for us, ask for world peace, silence for the Christian kingdom, which holds victory, and temporal and eternal good for all.
O most sacred head, first shepherd, leader and planter of the Kazan Church, Divine Apostle and first universal shepherd, faithful imitator, ever stand before the Heavenly Throne of the Father of all bounties of God and unceasingly enjoy His ever-present light and love!
To you we are the children of your flock, since we do not have the boldness to offer our prayers to the Lord God, we diligently run to you, and we pray to offer up your God-pleasing prayers for us to the Almighty, may He grant us all, first of all, living according to His holy commandments and the remission of sins: then may He deliver us in this short time from those who find on us, due to our sin, the indissolution of the elements, infertility, famine, deadly ulcers, fire that destroys our homes, all kinds of sedition, invasions of foreigners, and all visible and invisible forces that resist us, may he grant a peaceful life with health, a prosperous life, may he grant to our government insolence, impartiality and the righteous judgment, exemplary holiness to the priesthood of your flock, knowledge of pure truth, uncooling and unprofitable zeal for God's services, a mature word, always ready and dissolved in salt, may the Orthodox faith implanted by you continually spread and strengthen, and may the God-hating pagan delusion, harmful wickedness be destroyed Hagaryan and all heresies and soul-destroying schisms: may everywhere in your former flock be proclaimed and glorified the all-holy name of our Lord Jesus Christ, with His Beginningless Father, and with His Most Holy and Good and Life-Giving Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
Holy Hierarch Father Guria! As we approach the sacred race of your multi-healing relics [or: your honorable image], we earnestly pray to you: be always and everywhere our intercessor, intercessor and patron. Grant your flock peace, silence and prosperity, health and salvation. Be our ever-present intercessor from all enemies, visible and invisible: protect us from all troubles, misfortunes and sorrows, and especially from the temptations of the dark enemy. For those who are standing here and praying, ask the Lord God for everything that they ask from him for their salvation in their needs and sorrows, so that we all glorify the all-holy name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto the ages of ages.
The first teaching to the previously dark, now bright and newly enlightened city of Kazan, the first herald of the path of salvation, the true guardian of the apostolic traditions, the pillars of steadfastness, piety, teacher and Orthodoxy, teachers, Guria and Barsanuphius, pray to the Lord of all to grant peace to the universe to our souls great mercy.
Come, Saint Barsanuphius, from the mountain villages to your relics flowing to the race, and listen to their prayer: beg the Lord God to grant to all of us what we ask Him for our salvation in the presence of your holy relics. Be an intercessor and intercessor for all of us in our needs and petitions, asking for prosperity, long life, health and salvation, and good haste in everything, our most pious, autocratic, great sovereign, Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich of All Russia: his wife, the most pious Empress Alexandra Feodorovna: to his mother, the most pious Empress Maria Feodorovna: to his heir, the noble sovereign Tsarevich and Grand Duke Alexy Nikolaevich, and to the entire reigning house.
Pray to the Lord God to grant in the days of his kingdom strong and indestructible peace, decorum, enlightenment of minds and hearts, and fruitfulness of the land, holiness for the shepherd, truth and power for the law, wisdom and invincible courage for the military leader, judgment for the mayor, devotion to the army, devotion to the faith, the Tsar and the Fatherland and invincible courage, and to all Orthodox Christians health and piety. Preserve your holy monastery from all the slander of the enemy, so that in word and deed the all-holy name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit may be glorified in it, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
O all-praised and great servant of Christ, Father Barsanuphius, who from his youth loved God above all else and was beloved by the Lord! Look down from the heights of heaven on us unworthy, asking for your all-powerful help and intercession. Behold, we are overwhelmed by sins and possessed by sorrows, not daring to look at the heights of heaven from the multitude of our iniquities, with a contrite heart we prayerfully appeal to you, our glorious healer: heal us, weak and sad and fallen into many iniquities, heal and restore us. Drive away from us all soul-crushing passions, renew the right spirit in us who have gone astray, plant the fear of God in our hearts, enlighten us and teach us to walk according to the commandments of the Lord. Do not forget us, our good shepherd, standing before the throne of the Almighty. Even though you have moved into heaven, you are always with us in spirit, and you cover all those who flow with faith and love to the multi-healing relics of your relics with your care.
We fall to you now, earnestly praying: Holy God, strong pillar of the Church, chosen vessel of grace, hope of all who flow to you, beg the Great God to crush and overthrow all the blasphemous Hagaryan wickedness, and convert the unfaithful to the knowledge of the truth, strengthen and magnify the Orthodox faith, His holy Church may he preserve us, unworthy of your children, safe and sound from all slander, and may he strengthen us, your unworthy children, in love and unanimity, and may he deliver everyone around your crayfish who prays in prayer, from all ailments and temptations of life, from every poisonous attack of the devil and from all evil, yes Through your intercession and intercession we will live a peaceful life here and become partakers of the Heavenly Kingdom, constantly glorifying the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, the One in the Trinity who worships God, now and ever and unto the ages of ages.
O most honorable and sacred head and filled with the grace of the Holy Spirit, the abode of the Savior with the Father, great bishop, our warm intercessor, Saint Alexis!
Standing at the throne of all the King and enjoying the light of the Consubstantial Trinity and the cherubic Angels shouting the most holy hymn, having great and unexplored boldness towards the All-Merciful Master, praying for your flock to save people, your only begotten language: help in battle our most pious, autocratic, great sovereign, Emperor Nicholas Alexandrovich of all Russia, and subdue all the hostile enemies under his nose, reign peacefully and serenely for him: establish the welfare of the holy churches: bishops with splendor adorning the holiness: the monastics have strengthened the deeds of the good trend: the reigning city [this and this holy monastery] and all the cities and countries have been well preserved, and the holy immaculate faith has been kept by the prayer: the whole world has died through your intercession, from famine and destruction deliver us, and save us from the attacks of foreigners: old comforts, young instructions, foolish wise ones, have mercy on widows, intercede for orphans, young children, return captives, heal the weak, and everywhere warmly calling you and flowing with faith to the race of your honest and multi-healing relics, who diligently fall down and pray to you, from all misfortunes and troubles through your intercession for freedom, let us call to you: Rejoice, God’s chosen shepherd, the all-bright star of the mental firmament, the unconquerable secret of Zion pillar, peace-inspired flower of paradise, all-golden mouth of the word, Moscow praise, adornment of all Russia!
Pray for us to the All-Bountiful and Humane-loving Christ our God, so that on the day of His terrible coming He will deliver us from this desperation, and He will create the joys of the saints as partakers with all the saints forever and ever.
As the apostles are with the throne, and the doctor is kind, and the minister is favorable, flowing more honestly to your race, Saint Alexis, the God-wise miracle worker, who came together with love in your memory, we brightly celebrate, in songs and singing, rejoicing and glorifying Christ, such grace who granted you healings and great affirmation to your city.
The guardian of the apostolic dogmas is dangerous, the Church of the Russian shepherd and teacher, the blessed Alexis the Saint, we celebrate the memory of Christ our God with worthy songs, who has given us His saint, as a rich source of healing, and praise and affirmation for the city of Moscow.
O great miracle worker, Reverend Father Sergius! Hear the prayer of us sinners praying to you and calling on your holy name for help: do not despise us who honor you: pray for us sinners, our Creator the Lord God, for you will be given the grace to pray for us. We do not consider you to be dead: even though you have passed away from us in body, and your cancer is visible before our eyes, but your holy soul with angelic faces stands at the throne of the Almighty. O our shepherd, Reverend Father Sergius! Trying to save us from destructive enemies and from sudden death and from demonic temptation, our minds are darkened by cowardice. Do not leave us, O lamp of Christ, to be captive, but help us through your prayers to be delivered from eternal torment and to be an heir to the Kingdom of Heaven with all the saints from the ages who have pleased the Lord our God Jesus Christ, to whom honor is due, worship, glory and power, with His Beginning Father and His Most Holy and Good and Life-Giving Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
O Reverend and Blessed Father Sergius, our good shepherd and teacher! You were still on this earth, this sincere servant of the Savior of Christ, and you were honored to receive many gifts of grace from him: after your blessed dormition, you stood before the throne of the unapproachable His glory, great to him the boldness of the imasha. For this reason, pray for us who wander in the deserts of this world and its vanities. Protect us by your intercession from all our enemies, visible and invisible, from corrupting winds, deadly plagues, from famine, cowardice, flood, fire, sword, invasion of foreigners and from all evil.
Most of all, holy of God, pour out your warm prayer to the Lord for the God-protected power of Russia, so that we may live in peace, silence and prosperity: pray, holy father, to the King of kings and Lord of lords for our most pious, autocratic, great sovereign, Emperor Nicholas Alexandrovich and for all his reigning house, and by the power of God and We are protected by your all-powerful intercession, filled with long days and strength of strength, and will accomplish many good things for the good of our people: protect with your prayer, reverend, the Orthodox Church of Christ against heresies and schisms, tear the robe of Christ from those who strive: ask the shepherd for the shrine, the flock from salvation jealousy, strength for the elder and good parting words for eternal life, for the middle-aged to be better: teach the young to be chaste and obedient.
For all of us, saints of God, ask for time to repent, so that we may not die in our sins, but through your prayers, fruits worthy of repentance for those who have brought forth, may the Lord grant us eternal blessed life and presence with His saints, may we glorify with silent voices His ineffable mercy to the endless ages of ages.
Inflamed with spiritual desire, most blessed, you have filled your soul with the flow of your tears, and even from the depths of sighs you have wounded your heart, with vigorous prayers and all-night standing before the Lord Christ, you have brought much virtuous fruit to yourself: for this reason, as a saint of God, you have appeared as a luminary to the world, shining miracles. Reverend Sergius, our father, warm prayer book, always pray to God to save our souls.
O holy and blessed Father Martinian! Receive us now, who earnestly pray to you and fall to your all-honorable tomb, where your holy and laborious body rests. In the Spirit in heaven we stand before the Holy Trinity, with the Angels and the holy faces of the Father, praying for us, your children, Father, that we may get rid of all sorrows, illnesses, misfortunes and circumstances and live piously in the present life, walking in the commandments and justifications of the Lord without blame. We ask for forgiveness of our sins, health for our bodies and eternal salvation for our souls, for by your intercession we are saved, and we may be honored to send glory in the Trinity to the glorified God, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto the ages of ages.
O blessed and reverend Father Martinian! We pray to you and cry out from our hearts with love, so that you will enlighten us, enlighten us, and strengthen us with your prayers to bring some praiseworthy words in memory of your repose: we do not dare to say this in the wisdom of words, but with much faith and love we bring this to our child-loving father. You, O Reverend Father Martinian, ask for forgiveness of our sins, so that in the house of our Most Pure Lady Theotokos, an abiding fence insurmountable by the faithful, we will appear before God as our good representative of freedom, and we will remain unpossessed from all enemies, visible and invisible. O our good shepherd according to God, the true builder of the grapes of Christ, glory to the father and the venerable oneness, and to the righteous all around us, and to the perfecter of the common life! Now standing in heaven with the Holy Trinity with all the saints, pray for us: for this, we fall to your grave, like a child-loving father, we earnestly pray to you.
Remember your flock, which you have gathered wisely, and preserve through your prayers the flock given by God: do not despise us, who honor your most honorable and joyful memory: cleanse our sins: drive away the cloud of passions from us: enlighten our spiritual eyes, and correct the rotten language, cleanse the meaning and sanctify the mind. Come among us invisibly, and from all of us, the prayers of God sent forth, receive, and convey this intercession of all to the Creator and Savior, in the Trinity of Saints, worshiped by our True God, so that through our sins we may receive forgiveness, by the grace and love of mankind of our Lord Jesus Christ: with Him be glory to the Father with the Holy Spirit, now and ever and ever forever and ever.
O most honorable and sacred head, earthly angel and heavenly man, venerable and God-bearing Father Tryphon, enlightener and patron of the Vyatka and Perm countries! We fall to you with faith and pray with love: pray to the Lord God, who in these countries by His righteous life, the establishment of the Christian faith and the creation of monastic abodes, has pleased you, that He may preserve in us the Orthodox faith unshakable and from heresies and schisms, and unharmed by superstition and unbelief: may He strengthen the power of our most pious king and establish in our land there is peace, silence and serenity: so unwaveringly professing the faith of Christ, obeying the well-established authorities and living in all piety and purity, we will be worthy of the hope of salvation and we will be worthy of the love of Christ, with which you were filled, you endured all kinds of troubles and suffering and you gave us a good image, not to lose heart in sorrows and illness
Intercede, then, holy father, before the prayer of the Lord Almighty, may He grant us all that is necessary for eternal salvation and all that is good for our present life, so that we may end the rest of the days in peace and repentance with your holy prayers: that having achieved a peaceful end, we may be honored at the Last Judgment to hear the merciful, sweet voice of the Son of God, oh chosen to appear at the right hand of the Righteous Judge, and hereafter, together with you, partakers, and hereafter, together with you, partakers of eternal life. Hey, good father! Do not forget us, your children, who diligently pray to you, but show us your mercy in this time of life and after our death, so that we always thank you, our zealous intercessor, and magnify the ineffable mercy and love of mankind of the One God, glorified in the Trinity, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, forever and ever.
O holy, glorious and all-praised Apostle James Alpheus, disciple of Christ, who taught many people to the true faith and from them was named the divine seed! As we gather today in this church of yours and diligently flock to your honorable relics, brightly celebrating your holy memory, we say to you with tenderness: you, in many different countries, having grown the seed of the holy faith through the labors of the apostles, from it you created much fruit, now gloriously preserved in heavenly treasures. Pray therefore to the Divine Sower, the Lord Jesus Christ, so that we, the seed of our faith in fruitful multiplication, may be worthy at the end of our life to be received by the hands of the inhabitants of the mountains, the holy Angels, into the heavenly granary, glorify there and sing the most honorable and magnificent name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit forever and ever.
O beautiful bride of Christ, pure dove, blessed by the Holy Spirit, virginal praise and desert-dwelling interlocutor by the Angel, who planted a mental paradise on earth with your virtues, Venerable Mother Paraskeva! Whatever we bring as a worthy gift to you, besides our humble and sinful prayers, having received it, cleanse it with your holy prayers, and bring it to your Bridegroom, Christ our God. We bless you, the kind of Serbian beauty and our intercessor and guardian, in whom kings and princes boast. You, like a brave commander, with the strength given to you by the Tsar of the forces, turned back the faces of the enemies of your country with frost: in the same way, you protected our Russian country with the power of your prayers from all the slander of visible and invisible enemies. Pray to God for us, O reverend mother, may the Lord not reprove us with His wrath, may He punish us with His anger for our many sins, but may His mercy protect us and grant us time for repentance and correction. O Venerable Paraskeva!
All those who have gathered in this church [dedicated to your name] and who lovingly honor your holy memory with your intercession of autumn, and ask the King for strength, Who stands before Him with the Angels, which is useful for everyone in this temporary life, and moreover, help us to achieve the Heavenly Kingdom with your warm prayers and intercession to our Lord Jesus Christ, Him befits all glory, honor and worship, with the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
Having loved the deserted and silent life, and having diligently followed Christ your Bridegroom, and having taken up His good yoke in your youth, having courageously armed yourself with the sign of the cross against your mental enemies, having quenched the embers of passions with feats of fasting, fasting and prayers and tear drops Thou art, venerable Paraskeva: and now in the heavenly devil with the wise virgins standing before Christ, pray for us who honor your honorable memory.
O great servants of Christ and miracle workers, Saints Theodora and John! Behold, we, unworthy and sinful, oppressed by many sorrows, diligently run to you and pray with strong hope: O fathers of mercy and God-obedience, mercifully now hear our prayerful voice, and strive for our help, and as in your life to all who mourn and To the embittered, helpers and comforters are quicker, so now show your love for us, by the grace-filled action of your God-pleasing prayers, transforming our sorrow into joy, and sorrow into consolation: for you can do everything in Christ who strengthens you, His faithful servant has appeared. Having received from God all the promised good things, send down to us the great and rich mercy of the Lord, so that we may sing and glorify the wondrous God in His saints, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto the ages of ages.
Holy servant of God, Artemy the Righteous, guardian of the holy monastery, adorned with your name, and intercessor of all northern countries before God! Look mercifully at the earnest prayer of us sinners, and through your compassionate intercession, ask the Lord for forgiveness of our sins, advance in faith and piety, and seek protection from the wiles of the devil for us. Most of all, pray to the Lord to preserve our most pious, autocratic, great sovereign, Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich, in health and unchangeable well-being, and may he grant to all the people entrusted to his power peace, silence and unfeigned obedience, may he make all of us, after the death of Christians, worthy to receive the Heavenly Kingdom, where all the righteous are purchased with through you they glorify the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit forever and ever.
O great servant of God, holy righteous Artemy, holy monastery, admiring your name, patron, strong intercessor for us to the Lord, benefactor of the living monks of your monastery, and good listener of all who flow with faith and love to the race of your miraculous relics! Look mercifully at the wretched prayer of us sinners and indecents, and with your omnipotent intercession ask the Lord for forgiveness of sins, advancement in faith and piety and protection from the machinations of the adversary who seeks to destroy us. Grant to the brotherhood of your monastery humility and meekness, love and all-hearted obedience, service and life of reverence and good observance of monastic community, so that the Lord may work unashamedly, with a burning spirit, and prosper in unceasing prayer for our benefactors, the living and the departed, We will appear as faithful servants of the Lord. Pray to the Lord, that the Orthodox Church, like a well-planted garden, may be established and multiply, and may it produce rich fruits of faith and piety.
Pray to the Lord to keep our most pious sovereign, Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich, and the entire reigning house, which has been good to us, in health, spiritual salvation and in all prosperity. Pray to the Lord for mercy and gracious bounties to the Holy Governing Synod, and to our Most Reverend [Bishop of Archangel City named after], and to all the sacred clergy, and to all Orthodox Christians, so that through the intercession and intercession of our Most Blessed Lady Theotokos, a peaceful and God-pleasing life here Let us live, and after the peaceful death of Christians in the glorious Kingdom of the mercy of the King of heaven and earth, we will be worthy to glorify the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
O glorious servant of God, O great wonderworker, holy and righteous Artemy, earthly cherub, heavenly man, interlocutor of Angels, heavenly inhabitant! Look down from the heights of heaven with your bright eye, and send down to us the rays of God's grace. Lighted candlestick with your holy prayers, kindle the darkness of our sins, ask the Father of lights for the light of grace for our souls, a quick helper and intercessor for all the faithful. Everyone, with faith, comes prayerfully under the roof of your protection and asks for your intercession from the Lord, so that we may be helped, but he gains God’s mercy and is not deprived of the desires of his heart: but asks for grace and receives the gift based on the benefit of the petition. You are, righteous Artemy, a heliport planted by God, and in it the healthy flower flourishes, so that many can be healed from the green, shaking ailment.
Oh, since the many with your miraculous help made blindness see, received deafness of hearing, jumped up and walked with lameness, accepted the infirmity of the hands, fell into madness, strengthened relaxation in the veins, became slushy You have corrected yourself, and healed those with delusions! You also drove away the filthiness of the demons with your prayer, and resolved other unhealing illnesses. Thus, holy righteous Artemy, you are always merciful to everyone. For we also pray for God’s inscrutable goodness, that the Lord may forgive us our debts, and may He keep the Russian kingdom in peace and prosperity, in strength and abundance, and may it strengthen the Orthodox faith, may it satisfy church schisms, and may it save all Orthodox Christians. We will honestly celebrate your holy memory from generation to generation, glorifying the Lord Christ, to whom all glory, honor and worship is due, with His Beginningless Father, and with the Most Holy and Good and Life-Giving Spirit, now and ever and to the endless ages of ages.
By the command of the Most High, the cloudy cloud darkened the sky, and the lightning flashed, and the thunder roared with rebuke, and you gave up your soul in the hand of the Lord, the wise Artemy: and now you stand before the throne of the Lord of all, to all who come to the race with faith and love granting your healing urgently and praying to Christ God to save our souls.
About the wonderful miracle of the holy week of the week, praise to the city of Ephesus and the hope of the whole universe! Look from the heights of heavenly glory at us, who honor your memory with love, and especially at the Christian babies, entrusted to your intercession by their parents. Bring down upon her the blessing of Christ God, saying: leave the children to come to Me. Heal the sick in them, comfort the sorrowful: keep their hearts pure, fill them with meekness, and in the soil of their hearts plant and strengthen the seed of the confession of God, so that they may grow from strength to strength. And all of us who stand before your holy icon, kissing your relics with faith and praying warmly to you, grant us the gift of the Kingdom of Heaven and with silent voices of joy there glorify the magnificent name of the Most Holy Trinity, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, forever and ever.
Great miracle of faith! In the cave, as if in the hall of the royal sanctuary, the seven youths remained, and died without ashes, and after many times they arose as if from sleep, as an assurance of the resurrection of all people. Through those prayers, Christ God, have mercy on us.
O venerable fathers, our shepherds and teachers, blessed Abvo Theodore and Abvo Paul! In the ancient years, they deigned to follow the commandments of the Lord, and drew nature to a deserted place, where, with the blessing and prayers of their leader, the reverend and God-bearing Sergius, the miracle worker of Radonezh, the glorious monastery of the holy passion-bearers Boris and Gleb was restored by nature, in order to establish the piety of monastic residence, and against the invisible There, the enemies of our salvation labored, and thus became God's servants, more splendidly adorned with faith, hope and love, and with fasting and vigil and prayers, pleasing to God and in all piety, revealed to us for temporary life and eternal salvation. And now, our reverend fathers, do not forget to visit your children in order to ward off the slander of the enemy from us: instruct and confirm us in good deeds, guiding our souls towards eternal life.
Pray for mercy to the Giver and Lord of all, that He will save us, and He will be the heirs of eternal pleasure, and may we continually glorify the all-holy name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, to the endless ages of ages.
The great holy, righteous and glorious wonderworker, God-blessed servant of Christ Jacob, wonderfully glorified in heaven and on earth from the Lord the healer and intercessor given to us! We fall reverently to you with faith and love and from the depths of our souls we pray: help us, our Lord and Creator, those who have greatly angered us, to repent, and ask us for everything we need for temporary life and eternal salvation: fruitfulness of our land, prosperity in the air, health of souls and bodies, advancement in piety, faith Orthodox strengthening, disgrace of superstition, eradication of unbelief, and fulfillment of every good request we make to God. Ask our blessed Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich for victory and victory over his enemies, and for his kingdom to be in peace and prosperity. Hear, O servant of God, every Christian soul, prayerfully calling upon you in sorrow and situation, hasten to help, ease sorrows, heal ailments, and appear as a speedy intercessor to all who demand your intercession.
Most of all, in the last hour of our life, do not hesitate to come to our aid, and beg the Lord to grant us a peaceful, serene end to our lives, partakers of the Holy Mysteries of Christ and filled with hope, so that with the hope of salvation we will comfortably pass the terrible path of airy ordeals and unfailingly reach the longed-for Kingdom, which the Lord has prepared for those who love Him. Hey, holy of God! Hear us and do not despise our prayer, but make us partners in the existence of eternal bliss, so that together with you, salvation through the mercy of Christ our Savior, we will sing and glorify Him with the Father and the Holy Spirit, forever and ever.
O most venerable head, citizen of heavenly Jerusalem, holy righteous Jacob, the grace of the Holy Spirit is the fulfillment of the abode of the Father! Standing before the throne of all the King, and enjoying the light of the Consubstantial Trinity, and hurubim with the Angels proclaiming the trisagion hymn, you have great and unfathomable boldness towards the Lord. Moreover, keep the great gift given by Christ in you, pray to the All-Merciful Master to save our most pious, autocratic, great Sovereign, Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich of all Russia and all Orthodox people and hostile enemies under the pressure of their subjugation. Above all, keep our holy faith in purity, establish our cities, pacify [the monastery and] the whole world, deliver from famine and pests, and save from the attacks of foreigners: old comforts, young instructions, foolish wisdom, have mercy on widows, orphans Intercede, raise the babies, and save all people from all slander of the enemy.
On the day of the Last Judgment of God, our intercessor, deliver from these parts with your prayers and with the sheep of your right hand the longed-for voice from the Lord Christ our God to hear: come, blessed of My Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. Where may we abide, continually glorifying the All-Holy Trinity, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, to the endless ages of ages.
O reverend and God-bearing servant of God, holy and righteous Jacob! Hear us praying to you at this hour, and be our helper in our sorrows, and deliver us from the misfortunes that befall us for our many sins. Pray to the All-Good God to grant us forgiveness of all sins, from youth to the present day and hour, in deed, word and thought, committed by us, and grant us unrestricted entry into the Heavenly Kingdom, so that we glorify from the Angels the unceasingly glorified All-Holy Trinity, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, and your merciful intercession, forever and ever.
Having been enlightened by divine grace, and after death you grant healing to those who flow to the race of your relics, the wise Jacob: in the same way, we now present your honorable relics, joyfully together for soul and body. Thus we all cry out: glory to Him who gave you strength: glory to Him who crowned you: glory to Him who heals all through you.
We bless you, holy righteous James, and honor your holy memory: for you pray for us, Christ our God.
Holy and glorious Great Martyr of Christ Demetrius, quick helper and warm intercessor of those who flow to you with faith! Standing boldly before the Heavenly King, ask Him for forgiveness of our sins, and to free us from the all-destroying plague, cowardice, flood, fire, sword and eternal punishment. Pray for His goodness to show mercy to this city, [this monastery] and every Christian country. Petition from the King of those reigning for victory and conquest of our pious emperor against his enemies, and for all his kingdom peace, silence, firmness in faith and advancement in piety: for us, who honor your honorable memory, ask for grace-filled strengthening for good deeds, so that what is pleasing to our Lord Christ God here, we may be worthy to inherit the Kingdom through your prayers Heavenly and there glorify Him, with the Father and the Holy Spirit, forever and ever.
Great will you find in troubles, champion of the universe, passion-bearing, conquering languages. Just as you brought down Leah’s pride, you made Nestor boldly perform the feat: thus, Saint Demetrius, pray to Christ God to grant us great mercy.
We magnify you, the passion-bearing Saint Demetrius, and honor your honest suffering, which you endured for Christ.
O exceedingly wonderful and wondrous in miracles, glorified by God in heaven, worker of Christ’s grapes, inhabitant of Zion on High, the pre-established city of Jerusalem, blessed Prince Andrew, the joy of the saints and wondrous goodness of man, former desirer of wonderful and wondrous heavenly villages, now appear with all those saints as a partaker! Even though you were a man by nature, but having labored diligently in labors, you were established in an endless world with the Angels. You were a stranger and a stranger on earth, for this reason you received life in heaven: leaving your earthly and perishable fatherland, you accepted the incorruptible and eternal. The Lord God has crowned you and given you the gift of miracles, to heal ailments on earth and to mercifully visit those who come to you with faith: for the Lord God, the Merciful, will show you to us as a representative, like a merciful Father to a sick child. For this reason, we earnestly pray to you, standing before your multi-healing tomb, to cover us sinners with your wonderful cover, not from gold and silver, but given by God in grace.
Even though we are in the sin of every desecration, but shedding tears of repentance, we tenderly cry out to you: have mercy on us, O holy and wondrous faithful Prince Andrew, give us a helping hand and deliver us from every slander of the enemy: be our merciful protector and a quick healer from our illnesses: free us from the hand of a stranger and from every sign of evil. Behold, we have endured many troubles, all the evil sorrows of contrition, we have gone down to the doors of mortals from sorrow, we have angered God with our sins, and we have driven Him away from ourselves. Therefore, be our leader and intercessor before our Lord Jesus Christ and His Eternal Father and the Holy Spirit, so that we may receive forgiveness of sins and much mercy from Him.
Be a warm intercessor and prayer book for our most pious, autocratic, great sovereign, Emperor Nicholas Alexandrovich of all Russia, and for the entire reigning house, and for all the Christ-loving army: be, O Saint of God, a supporter and intercessor for the entire Christ-loving army against all non-Orthodox and cross-hating evil and foreign enemies and adversaries, may all the conquered be under the hand of our crusader emperor, and may the memory of their evil faith be consumed: Do not forget our Russian country, but always look upon it, and beseech God for every abundance of the fruits of the earth to give it to God: and to all who call upon you with faith in all sorrows, illnesses and in times of need, be a helper and intercessor, through the grace and generosity and love of mankind of the Lord God and our Savior Jesus Christ, to Him be glory and worship from us now and throughout the ages of endless ages.
O Master who loves mankind, the Heavenly King, Lord Jesus Christ our God, for our sake man and for our salvation appeared on earth in the flesh and lived as man! We pray to You, O Lord Almighty, long-suffering and abundantly merciful, grant us to always have before You a thought that is good and pleasing to You, so that, having freed ourselves from the nightly and dark evil of the devil, we will work with all zeal for You in reverence and righteousness and truth, with fear and trembling all the days of our life, and until our last breath We will sing praises to Thee, and we will always sweat vigorously and soberly to Thy praise: for all things are possible for Thee, and without Thy will there is nothing: do whatever you want to do, and whatever Thy ineffable mercy pleases. Why should our tongue be silent, or with such songs of praise do we not sing about Your great mercy towards us, for You have filled us with such joy as sinners and spiritual joy? How can we sing with our tongues or lips to praise and magnify Your ineffable goodness to us, which You have shown us, such is the holiday today?
O Master who loves mankind, our God, Lord Jesus Christ! Hear us, unworthy, praying to You, and send this righteous saint of Yours, the blessed Prince Andrea, to help us, so that through his prayers we will be freed from all spiritual and physical misfortunes: for we, running to his tomb, bow and kiss with faith his holy image: for he gives many miracles and healings to those who pray. Oh, wondrous in miracles, glorified by God in heaven, holy and faithful Prince Andrew!
Pray for us sinners to Christ God, that He may have mercy on all of us who come to your tomb, and pray to you with faith, and worship your holy image, and kiss it with love, and call on you for help in all kinds of sorrows and misfortunes: be a warm helper and a quick healer in illnesses: grant health helpless and unfailing help to us who pray to you: be a helper and protector to helpless orphans and widows, and grant everyone all the salvation and benefit they ask for: and with your holy prayers protect, preserve and preserve Russian cities and countries from all evils, diseases, misfortunes and slander of enemies and from the presence of foreigners and internecine warfare: and standing at the throne, the Lady, prayed for us sinners to Christ our God, to Him belongs all glory, honor, worship and splendor, together with the Father and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto the ages of ages.
Having loved the bliss of the Gospel, O God-wise Prince Andrei, you honored the purity of your heart with virginity, and despising the vanity of this world, you strived to see God, who glorified you with miracles in healing those who suffered in various ways. For this reason, we pray to you: ask Christ the Lord for deliverance from all sorrows and the receipt of the Kingdom of Heaven.
Your city of Smolensk, as if it were alien, you settled in the city of Pereyaslavl, and in the house of St. Nicholas, having completed your temporary life by cruel living, you ascended into the heavenly place to stand before Christ. Pray for this for those who create your memory, and we all cry out to you: Rejoice, holy Prince Andrew, angel interlocutor and human helper.
We bless you, holy and faithful Prince Andrew, and honor your holy memory: you pray for us to Christ our God.
Holy bride of Christ, long-suffering martyr Paraskeva! We know that from your youth you have loved with all your soul and with all your heart the King of glory, Christ the Savior, and you have become ignorant of Him alone, having squandered all your possessions on the poor. You shone with the power of piety, chastity and righteousness like the rays of the sun, living holy among the unbelievers and fearlessly preaching Christ God. From the days of your youth, taught by your parents, you reverently honored the days of the redemptive passions of our Lord Jesus Christ, and for His sake you yourself suffered willingly. You, by the right hand of the Angel of God, were wonderfully healed from incurable wounds and received indescribable lightness, you surprised the unfaithful tormentors. You, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and by the power of your prayer in the pagan temple, having cast down all the idols, you have crushed them to dust.
You, being scorched by the lights, with your single prayer to the Almighty Lord you extinguished the natural fire, and with the same flame, miraculously kindled through the Angel of God, you burned the frantic lawless people, and you led many people to the knowledge of the True God. You, having taken beheading by the sword for the glory of the Lord, have valiantly ended your suffering feat, and with your soul you have ascended into heaven into the palace of your longed-for Bridegroom Christ, the King of Glory, who so proclaimed good will about you: Rejoice, ye righteous, like the martyr Paraskeva crowned! Likewise, we, today having come to this [your] church, joyfully offer veneration to you, and looking at your holy icon, we cry out to you with tenderness: O all-honorable Paraskeva!
We know that you have great courage in the Lord: pray to Him, the lover of mankind, for us sinners, that He may grant us patience and complacency in troubles and sorrowful circumstances, and that He may grant us a prosperous and peaceful life, health and salvation, and good haste in all things, to our most pious, most sovereign, great sovereign, Emperor Nicholas To Alexandrovich, and to the entire reigning house: May your holy blessing and peace descend upon our Fatherland, and may your holy prayers grant affirmation in faith and piety and success in Christian love to all Orthodox Christians: may he cleanse us sinners from all filth and vice: may the Angels protect us with His saints, may He intercede, preserve and have mercy on everyone with His grace, and may all of us be heirs and partakers of His Heavenly Kingdom, as through your holy prayers, the all-glorious bride of Christ Paraskeva, having increased salvation, we will glorify all the most holy and magnificent name of the True God, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, in His saints, always, now and ever, and unto the ages of ages.
O holy and blessed martyr of Christ Paraskeva, maiden beauty, praise of the martyrs, purity of image, generous mirrors, wonder of the wise, guardian of the Christian faith, idolatry flattery to the accuser, champion of the Divine Gospel, zealot of the Lord’s commandments, worthy to come to the haven of eternal rest and in The devil of your Bridegroom, Christ God, brightly rejoicing, adorned with the deep crown of virginity and martyrdom! We pray to you, holy martyr: be sorrowful for us to Christ God, whose most blessed sight is ever rejoicing: pray to the All-Merciful One, Who opened the eyes of the blind with a word, that He may deliver us from our illnesses, both physical and mental: with your holy prayers, kindle the dark darkness that has come from our sins: ask from Father of lights, the light of grace to our souls and bodies: enlighten us, darkened by sins, with the light of God’s grace, so that for the sake of your holy prayers sweet vision may be given to the dishonorable! O great servant of God! O most courageous maiden! O strong martyr Saint Paraskeva!
Through your holy prayers, be a helper to us sinners. Intercede and pray for the damned and extremely negligent sinners, to speed up to help us, as we are so weak. Pray to the Lord, pure maiden, pray to the Merciful, holy martyr, pray to your Bridegroom, immaculate bride of Christ, that through your prayers, having overcome the darkness of sin, in the light of true faith and divine deeds we may enter into the eternal light of the never-evening day, into the city of everlasting joy, in which you now shine brightly with glory and endless joy, glorifying and singing with all the heavenly powers the Tri-radiant One Deity, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto the ages of ages.
The wise and all-praiseworthy martyr of Christ Paraskeva, having accepted courageous strength, but rejecting female weakness, has put to shame the devil of victory and the tormentor, crying out and saying: Come, cut off my body with a sword and burn it with fire, for I go rejoicing to Christ my Bridegroom. Through your prayers, O Christ God, save our souls.
About the venerable Father Job, a God-wise teacher of monks in hard-working life, meekness and self-control, purity and chastity, brotherly love and love of poverty, patience and vigilance from early youth to late old age, a tireless ascetic, a great zealot of the Orthodox faith and an insurmountable champion of the land of Volyn and The Galician luminary of God and the holy Pochaev monastery is an invincible protector! Look with the eye of your compassion on us, your unworthy children, who diligently come running to you all day long, and on this God-loving people, gathered before your spirit-bearing and multi-healing relics and reverently falling towards you, and ask for your intercession to the Most High Master for them and for us, everything that is useful and useful for life and piety: Heal the sick, encourage the faint-hearted, comfort the sorrowing, protect the offended, strengthen the weak and restore the prostrate, grant to all the grace given to you by God, according to each need and requirement, for the salvation of the soul and the health of the body.
Offer up, O servant of God, your all-powerful prayer for our most pious sovereign, Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich, and for his entire reigning house, may there always be peace and quiet, piety and prosperity in his kingdom, truth and mercy in courts, wisdom and good prosperity in councils, may loyalty be established in good people, in the wicked there is fear and illness, so that they may cease from evil and do good, so that in the Russian Empire the Kingdom of Christ grows and multiplies, and may God, wondrous in His saints, be glorified in it: to Him alone befits all glory, honor and worship, to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and forever and ever.
Having acquired the long-suffering of the long-suffering forefather, emulating the baptismal abstinence, sharing both the divine zeal, you were honored to receive those names worthily, and you were a fearless preacher of the true faith: you also led many monks to Christ, and you established all people in Orthodoxy you are. Reverend Job our Father, pray for our souls to be saved.
Praise to the virgins and glory to the martyrs, Reverend Anastasia! We fall to you in the tenderness of our hearts and pray for your intercession with the Lord for us. Even though we are not jealous of your purity and fearless confession of yours, we do not partake of your many sins and cruel falls and apostasies, attracting the wrath of God: but we do not want to die in our sins, and we look at your courageous exploits, and at overcoming our passions Let's take up arms. Knowing this, that apart from grace-filled help we can do nothing good, we ask this gift from the Lord to you. For you, most glorious martyr, have gained great boldness towards the Master, for you have glorified Him in the purity of your soul and in your body through suffering, having despised all the seductions and rebuke of the tormentor, the uprooting of teeth, and torn nails, and the cutting off of breasts and arms and legs. Having endured sweetness, you cried out boldly: Christ is my riches and praise.
Moreover, from That wealth and our poverty, grant spiritual gifts, and protect our lives from immeasurable sins, obtain peace and serenity for us, protect us from need and despondency with your intercession, teach us to each other in obedience and brotherly love, and always lift up the eyes of our hearts to the Lord, in order that we may ever glorify the Father and the Son and Holy Spirit power, and your warm intercession forever and ever.
O Reverend Father Avramie! Do not forget us sinners, but always remember in your holy prayers your flock, which you yourself gathered, and pray for us, your children, holy father, as if you had boldness in the Lord: we do not think that you are dead, even if you were departed from us, our good shepherd. Behold, your holy relics are laid before our eyes, and your holy soul, with the disembodied angelic faces standing before the throne of all the King, rejoices with dignity. Ask us time for repentance, so that we may be able to pass from earth to heaven without restraint, and having been delivered from eternal torment, we will be heirs of the Heavenly Kingdom with all the righteous, who have pleased our Lord Jesus Christ from time immemorial, to Him belongs all glory, honor and worship, with the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
Enlightened by Divine grace, you guided unfaithful people to the light of God’s understanding: and after death, shining with the lightness of your life, you exude healing to those who flow with faith to the race of your relics. Abraham our father, pray to Christ God to grant us great mercy.
O miracle workers of glory, physicians of mercilessness, Cosmos and Damian! You, who have loved Christ God from your youth, have received not only the art of healing, but moreover the inexhaustible grace of healing all sorts of ailments from God. Likewise, you will soon hear us, who fall before your honorable icon. Young children, asking for your help in the teaching of the book, instruct them with your prayers, so that by your zealous life they will acquire not only earthly things, but, moreover, may they continually prosper in piety and true faith. To those lying on their sick beds, to those in despair who are in need of help, but to those who come running to you warmly with faith and fervent prayer, grant healing of illnesses through your merciful miraculous visit: in the same way, from severe illnesses to despondency, cowardice and murmuring that came to you by the grace given to you from God in With patience, confirm and instruct, so that they may understand God’s holy and perfect will for them, and become partakers of God’s saving grace.
Keep the brethren of this holy church, entrusted to your holy intercession by God, and all those who diligently come running to you from severe illnesses unharmed, and from the sudden power of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, and your warm intercession forever and ever. prospering, that together with you in the future they will be able to sing and glorify the all-holy and magnificent name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit forever and ever.
Saints without money and wonderworkers Cosmos and Damian, visit our infirmities: accept tuna, give us tuna.
O All-Holy Life-Giving and Indivisible Trinity, true servant and faithful servant, blessed and ever-memorable Simone! O chosen one of God, you are like a fool to the world, but surprise the wise with your life! O marvelous wonderworker Simon, adorned with virtues! Behold, we will always please you and we will please you, who was previously blessed by our Lord Jesus Christ. For you, being jealous of the bliss of all the righteous, left this entire transitory world, and after our eternal joy and resurrection, the All-Sweet Jesus, you flowed, and with His omnipotent help you even reached the mountainous Zion, where there is a dwelling place for those who rejoice.
Blessingly, we diligently pray to you, righteous man of God: look upon us, who are falling into many temptations: pray for us the ineffable joy and hope of all mankind, coeval with the Father and the Spirit, the Only Begotten Son and the Word of God, and even us, whom the unforgettable mercy of those who anger will not abandon, and may He arrange everything for our benefit: moreover, may He confirm us in His Orthodox, true and immaculate faith, unshakable, and by His righteous destinies may He save us, and may He allow us to be tempted beyond what we can, from troubles and sorrows, which are always here today for the sake of our beings, may he mercifully deliver us. To her, we pray to you, the servant of Christ: just as in your life you looked upon those in need of help, so now do not turn away us who pray to you, but come to the Lord for us, and take us from our cruel falls with your prayers: beg Him, so that this city of yours, having lived virtuously in it, has pleased God, and will preserve it. from all the slander of the enemy, and the people living in it are worthy of eternal life, let it show.
Again we pray to you, blessed Simone: visit us who pray to you in our needs, so that through you we intercede and unceasingly glorify Christ our God, who has given you as a warm representative. For to Him belongs all glory, honor and worship, with the Father and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
O great servant of God, glorious wonderworker and quick helper in those in trouble, Holy Hierarch Father Jono! Standing from the Angels to the heavenly throne of the Great King, our Lord Jesus Christ, great boldness towards him, as a faithful imitator and secret man of God, Imashi. To you, as our many-powerful representative and zealous prayer book for us, we resort to sins and unworthiness. Pray for His goodness, that He may turn away His anger from us, righteously moved towards us by our deeds, and, having despised our countless sins, turn us to the path of repentance, and may He establish us on the path of His commandments with His right hand. Protect our lives, O Saint of Christ, with your prayers, and ask us for good haste in everything from our great-gifted God, granting us everything we need for life and piety.
And just as in your earthly life you did good to your neighbors, feeding the poor, widows and orphans, interceding and delivering your flock from the destruction of mortals with your prayers: so, through your intercession, you delivered us and your holy abode from all misfortunes and troubles and deadly ailments, and from all enemies, visible and invisible, with prayerful protection protect yours. Keep, O servant of God, in peace, health and long life our most pious sovereign, Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich, and be a strong patron and protector of his power and the entire kingdom of Russia, so that we may live a quiet and silent life in all piety and purity, and so in the world this temporary life has passed, we will achieve eternal peace, where we will be made worthy of the Heavenly Kingdom of Christ our God, glorifying Him, with His Beginning Father and the Most Holy Spirit, forever and ever.
The correction of faith and the image of meekness, like a garden in the middle of paradise, through your venerable deeds enlighten the world. For this reason, we touch upon your more honest love, and truly cry out: present yourself to help those who sing your luminous memory, Father Jono, and pray for our souls to be saved.
O venerable and God-bearing Father Varlaam! Hear us praying to you, and be our helper in our sorrows, and deliver us from the misfortunes that come upon us for the many sins that have befallen us. Pray, O saint of Christ, to the All-Good God to grant us the forgiveness of all from our youth to this day and hour in deed, word, thought and all the feelings of the sins we have committed, and grant us unrestricted entry into the Heavenly Kingdom, so that we glorify the All-Holy Trinity, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, constantly glorified by the Angels, and your merciful intercession, to endless ages of ages.
O sacred head, venerable and blessed Father Barlaam the Great! Do not forget us sinners, but always remember us in your holy and auspicious prayers to God, as if you have boldness towards Him, and do not keep silent for us, who honor you with faith and love: for you have been given the grace to pray for us. We do not imagine that you are dead, but even after death the being who leads you is alive, we pray to you: do not depart from us in your spirit, but save us from the arrows of the enemy and all the charms of the demonic and the wiles of the devil. To our good shepherd and Russian luminary! Your image will always appear before our eyes, and your holy soul with its disembodied heavenly faces will appear rejoicing at the throne of the Almighty.
We fall down before you, Holy Father Barlaam, and we pray with tears: pray to Almighty God for us and for the good of our souls, ask us for a time of repentance and to freely depart from all the princes of the air and get rid of eternal torment, and to be partakers of the Kingdom of Christ, so that through your intercession we may be saved, we will glorify our Lord Jesus Christ, with His Beginning Father and the Most Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
On the earth, by lying down, fasting and vigil, exhausting your body, reverent one, you put to death all carnal wisdom, and an unenvious stream of healing appeared through faith to those flowing to the race of your relics: Our Father Barlaam, pray to Christ God, that our souls may be saved.
O Saint Herman of Christ, God-wise founder of this monastery, spiritual leader of the monastics, teach the image of your Christ-imitating life to all the faithful! We come running to you and earnestly pray to you: create saints with your prayers, so that by the grace of God we too will be built into the abode of the Holy Spirit, and by following your life in the image of the likeness and truth of Christ, we will be transformed, and by the power of your God-pleasing prayers we will fall, and we will continually strive to bear the fruits of good deeds, pleasing the Lord. Help us, in the light of His face, to walk and fulfill His holy will, to serve our neighbors for the good and to work for our salvation in every possible way, and in the patience of all hardships, sorrows and hardships to thrive and love our Lord with all our hearts.
Pray, holy God, for the strengthening of our weakness with holy help, may the Lord deliver us from enemies visible and invisible, from fiery and watery consumption, from bad air and corrupting winds, and even more so from the soul-destroying flame of our passions, and under the shelter of God’s goodness and mercy a quiet and silent life Let us live, waiting for the blessed appearance of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, to Him with the Father and His Holy Spirit be honor and glory forever and ever.
O Saint Herman, great saint of Christ, God-wise founder of this monastery, monastic mentor and vigilant guardian of this city, stand with your holy soul in heaven at the throne of the Holy Trinity, rest with your incorruptible body here in your monastery and perform manifold miracles with your prayers! Look at us and at all people, flowing to your wholesome tomb and your intercession to the Lord, asking for those who need you. Behold, all of us, due to the multitude of our sins, are not exactly unworthy to offer a prayerful voice with boldness, but rather to raise our eyes to heaven: you, who have acquired boldness, offer for all those who come to your more honest race, warm prayers to the Lord, who will deliver us from famine, flood, cowardice, fire, sword, battles from people and the devil, and from all mental and physical illnesses: so that having gotten rid of these and working for the Lord, Who stands before Him, we may enter into endless peace and, together with you, glorify all the good things of the Giver of God, always, now and ever, and unto the ages of ages.
O great servant of Christ Herman, warm prayer book for us to the Lord, representative of all who flock to you in sorrow! Ask us for help in weaknesses, consolation in sorrows, health in mental and physical ailments: beg the Lord to grant us the forgiveness of all those who have sinned from our youth in life with this deed, word, thought and all our feelings: and at our death, ask us for a time of repentance, so that with a sincere confession of sins, beforehand, safely Let us pass through the airy ordeal, and we will be delivered from condemnation and torment, by the mercy of the Father Without Beginning, by the grace of the Son without Beginning, and by the sanctification of the Ever-Existing Spirit, forever and ever.
O Reverend Father Varlaam! For you have boldness towards the Creator, our True God, remember us in your prayers, and accept all of us prayers sent to God, and bring them in intercession. We pray to you, deliver us from all misfortunes, and keep us unharmed at sea from the green storm and from the drowning of the sea, and keep us unharmed from all visible and invisible enemies, for through your prayers, holy ones, we will receive the forgiveness of our sins and be honored with eternal blessings, by the grace and love of mankind of our Lord Jesus Christ, to Him be glory, with Father and Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
Holy and great Archangel of God Michael, the first primate angel of the inscrutable and all-essential Trinity, the guardian and guardian of the human race, crushing with your armies the head of the proud Star in heaven and always repressing 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 a wise mentor and assistant to our most pious emperor, bringing enlightenment and strength, joy, peace and consolation to him at the throne of the King of Reigns. Be the leader and companion of our invincible Christ-loving army, crowning it with glory and victories over our adversaries, so that all who oppose us may 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, so that we can understand that God’s will for us is good and perfect, and we can do everything that we should do and that we should despise and abandon. Strengthen by the grace of the Lord our weak will and weak will, 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, and for the sake of the corruptible and the earthly, the eternal and the heavenly, we will not forget. Over all of these, ask us from above for the spirit of true repentance, unfeigned sorrow for God and contrition for our sins, so that we may complete the remaining number of days of our temporary life in erasing the evils we have committed.
When the hour of our end and liberation from the bonds of this mortal body approaches, do not leave us, Archangel of God, defenseless against the spirits of malice in the heavens, who are accustomed to block the souls of mankind from rising to heaven: may we be protected by you, without ancestry Let us reach these glorious villages of paradise, where there is no sorrow or 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.
O Saint Michael the Archangel, light-shaped and formidable commander of the Heavenly King! Before the Last Judgment, let me repent from my sins, deliver my soul from the net that catches me and bring it to the God who created it, who sits on the Cherubim, and pray for it diligently, so that through your intercession it will be sent to a place of peace. O formidable commander of the heavenly powers, representative of all at the throne of the Lord Christ, guardian of the strong man and wise armorer, strong commander of the Heavenly King! Have mercy on me, a sinner who requires your intercession, save me from all visible and invisible enemies, and moreover, strengthen me from the horror of death and from the embarrassment of the devil, and grant me the honor of unashamedly presenting myself to our Creator at the hour of His Terrible and Righteous Judgment. O all-holy, great Michael the Archangel! Do not despise me, a sinner, who prays to you for help and your intercession in this world and in the future, but grant me there together with you to glorify the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit forever and ever.
O great holy Archangel Gabriel, standing before the throne of God and illuminated by the illumination of the Divine light, enlightened by the knowledge of the incomprehensible mysteries of His eternal wisdom! I earnestly pray to you, guide me to repentance from evil deeds and to strengthen my faith, strengthen and protect my soul from seductive temptations, and beg our Creator for the forgiveness of my sins. O holy great Gabriel the Archangel! Do not despise me, a sinner, who prays to you for your help and intercession in this world and in the future, but an ever-present helper to me, may I continually glorify the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, the power and your intercession forever and ever.
O holy great Archangel Raphael, stand before the throne of God! By the grace of the Almighty Physician of our souls and bodies given to you, you delivered the righteous husband Tobit from bodily blindness, and you saved his son Tobias from an evil spirit while traveling with him. I earnestly pray to you, be my guide in my life, save me from all visible and invisible enemies, heal my mental and physical illnesses, guide my life towards repentance of sins and the doing of good deeds. O holy great Raphael the Archangel! Hear me, a sinner, praying to you, and make me worthy in this and the future life to thank and glorify our common Creator forever and ever.
[Prayers 2, 3 and 4 from the ancient manuscript]
Heavenly armies of the Archangels, we always pray to you, we are unworthy, so that with your prayers the krill of your immaterial glory protect us with blood, preserving us diligently and crying: deliver us from troubles, like the heads of the highest powers.
Servant of God, our prayer book, our warm and quick helper, blessed Maxima! Falling before the race of your relics, we glorify the arduous feats of your foolishness for Christ’s sake. Having loved the One God with all your soul, you did not want to enjoy the beauties of this world, you renounced the love of your relatives, you renounced wealth and temporal glory, and you loved a homeless life. Having labored for the salvation of your soul, you exhausted your flesh with bodily nakedness, filth and heat, fasting and vigil, and by lying on the earth, and you subdued all the passions of the spirit, on earth in heaven, but lived spiritually in the flesh. With all our minds we will turn to the worldly, you have rejected carnal wisdom, and being wise in Christ, the fool of the world appeared, graciously enduring many insults and beatings from the foolish and instructing many wicked people on the path of salvation.
Moreover, after the end of your deeds, the All-Righteous Judge glorified you with the incorruption of your honorable relics and many miracles, and settled your holy soul in the heavenly abodes, where you stand before the throne of the unapproachable Divine Light, in Him, like in a mirror, you see our needs, hear our petitions, and As a friend of Christ, I have great courage to pray for us. For this reason, we earnestly ask you: pray to the Lord God for us who are faithful to the earth, so that we, in imitation of your angel-like life on earth, in the vain cares of life and in earthly pleasures, in no way become dirty and do not cleave our souls to the corruptible goods of this world. let's dare.
Pray, saint of Christ, may the Lord turn our thoughts and desires into heavenly things and strengthen our desires for future incorruptible treasures, may He give us the strength to conquer passions, thoughts and desires of sin, may He captivate our minds in the obedience of faith, may He deliver us from arrogance, superstition, false destructive teachings, and grant us spiritual wisdom: the same May our petrified hearts be dissolved by tears of tenderness and contrition about sins, and may they warm us towards our Creator with love and brotherly love for our neighbors. We pray to you, Blessed Maxima: ask for everyone who exists in every need and who resorts to your intercession, every gift that is useful to everyone: healing for the sick, consolation for the sad, help for the needy, protection for the offended.
Bring to the Lord a holy prayer for all of us who have sinned, so that He will not repay us according to our sins, but He will punish us according to our iniquity, but may He turn away all anger that is righteously driven towards us, and may He add His mercy to us, delivering us from all needs, troubles, misfortunes, sorrows and illnesses, and thus the message may our destinies guide us on the path of salvation, and may the rest of our life in repentance and piety help us to pass, and may our Christian death be made worthy to be accepted without pain, without shame and peacefully, and to receive the inheritance of the Heavenly Kingdom with all the saints forever and ever.
With your bodily nakedness and patience you exposed the enemy’s cunning, denouncing his incomparable act: the green suffering of the sun and the needs of the great cold, frost and fire you did not feel, we are covered by God’s help, Maxim the Wise. For those who faithfully honor your memory with faith and diligently flow to the race of your relics, pray to get rid of troubles and avoid fall.
O good shepherd, our mentor, Reverend Father Martyrios! Hear now our prayer brought to you: we know that you are with us in spirit. Therefore, reverend, as you have boldness towards the Lady Jesus Christ, our God, and towards the Most Pure Mother of God, be a warm intercessor and prayer book for this monastery, which you have rewarded, and for us unworthy servants living in it, even though you are the enlightener and leader of your God-gathered brotherhood a helper and intercessor always appearing: for through your intercession and prayers we will remain unharmed in this place, but we will not be slandered by demons and evil people, and we will remain free from all troubles and misfortunes.
To all who come from everywhere to your holy monastery and pray to you with faith and worship the race of your relics, in order to get rid of all sorrow, illness and misfortune, I mercifully hasten, to grant the Orthodox peace, silence, prosperity and an abundance of earthly fruits: and for all of us, a warm intercessor to May the Lord and helper of our souls forgive us through our sins and through your prayers, holy, free us from eternal torment and be made worthy of the Heavenly Kingdom with all the saints, so that we send glory, thanksgiving and worship to the One God, glorified in the Trinity, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and ever forever and ever.
From your youth, O blessed God, having loved Christ, you left your Fatherland, and having turned away from all worldly revolts, you reached the quiet refuge of the most venerable monastery of the Mother of God: from there you saw the impassable desert, shown by the cross-shaped dawn, you preferably found it, and in it Having moved in, you gathered the monastics, and with your teachings, like a ladder ascending to heaven, you laboriously tried to lead them to God. Pray to him, God-wise Martyrie, to grant our most pious emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich victory over his enemies and great mercy on our souls.
Saint John of God, merciful protector of the orphans and those in adversity! We resort to you and pray to you, as the quick patron of all who seek consolation from God in troubles and sorrows: do not stop praying to the Lord for all who flow to you with faith! You were filled with Christ's love and goodness, you appeared like a wonderful palace of the virtue of mercy and you acquired for yourself the name merciful: you were like a river, constantly flowing with generous mercies and abundantly feeding all those who thirst. We believe that after you moved from earth to heaven, this gift of grace increased in you and that you became an inexhaustible vessel of all goodness. By your intercession and intercession before God, create all kinds of joy, so that all those who come running to you may find peace and tranquility: grant them temporary consolation and help in everyday needs, instill in them the hope of eternal rest in the Kingdom of Heaven.
In your life on earth, you were a refuge for all who exist in all troubles and needs, the offended and sick, and you were not the only one who was deprived of your goodness by those who flowed to you and asked you for mercy: the same now, reigning with Christ God in heaven, show to everyone those who worship before your honorable icon and pray for help and intercession. It’s not just that you yourself showed mercy to the helpless, but you also raised the hearts of others to the consolation of the weak and to the charity of the poor: move the hearts of the faithful even now to intercede for the orphans, to console the mourning and reassure the needy, so that the gifts of mercy do not become scarce in them, and rather let them dwell in them and in this house, which watches over the suffering, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit, with the glory of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, forever and ever.
O merciful Saint John of Christ, great prayer book, patron of the orphans, helper of those in need, healer of the weak and protector of those in adversity! We come to you, as a quick helper and great intercessor, with faith and love, and before your holy, whole-bearing relics and the holy icon we humbly pray to you. You abided on the land of Christ, filled with love and kindness towards the suffering, and like a wonderful treasury of mercy, you acquired the name merciful for yourself. You, abounding in the bounty of your mercies, like an ever-flowing, abundant river, have appeared, abundantly watering all who thirst. You, filled with love and goodness, were like an abundant granary of pure, nutritious wheat, abundantly satisfying all the hungry. You, having squandered your wealth on the poor and wretched, you have shown yourself to be an inexhaustible treasure of gold and silver, providing for all those who are in poverty and interceding for those who are offended by unmerciful lenders: and so not a single one from those who demand your mercies and generosity is deprived of your goodness and supplies.
You were the speedy admonition, heartfelt consolation and all-powerful intercession of all people in all sorrows and insults that come from evil people through the slander of the devil, and in every misadventure and trial sent by God’s permission, as not a single one of those who came to you was deprived of your consolation and intercession. You, constantly in prayer, have acquired the wealth of wholesome prayer, not only did you yourself do mercy to everyone, but you also warmed the hearts of evil people to console the mourning and embittered, to the charity of the weak and wretched. We also believe, O good saint of Christ, that after your resettlement in the heavenly abode you received a great reward for your prayers, deeds and good deeds, and moreover, the gracious gift of mercy was strengthened in you, and you became an inexhaustible vessel of all goodness.
Let us, O servant of God and merciful helper, through your intercession and intercession before the Lord God, so that all who come running to you in prayer and before your holy relics and your grace-filled icon will find a peaceful and serene life, health and salvation, love and unanimity, in temporary sorrows and sorrows, consolation, in everyday needs and deprivations, help: instill in us the hope of eternal blessings and peace in the Kingdom of Heaven, as if everyone, through your omnipotent intercession, accepts all gifts of mercy, and they themselves will be filled with love for each other, and yes will dwell in us and in this city, in this holy monastery and in all who call upon your name, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit, to Him belongs all glory, honor and worship, with the Beginning Father and His Only Begotten Son, always, now and ever, and unto the ages of ages.
In your patience you have gained your reward, reverend father, in your prayers you have been unceasingly patient, you have loved the poor and are satisfied with this: but pray to Christ God, the merciful blessed John, to save our souls.
O great saint John Chrysostom! You have received many different gifts from the Lord, and as a good and faithful servant, you have multiplied all the talents given to you: for this reason, you were truly a universal teacher, for every age and every rank learns from you. Behold, the image of obedience appeared to the youth, to the young - a luminary of chastity, to the husband - a mentor of hard work, to the old - a teacher of kindness, to the monk - the rule of abstinence, to those who pray - an inspired leader from God, to those seeking wisdom - an enlightener of the mind, Vitiam to those who are kind - words are a living source of inexhaustible, to those who do good - a star of mercy, to those in authority - a wise image of government, to those who are zealous - an inspirer of boldness, to those who are righteous for the sake of persecution - a mentor of patience: you were all, and you saved everyone. Over all of these you have acquired love, which is the basis of perfection, and with that, as if by the power of the Divine, you have united all the gifts in your soul into one, and there you have preached the shared reconciling love, in the interpretation of the words of the apostles, to all the faithful.
We are sinners, each having our own gift, unity of spirit in the union of the world are not imams, but we are vainglorious, irritating each other, envious of each other: for this reason, our being divided is not into peace and salvation, but into enmity and condemnation for us. Moreover, we fall to you, the saint of God, overwhelmed by discord, and in contrition of heart we ask: through your prayers, drive away from our hearts all pride and envy that separates us, so that in many places we will remain one church body without restraint, so that, according to your prayerful words, we will love each other and with one mind we confess the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, the Trinity of One Essence and Indivisible, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
O all-holy and great saint of Christ, John Chrysostom, the beginning of the great shepherd and bishop, past heaven, disciple of our Lord Jesus Christ, divinely skilled and wise rhetorician, great intercessor and representative for the offended, healing healer of the sick, true sinners to salvation and repentance. mentor, nourisher of the poor, helper to widows and orphans, and warm prayer book for everyone! We pray to you now, sinners and unworthy ones: pray for us to the generously loving God, that He may give us the grace of the Holy Spirit to strengthen our infirmities, as His immeasurable goodness greatly exceeded our countless sins, envy, pride, anger, brotherly hatred and other sins, which cannot be eradicated: and no longer We dare to raise our hair to heaven and call on His holy name. We also fall to you, praying with tears: for you have been given by God to pray for us. Give me, above all the most sinful, your hand of help, before my strength is exhausted within me, and my belly even approaches hell, and I am all crushed, like a poor thing, on the stone of despair.
Hasten, O great bishop, to my help, and dissolve the bonds of my sorrow with your holy prayers, and grant me the cure of repentance: kindle the dark cloud of my passions, visit me with your mercy, and make my barren soul fertile. You weigh, O Bishop of God, Saint John Chrysostom, the sorrow of my heart: also, by the grace given to you from God, try to turn it into sweetness with your omnipotent intercession to God: you can, if you wish, help me, a cursed, sinful, blasphemer, crucifier to the commoner: for there is no sin, he overcomes God’s love for mankind, as he does not desire the death of the sinner, but mercifully awaits his repentance and conversion.
Be then like the Lord Christ, who did not despise the tears of a harlot: here you too, O blessed trumpet, do not despise my sighing, but roar to me with a voice of joy, and fill my lack and poverty from your abundant treasures: be me a good shepherd, driving away the mental wolves from me with the rod of your holy prayers: direct your steps, my mother-in-law, without stumbling along the path of the commandments of the Lord: that I may also reach the pastures of paradise, where there is the Source of life and unceasing joy, and joy, and the sweet voice of angelic singing: yes Let us all be worthy to receive the grace and love of mankind of the Lord and God and our Savior Jesus Christ, to Him be from us all glory, honor and worship, with the Father and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
Your lips, like the lordship of fire, shone with grace, illuminating the universe: without the love of money you won the treasures of the world, showing us the height of humility. But punishing with your words, Father John Chrysostom, pray to the Word of Christ God to save our souls.
Reverend and blessed Father Philip! Accept now us who pray and fall at your all-honorable and multi-healing tomb, where your holy and laborious body rests: before your spirit you stand before the Holy Trinity forever. Pray for us, your children, Reverend Father, that we may be delivered from all sorrows and illnesses of soul and body, having lived piously in this present life, and in the future, through your prayers with all the saints, we may worship in the Trinity the glorious God, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto the ages centuries.
O blessed and venerable Father Philip, faithful servant of the Holy Trinity, desert dweller, equal to the holy Angels, merciful miracle worker! Hear us praying to you today, and do not reject those who fall at your tomb from your help. We know that although your most honorable body and the bowels of the earth have been hidden, your godly and pure soul boldly stands at the throne of the Lady from the faces of the saints. Just as in your life you gave a helping hand to many, blessed one, so now give us your help from above, reverend father, and be a helper to everyone: be a steward in the sea, a quick intercessor in troubles for those who suffer, those who are sick and sick, those who are sad and sorrowful Comforter and deliverer, and help to the helpless: save us too, your children, from the temptations of the evil one and from all evil that ever comes upon us. O our warm intercessor and representative, blessed Philip! Do not forget your inheritance in the end, below the destruction of the covenant, which you promised to us as your servant, and after your death to visit us.
Even if we have lacked faith and sinned before God, you are also our father and mentor, and intercessor for our salvation. For this reason, we fall down to your grave and pray: grant us grace in times of need and eternal salvation, so that together with you we may glorify the most honorable and magnificent name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
About the glorification of the martyr Guria, Samona and Aviv! To you, as a quick helper and a warm prayer book, we resort to weakness and unworthiness, earnestly begging: do not despise us, who have fallen into many iniquities and are sinning all the days and hours: guide the erring ones on the right path, heal the suffering and mourning: keep us in an immaculate and chaste life: and as in ancient times, so now remain the patrons of marriages, affirming this love and like-mindedness and delivering from all evil and calamitous circumstances. Protect, about the great power of the confessor, all Orthodox Christians from misfortunes, evil people and the machinations of demons: protect me from unexpected death, begging the All-Good Lord, that He may add great and rich mercies to us His humble servant. For you are not worthy to call upon the magnificent name of our Creator with unclean lips, unless you are the holy martyrs who will intercede for us: for this reason we resort to you and ask for your intercession before the Lord.
Thus, deliver us from hail, flood, fire, sword, invasion of foreigners, civil strife, deadly plagues and every soul-destroying situation. Hey, passion-bearers of Christ, through your prayers arrange for us all that is good and useful, so that a pious life of the temporary past and a death without shame has been achieved, we will be worthy of your warm intercession with all the saints at the right hand of the just God, the Judge of the world, and to constantly glorify Him with the Father. and the Son and the Holy Spirit forever and ever.
About the all-blessed and long-suffering holy passion-bearer, the three-numbered martyr Guria, Samon and Aviv, champion of the Orthodox faith, denouncer of idolatry, chaser of enemies, intercessor of the offended and warm representative of all Christians! O great sufferers and saints of Christ, confessors of all light! Have mercy on us, sinners and unworthy, in troubles, sorrows and sorrows and in every evil adversity who remain: deliver us from those who offend and hate us, from enemies visible and invisible and from every evil of man: and just as you delivered the maiden from bitter death, in the tomb from evil warrior Gotfin, I live a secluded life, so even now, according to the grace given to you from God, in marriage you will continue to live in love and like-mindedness, but confirm us all in faith and piety and deliver us from those who find evil in this temporary life. O great champions of Guria, Samona and Aviv, warriors of the Heavenly King!
Do not forget us, always praying to you and asking for your help, but standing at the throne of the Almighty, pray for us sinners and unworthy, grant us remission of sins, so that, having been delivered from eternal torment, we will receive from God the ineffable blessings that the Lord has prepared for those who love Him. For all glory, honor and worship is due to Him, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
The miracles of your saints, martyr, the insurmountable wall given to us by Christ our God, destroy the councils of tongues with those prayers, strengthen the kingdoms of the sceptres, for He alone is good and lover of mankind.
O venerable and God-bearing Father Guria! Hear us now, who earnestly pray to you and fall to your all-honorable and multi-healing tomb, where your holy and laborious body is laid. You, standing in spirit in heaven with the Most Holy Trinity with the Angels and holy faces of the Father, pray for us, your children, that we may be delivered from all sorrows, illnesses, misfortunes and circumstances, and may live piously in our present life, walking in the commandments and justifications of the Lord blamelessly, and may we appear holy imitators of your life. Ask us and all those who come to you for forgiveness of sins, bodily health, correction of life and eternal salvation, as if by your warm intercession we are saved, we will be honored to send glory in the Trinity to our glorified God, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto the ages of ages.
About the venerable and venerable Diodorus, our father, patient, fast-hearted, predestined for silence to the healer, spiritual teacher of those who want to be saved, gentle destroyer of corrupting passions, prayer book for those who beat you innocently, Christ-like, insight prophetically fulfilled, pre-announcement of the good things to come, the adamantine of faith in Christ, the unbreakable pillar of patience, the unshakable pillar of patience, obedient to the perfecter of the commandments of his Creator, the flesh-bearing Angel and the Holy Spirit, the receptacle, fragrant, the desert dweller, the undoubting, the humble, heavenly man and cohabitant with the heavenly ranks! You, by the meekness of the spirit of the meek, have inherited the earth, and you have appeared as a friend and saint in the Trinity to our glorious God, who also deigned to cover the shrine of your celibate relics in your church. We know, reverend, how God commanded the faithful to sprinkle the miraculous rain of your shrine in abundance.
Falling before her, we kindly pray to you, venerable saint: do not cease praying to the Most Holy and Life-Giving Trinity, may He bestow upon our king health, silence and longevity, victory and victory for his enemies, harmony among the churches and all people with humility and an abundance of good things. Extinguish, O blessed one, with your prayers the kindled demonic arrows hovering at us, so that sinful malice may not touch us, and always grant mercy to everyone. Look also upon me, the unworthy: for I am bound by the cruel captivity of my sins and drawn into the depths of the passionate sea [woe is me!] uncontrollably.
For this reason, I diligently pray to your shrine, O rich one, and I fall before the race of your relics with tears, saying: stand before me on the path of my misfortune, break the bonds, sever passions, loosen from sinful chains, deliver me from the coming sorrow and from all evil, so that I may not be reduced by my deeds to the cruel enemy of the world: release me from painful conditions and grant me salvation, as if we are saved by your prayers, I will sing and glorify from all things visible and invisible creatures in the Trinity glorified our God, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and to endless ages of ages.
O glorious, God-adorned, most luminous lamp, heir to the Heavenly Kingdom, all-round zealot of silence, patient and hearty worker! You have illuminated the barren mountain of ancient times, but now you have illuminated the newly enlightened Yuriev Mountain with the light of Christ, you have erected a holy monastery on it, and you have adorned this with your godly works and deeds, various kindnesses and splendor: and with your honest and miraculous and celibate You deigned to place the relics inside the Church of the Life-Giving Trinity covered, and with those you sanctified this country, and you drove out the demonic armies from it.
help me, a sinner, O all-blessed one, by the grace of the Holy Spirit, to walk the path of life savingly: enlighten my darkened soul with the dawn of God-given grace: grant me a rich, painless life: show me the entrance is not forbidden into the fence of eternal stay: save wandering in the desert of life: remove the soul-destroying lust from my heart: cleanse the filth of sin with your prayers, heal ulcers and grant salvation, so that I cheerfully call you to be saved: Rejoice, Venerable Diodorus our Father, luminary of the Unending Light, shining brightly bright star, which in these last times has shone in the northern countries: Rejoice, great help and intercession to our blessed Tsar of Russia, strong victory in battle: Rejoice, unshakable pillar of piety, steadfast guardian of monastic traditions and spiritual mentor to monks: Rejoice, strong adamante and a terrible demon to the chaser and conqueror: Rejoice, bright kindness to our city and your God-created monastery and eternal and unceasing praise to your Fatherland.
Grant me, therefore, all joy and to be a partaker of the Heavenly Kingdom, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
O wondrous one among the sufferers, holy, faithful, great Prince Michael! You led your struggles and labors, even for the orthodoxy, for the Church of God and for your Fatherland, the city of Tfer. Having desired the highest, you left the corruptible glory of the earth, and being jealous of the ascetic of Christ, you valiantly resisted the wrath of the wicked king and the rebuke of his evil commander. You, having received unrighteous condemnation and slaughter, have accepted the Kingdom of Heaven, and with drops of blood, like a wonderful stone, having adorned a crown on your head, now in heaven you stand before the throne of all the Lords with the faces of the Angel and with all the saints. For this reason, flowing to the race of your relics, we kiss our hearts and lips, and tenderly cry out to you: about the namesake of the heavenly commander of the highest powers, Grand Duke Michael! Pray unceasingly to Christ God for your city and people and for all Orthodox Christians.
Be a strong supporter of the enemies of Orthodoxy to our most pious, autocratic, great sovereign, Emperor Nicholas Alexandrovich of all Russia and the entire reigning house: ask them through your intercession for peace, health, longevity and prosperity in all things. Be a helper for us to accept everything that is for our salvation and benefit: protect us from temptations and misfortunes that come in temporary life, and do not deprive us of your intercession to Christ God, so that we may receive forgiveness for our sins and be considered worthy of the heavenly settlement with His chosen ones, for in this we are glorified His most honorable and magnificent name forever and ever.
Having raised your mind to God, and thou hast desired life from the Angels, thou hast forsaken corruptible glory, O blessed One, and thou hast laid down thy soul for thy people, and hast taken it upon thy labors, O God-wise Michael. Pray to Christ God for those who honor your holy memory with love.
Quick helper to all those who diligently come running to you and our warm representative before the Lord, holy and faithful Grand Duke Alexandra! Look mercifully upon us, unworthy, many of the iniquities we have created are unnecessary for ourselves, now flowing to the race of your relics [or to your holy icon] and crying out to you from the depths of your heart. In your life you were a zealot and defender of the Orthodox faith: and you unshakably established us in it with your warm prayers to God. You carefully carried out the great service entrusted to you: and with your help, instruct us to abide every time we are called to eat. Having defeated the regiments of adversaries, you drove them away from the borders of Russia: and brought down all visible and invisible enemies against us. You, having abandoned the corruptible crown of the earthly kingdom, have chosen a silent life, and now, righteously crowned with an incorruptible crown, you reign in heaven: intercede for us, who humbly pray for you, for a quiet and serene life, and through your intercession arrange for us a steady march towards the eternal Kingdom.
Standing before the throne of God with all the saints, pray for all Orthodox Christians, especially for our most pious, autocratic, great sovereign, Emperor Nicholas Alexandrovich of all Russia, may the Lord God preserve them with His grace in peace, health, long life and all prosperity in the coming years, may we ever glorify God in the Trinity Holy glorify the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
As you were the pious root of the most honorable branch, blessed Alexandra: Christ reveal you, as a certain Divine treasure of the Russian land, a new miracle worker, glorious and acceptable to God. And today, having come together in your memory with faith and love, in psalms and songs we joyfully glorify the Lord, who gave you the grace of healing: Pray to Him to save this city, and for the power of your relatives to be God-pleasing, and for the sons of Russia to be saved.
We magnify you, holy and faithful Prince Alexandra, and honor your holy memory: for you pray for us, Christ our God.
O Saint Father Mitrofan! Behold, sinners, by the incorruption of your honorable relics and by the many good deeds miraculously done and performed by you, we are convinced that we have received great grace from the Lord our God, and humbly falling to your mercy, we pray to you: pray for us Christ Our God, may He bestow upon all who honor your holy memory and diligently resort to you His rich mercies: may He establish in His holy Orthodox Church the living spirit of right faith and piety, the spirit of knowledge and love, the spirit of peace and joy in the Holy Spirit, that all her children may be pure from worldly temptations and carnal lusts and the evil actions of evil spirits, they worship Him in spirit and in truth, and may they diligently strive to keep His commandments for the salvation of their souls.
May the Lord give her shepherd holy zeal for the salvation of people, to enlighten the unbelievers, to instruct the ignorant, to enlighten those who doubt, to return those who have fallen away from the Orthodox Church to her, to keep the believers in the faith, to move sinners to repentance, to console those who repent, and to strengthen them in correcting their lives, and so to bring all people to His prepared eternal Kingdom of saints.
Pray to the Lord, servant of Christ, to our most pious, autocratic, great sovereign, Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich, to grant courage, wisdom, victory over all enemies, and success in the establishment of his kingdom, and to the whole reigning house longevity and salvation of taxes: to those chosen by the tsar as rulers, yes The Lord will send down zeal, foresight, wisdom and faithfulness: and may the Good God grant our people peace, silence, tranquility and abundance of earthly fruits to all the people in His power, and especially to the fulfillment of His commandments, unslothful diligence: and may He deliver the reigning cities, this city, and all others the cities of his kingdom, and the weight, from famine, cowardice, flood, fire, sword, invasion of foreigners, internecine warfare, deadly plagues and from all evil. To her, the saint of God, may your prayers arrange all that is good for our souls and bodies: may we glorify in our souls and bodies our Lord and God, Jesus Christ, to Him, with the Father and the Holy Spirit, be glory and power forever and ever.
O all-praised saint of Christ and wonderworker Mitrofan! Accept this small prayer from us sinners who have come running to you, and with your warm intercession beg our Lord and God, Jesus Christ, that having looked upon us mercifully, He will grant us forgiveness of our voluntary and involuntary sins, and by His great mercy He will deliver us from troubles, sorrows, sorrows and illnesses of soul and body, who support us: may the earth give fruitfulness, and all that is needed for the benefit of our present life: may He grant us to end this temporary life in repentance, and may He grant us, sinners and unworthy, worthy of His Heavenly Kingdom, so that we may glorify His endless mercy with everyone, with His Beginningless Father, and His Holy and Life-giving Spirit, in forever and ever.
You were the rule of faith and the image of meekness, in word and life, to your flock, the humble and wise Father Mitrofan: in the same way, in the brightness of the saints of the sun, you shone brightly, we adorn you with the crown of incorruptibility and glory. Pray to Christ God, our most pious Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich, his entire power and your city to be saved in peace.
O Saint Catherine, virgin and martyr, true bride of Christ! We pray to you, as the deliberate grace that preceded your Bridegroom, Sweet Jesus, received: just as you put to shame the deceptions of the tormentor with your wisdom, you overcame fifty revolutions, and having fed them with heavenly teaching, you guided them to the light of true faith, so ask us for it too God's wisdom, and we too, having thwarted all the machinations of the hellish tormentor, having despised the temptations of the world and the flesh, are worthy to appear of Divine glory, and for the expansion of our Orthodox faith we are worthy of becoming a worthy vessel, and with you in the heavenly tabernacle of our Lord and Master Jesus Christ, with the Father and Holy Spirit, we will praise and glorify throughout all ages of ages.
O holy Great Martyr Catherine, chosen vessel of purity, pillar of Orthodoxy, our trustworthy representative, legal ascetic, holy one resting holy on the holy mountain! Zane herself has shown her guilt as a Christian to pray to you, we diligently pray to you: having come down from above, heed the voice of our prayer, look upon the misfortunes of us sinners, enlighten the darkness of our mind, make us wise on earth, not earthly. Hasten us through your prayers to overcome carnal lusts, addiction to the world and the machinations of evil spirits who are viciously fighting against us: so that through your intercession in the days of this life of freedom we will appear from their hostile attacks and after their aerial torments. O wise maiden! Grant us all the things we can ask for that will benefit us: for you can ask much from your beloved Bridegroom, Christ our God. We know that the prayer of the righteous can do much, aided by the goodness of the Merciful God, to Him be glory, honor and thanksgiving always, now and ever, and unto the ages of ages.
With virtues like the rays of the sun you enlightened the unfaithful sages, and like the bright moon to those who walk in the night, you drove away the darkness of unbelief, and you convinced the queen, and you also exposed the tormentor, the divinely called bride, blessed Catherine: with desire you ascended into the heavenly palace to the beautiful To the Bridegroom Christ, and from Him you were crowned with a royal crown: To Him also the angels who are present pray for us, creating your most honorable memory.
O great miracle worker, Hieromartyr Clement! With your zealous preaching of the Holy Trinity and the mystery of the Resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ, as a man equal to the apostles who is still alive, you miraculously enlightened those who did not know the true God, and after your blessed repose, by the grace from God given to you, you endlessly poured out miracles: bow down then and now to mine With heartfelt sighing, and through your mercy and warm intercession before our Almighty and man-loving God, I have asked for the enlightenment of my corrupted mind and heart, and with my help in this temporary life, to do everything suggested in the law of God, and to sweep away all sin. You, great ascetic, have endured slander from your youth, and suffered many mental illnesses and labors, pray to the Lord God for me, a sinner and unworthy, that through your intercession and intercession the All-Good One will give me, a sinner, strength and strength to endure human slander and complacency in good nature. even in the earth of tribulation and keep His commandments.
You, oh great miracle worker, every summer you showed a wonderful miracle in Mori: and on me, a sinner and unworthy, show the miracle of Divine help, may the waves of passions recede from my soul, may I be cleansed by repentance, may I receive through your prayers the health of my soul and body, and glorify the most honorable and magnificent name of the Lord God and His grace given to you, in forever and ever.
Holy, glorious and all-praised Great Martyr of Christ George! Gathered in your church and in front of your holy icon, the people who worship, we pray to you, known to the intercessor of our desires: pray with us and for us, beseeching God from His mercy, that He may mercifully hear us asking for His goodness, and not abandon all our necessary petitions for salvation and life, and grant to the most pious may the Orthodox army strengthen our emperor with the grace given to you in battle, and let our enemies overthrow the forces of the rebels, let them be ashamed and disgraced, and let their insolence be crushed, and let them know that we are the imams of Divine help: and to all in sorrow and situation Show your powerful intercession to those who exist. Pray to the Lord God, the 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 ever and unto ages of ages.
O all-validated, holy great martyr and wonderworker George! Look upon us with your quick help, and pray to God, the lover of mankind, that He will not condemn us sinners according to our iniquity, but may He deal with us according to His great mercy. Do not despise our prayer, but ask us from Christ our God a quiet and godly life, mental and physical health, fertility of the earth and abundance in everything, and may we not turn into evil the good things given to us by you from the All-Bountiful God, but to the glory of His holy name and to the glorification of your strong intercession, may He give to the Orthodox emperor and all victory over the God-loving army as adversaries, and may He strengthen his kingdom with unchangeable peace and blessings: may His angels protect us saints even more with a militia, so that we, upon our departure from this life, may be delivered from the wiles of the evil one and his heavy airy ordeals, and appear uncondemned throne of the Lord of glory.
Hear us, more passion-bearing than Christ, George, and pray unceasingly for us to the Lord of all God, so that by His grace and love for mankind, with your help and intercession, we may find mercy, with the Angels and Archangels and all the saints at the right hand of the just Judge of the body, and He will continually glorify Him with the Father and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and ever forever and ever.
Today the ends of the world bless you, Divine miracles have been fulfilled, and the earth rejoices, having drunk your blood: at the naming of Christ the people of the city of Kyiv, at the consecration of the Divine Church, rejoiced with joy, passion-bearing George, the chosen vessel Holy Spirit, servant of Christ. We pray to Him, with faith and prayer, to give cleansing of sins to those who come to your holy church, to pacify the world and save our souls.
Holy Saint of God, good shepherd, faithful worker of Christ's grapes, Holy Hierarch Father Innocent! Look at this city and at this people, pray to Christ God, that your flock may be cut off from the wolves that destroy you, and that He may send down the gift of His Holy Spirit, to make us wise to walk before Him in all piety and purity all the days of our life: may His all-holy name be glorified in the day and in night, let us be considered worthy to be heirs of eternal life, and let us glorify the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
To you, Holiness of God, as a quick helper and prayer book for my salvation, I am unworthy and sinful, falling down and praying: do not despise me, despondent, weak, fallen into many iniquities and sinning all the days and hours, but consider my soul, for I grieve, and beg the Lord God, the Creator of all creation, Who now stands before Him in the joy of the saints and with the faces of the Angels, to have mercy on me and bring my sinful soul out of prison, before I even leave here and whoever is not ready will appear at His judgment. Hey, father! Do not disgrace me, who flows to you with faith: even though I am unworthy of your intercession and intercession, but you, being an imitator of God’s love for mankind, made me worthy through turning from evil deeds to a good life, so that I am healthy in soul and body, I praise and sing Our God is wondrous in His saints, and your warm intercession, always, now and ever, and unto ages of ages.
O great servant of Christ, Holy Hierarch Father Innocent! Hear us who pray to you. You weigh our sorrows and ailments, hear the sighs of the many who flow to you: for this reason, we call to you, like our father, a quick helper and a warm prayer book: do not leave us with your intercession with God. We constantly wander from the path of salvation: our merciful mentor guides us. We are weak in faith: strengthen us, orthodoxy to the teacher. We are very careful to do good deeds: enrich us, treasure of charity. We are constantly slandered by enemies, visible and invisible, and embittered: help us, helpless intercessors. Turn away the wrath of God, righteously moved against us for our iniquities, from us by your intercession at the throne of the Judge of God, to whom you stand in heaven, father hierarch, praise to the bishops. Hear, we pray, you, great servant of Christ, both those who stand before you here with prayer, and everyone in every place who calls on you with faith: and ask with your prayers from the Heavenly Father for all of us forgiveness of our sins and deliverance from troubles.
For you are a helper, intercessor and prayer book, witnessed by countless miracles, and about you we send glory to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
O bright lamp of the church, illuminating this country with the rays of your kindness, glorifying God with many healings who flow to your race with faith, we pray to you, Holy Hierarch Father Innocent, protect this city with your prayers from all troubles and sorrow.
O most wonderful and blessed Father, Saint James of Christ! With faith and love falling to you, we pray to you: with your holy prayers from all misfortune, sorrow and illness and from all the wrath of God that righteously moves upon us: ask us for a quiet and serene life, in all piety and purity: help us to receive salvation and the Kingdom of Heaven achieve. Hey, servant of God and our intercessor! do not despise this earnest prayer of ours, but look upon us mercifully and beg for us, the all-generous lover of mankind, God, that we may not perish violently through our iniquities, but may we be honored with you and with all the saints to glorify and sing His all-holy name forever and ever.
From your youth you were chosen by God, Saint James, and for this reason you were honored with the rank of bishop, having fallen the people entrusted to you by God: in the same way, after the repose of miracles, you received gifts to heal various ailments. Pray for us who honor your memory, so that we may continually magnify you.
Noemvria 27, Februaria 11 and Aprilia 22. Prayer to the holy noble prince Vsevolod, in Holy Baptism Gabriel, the Pskov wonderworker. From the akathist
O great servant of God and glorious miracle worker, holy and faithful Prince Vsevolod Gabriel, heavenly intercessor and protector of the city of Pskov and all Russian powers, and zealous representative and protector of all of us before God! Standing before the throne of the great King and
Our God, glorified and worshiped in the Trinity of Saints, have great boldness towards Him, as His faithful servant and saint. For sins and unworthiness, we come to you, as one who is kindred to us and a powerful intercessor before the Lord, and we tenderly ask you: pray to the All-Good God to turn away His anger from us, righteously moving against us according to our deeds, and despising our countless sins, will turn us to the path of repentance and salvation. Protect our life in the world with your prayers, and in all things, good haste and all that we need to grant to life and piety. And just as in ancient times you delivered your city of Pskov from the captivity and devastation of the army, so now you and all the cities and towns of our country have delivered us and all the cities and villages of our country from all misfortunes and troubles and sudden death through your intercession, and from all enemies, visible and invisible, through your protection.
With your prayers preserve in peace, health and long life the piety of our most pious sovereign, Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich, and be a strong fence for his power and the entire kingdom of Russia, so that we may live a quiet and silent life in all piety and purity, and so in the world this temporary life has passed into the eternal Let us achieve peace and become worthy of the Heavenly Kingdom, glorifying the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, and your holy intercession, forever and ever.
You appeared from early childhood, God-wise Prince Gabriel, a Divine vessel, chosen by God, raised in piety, observing the immaculate faith, and having established many holy churches, you suffered exile from your own, just as your ancestors were chaste from your brother. murder: with him I stand before the Holy Trinity, praying that the Russian powers will be preserved as the ruler and we will all be saved.
First-called apostle of God and our Savior Jesus Christ, supreme follower of the church, all-validated Andrew! We glorify and magnify your apostolic labors, we sweetly remember your blessed coming to us, we bless your honorable suffering, which you endured for Christ, we kiss your sacred relics, we honor your holy memory and we believe that as the Lord lives, so does your soul, and with Him you remain forever in heaven, where and You do not forsake us with your love, just as our fathers loved you, when you saw through the Holy Spirit that our land would turn to Christ. We believe, as God prayed for us; in His light all our needs are in vain. Thus, we confess this faith of ours in your church, and we pray to the Lord and God and our Savior Jesus Christ, that through your prayers He will give us everything we need for the salvation of us sinners: that as you, according to the voice of the Lord, forsake your hesitation, you have steadfastly followed Him, and Let each one seek not his own from us, but let him think about the edification of his neighbor, and think about the heavenly calling.
Having you as a representative and prayer book for us, we trust that your prayer can accomplish much before our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, to Him belongs all glory, honor and worship, together with the Father and the Holy Spirit, forever and ever.
As the first-called and supremely existing brother of the apostles, the Lord of all, Andrew, pray to grant greater peace to the universe and great mercy to our souls.
O most honorable and sacred head, citizen of Heavenly Jerusalem, abode of the Most Holy Trinity, Reverend Father Savvo! Having great boldness towards the All-Merciful Master, pray for the flock of your fence and for all your children according to the spirit: do not remain silent in crying out to the Lord for us, and do not despise those who honor you with faith and love.
By your intercession I asked the King of those who reign for the peace of the Church, under the sign of the Militant Cross: prosperity in the world and help in battle to our most pious Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich: the bishop's grace of holiness: good things for the monastics in their labors flow: by the reigning city, this holy monastery, protection of this city and all the city and countries, peace and tranquility, deliverance from famine and destruction: comfort and reinforcement for the old and weak: goodness for the young and infant in faith growth, in the Gospel teaching, firm training and purity and chastity: to widows and orphans, mercy and intercession: to the captives, enclosure and return: to the sick, healing, to the faint-hearted, affirmation: to those who have gone astray, correction: to those who sin, a spirit of contrition: to the needy and to all those who require grace-filled help, timely help.
Do not disgrace us, who flow to you with faith: make haste, like a loving father with his children, that we too may bear the yoke of Christ in complacency and patience: and guide us all in peace and repentance, to end our lives shamelessly and dwell with hope in the heavenly abodes like you, through your labors and struggles, are now living with the Angels and saints, seeing and glorifying God, glorified in the Trinity, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.
O honorable head, reverend and blessed Father Savvo! Do not stop praying to God, the lover of mankind, for your flock, for whom you have loved with all your heart and for which you have endured much labor and sweat and illness. You weigh the fear that befalls us from everywhere, and weigh the indispensable demonic attack, weigh bodily service and malice, weigh the inability of our zeal. For this reason, we pray to you: just as in this difficult and much-painful life you loved your brothers dearly and you were a tireless mentor for their salvation, so now we stand before the throne of God, remember us your children, for may the Lord deliver us from darkness passions and every obsession of evil demons and evil people. Remember, Reverend Father, and my poor servant named, that through your prayers on the day of the terrible rebuke I will find the Merciful Judge, our Lord Jesus Christ, to Him be glory and power, with the Father and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
A good vegetation appeared to the desert, reverend: from your youth you destined to live a pure life, following your spiritual teacher, and with that teaching your mind was set towards the heavenly, you appeared to your flock as a wise mentor: in the same way, Christ also brightened your lamp, enriching you with miracles. Savvo our father, pray for our souls to be saved.
Holy glorious and all-praised Great Martyr of Christ Varvaro! Gathered today in your divine church, people, worshiping the race of your relics and kissing love, your martyr’s suffering and in them we please the Passionate Christ Himself with praises, and you, who know the desires of our intercessor, we pray: pray with us and for us, beseeching God from His mercy, yes He will mercifully hear us asking for His goodness, and will not leave us with all the necessary petitions for salvation and life, but may He grant the Christian end of our life painless, shamelessly peaceful and partake of the Divine Mysteries, and to everyone in every place, in every sorrow and situation, who require His love for mankind and help, His great grant mercy, so that by the grace of God and your warm intercession, always in abiding health in soul and body, we glorify the wondrous God of Israel in His saints, who does not remove His help from us, always, now and ever, and unto the ages of ages.
Most wise and most beautiful saint of the Great Martyr of Christ Varvaro! Blessed are you, for God’s finest flesh and blood has not been revealed to you, but God the Heavenly Father Himself, like you, for the sake of faith from an unfaithful father, forsaken, expelled and killed, has received into His beloved daughter: for the perishable inheritance of earthly possessions, the gift of incorruptibility to the flesh: labors crown the martyr with repose in the Kingdom of Heaven: glorify your temporary life, cut short by His death for His sake, with calico honor, as the soul from the faces of the heavenly ranks of spirits, but the body placed on earth in their angelic church, by the Angel of the commandment to keep intact, honest and wonderful. Blessed art thou, Christ the Son of God, the Heavenly Bridegroom, an unconvinced virgin, Whose goodness is thy zealot, desiring, all through suffering, wounds, pleasure by cutting and the very heads by cutting off, like the most precious utensils You tried to decorate: yes, because a wife is faithful to her head, the Husband Christ, you are inseparably united in spirit and body, saying: I found Him, whom my soul loved, I held Him, and did not forsake Him.
Blessed are you, for the Holy Spirit has rested upon you, having been taught to reason spiritually by the spiritual, and you have rejected all the spirits of wickedness in idols, as if they were destructive, and having come to know the One God the Spirit, as a true worshiper, You deigned to bow down in spirit and in truth, preaching: I honor the Trinity, One Divinity. For this Holy Trinity, which thou hast glorified in life and death by thy confession and suffering, begging for me, my intercessor, as I am always threefold, of faith, love and hope, herewith I honor the Holy Trinity as virtue. Imam is the lamp of faith, but the oil of good deeds is empty: you, wise virgin, your suffering flesh, filled with blood and overflowing with wounds, like a lamp of yours, give from your oil, so that by decorating my soul, I will be worthy to enter into the palace for you heavenly.
I am a sojourner on earth and a sojourner, like all my fathers: for you, blessed are the eternal heirs and a blessed meal in the Kingdom of Heaven, a partaker, as in the pilgrimage of life, the meal of Divine treats, here and in the exodus from the world, Grant me the desired admonition: and when, at the end, I begin to fall asleep in the sleep of death, make me, so that by the grace of the Divine Body and Blood of the Mysteries, strengthened, I will walk in the fortress of my soul the long path of death, even to the mountain of heaven: and there You are through three windows Having first been bathed by faith, you have seen the Trinity of God, together with you face to face, so that I may be worthy to see and glorify Him forever and ever.
To you, as the source of true speedy healing and many-wonderful healing, holy virgin Varvaro the Great Martyr, I am weak and come running, and to your holy relics, fervently falling down, I pray: see the wounds of sin and all-bodily ulcers, see weakness my soul, and this, forced by your usual mercy and goodness, I try to heal. Hear the voice of my prayer, do not despise the groaning offered by my damned heart, and hear my cry, for you are my refuge. The Holy, Consubstantial and Indivisible Trinity, Who You depicted as created by the three windows into the baths of the Fatherland, pray for me, a sinner and indecent, that He may have mercy on me now and on the day of my death. Pray to the Heavenly Father, so that I, bowed down and cast down by all my sins, will raise me up to His praise, and will always arrange for me to have a heart that is heavenly to be wise, and not earthly.
Pray to Christ the Son of God, who heard your suffering prayer in prison, so that I, lazy in prayer and in despondency, sitting in prison, may instruct me to quickly follow the path of God’s commandments, and may I give a fervent desire to pray unceasingly. Call upon the Holy Spirit, the purity of the inexhaustible Source, who in the struggle of suffering strengthened the pure virgin with honor and protected you from the cold nakedness of His wings, so that even my cold and unclean heart will be created purely, and the spirit of truth will be renewed in my womb: moreover, May He grant me to strive diligently in living a pure life, and strengthen me to do good deeds. I believe that all this is possible for me, O holy Great Martyr Varvaro, to intercede with the Most Holy Trinity: and if you desire, you are strong in helping me, for you have glorified God in your suffering lands.
And we know, holy virgin, that nothing is impossible for you, unless you despise my tears and sighs: for this sake, to the honorable holy relics of your miraculous race, I fall, and bowing to you in heaven with my abiding soul, I dare in prayer say: may your ears be attentive to the voice of my prayer, and may your holy intercession not allow me to die without confession and repentance: for even if you are glorified in any goodness, but in this especially, like everyone, have hope in you and always help Call on you to escape sudden death, deliver me from the evil and less accursed, O pure virgin, to the Great Martyr Varvaro, and with your all-powerful prayers honor me at the right hand of Christ the Son of God to stand and hear the voice saying: good servant and faithful, enter into the joy of your Lord.
Let us honor Saint Barbara: for we crushed the snares of the enemy, and like a bird, the all-honorable one got rid of them with the help and weapon of the Cross.
The blessed lamb Varvaro, divinely illuminated by the trisolar light of the Holy Trinity and established in the baptismal font, in defeating the flattery of the fathers, you confessed your faith in Christ. Moreover, O all-honorable one, God has given you grace from above to heal all ailments and illnesses: I pray to Him, Great Martyr, that He may save our souls.
O wonderful and all-praised servant of God, Rev. Father Savvo! Today in your holy church, standing reverently before your holy icon and joyfully commemorating your memory, we bless you, our intercessor. Honoring your great boldness before the Lord, we humbly pray to you, most blessed one: mercifully accept from us this song of praise, brought to you out of love and zeal. And as you have great boldness towards the Lord, strive through your God-pleasing intercession to ask the King of kings and the Lord of lords, so that He may add His great and rich mercy to us sinners, may He give us His spirit may the right faith, the spirit of knowledge and love, the spirit of peace and joy in the Holy Spirit, deliver us from troubles and misfortunes, and send down everything useful for the salvation of our souls.
May our most pious, autocratic, great sovereign, Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich of all Russia, grant longevity and spiritual salvation, victory to adversaries, prosperity in the establishment of the kingdom and blessings on all good undertakings, and great mercy to the entire reigning house Yours and goodwill. May the Holy Governing Synod bestow His grace, the right to rule, the word of Christ’s truths: may He grant wisdom and impartiality to the rulers and judges. May all the Orthodox send down peace, silence, serenity, zeal for the fulfillment of His commandments, an abundance of earthly fruits: and may He deliver the entire Russian country from famine, destruction, cowardice, flood, fire, sword, invasion of foreigners and internecine warfare, deadly ulcers and from all evil. Hey, servant of God!
Do not despise our prayers, but hear us praying to you, and under the roof of your intercession, preserve us [and this monastery] from enemies visible and invisible, so that we may be deemed worthy to end our life in repentance and receive eternal good in the Kingdom of Christ our God, where Let us praise with you and all the saints the venerable name of the Most Holy Trinity, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, forever and ever.
With your streams of tears, you cultivated the barren desert, and even from the depths of sighs, you brought forth fruit in a hundred labors, and you were the lamp of the universe, shining with miracles, like Saint Savvo, our father: prayers of Christ God save our souls.
O bishop of God, holy Gurie, stand now before the throne of Christ in the triumphant Church! Do not forget us, who celebrate your holy memory with love, behold evil from our ascension on high. Good Father, look mercifully upon your children: good shepherd, do not despise your flock, which you have acquired from God. Even if you are excommunicated from sinners by your shrine, do not separate yourself from us sinners with mercy, be present to us with your prayers to God for us. See the city in which you worked a lot, see the people you enlightened, and be everyone’s helper, intercessor, protector, protector, provident and director of our life. I warmly intercede, do not remain silent in crying out to the Lord for us, ask for world peace, silence for the Christian kingdom, which holds victory, and temporal and eternal good for all.
The rule of faith and the image of chastity, the teacher of good deeds and the mentor of salvation, which the Lord gave to the newly enlightened city of Kazan, in it you acquired a new language for people, and you brought them to Christ. For this reason, having joyfully come together in your memory, we honestly celebrate your holy Dormition: you, Our Father, to the Saint of Christ Guria, pray to Christ God for the salvation of our souls.
O all-praised and all-honorable bishop, great miracle worker, saint of Christ, Father Nicholas, man of God and faithful servant, husband of desires, chosen vessel, strong pillar of the church, lampstand bright one, shining star and illuminating the whole universe! You are a righteous man, like a flourishing phoenix, planted in the courts of your Lord: alive in Mirech, you smelled the fragrance of the myrrh, and the myrrh flowed with the ever-flowing grace of God: by your procession, holy father, the sea Be sanctified, when your many miraculous powers marched into the lordly city, from East to West to praise the name of the Lord. O most graceful and wonderful miracle worker, quick helper, warm intercessor, kind shepherd, save the verbal flock from all troubles!
We glorify you and magnify you, as the hope of all Christians, the source of miracles, the protector of the faithful, the wise teacher, those who hunger for a feeder, those who weep with joy, those who are naked, those who are sick, those who are sick, those who swim on the sea, those who swim on the sea, those who are captives of the liberator, widows and orphans a nourisher and protector, a guardian of chastity, infants a gentle chastiser, old fortifications, fasting mentors, rest for the toilers, abundant wealth for the poor and wretched. Hear us praying to you and running under your roof, manifest your intercession for us to the Most High, and intercede with your God-pleasing prayers everything useful for the salvation of our souls and bodies: preserve this holy monastery [or this church], every city and the whole, and every country Christian, and people living, from all embitterment with your help.
We know, we know, how much can the prayer of the righteous, hastening for good: for you, the righteous, according to the Most Blessed Virgin Mary, representative to the All-Merciful God of the Imam, and to yours, most gracious father, warm intercession and We humbly flow to intercession. You have kept us, like a cheerful and good shepherd, from all enemies, destruction, cowardice, hail, famine, flood, fire, sword, invasion of foreigners, and in all our troubles and sorrows, give us your hand help, and open the doors of God’s mercy: for we are not worthy to see the heights of heaven, because of the multitude of our iniquities: we are bound by sinful bonds, and not by the will of our Creator, nor keeping His commandments.
Moreover, we bend the knee of our contrite and humble heart to our Creator, and we ask for your fatherly intercession to Him: help us, servant of God, so that we do not perish with our iniquities: deliver us from all evil and from all things that are opposed, guide our minds, and strengthen our hearts in the right faith, in it through your intercession and intercession, neither with wounds, nor with rebuke, nor with pestilence, nor with any wrath from our Creator We will be humbled, but we will live a peaceful life here, and may we be honored to see good things on the living earth, glorifying the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, the One in the Trinity, glorified and worshiped God, now and ever and unto the ages of ages.
O all-holy Nicholas, exceedingly saintly servant of the Lord, our warm intercessor and quick helper everywhere in troubles! Help me, a sinner and sad person, in this present life: beg the Lord God to grant me forgiveness of all my sins, great sins from my youth, in all my life, in deed, word, thought and all my feelings, and in the departure of my soul help the accursed one, beg the Lord God, the Creator of all creation, to deliver me from airy ordeals and eternal torment: may I always glorify the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, and your merciful intercession, now and ever and forever centuries.
O all-merciful Father Nicholas, shepherd and teacher of all who flow with faith to your intercession and call upon you with warm prayer! Strive quickly and deliver the flock of Christ from the wolves that are destroying it: and protect and protect every Christian country with your holy prayers from worldly rebellion, cowardice, invasion of foreigners and internecine warfare, from famine, flood, fire, sword and sudden death. And just as you had mercy on three men imprisoned, and delivered them from the king’s wrath and the beating of the sword: so have mercy on me, in mind, word and deed, in the darkness of sins, and deliver me from the wrath of God and eternal executions: for through your intercession and help, and through His mercy and grace, Christ God will give me a quiet and sinless life in this world, and will deliver me from this foolish state, and will grant me honor with all the saints forever and ever.
O good shepherd, our teacher and mentor, Holy Hierarch Father Nicholas! Having lived like an angel on earth, after your repose you shone like a good angel, appearing as a constant helper to those who pray to you. We believe with all our souls and thoughts that through your honest intercessions and grace, abundantly given to you from the Lord our Savior, you will ever contribute to our salvation.
For even at this hour we are unworthy to accept the prayer: free us through your intercession from the vanity and vanity that surrounds us, the unbelief and evil of man: pray for peace to all who give, send peace to the churches, squandered into one, gather together, and preserve the power of our most pious, autocratic external emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich in peace and silence: pray to the merciful Lord, yes, the message of fate, will save us from our sins: pray goodness Him, O mercifully give us and the whole world the need, may we continually glorify, praise, sing and magnify the most honorable and magnificent name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
O all-praised great wonderworker, Saint of Christ, Father Nicholas! We pray to you, be the hope of all Christians, the protector of the faithful, the feeder of the hungry, the joy of those who cry, the doctor of the sick, the steward of those floating on the sea, the poor and orphan feeder and the quick helper and patron of all, may we live a peaceful life here and may we be worthy to see the glory of the elect God's in heaven and with them unceasingly sing the praises of the One God in the Trinity, worshiped forever and ever.
O great intercessor, the bishop of God, Nicholas the Treble, who shone miracles under the sun, you are a quick listener to those who call, and you always precede them and save them, and deliver them, and save them from all kinds of troubles, from God has given you miracles and gifts of grace! Hear me, unworthy, calling you with faith and bringing you prayerful singing: for I offer you an intercessor for supplication to Christ. Oh, renowned for miracles, saint of heights!
As if you have the boldness, soon stand before the Lady, and reverently stretch out your hands in prayer to Him for me, a sinner, and grant me the bounty of goodness from Him, and accept me into your intercession, and deliver me from all troubles and evils, freeing me from the invasion of enemies visible and invisible, and destroying all slander and evil deeds, and those who fight me in reflecting throughout my life: by my sins, ask for forgiveness, and present me saved to Christ, and be worthy to receive the Kingdom of Heaven for the abundance of that love for mankind, to Him belongs all glory, honor and worship, and with His Beginning Father, and with the Most Holy and Good and Life-giving Spirit, now and ever and unto the ages of ages.
O our good shepherd and God-wise mentor, Saint Nicholas of Christ! Hear us sinners, praying to you and calling on your quick intercession for help: see us weak, caught from everywhere, deprived of every good and darkened in mind from cowardice: strive, saint of God, do not leave us in Let us be in sinful captivity, so that we may not joyfully be our enemy and may not die in our evil deeds. Pray for us unworthy of our Creator and Master, to whom you stand with your disembodied faces: Our God has been merciful to us in this life and in the future, so that He will not reward us according to our deeds and the impurity of our hearts, but according to His goodness He will reward us.
We trust in your intercession, we boast of your intercession, we call upon your intercession for help, and falling to your most holy image, we ask for help: deliver us, saint of Christ, from the evils that come upon us, and tame the waves of passions and troubles that rise against us, and for the sake of your holy prayers The attack will not overwhelm us and we will not wallow in the abyss of sin and in the mud of our passions. Pray to Saint Nicholas of Christ, Christ our God, that he may grant us a peaceful life and remission of sins, salvation and great mercy for our souls, now and ever and unto the ages of ages.
The rule of faith and the image of meekness and abstinence as a teacher will appear to your flock Even in things, the Truth: for this reason you have acquired high humility, rich in poverty. Father Hierarch Nicholas, pray to Christ God to save our souls.
O wonderful miracle worker and great servant of God, Rev. Father Anthony, our kind, warm intercessor and quick helper! Standing before the throne of the Most Holy Trinity, look with your merciful eye on us and on all people, reverently flowing to your honorable tomb, in which lie your holy relics, blooming with incorruption from the days of old and fragrant with the grace of the Life-giving Most Holy Spirit, healing from all ailments spiritual and physical flow endlessly: hear us praying to you and honoring your holy memory.
Extend your hand to the Lady of heaven and earth, in your God-pleasing prayers remember our most pious, autocratic, great sovereign, Emperor Nicholas Alexandrovich of All Russia and the entire reigning house, the most holy ruling synod, the most holy ecumenical patriarchs, the Reverends metropolitans, bishops and bishops, and the entire priestly and monastic rank, and the entire church clergy, and the welcoming council of the faithful, military leaders, city governors, the Christ-loving army and all Orthodox Christians, and ask us for forgiveness of sins ours. Pray to the Merciful God to turn away from us all His anger, righteously directed at us, and save not just our monastery, but also all the cities and towns, and all Christian countries, and the people living in them, from hail and famine, from coward and flood, from fire and sword, from the invasion of foreigners and internecine warfare, from deadly plagues and all destruction and all evil, to grant us everything useful for temporary life and useful for eternal salvation.
Holy God, help us to avoid the destructive snares of the devil, to overcome the temptations of the world and to mortify our evils that exist on earth: turn our eyes away from the vain and lovely things of the earth, direct our minds and thoughts to the sight of the beauty of the Divine, heavenly and incorruptible: heal our hearts, sick with sinful passions, so that they will not cling to temporary and placeless sweets: warm me with Divine love, so that they may desire true and lasting bliss, which is in God.
Strengthen us in fulfilling the commandments of the Lord, give us heartfelt repentance and tearful tenderness, unceasing prayer and unflagging diligence, vigorous sobriety of mind and guarding of the heart, peace of thoughts, purity of desires, rightness of actions, so that by you we will be delivered from all enemies visible and invisible, from all evils of the soul and bodily, and having observed the right faith, urgent hope and unfeigned love, we will end our life on earth pleasing to God, and having passed into eternal life, we will be worthy to see the three-bright dawn of the Tri-Shining Eternal Sun, and in the non-evening days of the Heavenly Kingdom, together with you and with everyone saints, sing with gratitude and bless the Most Holy Trinity, Father and Son and Holy Spirit, forever and ever.
O blessed and ever-memorable Our Father Anthony! We do not consider you to be dead: even though you were departed from us in body, you are still alive in the council of angels. Pray for us, chosen one of Christ, and do not despise us who honor you with faith and love: remember us unworthy at the throne of the Heavenly King, for you have been given the grace to pray for us. O our good intercessor and prayer book! Behold, your holy relics are visible before our eyes. Always protect us from the snares of the enemy: pray to the Lord for the salvation of our souls, and ask us for a time of repentance and a Christian death that is painless, shameless, and peaceful, so that we may pass through the ordeal of the princes of the air without restraint and be worthy of the Heavenly Kingdom with all those who please The Ruler of heaven and earth, our Lord Jesus Christ, to Him belongs all glory, honor and worship, always, now and ever, and unto the ages of ages.
Having become inflamed with spiritual desire and rejected the rebellions of the world, you clung to the One God with love, and seeking Him with all your heart, you went into the inner desert, dwelling by the waters: where you remained in tears and labors for many years, in patience You walked through the life of many angels, in the instruction of the Divine mind: and you gathered a multitude of monks, wise, whom you did not leave, visiting Anthony, our reverend father, praying to the Most Holy Trinity to deliver from all kinds of evils and save our souls.
O great saint, glorious miracle worker, the flock gathered here for you
Christ's cheerful shepherd and God-given ruler of this monastery, blessed Nile! With your soul in heaven stand before the throne of God and enjoy the Trinity glory, rest with your body on earth in the Divine Church and from Him you exude miracles from above with various graces, look with a merciful eye on the people and those who ask for your honest race ahead the strength of your help. Behold, we, defiled in immeasurable sins and ever wallowing in the mire of passions, have brought upon ourselves the righteous wrath of God, and are unworthy of all mercy: we also do not dare to raise our countenance to the heights of heaven, to lift up a prayerful voice below, with our hearts to those who are contrite and humble in spirit, we call upon you for intercession and help.
Therefore, as you have acquired boldness, lift up your venerable hands, like the wonderful Moses of old, the seer of God, conqueror of Amalek, and ask our most pious sceptre Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich, autocrat of all Russia, and the entire reigning house, victory invincible against invisible and visible enemies, indestructible health, longevity of years, peace in his days, prosperity of the Church, prosperity of the air, fruitfulness of the earth. Deliver all who come to God with undoubted faith and reverently honor your multi-healing powers from all spiritual and physical troubles, from all yearnings and temptations of the devil. Be a comforter to the sad, a physician to the sick, a helper to the sick, a protector to the naked, a protector to the widows, a protector to the orphans, a nourisher to the infant, a strengthener to the old, a wandering guide, a sailing helmsman, and intercessor for all, O mighty one. those who diligently require your help, all useful for salvation.
As we instruct you through your prayers, we will comfortably complete the path of our short life on earth, and having improved the endless peace in heaven, we will glorify together with you all the goodness of the Giver, the One in the Trinity of the glorified God, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and hereafter and unto the ages of ages.
O venerable and blessed one, shepherd and ruler, Father Nile! As you have boldness towards the Lady Christ and towards His Most Pure Mother, the Most Holy Theotokos, be a prayer book and helper and intercessor for us unworthy living in this holy monastery, of which you are the leader of God’s chosen squad, and for those who come with faith to your healing relics. Helping and interceding from the evil of our opponent, as if by your prayers, those who remain in this place, and come with faith to the race of your relics, and in every place calling you for help, we will be unharmed from demons and evil people, sending glory and thanksgiving to the Father and To the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and unto ages of ages.
Like a lamp of all light, you appeared on the island of Seliger Ezer, O Reverend Father Nile: for you, having carried the Cross of Christ on the frame from your youth, you diligently followed that, having drawn near to the purity of God, you were enriched from strength and miracles with the gift of miracles. In the same way, we, flowing to the race of your relics, touchingly say: Reverend Father, pray to Christ God to save our souls.
O most honorable and grace-filled head of the Holy Spirit, chosen vessel of the Holy Trinity, Reverend Our Father Cyril! Hear us sinners, who now stand before your honest shrine and tenderly pray to you. Pray for us to the All-Merciful Lady Jesus Christ, our God, and to the Mother who gave birth to Him, our Lady Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary, to forgive us the sins we have committed. For we know, our Father, that even though you rest in the flesh and in the dust, yet in spirit you are here with us relentlessly, invisibly, watching over this holy abode of yours, and according to your false promise, edifying this, you preserve it from all circumstances.
And just as you have acquired much boldness towards the Lord through your fasting deeds, beg Him with your holy prayers to give peace, to the Church of His saints, unanimity, to our most pious sovereign, Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich, for victory against the enemy, who here serve each other with love and harmony: and to all people with by faith flowing to you, asking the Lord for all that is needed for the benefit of soul and body, so that we may all be delivered on the day of judgment from the terrible part, and stand at the right hand with His chosen ones to inherit the Kingdom of Heaven. For to Him belongs all glory, honor and worship, with His Beginningless Father, and with His Most Holy and Good and Life-Giving Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
O great and wonderful saint of Christ and wonderworker Spyridon, Kerkyra praise, bright luminary of the whole universe, warm prayer book to God and quick intercessor to all who come to you and pray with faith! You gloriously explained the Orthodox faith at the Council of Nicaea among the Fathers, you showed the unity of the Holy Trinity with miraculous power and you completely put the heretics to shame. Hear now, O Saint of Christ, us sinners praying to you, and by your strong intercession with the Lord, deliver us from every evil situation: from famine, flood, fire and deadly plagues. Because in your temporary life you delivered your people from all these disasters: you saved your country from the invasion of the Hagarians and from famine, you delivered the king from an incurable illness, and you brought many sinners to repentance, for the holiness of your life the Angels invisibly sing in the Church and You have had fellow servants with you.
Therefore, Lord Christ, send His faithful servant to you, for you have been granted the gift of understanding all the secret deeds of man, but denounce those who live unrighteously. You zealously helped many living in poverty and lack of food, you fed the poor people abundantly during famine, and you created many other signs by the power of the living Spirit of God in you. Do not forsake us either, O Saint of Christ: remember us, your children, at the throne of the Almighty, and beg the Lord to grant us forgiveness of many of our sins, grant us a comfortable and peaceful life, and grant us a shameless and peaceful death and eternal bliss in the future, so that we may continually send glory and thanksgiving to the Father and the Son. and to the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
O blessed Saint Spyridon, great servant of Christ and glorious miracle worker! Standing in heaven before the throne of God with the face of an Angel, look with your merciful eye on the people standing here and asking for your strong help. I beseech the mercy of God, the lover of mankind, that He may not condemn us because of our iniquity, but may He deal with us according to His mercy. Ask us from Christ and our God for a peaceful and serene life, mental and physical health, earthly prosperity and all abundance and prosperity in everything, and may we turn the good things given to us from the generous God not into evil, but into His glory and the glorification of your intercession. Deliver everyone who comes to God with undoubted faith from all spiritual and physical troubles, from all yearnings and the devil’s slander.
Be a comforter to the sad, a physician to the sick, a helper in times of adversity, a protector to the naked, a protector to widows, a protector to the orphans, a nourisher to the infant, a strengthener to the old, a guide to the wandering, a helmsman to the sailors, and intercessor to all, Your strong help to those who diligently require, all useful for salvation, as if by your prayers we are instructed and observed, we will achieve eternal peace and together with you we will glorify God, glorified in the Trinity of Saints, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto the ages of ages.
At the first council, you appeared as a champion and wonderworker, our God-bearing Spyridon: in the same way you proclaimed the dead in the tomb, and you turned the serpent into gold: and you always sang holy prayers to you, You had angels co-serving with you, most sacred. Glory to Him who gave you strength: glory to Him who crowned you: glory to Him who brings healing to all through you.
O Reverend Father, great intercessor, quick to hear, servant of God and miracle worker Ferapont! Do not forget us, as you promised, to visit your children: even though you have departed from us in body, you are still with us in spirit. We pray to you, O Reverend Father: deliver us from fire and sword, from the invasion of foreigners and internecine warfare and from corrupting winds and from sudden death and from all the attacks of the enemy that come upon us. Hear us sinners, accept our prayer and supplication, which we bring to you like a fragrant censer and like a sacrifice acceptable to God. Reverend Father, revive and restore our souls, killed by evil deeds, words and thoughts. And just as you healed many who came to your celibate tomb with faith, you healed those suffering from all sorts of sorrows and illnesses, so you healed us from mental and physical ailments. Pluck us from the depths of our sins and guide us on the path of repentance, by your merciful intercession delivering us from visible and invisible enemies. Help us in this life and in the departure of our souls and in the future life, forever and ever.
The love of Christ, God-wise, enlightened, you imitated the virtues of Blessed Basil, but having hated all carnal pleasures and settled in the desert, there you as a noble labored in singing, in vigil and in fasting: and so did Christ with the gift of miracles. enrich you. Remember us, who honor your blessed memory, Reverend Father Feraponte, and pray to Christ God to save our souls.
O venerable and God-bearing Father Arkady! Hear us praying to you, and be our helper in our sorrows, and deliver us from the misfortunes that come upon us for the many sins that have befallen us. Please, servant of Christ, the All-Good God to grant us the forgiveness of all from our youth to the present day and hour in deed, word, thought and all the feelings of the sins we have committed, and grant us an unrestricted entrance into the Heavenly Kingdom, so that we glorify the All-Holy Trinity, the Father and the Son, which is constantly glorified by the Angels. Holy Spirit, and your merciful intercession, forever and ever.
From the spiritual mentor of the Venerable Ephraim we instruct, obedience to the good zealot, Father Arkady, you withdrew from worldly rebellion, and having become a fair monk, zealous of good deeds, you received the crown of heavenly glory from Christ God: and now, together with the Venerable Father Ephraim, standing before the throne of the Most High, you prayed for us, May we be delivered from all troubles and sorrows and may our souls be saved.
O sacred head, our strong prayer book and intercessor, our holy saint Stephen! Hear us, calling you with faith and love. Remember us at the throne of the Almighty and do not stop praying for us. By your intercession I have asked from our most merciful Savior the peace of His Church, God's shepherd zeal and strength, our most pious king wisdom and prosperity, our more Orthodox country peace and salvation. Beg the Heavenly Father to give everyone the gift that everyone needs: true faith, firm hope, unsparing love, the establishment of our cities, peace of peace, deliverance from famine and destruction, preservation from the invasion of foreigners, good growth in faith for the young, for the old and weak comfort and strength, healing for the sick, mercy and intercession for the orphans and widows, help for the needy.
Do not disgrace us in our hope, make haste, as a loving father, for us to bear the good yoke of Christ in complacency and patience, and guide us all in peace and repentance, unashamedly live our end and be heirs of the Kingdom of God, where you are now living with the Angels and by all the saints, praising God, glorified in the Trinity, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, forever and ever.
As you were a saint with the disembodied, O Hieromartyr Stephen, you took the cross as a weapon, and having stood firm against the iconoclast and the Doukhobors who did not worship the Most Pure Image of Christ our God, you cut off all the heresies of the evil ones: for the sake of receiving the crown of torment, you delivered You are your city, Surozh, from all hostility. And now we pray to you, holy one, to deliver us from all evil temptations and troubles and eternal torment.
O saint of the All-Holy Trinity, O most blessed and equal-to-the-apostles shepherd, Reverend Our Father Tryphon! Do not forget your flock, but remember us in your holy and God-pleasing prayers: your flock, which you yourself, according to the gospel from the Angel, gathered and shepherded by your coming, preserve and protect. We know, O servant of God, how in the kinship of your worldly dwelling, you heard singing in the holy Church: the life of the desert is hidden, resounding with divine zeal. And for the sake of divine love, having been inspired by divine love, you left home and kinship, and having come to the northern countries, you enlightened with holy Baptism the ignorant Lopar family of the Creator, for which, in the affirmation of the Christian faith, you suffered many exiles and misadventures: and near the Pechenga River in Having settled in the desert, you gathered brethren from many cities and villages, built a great monastery, and, when departing to the heavenly village, about visiting your monastery, you received the gift of prophecy from God, and after death, you created many miracles and goals with faith for those who asked on the sea and on land. Thou art and now create.
We also pray to you, do not forget to visit your children: pray for us, Reverend Father, who come to you with faith, and for all Christians, as if you have boldness towards the Immortal King Christ, all of God: do not keep silent for us to the Lord, and do not despise us, who honor you with faith and love remembering your holy memory. Even though you passed away from us in body, even after death, alive in spirit, you always work miracles. With your prayers, save us from the arrows and snares of the enemy, and all sorts of demonic charms, and from enemies visible and invisible. O our good shepherd! To the always glorified God at the throne of His incomprehensible majesty, constantly standing in prayer, we fervently run to you and ask: pray and give us time to repent, so that at the hour of the departure of the soul we will pass from earthly to heavenly, and we will be delivered from the ordeals of the air and eternal torment, and to the Kingdom of Heaven We will be heirs with everyone who has pleased us from time to time. O most blessed and reverend Father Tryphon!
Do not despise us now who flow to you, for through your prayers and help we are saved, glory and thanksgiving, praise and worship for everything in the Trinity to the One God, all of us to the Creator, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
O holy reverend father, most blessed Sebastian, the first educator of this desert, and the founder of the monastic life in it, and the founder of this monastery! For you were a man in body, but you appeared in your life like an Angel: for your mouth, like a seraphim, glorified God day and night, and your bright life mirrored the speed of purity and chastity. Behold, I am an unworthy servant who dares to fall before your honest and wholesome relics: do not deny me, who worships you with faith and love and you, saint of Christ Sebastian, praying to you: be my teacher and enlightener, calming spiritual and bodily passions healing illnesses and instructing on the path of salvation. O blessed Father Sebastian! Be merciful to my more sorrowful and sinful soul, and present my salvation to the Lord, flowing under your roof, so that by your intercession, Father, I will be saved from enemies visible and invisible, and I will praise God, glorified in the Trinity of Saints, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and ever forever and ever.
O holy passion-bearer of Christ, warrior of the Heavenly King, who despised earthly sensuality and ascended through suffering to the heavenly Jerusalem, martyr Boniface! Hear me, a sinner, offering prayer songs from my heart, and beg our Lord Jesus Christ to forgive all my sins, whether I have committed them in knowledge or in ignorance. To her, the martyr of Christ, showing the image of repentance to sinners! Be a helper and intercessor for the evil of the enemy of the devil with your prayers to God: I have struggled a lot to escape his wicked snares, but I am caught in the snare of sin and am firmly dragged away from him, I cannot get rid of him unless you appear to me, in a bitter situation to the one who endures: and I tried so many times to repent, but I lied before God. For this reason, I come running to you and pray: save me, Holy One of God, from all evils through your intercession, by the grace of the all-powerful God, in the Trinity of Saints, glorified and worshiped, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
O great saint, God-bearing Ignatius! We fall to you and pray to you: look upon us sinners who resort to your intercession: pray to the Lord, may all our sins be forgiven. You sacrificed your soul as a martyr for your faith: grant us the courage to imitate you in everything. Nothing in life can separate you from your love for the Lord, neither flattering promises, nor reprimand, nor even the lowest torment: you appeared before the beast to fierce death with joy, and like an Angel in the monastery of our Heavenly Father you flew: and for this sake, your prayer can do much before Lord. Let us, holy servant, be the representative of the Lord: ask for a prosperous and peaceful life, health and salvation and prosperity in all things, and for victory and victory against our enemies, our most pious sovereign, Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich and the entire reigning house, may the Lord overshadow me with His grace and may He preserve our king for all the ways of his holy angels.
Help all Orthodox Christians with your prayers to Almighty God, may He deliver us from famine, cowardice, hail, rainlessness and deadly diseases, and may He grant us health and salvation. Be a quick helper to us in all sorrow, especially at the hour of our death, a bright protector and protector will appear to us, and beg the Lord to grant to all of us, who are now warmly praying to you, to receive, after the Christian death, the Kingdom of Heaven, where all the saints, together with you, glorify the Father and Son and Holy Spirit forever and ever.
O great saint, glorious wonderworker, primate of the Russian Church, guardian of the city of Moscow and zealous prayer book for all of us, our Father Peter! We humbly fall to you and pray: stretch out your hand to the Lord God and pray for us sinners and unworthy servants of His, may He add to us His mercy and bestow on us all the gifts of His goodness that are beneficial for our temporary life and eternal salvation, and most of all, may He protect us with peace, brotherly love and piety from all the temptations of the enemy the devil, and grants us to be your faithful child not only by name, but also by all our life. We pray to you, Saint of Christ, through your heavenly intercession, preserve our most pious, autocratic, great sovereign, Emperor Nicholas Alexandrovich of all Russia, in health and prosperity for many years, subduing under his nose all his enemies and adversaries, and may your blessing rest on him, of old to his ancestor, Grand Duke John, given by you. Hey, servant of God!
Hear us kindly, and be a helper and intercessor to all of us in all troubles and misfortunes, do not forget us even at the hour of our death, when we most of all demand your intercession: that through the prayers of your saints we may be worthy, and we sinners may receive a good end and inherit the Kingdom of Heaven, glorifying the wondrous one in the saints Our God, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, forever and ever.
Formerly a barren land, now rejoice: behold, Christ is a lamp in you, shining in the world and healing our ailments and illnesses. For this reason, rejoice and rejoice with boldness: for the saint is the one who has done this most High.
Rejoice brightly, most God-glorious city of Moscow, having within you Bishop Peter like the dawn of the sun, illuminating all Russia with miracles: for he heals infirmities and drives away ailments like the darkness from those who cry to him: Rejoice, hierarch of God Most High, you do this to your flock.
O blessed lady, glorious martyr of Christ, cohabitant of the heavenly Angels, blessed Princess Juliana, who labored well for purity, and was enriched for the sake of Divine gifts, in the cruelty of her temporary life you suffered from a malicious enemy, but you have endless consolation in heaven. You received God from Christ, for you were adorned with good deeds and meekness, and for this reason you inherited the earth for the sake of the meek, having lived piously in the law and now shining through miracles! You, for the sake of the purity of your heart, you have received the light of the Holy Spirit, and you have appeared as a treasure of all good deeds on earth, and for this sake you have received the good end of martyrdom, you have received indescribable light in the eternal blood of the heavenly village, and now you have councils with the saints You are installed and rejoice with the martyr’s faces. Remember us too, who praised your virtuous life and your martyr’s suffering and who honored your memory with spiritual joy.
Look at us, overwhelmed by the waves of life, so that through your prayers, having lived well, we will escape the snares of the devil, and with you we will share eternal blessings. O blessed passion-bearer, the good and faithful servant of God who appeared to all! Today, as we gather in your church, falling to the race of your relics, we cry out with emotion and pray to you: pray with us and for us, beseeching God from His mercy, may He mercifully hear us asking for His goodness, and give us everything we need for salvation and life petitions, and to all, in every place, in every sorrow and situation who require His love for mankind and help, may He send down His great mercy: that by the grace of God and your warm intercession, health always abiding in soul and body, we glorify the God of Israel, wondrous in His saints, who does not remove His help from us, always, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
Having lived piously in the law and adorned yourself with good deeds, like a strong adamant, you appeared, the chaste, holy and faithful Princess Juliana: having despised the perishable glory and goodness of the body, you defeated the evil enemy, and with chastity For the sake of martyrdom you accepted. For this reason, having been crowned with an imperishable and eternal crown from Christ God, the martyr now rejoices, and great miracles flow abundantly for us who come to your tomb. We also cry out to you: pray to Christ God for all of us, who honor your sufferings with faith and love.
O long-suffering and wise great martyr of Christ Anastasia! You stand with your soul in heaven at the throne of the Lord, and on earth, by the grace given to you, you perform various healings. Look mercifully at those who stand before you and pray before your relics, asking for your help: extend your holy prayers to the Lord for us, and ask us for forgiveness of our sins, healing for the sick, quick help for the grieving and needy: pray to the Lord, may he give us all a Christian death and a good answer at the Last Judgment With our own, may we also be worthy to glorify the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit together with you forever and ever.
O Saint Theoktistus, exceedingly pleasing servant of the Lord, our warm intercessor and prayer book! Be a listener and helper to us in sorrows and illnesses: help us sinners and saddened ones who come and worship your relics. In this present life, I beg the Lord God to grant us forgiveness of all our sins, even if we have sinned from our youth in deed, word, thought and all our feelings: and in the outcome of our souls, help us the damned. Pray to the Lord God of all creation, Creator, to deliver us from airy ordeals and eternal torment, so that we always glorify the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, and your merciful intercession, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
The first among deacons, the first among martyrs, you appeared, Saint Stephen the Apostle! Filled with faith and power in teaching and in great signs you appeared, and no one could resist the weariness of wisdom and the spirit in which you spoke, and your face was quickly seen in the congregation, like the face of an Angel. Having also been filled with the Holy Spirit, you saw the open heaven and the glory of God and the Son of Man, our Lord Jesus Christ, standing at the right hand of God the Father. Also, from the stiff-necked and murderers of the Jews with stones, in the presence of the most blessed and praying for you, His Virgin Mother, we beat you, on bended knee you cried out with a great voice: Lord, do not put this sin on them! And so you joyfully surrendered your spirit to the Lord Jesus.
For this reason, for the sake of the prayer book and representative of you, the acquisitive, and the knee of our soul and heart, we pray to you: lift up your hands to the Lord, and move the whole human race to be the Representative and Intercessor to Your Son, the Most Holy Virgin Mother, and for us, who are always angry with sin and laziness, pray to the Good Savior of ours, may he give us grace in timely help to repentance, and through your intercession and intercession of His Most Holy Mother, on this terrible and righteous day, may He not put our sins before us, but by His generosity, having begged you, may He say to our souls: I am your salvation forever centuries.
You fought a good fight, the first martyr of Christ and an apostle, and you denounced your wickedness to the tormentors: for you were stoned with a stone at the hands of the wicked, you received a crown from the right hand from above, and you cried out to God, crying out: Lord, do not give them this sin.
O holy reverend father, Ignatius, the first vesi of this enlightenment, the monastic life here, the lawgiver! For you were a man in body, but you appeared in your life like an Angel: for your mouth, like a seraphim, glorified God day and night, and your bright life mirrored the speed of purity and chastity. Behold, I am an unworthy servant who dares to fall before your honest and wholesome relics: do not deny me, who worships you with faith and love and you, saint of Christ Sebastian, praying to you: be my teacher and enlightener, calming spiritual and bodily passions healing illnesses and instructing on the path of salvation. O blessed Father Sebastian! Be merciful to my more sorrowful and sinful soul, and present my salvation to the Lord, flowing under your roof, so that by your intercession, Father, I will be saved from enemies visible and invisible, and I will praise God, glorified in the Trinity of Saints, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and ever forever and ever.
O holy righteous Joseph! You, while still on this earth, had great boldness towards the Son of God, who deigned to call you His father, as the betrothed of His Mother, and to listen to you: we believe that now, from the faces of the righteous in the abodes of heaven, you will be heard in every your petition to God and our Savior. Moreover, resorting to your protection and intercession, we humbly pray to you: just as you yourself were delivered from the storm of doubtful thoughts, so deliver us too, overwhelmed by waves of confusion and passions: just as you protected the All-Immaculate Virgin from human slander, protect and also protect us from all vain slander: just as you protected the incarnate Lord from all harm and bitterness, so through your intercession preserve His Orthodox Church and all of us from all bitterness and harm. Weigh, holy of God, as the Son of God in the days of His flesh had need for bodily needs, and you served them: for this reason we pray to you, and our temporary needs will be prospered by your intercession, giving us all the good things we need in this life.
We more than earnestly ask you to grant us remission of sins, to receive from the Son you are named, the Only Begotten Son of God, our Lord Jesus Christ, and through your intercession we are worthy of inheriting the Kingdom of Heaven, so that we, dwelling with you in the high villages, will glorify the One Trinitarian God, Father and Son and Holy Spirit, now and forever.
Bring the good news, Joseph, to David, the God-father, miracles: you saw the virgin who gave birth, you praised the shepherds, you worshiped the magicians, you received the news with an angel. Pray to Christ God to save our souls.
O great one in the hierarchy, God-wise teacher of the universe, blessed Father Basil! Your great exploits and labors, which you have accomplished for the glory of the Holy Church. You were a strong confessor and a lamp of the faith of Christ on earth, illuminating the faithful with the light of knowledge of God, scorching false teachings and proclaiming the word of saving truth to the whole world. Now, having greatness in heaven, having boldness towards the Holy Trinity, help us, who bow to you with humility, to firmly and unchangeably preserve the holy Orthodox faith until the end of our lives, and to preserve from lack of faith, doubt and hesitation in the faith, so that we will not be seduced by ungodly and soul-destroying values of words. The spirit of holy zeal, with which you blazed, O glorious shepherd of the Church of Christ, kindle with your intercession also in us, whom Christ has appointed to be shepherds, so that we may diligently glorify and confirm in the right faith the verbal flock of Christ.
Pray to the King of those reigning, may the right hand of the patron of the holy faith, our most pious sovereign, Emperor Nicholas Alexandrovich, be exalted, and may he grant him, his wife, his mother, the heir to the crown prince and the entire reigning house health, longevity and good haste in everything. Ask, O merciful saint, from the Father of Lights and everyone every gift that is beneficial to everyone: growth for the infant in the passion of God, chastity for the young, strength for the old and weak, comfort for the afflicted, healing for the sick, admonition and correction for the erring, intercession for the offended, protection for orphans and widows, grace-filled help for those who are tempted, blessed peace for our fathers and brothers who have departed from this temporary life. To her, Holy One of God, mercifully look down from the heavenly abodes upon us who are humble, overwhelmed by many temptations and misfortunes, and bring those who are devoted to the earth to the heights of heaven.
Grant us, most kind father, your archpastoral and holy blessing, so that in this new summer and throughout the rest of our lives in the world, we will live in repentance and obedience to the holy Orthodox Church, diligently doing the commandments of Christ, fighting the good fight of faith, and thus we will achieve the Kingdom of Heaven, Where with you and all the saints grant the Holy Trinity, Consubstantial and Indivisible, to sing and glorify forever and ever.
O great and most holy Father Basil, glorious teacher of the universal Church, all-zealous champion of the glory of the Most Holy Trinity, the Mother of God and Her most immaculate virginity, the chosen confessor, most luminous of purity, humility and patience! Now, being a great sinner and unworthy of looking up to the heights of heaven, I humbly pray to you, O wise teacher of the Church of Christ: teach me to lead my life in such a God-fearing way, and never take a path that is contrary to God’s command, deviate or be seduced. Protect and deliver me through your powerful intercession from the temptations of the world and the snares of the devil, just as you delivered from them the young man who retreated from our Sweetest Savior and fell into the power of Satan. Grant me spiritual strength, so that I can be a zealous imitator of your high virtue: make me right in faith, firm and unshakable, strengthen the faint-hearted in patience and trust in the Lord, kindle in my heart the true love of Christ, so that I desire heavenly blessings above all others and enjoy them.
Ask the Lord for my sincere contrition for my sins, so that I will spend the rest of my life in peace, repentance and fulfillment of the commandments of Christ. When the hour of my death draws near, you, O blessed Father, with the Most Blessed Virgin Mary, then speed up to help, protect me from the evil slander of the enemy, and grant me the heir to be the heavenly villages, and together with you and all the saints of the unapproachable God I will appear before the throne of Majesty, and I will glorify and sing the Life-Giving, Consubstantial and Indivisible Trinity, ever and ever and ever.
O great and glorious saint of Christ, God-wise teacher of the whole universal Church, firm confessor and champion of Orthodoxy, blessed Father Basil! Look down from the heights of heaven upon us, who humbly fall to you, and beg the Lord Almighty, whose faithful servant you were on earth, to grant us firm and unchangeable preservation of the right faith, obedience to the Church of the saints, correction of our lives, and speedy help in all our needs, sorrows and temptations, patience and strength. Grant us your holy blessing, so that in this fall, in this new summer and on all days pleasing to God, we may live in peace and repentance, and in the Kingdom of Heaven we will be honored with you and all the saints to sing and glorify the Life-Giving Trinity, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit forever centuries.
O most honorable and sacred head and filled with the grace of the Holy Spirit, Savior’s abode with the Father, great bishop, our warm intercessor, Saint Basil!
Standing at the throne of all the King and enjoying the light of the Consubstantial Trinity and cherubically with the Angels proclaiming the trisagion hymn, having great and unexplored boldness towards the All-Merciful Master, pray that the flock of Christ people will be saved, helping the most pious in battles, Our most autocratic, great Sovereign, Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich of all Russia, and subdue all the hostile enemies under his nose, arrange for him to reign peacefully and serenely: establish the well-being of the holy churches: the bishops adorn the splendor of holiness: the monastics to the feat of the good current strengthen: preserve the reigning city and all cities and countries well, and keep the holy, immaculate faith, begging: the whole world has died through your intercession, delivered us from famine and destruction, and preserved us from the attacks of foreigners, old comforts, instruct young people, wise wise men, have mercy on widows, orphans interceded, infants grew up, returned captives, healed the sick, and everywhere warmly calling you and flowing to you with faith and diligently falling and praying to you from all misfortunes and troubles through your intercession for freedom.
Pray for us to the all-generous and philanthropic Christ our God, so that on the day of His terrible coming He will deliver us from this evil state, and He will create the joys of the saints as partakers with all the saints forever and ever.
Thy message went out into the whole earth, as if it had received your word, which thou hast so gloriously taught: thou hast clarified the nature of beings, thou hast adorned human customs. Royal Consecration, Reverend Father, pray to Christ God to save our souls.
O most wonderful Father Seraphim, great Sarov wonderworker, quick and obedient helper to all who come running to you! During the days of your earthly life, no one was tired of you and was inconsolable when you left, but everyone was blessed by the vision of your face and the sweet voice of your words. Moreover, the gift of healing, the gift of insight, the gift of healing for weak souls, has appeared abundantly in you. When God called you from earthly labors to heavenly rest, your love ceased from us, and it is impossible to count your miracles, multiplying like the stars of heaven: for throughout all the ends of our earth you appeared as the people of God and granted us healings. In the same way, we cry out to you: O most quiet and meek servant of God, daring prayer book to Him, reject no one who calls you!
Offer up your merciful prayer for us to the Lord of hosts, may he strengthen the power of our blessed king, may he grant us all that is beneficial in this life and all that is useful for spiritual salvation, may he protect us from the falls of sins and may he teach us true repentance, so that without stumbling bring us into the eternal Heavenly Kingdom, where you are now in unfading glory, and there sing with all the saints the Life-Giving Trinity forever and ever.
O great servant of God, our reverend and God-bearing Father Seraphim! Look down from the height of glory on us humble and weak, burdened with many sins, your help and consolation asking. Reach out to us with your compassion and help us to preserve the commandments of the Lord immaculately, to firmly maintain the Orthodox faith, to diligently offer repentance for our sins to God, to prosper in piety as Christians with grace and to be worthy of your prayerful representation to God for us. To her, Holiness of God, hear us praying to you with faith and love, and do not despise us who demand your intercession: now and at the hour of our death, help us, and intercede with your prayers from the evil slander of the devil, so that those powers may not possess us, but may we be honored with your help to inherit the bliss of the abode of paradise.
We now place our hope in you, merciful father: be truly a guide to salvation for us, and lead us to the unevening light of eternal life through your God-pleasing intercession at the throne of the Trinity, so that we glorify and sing with all the saints the adored name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit forever and ever.
O Reverend Father Seraphim, a zealous zealot of the True God, a new adornment to the Orthodox Church, a wondrous ascetic of Christian piety! We run to you, we bring you, we open our thoughts to you of our sorrowful souls. Pray to God for people overwhelmed by the passions and vanity of this world: do not stop praying to Him for all those who come to you and ask for your help. Do not despise our little death, multiply it with your prayer. Grant us, by the grace of God, deliverance from sorrows and healing from illnesses, heal our mental and physical ailments, direct our minds to the knowledge of the Orthodox faith, and help us to keep all the commandments of God. Preserve the minds of Orthodox people from darkness and unbelief, but create Christ’s love for one another, so that in the piety of Christ we prosper, in the joy of our hearts we exclaim to you: Rejoice, our helper: Rejoice, our healing: Rejoice, our consolation: Rejoice, our joy, Reverend Father Seraphim, and grant us your joy forever and ever.
From your youth you loved Christ, O blessed one, and you ardently longed for the One who worked, you labored in the desert with unceasing prayer and labor, and having acquired the love of Christ with a tender heart, you became the chosen one beloved of the Mother of God. For this reason, we cry out to you: save us with your prayers, Seraphim, our reverend father.
Baptist of Christ, preacher of repentance! Do not despise me who repents, but copulating with the heavenly howls, pray to the Lady for me, unworthy, sad, weak and sad, fallen into many troubles, set in motion by the stormy thoughts of my mind. For I am a den of evil deeds, with no end to sinful customs: for my mind is nailed down by earthly things. What will I do? We don't know. And to whom shall I resort, that my soul may be saved? Only to you, Saint John, give the same name of grace, for you are before the Lord through the Theotokos, greater than all who were born: for you were deemed worthy to touch the top of Christ the King, who takes away the sins of the world, the Lamb of God: pray to him for the sinner. my soul, so that from now on, at the first ten hour, I will bear a good burden and accept reward with the last. To her, the Baptist of Christ, an honest Forerunner, an extreme prophet, the first martyr in grace, a teacher of fasters and hermits, a teacher of purity and a close friend of Christ!
I pray to you, I come running to you: do not reject me from your intercession, but raise me up, having fallen into many sins: renew my soul with repentance, as with the second baptism, you are the leader of both, wash away original sin with baptism, and cleanse each one from bad deeds with repentance. Cleanse me, the one defiled by sin, and force me to enter, or enter into anything bad, into the Kingdom of Heaven.
Holy Forerunner and Baptist of Christ John! This preacher of repentance, do not despise us who repent, but pray to the Lord Christ for us unworthy slaves, sad, weak, fallen into many sins. We fear death, but we are not sick of our sins and do not care about the Kingdom of Heaven: but do not despise us, the Baptist of Christ, honorable Forerunner, born of all, a teacher of fasting and desert men, a teacher of purity and a neighbor of Christ. We pray to you, we resort to you: do not reject us who ask for your intercession, renew our souls with repentance, which is the second baptism: by your intercession before the Lord, ask for the cleansing of our sins. Unworthy lips cry out to you, and a humble soul prays, a contrite heart sighs from the depths: stretch out your most pure right hand and protect us from enemies visible and invisible. Hey, Lord Jesus Christ! Through the prayers of St. John Thy Baptist, and most especially of Thy Most Pure Mother, our Lady Theotokos, save us Thy sinful servants who repent of our sins.
For You are the God of the repentant, and we place our hope in You as the Savior, glorifying Your most holy name, with Your Originless Father, and with Your Most Holy and Good and Life-giving Spirit, now and ever and unto the ages of ages.
Baptist of Christ, honest Forerunner, extreme prophet, first martyr in grace, mentor of fasters and hermits, teacher of purity and neighbor of Christ! I pray to you, I come running to you: do not reject me from your intercession, but raise me up, having fallen through many sins: renew my soul with repentance, as with the second baptism: cleanse me, the sin of the defiled, and force me to enter, and even if nothing bad enters, into the Kingdom of Heaven.
The memory of the righteous is with praise, but the testimony of the Lord is sufficient for you, O Forerunner: for you have shown that you are truly more honorable than the prophets, as in the streams of baptism you were deemed worthy to be the One who spoke. In the same way, having suffered for the truth, rejoice, you preached the good news to those in hell who is God manifest in the flesh, who takes away the sin of the world and gives us great mercy.
O most honorable and sacred head and filled with the grace of the Holy Spirit, the abode of the Savior with the Father, great bishop, our warm intercessor, Saint Philip!
Standing at the throne of all the King and enjoying the light of the Consubstantial Trinity and cherubically with the Angels proclaiming the trisagion hymn, having great and unexplored boldness towards the All-Merciful Master, pray that the flock of Christ people will be saved, helping the most pious in battles, Our most autocratic, great Sovereign, Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich of all Russia, and subdue all the hostile enemies under his nose, arrange for him to reign peacefully and serenely: establish the well-being of the holy churches: the bishops adorn the splendor of holiness: the monastics to the feat of the good current strengthen: preserve the reigning city and all cities and countries well, and keep the holy, immaculate faith, begging: the whole world has died through your intercession, delivered us from famine and destruction, and preserved us from the attacks of foreigners, old comforts, instruct young people, wise wise men, have mercy on widows, orphans interceded, infants grew up, returned captives, healed the sick, and everywhere warmly calling you and flowing to you with faith and diligently falling and praying to you from all misfortunes and troubles through your intercession for freedom.
Pray for us to the all-generous and philanthropic Christ our God, so that on the day of His terrible coming He will deliver us from this evil state, and He will create the joys of the saints as partakers with all the saints forever and ever.
The successor of the first thrones, the pillar of Orthodoxy, the champion of truth, the new confessor, Saint Philip, who laid down his soul for your flock: also, as having boldness towards Christ, pray for the Orthodox Emperor, for the city and the people who worthily honor your memory.
O our good shepherd and God-wise mentor, Reverend Father Paul! Hear us praying to you and calling for your speedy intercession for help. See us sinners in our present circumstances: see us weak, caught everywhere, deprived of every good, and darkened in mind from cowardice. Try, O servant of God, do not leave us to remain in sinful captivity, so that we may not joyfully be our enemy and die in our evil deeds. Pray for us, unworthy of the Savior Lord, to whom you stand with disembodied faces. Make our Creator merciful to us in the present world and in the future, so that He will not reward us according to our deeds and the impurity of our hearts, but He will do us according to His goodness. We trust in your intercession, we boast of your intercession, we call upon your intercession for help, and we ask for healing at your unworthy tomb.
Deliver us, saint of Christ, from the evil ones who come upon us, and tame the waves of passions and troubles that rise against us, so that for the sake of your holy prayers the attack will not overtake us, and we will not wallow in the abyss of sins and in the mud of our passions. Pray, Reverend Father Paul, Christ our God, that he may grant us a peaceful life, forgiveness of sins, and salvation and great mercy for our souls, now and forever.
We are inflamed with divine love from youth, Reverend Paul, having hated everything that is red in the world, you loved the One Christ, and for this reason you moved into the inner desert, with the life of a beast, all to Christ: from there and the all-seeing eye, having seen your labors, enriched you with the gift of miracles and upon repose. We also cry out to you: pray unceasingly for all of us, who always honor your honorable memory in songs.
O most honorable and sacred head and filled with the grace of the Holy Spirit, Savior’s abode with the Father, great bishop, our warm intercessor, Saint Macarius!
Standing at the throne of all the King and enjoying the light of the Consubstantial Trinity and cherubically with the Angels proclaiming the trisagion hymn, having great and unexplored boldness towards the All-Merciful Master, pray that the flock of Christ people will be saved, helping the most pious in battles, Our most autocratic, great Sovereign, Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich of all Russia, and subdue all the hostile enemies under his nose, arrange for him to reign peacefully and serenely: establish the well-being of the holy churches: the bishops adorn the splendor of holiness: the monastics to the feat of the good current strengthen: preserve the reigning city and all cities and countries well, and keep the holy, immaculate faith, begging: the whole world has died through your intercession, delivered us from famine and destruction, and preserved us from the attacks of foreigners, old comforts, instruct young people, wise wise men, have mercy on widows, orphans interceded, infants grew up, returned captives, healed the sick, and everywhere warmly calling you and flowing to you with faith and diligently falling and praying to you from all misfortunes and troubles through your intercession for freedom.
Pray for us to the all-generous and philanthropic Christ our God, so that on the day of His terrible coming He will deliver us from this evil state, and He will create the joys of the saints as partakers with all the saints forever and ever.
O our venerable and blessed Father Michael! You, having desired to diligently follow in the footsteps of our Lord Jesus Christ, have cast away all carnal wisdom: you, your fatherland, your race and temporal nobility and the inheritance of the earthly kingdom, have left behind monasticism and foolishness the path to salvation and to the inheritance of the Kingdom of Heaven; this Most Holy Trinity, laboriously and godly laboring in it, you contributed greatly to the organization of it: and from all troubles, from famine, from the presence of hostility and fiery burning and all evil, preserving it, and protecting those who live in it and those who flow to it, you taught the way of the Lord.
Even now you stand before the Most Holy Trinity with all the saints and are constantly saturated with the sight of the Trisvetaneous Divinity, remember those who honor your holy memory: do not be silent, saint of Christ, praying to the Lord, that by His grace this holy abode, those who live in it will those who toil, but also those who do good to them, and always give shade to those who flow to your sacred race and keep your lips and hearts kissing healthy and unharmed from all adversity. liberates, giving prosperity to those traveling on the way, health to the sick and consolation to the sad, speedy intercession and help to the orphans and widows and all those in need, and firm protection and protection from enemy slander: do not cease praying for those named after Christ to the power of our most pious, autocratic, great sovereign, Emperor Nicholas Alexandrovich, as through your intercession and prayers we will be able to safely accomplish the feat of the current, glorifying the Holy Trinity, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, and your intercession, now and ever and unto the ages of ages.
Even though on earth for Christ's sake you fell into riotous will, you hated the beauty of this world, and withered the carnal games with fasting and thirst, and laying down on the earth, from the heat and cold, from the rain and You have never shied away from snow and other airy burdens: you have purified your soul with virtues like gold in a furnace, O Reverend God-bearing Father Michael, and now in heaven you stand before the throne of the Most Holy Trinity. But since you have much boldness, pray to Christ God that our souls may be saved.
O sacred head, glorious miracle worker, Saint Savvo of Christ, the first throne of the Serbian land, guardian and enlightener, trustworthy representative of all Christians before the Lord! We fall down and pray to you: let us be partakers of your love for God and neighbor, even during your lifetime your holy soul was filled with speed. Enlighten our mind and heart with the light of Divine teaching, teach us to imitate you faithfully, to love God and our neighbor and to fulfill the commandments of the Lord without laziness, and not only by name, but by all our life we will appear as your children. Above all, pray, O Holy Hierarch of God, for the holy Orthodox Church and your earthly fatherland, who always honors you with love.
Look compassionately upon every soul of your faithful admirers, those who seek your mercy and help: be a healer to all of us in sickness, a comforter in sorrow, a visitor in sorrow, a helper in troubles and needs, in the hour of death a merciful patron and protector, and through your prayers Let us strive to receive eternal salvation and inherit the Kingdom of Christ, so that we may be worthy! To her, Holiness of God, we do not disgrace our hope, which we firmly place in you, but show us your powerful intercession, so that we glorify and sing wondrously in our saints, God, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, always, now and ever, and unto the ages of ages.
There is great adornment in the saints, God-wise Father Savvo! We earnestly pray and cry out to you: do not leave your children, father, but be always with us, as you promised, and we, too, will sing to you according to our duty, we will please you and glorify your greatness and strength, and we will bring you a worthy song, crying out and saying: we honor you, saint! We sing to you, O lamp! We bow to you, Father Savvo! We pray, we pray to you, that those who sing to your holy memory will be saved.
The path leading into life, you were the mentor and first altar and teacher: first of all, when you came, to Saint Savvo, you enlightened your fatherland, and having given birth to it by the Holy Spirit, like an oil tree in a mental paradise, you planted your all-sanctified children. To those who are the apostle and saint of the throne, we pray in honor to you: pray to Christ God to grant us great mercy.
O great servant of God and glorious miracle worker, reverend Father Irinarsha! Look at us sinners, who in our sorrows and circumstances cry out to you earnestly and place all our hope in you according to God. We ask you with tenderness for many things: by your intercession to the Lord God, ask us for peace, long life, brotherly love, fruitfulness of the earth, good dissolution of the air, good rains, and a blessing from above on all our good undertakings. Deliver us all with your holy prayers from all troubles: famine, hail, flood, fire, sword, harmful worms, corrupting winds, deadly plagues and sudden deaths, and in all our sorrows be our Comforter and helper, preserving us from the falls of sin and making us worthy to be heirs of the Kingdom of Heaven, may we glorify with you all the good Giver, the Triune God, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, forever and ever.
O Reverend Father Irinarsha! Behold, we, more sacred than the race of your multi-healing relics that are to come, pray to you earnestly: be our everlasting intercessor, ask us from Christ God for peace, silence, prosperity, health and salvation, and from all enemies, visible and invisible, protection and covering Through your intercession we are saved from all kinds of troubles and sorrows, especially from the temptations of the dark enemy, so that we all glorify with you the all-holy name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto the ages of ages.
O great servant of Christ, willing sufferer, new-seeker of miracles, our Father Irinarsha, fertilization of the Russian land, praise to the city of Rostov, adornment and affirmation of this monastery! Who wouldn’t be surprised at your spontaneous and long-term suffering patience? For thirty more years in a cramped and cold hut you imprisoned yourself, you suffered coldness, hunger and exhaustion of the flesh of the Kingdom for the sake of the Heavenly Kingdom, and to this end you also endured expulsion from the monastery, due to the obsession of the enemy, without a murmur. We know that after being begged by the brethren, like a gentle lamb, you returned to your abode, and you settled in that cramped hut, like hard adamant, against the invisible demonic hordes and your visible enemies with patience. armed When, by God’s permission, Poland’s warriors came to this monastery, you were not afraid of mortal retribution, but having become chaste, in a word, you created to return to your own place.
For this reason, the All-Good God, seeing your faith and suffering long-suffering, gave you the gift of insight and healing: you gave healing to the demons, to the lame to walk well, to the blind you gave sight, and many others with faith came to you for good, even to this day you have worked miracles. We are unworthy, such as we see miracles and fulfilled joy, we cry to you: Rejoice, valiant sufferer and conqueror of demons: Rejoice, our quick helper and warm prayer to God.
Hear us sinners too, praying to you and running under your roof: manifest your merciful intercession for us to the Almighty, and intercede with your God-pleasing prayers everything useful for the salvation of our souls and bodies: preserve this holy monastery, every city and the whole and every Christian country from all the slander of the enemy: in our sorrows and illnesses, give us a helping hand, so that through your intercession and intercession, by the grace and mercy of Christ our God, we too may be delivered from our unworthiness, after departing from this life, from this holy standing, and may we be worthy of the right hand with all the saints forever centuries.
O great saint of Christ, willing sufferer, wonderful recluse, glorious miracle worker, reverend Father Irinarsha! We fall before you with faith and love and pray diligently: show us your humble and sinful intercession in prayer. Behold, it is a sin for our sake, not the imams of freedom for the children of God to ask our Lord and our Creator for our needs, but we offer you a representative favorable to Him, and we ask you with zeal for many. Ask us from His goodness for all the beneficial gifts for our souls and bodies: rightful faith, undoubted hope of salvation, unfeigned love for everyone, unshakable piety, courage in temptation, patience in suffering, constancy in prayer, health for souls and bodies, for the earth. fruitfulness, goodness in the air, timely rains and blessings from above on all our good deeds and undertakings.
Ask, servant of God, from the Tsar of heaven and earth to our faithful Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich, autocrat of all Russia, health, salvation and victory over enemies, and to the whole God-protected kingdom for his peace, silence, prosperity. Preserve, miracle-working saint, your honorable abode, in which you laboriously labored, and all who live in it and who come to worship there are unharmed from the temptations of the devil and all evil, and grant to all all that is necessary for life, a Christian death and a good answer to the Last Thing. Judgment of Christ: and through your prayers you will bring us all into the haven of salvation, and heirs to the manifest existence of the all-bright Kingdom of Christ, may we sing and glorify the love of mankind and mercy in the Trinity of the worshiped God, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, and your holy intercession, forever and ever.
O Reverend Our Father Eleazar, this God-chosen leader and founder of the silent monastic life in the desert! We pray to you, we are humble and unworthy, that your sacred tomb is in the Church of the Most Holy Trinity, in which this place was sanctified and for the sake of the prophetic grace in you, glorified: ask, O servant of God, from the Almighty God, who is worshiped in the Trinity, Stand before him with boldness from the faces of the saints, may he grant our blessed emperor health and long life, victory and victory over his enemies, peace and affirmation to his power, prosperity to the churches, and to all people peace and prosperity and an abundance of earthly fruits. With your prayers we have quenched the arrows of the devil that have been fired at us, so that the malice of sin may not touch us, and having piously ended our temporary life, we may be worthy to inherit the Kingdom of Heaven and together with you glorify the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit forever and ever.
You rejected corruptible flesh, you strove to achieve the incorruptible, and having retired from the world, you moved into a sea island, and on it you diligently worked for many years of the Lord: for this sake, you were enriched with the gifts of insight and miracles, Reverend Father Eleazar. I pray to Christ God to grant us peace and great mercy.
O all-praiseful and admirable Equal-to-the-Apostles Nino, truly a great adornment to the Orthodox Church and a fair amount of praise for the people of Iveron, who enlightened the entire Georgian country with divine teaching and conquered the feats of apostleship of the enemy of our salvation, with labor and prayers she planted the helicity of Christ here and brought to fruition many his grown! Celebrating your holy memory today, we tenderly ask you, as our dear representative, to protect us from the enemy’s evils and sorrows, but the enemies of the holy Church of Christ and opponents of piety put to shame and understanding, your flock, which you have saved, is good preserving: and beseech the All-Good God our Savior, to whom you now stand, that He may grant our most pious Emperor peace, long life and good haste in all things, and that the Lord will bring all people into the Kingdom of Heaven, where everyone glorify the All-Holy Name now and ever and unto the ages of ages.
The words of the servant of God, who imitated the first-called Andrew and the other apostles in his apostolic sermons, the enlightener of Iberia, and the Holy Spirit of the tarantula, holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Nino, pray to Christ God that our souls will be saved.
O Saint Peter, great apostle, self-witness and companion of God, by the omnipotent right hand of your Teacher, taken from the troubled waters and freed from the final drowning! Do not forget us poor ones, sunk in the mire of sins and overwhelmed by the waves of the sea of life: give us your strong hand, help us and keep us from drowning in passions, lusts, lies and slander. Show us the mercy shown to you by the Lord, so that we do not give in to doubt and lack of faith. Teach us, our teacher, to shed tears of repentance, and weep bitterly for our deeds in this world. And if your tears, poured out in repentance, were covered by His mercy, the Lord and your Teacher asked us, with apostolic boldness, forgiveness for the sin of hourly renouncing our evil thoughts and deeds from Christ.
This reigning city, cast down at your holy feet, has been preserved, and from the coming wiles of the evil enemy of our salvation, the fence of our salvation: lift up your reverend hands to the Lord for our king, so that we may live a quiet and silent life in this world until the hour when the Master Lord, our Judge, calls us impartial. But you, O all-praised apostle, do not reject our cry and groaning to you, but intercede for us before Christ your Teacher, so that we may continually glorify His mercy towards us, together with the Father and the Holy Spirit, forever and ever.
You did not leave Rome, you came to us with honorable chains, even as you wore the apostles, the first throne: who by faith worship, we pray: with your prayers to God, grant us great mercy.
O good shepherd, our mentor and holy leader of the Dymsky monastery, Reverend Father Anthony! As you have boldness towards the Lord Christ and towards His Most Pure Mother, be for us unworthy, living in your holy monastery, and for all of you with faith in the race of your relics flowing from everywhere, warm prayer book, interceding us from all troubles and misfortunes, and through your prayers unharmed We will stay away from enemies visible and invisible. Pray for God's mercy to save us from our sins, including the message of our destinies.
Pray for His goodness, which will mercifully bestow upon this monastery and the whole world the need for it, to send peace to the churches and scatter them into one, to preserve the power of our most pious Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich in peace and quiet, and to all the faithful in the house and on the way and everywhere have good and serene days grant, to pacify our life, and to have mercy on all people, as those who are to come here, and through the blessed wine of our departed fathers and brethren, and save our souls, may we continually glorify, praise, sing and magnify the most honorable and magnificent name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
Virtues to the zealot, desert dweller, ascetic of the faith of Christ our God, by the pity and labors of the mortifying carnal lust, name of the Great Anthony, whose life you were jealous of and in whose name you erected a divine church! Reverend Anthony is with him, praying to the Savior of all, that He may also create us conquerors of sweaty lusts and temples of the Holy Spirit, according to His great mercy.
O all-holy Fathers Athanasius and Kirill, our warmth intercessors, consumers of heresies, piety defenders, physicians for the sick, helpers in troubles and all those who flow to your holy relics, your warmth is your representative! Help us sinners in this life, and beg the Lord God to grant us forgiveness of sins and the inheritance of the Kingdom of Heaven, so that we may always glorify the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, and your merciful intercession, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
The deeds of Orthodoxy have shone forth, all slander has been extinguished, the victorious victorious have become quicker: having enriched everything with piety, adorned the Church with greatness, worthy of having found Christ God, who gives us great mercy.
O venerable and God-bearing Father Athanasius, an earthly angel and a heavenly man, a great servant of Christ, and a kind reader of our Lady Theotokos, a well-known intercessor to all who flow to you with faith and love! Ask us everything that is necessary for this temporary life and useful for our eternal salvation. Contribute your intercession, O saint of God, to our most pious great sovereign, Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich of all Russia, against enemies visible and invisible, so that the holy Church of Christ may abide in peace, and the Kingdom of Russia may be indestructible in all piety and good order. will remain. For all of us, miracle-working saint, be a quick helper in every sorrow and situation, especially at the hour of our death, a merciful intercessor appears to us, may we not betray the power of the evil world ruler at the ordeals of the air, but may we be worthy a stumbling-free ascent into the Kingdom of Heaven. Hey, Father, our ever present prayer book, radiant with the dawn of God’s grace, the adornment of this place!
Do not stop praying, so that the grace of God and the protection of the Mother of God will no longer recede from this place, but may we, together with you and with all the saints in the villages of paradise, glorify the greatness, grace and mercy of the One in the Trinity of God, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, forever and ever.
O blessed great saint, righteous Athanasius! Hear me, a sinner, praying to you and calling on your holy name. See me poor, immersed in the capital's misfortune: see me weak, caught from everywhere and deprived of every good and my mind darkened from cowardice. Strive, O Holiness of God, to free me captive, do not leave me a sinful enemy in the joy of being and dying in my evil deeds: pray for me, a sinner and fornicator, and my Creator, Master and Lord, with Him you are with You stand before me with disembodied faces, be merciful to me in the present world and in the future, so that he will not repay me according to my evil deeds and the impurity of my heart, but may he repay me according to his goodness.
Behold, I trust in your intercession, and I boast in you, and I call on your holy name for help, and I fall at your holy tomb: deliver me, O lamp of Christ, from the evil troubles that come upon me, and tame the rising waves, so that they may not be overcome. attack me, and I will not wallow in the abyss of the depths and in the time of sin: pray, righteous Athanasius, grant me, a sinner, mercy from the Lord God forever and ever.
Master, Lover of Mankind, Heavenly King, Lord Jesus Christ, our God! Hear us sinners praying to you, and have mercy, and grant us this righteous saint of yours, Athanasius, to glorify and call for help, to worship his holy image and to fall at his holy tomb with faith. O marvelous in miracles, holy and righteous Athanasius! Pray to Christ God and us sinners, and have mercy on all those who come and call for help in sorrows, and be our helper and healer quickly, and grant us abundant health and abundant help: be a mentor to orphans and widows, and grant to everyone even petitions for salvation, save and keep from all evils and diseases and the slander of the enemy: and so standing before the throne of the Lord, pray unceasingly for us sinners, Christ our God. For to Him belongs all glory, honor and worship and splendor, with the Father and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
Having been enlightened by divine grace, and after death you grant healing to those who flow to the race of your relics, the wise Athanasius: in the same way, we now honor the appearance of your honorable relics, bringing joy to both soul and body. In the same way, we all cry out: glory to Him who gave you strength: glory to Him who crowned you: glory to Him who heals all through you.
O blessed and all-honorable servant of Christ, the great Theodore! Hear us sinners, praying to you and worshiping your honest image and flowing to your sacred race. Look with a merciful eye at the people who are more honest than your race and those who ask for your strong help, and, as if you have boldness in the Lord, ask Him for peace for all of us, the welfare of the Church, the prosperity of the air and the earth fruitfulness. Deliver all who come to God with undoubted faith from all troubles: be a comforter to the sorrowful, a physician to the sick, a helper to the sick, a helper to the sick, a protector to the naked, a protector to widows, a guide to the wandering, and intercede for us all for salvation. petitions. Pray to the Holy Trinity for us, many sinners, that through your favorable prayers we may receive good things for our souls and bodies, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
Chosen One of God and miracle worker, Reverend Father Gennady! From your youth you were filled with the spirit of wisdom and understanding, filled with the spirit of piety and the fear of the Lord, you received the armor of God apostolically, you girded your loins with truth and put on the armor of righteousness, but for the preparation of the gospel of peace having put on shoes, and over everyone we will raise the shield of faith, and for this reason you were able, as a good warrior of Christ, to quench all the arrows of the evil one. Moreover, from the faces of the disembodied forces in the abodes of the Heavenly Father today, you are bound with an unfading crown: and you stand before the throne of the King of glory, the Lord of hosts, and offer the boldness of your prayers and blessings to Him. We are the accursed ones, from the depths of our evil eyes and hearts we lift up to the mountainous Zion, we pray to you, Reverend Gennady: be our intercessor and intercessor before God and our Lord, the most righteous Judge, whom we incessantly anger, before him sinning.
And just as in the days of your flesh you did such a wondrous and glorious thing, O all-validated Father, so now, having come from us to the abode of the Heavenly Father, you have astonished the mercy of the Lord upon us, and run away from wickedness and worldly lusts, but to God We are well pleased, his help in times of need and blessing will be found on the works of our hands, and may the Lord grant us to inherit the Kingdom of Heaven and from the faces of the saints to glorify and glorify the most holy and magnificent name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto the ages of ages.
O blessed and grace-filled head of the Holy Spirit, Reverend Father Gennady of All Russia, especially Kostroma and Lyubimograd, wondrous source of miracles, kindness and praise of all who come to you with faith and your intercession in their needs in prayer! Trying to beg the Lord Christ, your labors and exploits will be honored as miracle workers, so that He may have mercy and save His servant, the most pious, the most autocratic, our great sovereign, Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich of all Russia, and his reigning house, and all their Christ-loving army: help us, servant of God, through your powerful intercession to subdue the enemies who are fighting against us. Grant inalienable peace to the holy churches and to all Christianity: the Holy Governing Synod, the most holy metropolitans and bishops and the entire priestly rank, instruct the right to rule the word of truth of the Gospel: the heretic and schismatic come to the knowledge of the truth help.
To the people of the country of sowing, in it from the land of Lithuania, from your house you came forth, you clung to them, with your prayers you will get rid of famine, destruction, cowardice, flood, fire, sword, invasion of foreigners and internecine warfare, with health And by being long-lived, let the children of the earth rejoice in abundance, and give prosperity to the more pious Christians in their faith. Provide your abode, establish your cities, comfort the old, guide the young, make the foolish wise, heal the sick, raise up the weakened, deliver the captives, prisoners of freedom, have mercy on the widows, protect the orphans, raise babies, and save all Orthodox Christians from all troubles and misfortunes, sorrows and attacks of the enemy, and from deadly plagues and corrupting winds and from all evil.
Moreover, now you have come with faith, and with fear to your holy tomb and in it your present multi-healing relics falling, and the image of your likeness kindly kissing, on the day of the Last Judgment, deliver the part from the noise, and on the right hand the land with God’s chosen ones be worthy of the article, and be fulfilled by their request. May we all be worthy to hear this blessed voice: come, blessed ones of My Father, inherit the Kingdom of Heaven prepared for you: for we, together with you, glorify and magnify Christ our Savior forever and ever.
Like a desert-loving turtledove, having retired from the fussy and turbulent world into the desert, through purity and fasting, prayers and labor, let us glorify God in your soul and body: and having lived so piously, you appeared, O Reverend, the desert of Lyubimograd is an adornment, an image of a monk of honest life, and a warm prayer book for all who flow to your race with faith.
O most sacred Father, Saint Moses of Christ, our shepherd and teacher! do not deny us, with faith flowing to the race of your relics and to your intercession and calling on you with warm prayer: but quickly strive to pray to the King of kings and the Lord of lords, that He may deliver His flock from the wolves that destroy it: and protect and preserve every Christian country with your holy prayers from worldly rebellion and cowardice, invasions of foreigners and internecine warfare, from famine and destruction, flood and sword and fire and sudden death. And just as you had mercy on the one who bought the goods from drowning, and you saved this holy monastery from robbers: so have mercy on us, in mind, word and deed, in the darkness of sinful existence, and deliver us from the wrath of God and eternal punishment: for yes Through your intercession and help, and through His mercy and grace, Christ God will give us a quiet and sinless life in this world, and will deliver us from this foolish state, and will make us worthy to be with all the saints forever and ever.
For the sake of purity of your life, fasting and prayers and labors, the vessel was beneficial to the Lord Christ, who gave you to your flock, as an inalienable treasure, enriching miracles for everyone. Thus we too, having come to the race of your relics, cry out in faith and love: pray for us, O most honorable bishop, Moses, our father.
O great saint of God, Saint Ephraim! Behold, we bring you songs of praise, sinners and misdeeds, your children, and we magnify your deeds and virtues and your many mercy to all who flow with faith to your fatherly protection. Accept with love the offering of faith and our love, and bring it to the Almighty God, from Him comes every good and every perfect gift: and just as in your earthly life you were beneficial to all who sought your help, so even now, merciful Father, do not deprive us of your powerful intercession before God, Do not leave us orphaned and helpless, but always remember us in your holy heavenly prayers. Strengthen our feet to walk firmly and unwaveringly in the path of the Lord’s commandments: strengthen our hands to perform prayer and do good deeds: warm our hearts with love for the Lord and for our neighbors. O merciful Saint Ephraim! I asked the Heavenly King, our Lord, for this house of mercy and the church built in it for prosperity and preservation from all evil.
Ask, O saint of God, from the Heavenly Physician, Christ our God, for those who labor in this house and for all who reverently call on your name, for whom the gift is needed: here for those who heal and serve, the gift of healing, help and patience and strengthening, for the sick and mentally suffering healing, consolation for the sad, deliverance for the needy, knowledge of the truth for those who have gone astray, correction for sinners, advancement for those who strive, and all that is needed for temporal and eternal life, for the glory of God, wondrous in His saints, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, in the Trinity glorified and worshiped forever and ever.
O sacred head, great and wonderful miracle worker, Our Father Ephraim! We humbly come running to you, a quick helper and a zealous man of prayer for us, and prayerfully ask you: do not forsake us, sorrowful and burdened with many sins, with your holy help and gracious intercession. Do not forget us, your children, most holy father, but remember us ever in your heavenly, God-pleasing prayers at the throne of the Most Holy Trinity, where you stand with the Angels and all the saints, and see all our needs and troubles, as if we are overwhelmed by passion and are not imams boldness to the Creator, ask Him for mercy and salvation. Moreover, we offer you as a propitiator before the Lord, and through you we trust in the mercy of God and the forgiveness of our sins from the Almighty to receive and inherit eternal salvation, and let us glorify and sing the greatness and grace and love for mankind of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, and your fatherly intercession, now and ever and unto the ages of ages.
O glorious servant of the Lord and God of the flock of Christ gathered here for you, kind shepherd and mentor, venerable and God-bearing Father Ephraim! Accept this poor and small prayer of ours, brought to you from the love of our souls, and do not despise us sinners who require your help and intercession. Behold, we, the representative of you in the needs of the shameless one who has acquired, with undoubted faith we call on you to intercede: you, as you have great boldness towards the Lord and His Most Pure Mother, be a prayer book, and a helper and intercessor for everyone, with diligence in your Divine church those who come and touch your holy and multi-healing relics with fear and reverence. Hear us, Holiness of God, and look with your merciful eye on the people standing before your celibate tomb. We know, truly, that even though after your departure you were separated from us in the flesh, you remained with us in spirit: in the same way, everything that is useful to us for salvation, to those who earnestly ask, you can give through your prayers.
Stretch out your reverend hands, O good and great intercessor, and do not cease to pray for the power of our most pious and great sovereign, Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich, Autocrat of All-Russia, and for the entire reigning house, for the Most Holy Governing Synod, and for our Most Reverend Bishop named, and for all in every place it is pious to call for your help. Save the reigning cities, and this city, and this holy monastery, and all the cities and countries of Russia from the invasion of foreigners, internecine warfare, corrupting winds and from all destructive evil. The patrons of this holy monastery, and all those who dwell and work in it and piously flow to your honorable relics, visit, observe and deliver from all troubles and sorrows, as if you are governed by many rebellious things of little time Having sailed safely through this sea of life, we will reach the desired Heavenly Refuge, and glorify the All-Holy, Equally Honorable and Consubstantial Trinity, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto the ages of ages.
Having been enlightened by divine grace from above, reverend, you have accomplished the feat with much patience in your temporal life: you also exude miracles of grace to all who come with faith to the race of your relics, most blessed Ephraim. For this reason we call: glory to Him who gave you strength: glory to Him who crowned you: glory to Him who heals you all.
O our good shepherd and godly mentor, Reverend Father Theodosius! Hear us sinners, praying to you and calling for your speedy intercession for help. See us sinners in our present circumstances: see us weak, caught everywhere, deprived of every good, and darkened in mind from cowardice. Try, O servant of God, do not leave us to remain in sinful captivity, so that we may not joyfully be our enemy and die in our evil deeds. Pray for us, unworthy of the Savior Lord, to whom you stand with disembodied faces. Make our Creator merciful to us in the present world and in the future, so that He will not reward us according to our deeds and the impurity of our hearts, but He will do us according to His goodness. We trust in your intercession, we boast of your intercession, we call upon your intercession for help, and we ask for healing at your unworthy tomb.
Deliver us, saint of Christ, from the evil ones who come upon us, and tame the waves of passions and troubles that rise against us, so that for the sake of your holy prayers the attack will not overtake us, and we will not wallow in the abyss of sins and in the mud of our passions. Pray, Reverend Father Gregory, Christ our God, that he may grant us a peaceful life, forgiveness of sins, and salvation and great mercy for our souls, now and forever.
O holy heads, venerable and blessed ones, Abbas the Great, Gerasim, Pitirim and Jono! Do not forget your poor to the end, but always remember us in your holy and auspicious prayers to God. Remember your flock, which you yourself have shepherded, and do not forget to visit your children. Pray for us, holy fathers, for your spiritual children, who have boldness towards the Heavenly King: do not be silent in crying out for us to the Lord, and do not despise us, who you honor with faith and love. Remember us unworthy at the throne of the Almighty, and do not stop praying for us to Christ God: for grace has been given to you to pray for us. For we do not think of you as dead: even though your bodies are gone from us, you still live even after death. Do not retreat from us in spirit, keeping us from the arrows of the enemy and from all the charms of the demonic and the wiles of the devil, our good shepherds.
Even though your relics are always visible before our eyes, your holy souls with the angelic armies, with disembodied faces, with heavenly powers, standing at the throne of the Almighty, are worthily rejoicing. Since we truly lead you even after the death of living beings, we fall to you and pray to you: pray for us to the Almighty God, for the good of our souls, and ask us time for repentance, so that we may pass from earth to heaven without restraint, from bitter ordeals, from demons of air princes and from eternal torment, may we be delivered from eternal torment, and may we be heirs of the Heavenly Kingdom with all the righteous, from eternity pleasing our God Jesus Christ: to Him is due all glory, honor and worship, with His Beginning Father, and His Most Holy and Good and Life-giving Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
About the reverence and blessedness of our fathers Gerasim, Pitirim and Jono! Hear me, at this hour praying to you: pray for me to the Master Christ God, for you have acquired much boldness towards Him, sincere prayers for us exist. Beg the Lord to forgive my sins and to grant me the Kingdom of Heaven forever and ever.
O blessed luminaries of the Church of Christ, Basil, Gregory and John, who illuminated the ends of the earth with the light of Orthodox dogmas and extinguished the blasphemous confusion and vacillation of heresies with the sword of the word of God!
Falling to your mercy, with faith and love from the depths of the soul, we cry: standing before the throne of the Most Holy, Consubstantial, Life-giving and Indivisible Trinity, for the New word, scripture and life, strive well and souls Believe your own, always pray to Her, that He may strengthen us in Orthodoxy and unanimity, and unshakable even to death in the confession of the faith of Christ, and in all-soul obedience to His Church of Saints: may He gird us with power from on high against all our invisible and visible enemies: may He keep May its Church be unshakable from unbelief, superstition, heresies and schism: may it grant to our most pious, autocratic, great sovereign, Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich, health, longevity and good haste in everything: may our shepherds be given spiritual sobriety and zeal for salvation of the flock, ruler justice and truth, warrior patience, courage and victory over enemies, intercession for the orphans and widows, healing for the sick, good growth in faith for the young, consolation for the old, intercession for the offended, and all that is needed for temporal and eternal life, as in peace and repentance, the desire for salvation Burning, working for the Lord, fighting a good fight, we will end our course and be honored in the Kingdom of Heaven with you always to sing and glorify the most holy and magnificent name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit forever and ever.
As the apostles of oneness and the teacher of the universe, pray to the Lord of all to grant universal peace and great mercy to our souls.
O bishop of God, Saint Nikita! Hear us sinners, today we have flocked to this sacred church, and worship your honorable image, and fall to your sacred race, and cry out with emotion: as we sit on the throne of the holiness in this great Novegrad, and the only place that lies without rain is rain You brought it down with prayer, and once again I supported this city with a fiery flame, through prayer you gave salvation, so now we pray to you, O Saint Nikito of Christ: pray to the Lord, to deliver the reigning cities, this Great Novgrad and all Christian cities and countries from coward, flood, famine, fire, hail, sword and from all enemies visible and invisible, for we are saved by so many for the sake of your prayers, we glorify the Most Holy Trinity, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, and your merciful intercession, now and ever forever and ever.
Having, O wise God, enjoyed abstinence and curbed the desire of your flesh, you sat down on the throne of the sanctity, and like a many-bright star, illuminating the faithful hearts with the dawn of your miracles, Our Father to Saint Nikito: and now pray to Christ God that He may save our souls.
O holy martyr of Christ Tryphon, quick helper to all those who come running to you, and to those who pray before your holy image, quick to obey the intercessor! Hear now and at every hour the prayer of us, who honor your holy memory in this all-honorable church [created for the praise of your holy name], and intercede for us before the Lord in every place. For you, saint of Christ, holy martyr and miracle worker Tryphon, who shone forth in great miracles, before your departure from this corruptible life, you prayed for us to the Lord and asked Him for this gift: if anyone is in any need, trouble, sorrow and illness of soul or body will begin to call on your holy name, he will be delivered from every source of evil. And just as you once healed the princess’s daughter, who was tormented by the devil in the city of Rome, you saved us from his cruel wiles all the days of our life, and especially on the day of our last breath, intercede for us.
Then be our helper, and a quick drive away of evil spirits, and a leader to the Kingdom of Heaven, where you now stand among the saints at the throne of God. Pray to the Lord, that we too may be made partakers of everlasting joy and gladness, and that with you we may be worthy to glorify the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit forever and ever.
O great servant of God and God-accepting Simeon! Standing before the throne of the Great King and our God Jesus Christ, I have great boldness towards Him, in your arms we rush for the sake of salvation to those who wish. To you, as a powerful representative and strong prayer for us, we resort to sins and unworthiness. Pray for His goodness, that He may turn away His anger from us, righteously moved against us by our deeds, and, having despised our countless sins, turn us to the path of repentance and establish us on the path of His commandments. Protect our life in peace with your prayers, and ask for good haste in all good things, granting us everything we need for life and piety. And just as in ancient times Great Novgrad, by the appearance of your miraculous icon, you delivered from the destruction of mortals, so now we and all the cities and towns and our countries from all misfortunes and troubles and sudden death through your intercession, and from all enemies, visible and invisible, protect us with your protection.
Preserve in peace and long life our most pious sovereign, Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich, and be a strong and fortified stronghold for his power and the entire Russian kingdom, so that we may live a quiet and silent life in all piety and purity, and so in the world this temporary life has passed, we will achieve eternal peace, where we will be worthy of the Heavenly Kingdom of Christ our God, To Him all glory is due, together with the Father and His Most Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
O great servant of God and God-accepting Simeon! Hear us sinners, praying to you and falling to your holy icon and for the multitude of our sins, do not take away your holy cover from the monastery, in which this holy and miraculous icon of yours has been glorified since ancient times with many signs and miracles, but keep it firm and unshakable from all enemies, visible and invisible, and from all misfortunes and troubles, keep me unharmed. Be a good helper to all who live piously and work well in it, and deliver us from illness and famine, from drowning and fire, from sudden death and deadly ulcers and from all evil. Drive away from us the destructive mental wolf, seeking to devour and drive our souls to hell, protect us from worldly temptations and seductions and from vain and soul-harming thoughts. Strengthen our hearts in humility, meekness, obedience, silence, abstinence, patience, unforgettable malice and love, even in Christ Jesus our Lord, and in all deeds, strengthen the monastics and their efforts.
God forbid, as a good shepherd, for the pastures of Christ in the world all the verbal sheep of Christ, gathered in your courtyard, for having lived piously in your monastery on earth, we will depart in peace to the monasteries of the Heavenly Kingdom, where the host of the righteous and saints are with you unceasingly glorify the most holy and blessed name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
O great servant of God and God-accepting Simeon! Look at me, a sinner, falling to your holy icon and asking for your intercession and help. Sorrow will keep me from the troubles and evils that now exist, and there is no consolation for my much-ill soul. I am looking for help from people, and will not find it. I cried out to the Lord and did not hear me, because I angered His most pure goodness with my iniquities, and with the multitude of my many sins, I bitterly grieved His gracious, humane womb. And who will help us now? Who will assuage my sorrow? Who will give consolation and tranquility to my much-rebellious soul? To you, great servant of God, I come running, sinful and unworthy, knowing that you have great boldness in Christ God and that you are a powerful representative for all who come to you with faith and demand your intercession and help.
Pray to the Lord, a lover of mankind, that having forgiven me my countless sins, He will not turn His mercy away from me, but as He is good and compassionate, He will show me His endless mercy, and in the worst of my misfortunes and misfortunes, I will give me His omnipotent help, and He will give peace, strengthening, consolation and tranquility to my most distressed soul. Hey, great servant of God! Lift up your God-bearing hands to those who will be carried in your arms by the will of Christ our God, and pray to His goodness, may He not reject the prayer of my heart, unworthiness for my sake, but may He show me His mercy in good time, for the glory of His endless bounties and your many-powerful intercession, for him Due to Him is all glory and thanksgiving, together with the Father and His Most Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
O holy blessed Prince Roman! Hear us, at this hour our prayers and praises to you in the humility of our hearts, offering and crying out as follows: Rejoice, most honorable faithful parents of the branch: Rejoice, princes of Russia, blessed beauty: Rejoice, God's chosen one: Rejoice, vessel of the Holy Spirit: Rejoice, for you live in heaven with Angels: Rejoice, for your miracles shine on earth: Rejoice, for you saved your city of Uglich and the people living in it from troubles: Rejoice, praise and affirmation to our blessed king: Rejoice, the lands of Russia were taken by the indestructible and to all who came An endless treasure of healings to your grave. Let us pray, holy Prince Roman, Lord Christ our God, that you have gained much boldness for the Unman, may He heal our mental and physical ailments, may He forgive our sins, voluntary and involuntary, may He deliver us from future eternal torment, and may He grant us the Heavenly Kingdom, where together with you we will glorify the all-holy name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit forever and ever.
O God-chosen wonderworker, glorious servant of Christ, champion of the Orthodox Church, defender of the Russian Kingdom, Grand Duke George! We earnestly pray to you, look upon us sinners who are resorting to your intercession: hear this little prayer of ours, and with your warm intercession we implore the merciful God, Who stands before Him from the face of the Angel and with all the saints, may he preserve us in unity of the Orthodox Church, and will confirm in our hearts the spirit of right faith and piety, and will deliver us from every evil temptation. According to the greatness of your love, you loved your neighbor, asking from the all-generous Lord for peace and prosperity for our fatherland, for our most pious sovereign Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich and for the entire reigning house health, prosperity and longevity, for all of us unworthy, zealously for you for those who fall, a godly and serene life. O our holy intercessor!
do not leave us weak and helpless: pray for us to the Lord and the Most Pure Lady Theotokos, move with you to pray for us your God-glorified relatives, holy princes Andrea and Gleba, together with them Here you rest with incorruptible relics and stand in heaven at the throne of the Heavenly King, may He grant us all that we need for temporal and eternal benefit, and may He not reward us according to our deeds, but may He forgive our sins according to His ineffable love for mankind, and He will deliver us from all need and sorrow, sorrow and illness: may he bestow upon us good intentions and the strength to strive to correct our lives, and in the future may he vouchsafe us to enter the Kingdom of Heaven and glorify the all-holy name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit forever and ever.
O all-validated, holy, great prince George, the creator of the Holy Michael the Archangel Church, and this city, grateful to us, the founder! Looking at this face of yours, which came to us from your miraculous relics, and in it the very part of your suffering body is reverently seen by our eyes, we are unworthy as we see the true you in our midst spiritually. In the same way, with heartfelt faith and love, we fall to you, and we glorify and magnify, as the chosen commander, your labors and exploits: the sweetness of your departure and entry in this place we commemorate: we rejoice in your suffering and You accepted death for Christ and His Church. The king and the saints will please you: your city and your church and all the churches and abodes of your city rejoice over you, and the glorious waters that flow here, you and your waters that bore you, rejoice over you.
We reverently kiss your face, and in it we venerate your holy relics, we glorify your holy memory and pray that through you the Lord will give us everything we need for our eternal salvation and for temporary well-being, and make us worthy to end our lives in peace and repentance. ours, and may those who lived in your city and have passed away rest in peace in every rank and age. Together with the chosen commander of the heavenly powers, the holy Archangel Michael, and the victorious one named after you, grant, holy prince and passion-bearer George, our most pious sovereign, Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich, his kingdom with piety and protect the peace, and be an invincible companion to his Christ-loving army, delivering your city and its habitation from the impending righteous repression, destruction, fire, civil strife: be in it education and protection for widows and orphans, protection for young men and children, for the elders support, consolation for the poor, protector and helper for the entire sacred rite and church clergy. O our holy prince George!
through your intercession, the improvement of those who have sinned, correction and repentance, the atonement of sins for those who repent, the growth and strengthening of the Orthodox faith, the advice of the wicked, false teachings and temptations multiplying, ruin, lies, flattery and deceit of all kinds shame, in the passion of God and in all virtue we asked and descended upon success: so that we may be delivered from the wrath of God and torment, and with you, as a child with the father, we glorify the Most Holy Trinity, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, forever and ever.
Sitting at the height of your great reign, you appeared with piety and faith, shining like the sun to your fatherland: you were kindled with zeal for the Holy Trinity and, having suffered greatly for your faith, you shed your blood: thus your head, which was cut off for Christ, testifies to reality about you, clinging to your body after death, from which your relics remain incorruptible to this day, from which you exude healing to our souls and bodies. But as you have boldness towards Christ, passion-bearing George, pray unceasingly to preserve your power and your relatives harmlessly through your prayers.
O great saint, glorious miracle worker, Blessed Cyril, stand before the throne of God with your soul in heaven and enjoy the Trinitarian glory, but rest with your body on earth in the Divine Church and exude various miracles from Him with the grace given to you from above! Look with your merciful eye on the people who are more honest in your race, and as you have acquired boldness from the Lord, ask for the prosperity of your abode, the goodness of the air, the fruitfulness of the earth, for all of us who resort to you with faith and your multi-healing powers piously venerated, from all troubles of soul and body: for by your prayers we instruct, let us comfortably complete the path of our short life on earth, and having improved the endless peace in heaven, we glorify with you the abundance of all good things, the Giver, the One in the Trinity glorify God, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
O God's chosen one, of the highest city, of Heavenly Jerusalem, heavenly citizen, purified by the Holy Spirit of mind, earthly angel, heavenly man, kind to a zealot of pure virginity, admirable in form worthy of wonderful patience, God-protected Spirit Holy dwelling, valiant warrior of Christ, Reverend Cyril! Ask Christ God, our All-Good Creator, to grant health and longevity to our most pious, autocratic, great sovereign, Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich of all Russia: help him to win and subdue under his nose every enemy and adversary. Ask the Lord God for peace for the holy churches, for the Russian people, peace and prosperity and abundance of earthly fruits: may the Lord preserve our fatherland from all misfortunes, troubles and sorrows, from attacks of the enemy, from deadly plagues and from all evil.
But we, your flock, who dwell in this holy monastery, and with faith and love all fall to the all-honorable race of your multi-healing relics and kindly kiss the image of your likeness, and all Orthodox Christians who come to you, keep with your prayers and lead to Christ, to Him, with the Father and the Holy Spirit, all befits glory, honor and worship, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
We strive by the Spirit of God, you watered the withered clouds of your tears, and you showed the barren life in the desert, and from the depths of your heart, with vigorous prayers and fasting, you brought forth the blessings of labor, and the entire universe You have enlightened us with the radiance of your miracles: Our Father Cyril, pray to Christ God that our souls may be saved.
O holy, glorious and all-praised Great Martyr Theodore Stratilates! Gathering today in your church and in front of 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, may He mercifully hear us asking for blessings from Him, and may all our requests for salvation and life be fulfilled, may He grant them to the most pious Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich victory over the opposition and his kingdom will remain 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 disgraced on behalf of the faithful, and let their insolence be crushed, and let the imams know that Divine help is ever present. Likewise, to everyone in sorrow and in the present situation, show your powerful intercession. Pray to the Lord God, the 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 ever and unto ages of ages.
With true warfare, passion-bearer, you were the good commander of the Heavenly King, Theodore: with the weapons of faith you took up arms wisely, and you defeated the demonic regiments, and you appeared victorious sufferer. In the same way, we will always please you with faith.
O most wonderful holy martyr Kharlampy, invincible passion-bearer, priest of God, intercede for the whole world! Look at our prayers, who honor your holy memory. Ask us from the Lord God for forgiveness of our sins, so that the Lord will not be completely angry with us: we have sinned and are unworthy of God’s mercy. Pray to the Lord God for us, may he send peace to our cities and towns, may he deliver us from the invasion of foreigners, internecine warfare and all kinds of discord and disorder. Confirm, Hieromartyr, faith and piety in all the children of the Orthodox Christian Church, and may the Lord God deliver us from heresies, schisms and all superstition. O merciful martyr! pray for us to the Lord, may he preserve us from hunger and all kinds of diseases, and may he give us an abundance of the fruits of the earth, an increase in livestock for human consumption, and everything useful to us: most of all, may we be honored, through your prayers, with the Heavenly Kingdom of Christ our God, to Him is honor and worship befits, with His Beginning Father and the Most Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
O sacred and long-suffering head, good shepherd of the verbal sheep of Christ, Hieromartyr of Christ Harlampie, Maginsian praise and glory to the universe, universal lamp, our great intercessor and good helper in sorrows, troubles and all kinds of needs! Hear us sinners who come running to you and pray to you, and deliver us from every evil situation. You have received from the Lord grace and great strength for your many and grievous sufferings and patience, to help us everywhere and in everything, and especially where your memory will be honored. Great grace was given to you, holy martyr of Christ, from the appearance of the Lord, the King of glory, when you were condemned to beheading with the sword. For you heard the most beloved and sweetest voice saying to you: come, Harlampie, my friend, who endured many torments for my name, and ask me whatever you want, and I will give you.
And then You said to Christ the Lord: My Lord, it is great for me to have this gift from You, the Never-Evening Light: if it pleases Your Majesty, I pray to You to grant me Your mercy, so that where my relics will be placed and the memory of suffering will be honored. mine, there will be in that place neither famine, nor pestilence, nor noxious air that destroys the fruits, but rather in its place there will be peace, health of bodies and salvation of souls, an abundance of wheat, wine and oil and an increase in livestock for human consumption. And the voice of the Lord answered you: Be ye according to your request, my glorious warrior. And abiy, according to this word of the Lord, you gave up your soul before the sword beheading, and you went up to the Lord, an angel who gathered you: and so you received the crown of glory from His Divine hand from the faces of the saints, forever glorifying the most holy name Gentlemen. There, dwelling in the glory of heaven, look, O servant of God, upon us sinners who pray to you, and remember us before the Lord, to grant us His great mercy for ever and ever.
Holy Hieromartyr Harlampies, earthly lamp and heavenly illuminator, companion of angels, companion of the prophets, friend of the apostle, fellow martyr! Hear our prayers, as the Lord hears yours, and accept the words of our lips, as the Lord accepts the words of your lips. Priest of God Harlampie, great goodness, intercede for the whole world! We pray to you: just as before your holy death you prayed to the Master of our Lord for all who honor your memory, so now, standing at the right hand of the throne of God, do not forget us sinners and subject to the wrath of God, but pray for us, who honor your memory: may there not be famine in our place and in every other place pestilence, or harmful air, destroys fruits, livestock and people, but let there be in those places where your holy name is called for intercession, peace and health to your body and salvation to your souls, and abundance of every life and everything that is needed by man.
Praying for us, saint of God, holy holy martyr Kharlampie, may the Lord forgive us all our sins, voluntary and involuntary, in word and in deed, committed by us, may the Lord forgive all the sins of youth and ignorance, idleness and despondency: guide the rest of our life with your holy prayers for salvation and life eternally, and in joy and joy with a grateful heart we all glorify the humane and merciful Giver of all good things, glorified God in the Trinity, always, now and ever, and unto the ages of ages.
O great saint, glorious miracle worker and God-inspired mentor of your monastery, most blessed Loggin, with your soul in heaven the throne of all the King stands, but with your body rest in this monastery and perform various miracles everywhere with your prayers! Look mercifully at the people who are coming and your intercession to Christ God for the needs of those who are asking: for all of us, due to the multitude of our sins, do not dare to proclaim our honor to heaven: but you, who have acquired boldness, will offer for all, to more honest than those who flow to your race, warm prayers to the Lord, that we may be delivered from famine, flood, cowardice, fire, sword and battle, from people and from the devil, and from all mental and physical illnesses: may we escape these and the Lord, Who we stand before, Working, let us enter into endless peace and glorify there with you all the good things of the Giver of God, always, now and ever, and unto the ages of ages.
O sacred head, reverend father, most blessed Abvo Loggin! Do not forget your poor to the end, but always remember us in your holy and auspicious prayers to God. Remember your flock, which you yourself have shepherded, and do not forget to visit your children. Pray for us, holy father, for your spiritual children, as you have boldness towards the Heavenly King: do not keep silent to the Lord for us, and do not despise us, who honor you with faith and love. Remember us unworthy at the throne of the Almighty, and do not cease praying for us to Christ God: for grace has been given to you to pray for us. We do not imagine that you are dead: even though you passed away from us in body, you remain alive even after death. Do not give up on us in spirit, keeping us from the arrows of the enemy and all the charms of the demonic and the wiles of the devil, our good shepherd. Even though your relics are always visible before our eyes, your holy soul with the angelic armies, with the disembodied faces, with the heavenly powers, stands at the throne of the Almighty, worthy of rejoicing.
Knowing that you are truly alive even after death, we bow down to you and we pray to you: pray for us to the Almighty God, for the benefit of our souls, and ask us time for repentance, so that we may pass from earth to heaven without restraint, from bitter ordeals, demons of air princes and from eternal torment, and from Heavenly Let us be the heirs of the kingdom with all the righteous, who from time immemorial have pleased our Lord Jesus Christ: to whom is due all glory, honor and worship, with His Beginning Father, and with His Most Holy and Good and Life-Giving Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
Having departed from the rebellion of the world, you have flown to the unflickering light, Reverend Father Loggina, and now see the Holy Trinity more purely, Who prays for us unworthy, that he may save our souls.
Blessed and ever-memorable Hieromartyr Blasius, wondrous sufferer and our warm representative, after your departure into eternal life, help those who call upon your holy name and promise to be heard in all petitions! Behold, now to you, the saint of God, as to the true intercessor of salvation, we come and humbly pray: come to our aid, bound by the bonds of sins, move forward with your all-powerful prayers to God and pray for us sinners: we dare to call you, unworthy, to intercede, and we desire from all our sins you will receive freedom. O holy saint of God Blasie! In the contrition and humility of our hearts, we fall before you and pray: shine upon us, darkened by the slander of the enemy, with the light of grace from above, so that walking in it, we may not stumble our feet on a stone.
You, as a vessel chosen in honor and filled with the grace of God, we pray: grant us sinners from the fulfillment of your desire to receive what we desire, and heal our mental and physical ulcers, and ask the Lord for forgiveness for our cheap and physical health and salvation, so that we always glorify the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, and your merciful intercession of our souls and bodies, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
O sacred head, wonderful wonderworker, reverend and God-bearing Father Demetrius! As we fervently fall to you, we pray: show us your humble and sinful intercession. Because it is a sin for our sake, the imams do not have boldness to the Lord, to ask for His gifts that are beneficial to us, but we offer you a prayer book favorable to Him, and we ask: we beseech from His goodness all that is for the benefit of our souls and bodies: right faith, undoubted hope, unfeigned love, courage in temptation, in suffering, patience, in prayers, constancy, in piety, prosperity, longed-for health, fruitfulness of the earth, goodness in the air, seasonable rains, contentment in life's needs, peace in our days and blessings from above on all our good deeds and undertakings, and may we not turn our gifts into evil Him, but for the glory of His holy name and for the glorification of your intercession for us.
Ask, O servant of Christ, from the King of kings and Lord of lords, our most pious, autocratic, great sovereign, Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich of all Russia, health, longevity, victory and victory against the enemy, and his peace and prosperity to the whole God-protected kingdom. Do not forget, miracle-working saint, to mercifully visit your city and your monastery and all the cities and towns of our Orthodox country, preserving and protecting them with your prayers from all evil. Remember all those who have faith and love for you, who mercifully call on your name and who come to venerate your relics, and mercifully fulfill all their good requests, overshadowing them with your patristic blessing from above. Hey, holy of God! Do not deprive us sinners of your powerful intercession, but grant us the end of a good life and the Kingdom of Heaven to inherit, so that we may sing and glorify our wondrous God in His saints, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, forever and ever.
From above, reverend, you received spiritual grace from God, and from Him you were known, blessed one: For this reason, you also knew in spirit the best of Him, the future age, having lived through fasting in your abodes. And now, with the Angels rejoicing, I pray for the salvation of everyone for us, Saint Demetrius, and we all cry out: glory to Him who gave you strength: glory to Him who crowned you: glory to Him who heals you all.
O most honorable and sacred head and filled with the grace of the Holy Spirit, the abode of the Savior with the Father, great bishop, our warm intercessor, Saint Alexis!
Standing at the throne of all the King and enjoying the light of the Consubstantial Trinity and the cherubic Angels shouting the most holy hymn, having great and unexplored boldness towards the All-Merciful Master, praying for your flock to save people, your only begotten language: help in battle our most pious, autocratic, great sovereign, Emperor Nicholas Alexandrovich of all Russia, and subdue all the hostile enemies under his nose, reign peacefully and serenely for him: establish the welfare of the holy churches: bishops with splendor adorning the holiness: the monastics have strengthened the deeds of the good trend: the reigning city [this and this holy monastery] and all the cities and countries have been well preserved, and the holy immaculate faith has been kept by the prayer: the whole world has died through your intercession, from famine and destruction deliver us, and save us from the attacks of foreigners: old comforts, young instructions, foolish wise ones, have mercy on widows, intercede for orphans, young children, return captives, heal the weak, and everywhere warmly calling you and flowing with faith to the race of your honest and multi-healing relics, who diligently fall down and pray to you, from all misfortunes and troubles through your intercession for freedom, let us call to you: Rejoice, God’s chosen shepherd, the all-bright star of the mental firmament, the unconquerable secret of Zion pillar, peace-inspired flower of paradise, all-golden mouth of the word, Moscow praise, adornment of all Russia!
Pray for us to the All-Bountiful and Humane-loving Christ our God, so that on the day of His terrible coming He will deliver us from this desperation, and He will create the joys of the saints as partakers with all the saints forever and ever.
O beloved and sacred head, venerable and God-bearing Father Marone! Look down mercifully on us sinners, and pray to the All-Generous Master and Giver of all good things to God for the preservation of the power and salvation of our most pious, autocratic, great sovereign, Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich of all Russia: may the Lord God grant him many years of health, for the supply and strengthening of the saint Christian faith, and may his kingdom be preserved from all enemies whole and unharmed in our Lord Jesus Christ. Be a prayer book for us unworthy as well.
To the All-merciful Lord, stretch out your hands in honor, and from Him ask mercy and generosity, save us from all troubles and severe diseases, and free us from all passions, and also from the unbearable and inexhaustible fires and shakes, with your prayers, deliver us, and from attacks of demons, from visible and invisible enemies, and have asked forgiveness for our sins, and presented us saved to Christ, in the hedgehog, on the day of the Last Judgment, with joy to appear before us in the face of His ineffable glory, and to hear the merciful call to the Kingdom of Heaven from Him, and in indescribable joy, His glorious face behold the kindness, grace and love for mankind of the Lord God and our Savior Jesus Christ: for His power is blessed and glorified, with His Beginning Father and with His Most Holy and Good and Life-giving Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
Moving away from Pharisee vanity, O Reverend Father Marone, you ascended to a high mountain, and there you declared victory against the devil: for you found a demonic trench and, having sanctified it to God, you remained in it, with your prayers the fireweed and the shaker. satisfying, and driving away demons, and freeing from various ailments. For this reason, holy ones, pray to Christ God that He may save our souls.
O great saint of Christ, our holy father Hermogenes! We earnestly come to you, a warm prayer book and unashamed representative before God, asking for consolation and help in our needs and sorrows. In the ancient time of temptation, when wickedness plagued our country, the Lord revealed you to the Church as His unshakable pillar and to the Russian people the shepherd of goodness, who laid down his soul for the sheep and drove away the fierce wolves. Now look down on us too, your unworthy child, who call upon you with a tender soul and a contrite heart. Our strength within us has become impoverished, and the enemy’s traps and snares have overwhelmed us. Help us, our intercessor! Confirm us in the holy faith: teach us to always keep the commandments of God and all the church traditions commanded to us from our father. Strengthen our blessed king, given to us by God, and teach us to love him unfeignedly.
Be our shepherd, the archpastor, the spiritual leader of the warrior, the sick doctor, the sad comforter, the persecuted intercessor, the youth’s mentor, a gracious father to all and a warm prayer book for everyone: for by your prayers we protect you, let us unceasingly sing and Let us glorify the all-holy name of the Life-Giving Trinity, Father and Son and Holy Spirit, forever and ever.
The first throne of the Russian land and the vigilant prayer book for it to God! Having laid down your soul for the faith of Christ and your flock, you have established the power of our kings and delivered our country from wickedness. We also cry out to you: save us with your prayers, Hieromartyr Hermogenes, our father.
O all-honorable head, reverend father, blessed great Abbo Cosmo! Do not forget your poor to the end, but always remember us in your holy and auspicious prayers to God. Do not forget, when visiting your children who celebrate your sacred memory, but pray for us, good father, chosen one of Christ, for we have boldness towards the Heavenly King. You, having ascended to the height of virtues, like the phoenix blossomed, and like the cedar tree in Lebanon, you gathered your children, and you rejected worldly attachments from yourself, and you reached the Kingdom of Heaven, and there you stood before Christ God from the faces of the righteous. Do not keep silent to the Lord for us, and do not despise us, who honor you with faith and love. Remember us unworthy at the throne of the Almighty, constantly praying to Christ God: for you have been given the grace to pray for us.
Your venerable hands stretched out a prayer for us sinners: ask us time for repentance and for us to pass without restraint from earth to heaven, from the bitter ordeals of the princes of the air and from eternal torment, and to be an heir to the Heavenly Kingdom with everyone the righteous, those who pleased Him, the Lord our God Jesus Christ, to Him belongs all glory, honor and worship, with the Father and with the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
Desiring the highest life, you hated the earthly life, and you took up the cross, you followed Christ, and you dwelt in the desert, most wonderfully, and in it you labored in singing and vigils and fasting: for this reason the Most Holy Spirit dwelled in you. Moreover, as if you had boldness towards Christ God, ask our blessed Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich for health and salvation, and do not forget, while visiting your children who celebrate your sacred memory, Reverend Cosmo, our father.
O holy venerable martyr Cornelius! We humbly fall before the race of your holy relics and tenderly pray to you: look mercifully on our spiritual and physical sorrows, and grant us relief: help us, Holy One of God, to get rid of the slander of evil people, from them you yourself You suffered innocently on earth: protect us from the violence of the devil, who fights fiercely against us. I pray to the Lord God and His Most Pure Mother to grant us a quiet and sinless life, brotherly, unhypocritical love and a peaceful Christian death, so that with a clear conscience we may stand before the impartial, terrible judgment seat of Christ and in His Kingdom we will glorify the Life-giving Trinity, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, forever and ever.
The Pskov-Pechersk monastery, from ancient times glorious, the miracles of the icon of the Mother of God, many monks brought up God: there the Monk Cornelius fought a good fight, glorifying the wonderful Mother of God, enlightening other faiths, monks and saving many people, marvelously decorating and fencing their monastery: there the crown of martyrdom, after many years of its shepherding, is more valiantly accepted. In the same way, people, let us sing to Christ God, and let us give thanks to His Most Pure Mother, for she has given us a glorious martyr and a worthy prayer book for our souls.
O good shepherd, vigilant mentor, reverend Father Polycarp! You, having come from the rebellion of this world, have followed Christ by rejecting the transient blessings of the Gospel, and having lived an equal life with the angels, you have been granted the honor of the bodiless. For this reason, for the sake of your love for people, rememberingly, like a child to a father, we run to you and pray to you with tenderness: be an indestructible shield for the holy Orthodox Church and our fatherland: be a guardian and assistant to the most pious sovereign Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich, wearing him from the throne of the King of glory, strength, joy, peace and consolation: as a comrade-in-arms, assist his army in victories over their adversaries.
Deliver, O reverend servant of God, from every slander of the enemy the cities and towns of the Russian country, and through your intercession do not forsake us who are weak, burdened with sin and sorrow: beseech the goodness of Christ our God to grant us peace of mind, from destructive passions and all Temperance is impure, long-suffering brotherly love, but unfeigned piety, let us turn the good things always sent to us from above into evil.
Illuminate, most blessed, our mind with the light of the face of God: strengthen our will with the grace of the Lord, so that, having been established in the law of Christ, we will flow without laziness along the path of the commandments of the saints: in the autumn of the mountains with your blessing on us and all in sorrow existing, possessed by mental and physical illnesses, granting healing, consolation and deliverance: for all these, ask us from above for the spirit of meekness and humility, the spirit of patience and repentance, so that we may live the rest of our life in faith and contrition of heart, and so At the hour of our death, let us gratefully praise the Lord who sent you, the Beginningless Father, His Only Begotten Son and the Consubstantial All-Good Spirit, the Indivisible Trinity, forever and ever.
Having steered the spiritual ship with the sail of the cross, you left the world’s red, and from worldly rebellion you left, carnal lust through many abstinences, Father, you put to death, with fasting and tears, with prayers and songs incessantly clinging to God: in the same way you also showed yourself to be a dwelling worthy of the Most Holy Spirit. Pray, Reverend Polycarpe, that Christ God grant us forgiveness of sins and great mercy.
Blessed and ever-memorable Our Father Cassian! From your youth, having loved Christ above all, you despised the earthly and temporal, and by your angel-like life you cleansed your soul and body from passions, you acquired a treasure of dispassion, and you were enriched with divine gifts, and for the instruction and correction of the monk you wrote the wise laws, and you appeared as a zealous worker in the city of Christ, doing His commandments and teaching others in word and deed, and for this reason you received a reward from God. Therefore, now from the beginning of the angelic order, look upon us, overwhelmed by the waves of worldly cares, and help us, so that the storm of our passions does not drag us into the abyss of sin. Hear us sinners, who bless your holy memory, and pray to Christ God for us weak, darkened by the darkness of despondency and sick cowardice, that by His Divine grace He will enlighten the darkness of our minds and strengthen us on the path of salvation, which is right As we walk, we will enter into eternal life.
See, holy father, our spiritual weakness, bitterness of heart and bodily ailments that, through our sin, hold us back: see that good deeds make the poor worse off. But may you, the merciful God who loves mankind, create for us through your prayers, may he not repay us for our evil deeds, but may He show us His invincible love for mankind and mercy, and may He grant us forgiveness of our sins, and may He strengthen us in our labors prayer, abstinence and chastity through His grace. We are blessed, reverend father, for grace has been given to you, even from the fruit of the ever-animal teaching of your heart to saturate and delight the zealots of piety: help and to us through your intercession patiently and joyfully good Bear the yoke of Christ and strive well in correcting and renewing our lives. Behold, we worship your most miraculous icon and call upon your holy name for help, as our intercessor and protector, for this we pray to you.
The same verb: pray to the Lord God, the Savior of the world, may he preserve this capital city and this holy monastery from all misfortune and misfortune, from enemies visible and invisible, may he grant our most pious emperor health and longevity, his power peace and prosperity, in the Orthodox faith prosperity, fruitfulness of the land and abundance: and with your prayers deliver all of us unworthy from the sorrow and need that lies ahead for us: ask us from the great-gifted Lord for every request the fulfillment of all for a temporary and eternal life of benefit through the grace and love of our Lord Jesus Christ, to Him belongs glory, honor and worship, with the Father and the Holy Spirit, forever and ever.
O blessed and ever-memorable Our Father Cassian, Divine Angels cohabitant, bearing the daily burden, living in poverty, enriched with Divine gifts! You, now standing from the holy cathedrals, rejoicing from the righteous faces, remember us, praising your virtuous life, and do not leave us helpless. Look at our life, shaken by the worries of life, so that the sinful storm does not drown us, and let the depths below devour us. Hear the prayer of us sinners praying to you, and do not despise the prayers of us weak, caught in the devil’s net, oppressed everywhere by evil, deprived of every good, darkened by despondency and cowardice possessed. See, holy one, how our soul has been humbled to dust, and the enemy who hates us has been brought to joy by the wicked ones who kill all the day long: for we are truly lost, like sheep without a shepherd.
Moreover, through your favorable prayers, the only God who loves mankind has mercifully created for us, so that He will not reward us for our evil deeds and the impurity of our hearts, but may His goodness precede us, and in peace, unanimity and May our life be established in piety. We, O blessed one, trust in you according to God, we boast in you, we call on your holy name for help, and we fall to your miraculous image of the unworthy, we pray to you: pray, our Father Cassian, Christ God, that we may be delivered from the evil ones ours, with you, we will be worthy of eternal blessings, by the grace and bounty of our Lord Jesus Christ, blessed being with His Beginning Father and the Most Holy Spirit forever and ever.
Having purified yourself by fasting, you gained understanding of wisdom, and from the desert God-bearing fathers you learned to curb passions. For this reason, through your prayers, grant us, through your prayers, obedience to our flesh and spirit: for you are a mentor, O Reverend Cassian, to all who sing about Christ in your memory.
Reverend and God-bearing Anthony and Theodosius! To you, as to a warm intercessor and a quick helper and a well-known representative, we sinners come running, humbly asking for your help and intercession, in the abyss of evils and troubles, plunging into us every day and hour and from evil people come upon us, and from the spirits of wickedness in high places, they always come upon us for the destruction of the souls and bodies of our seekers.
You know, without a doubt, since you have great boldness towards the Merciful God: you still remain on earth among those wandering to the mountainous fatherland, the great power of the grace of God, you miracle-working, you show in yourself like fire from heaven, in the likeness of Elijah, to show the place on which the great Pechersk church was built, descending, and dew, in the image of Gideon, for cleansing and the eternal glorification of that same holy place, we call: so we, since there are many many husbands and wives, from different countries and peoples, grieving and attacked, or overcome by various serious illnesses, are overcome by your prayers and By intercession you will receive quick relief and deliverance. After all, all that help, even in the mortal wanderings, was mercifully given to the needy, especially today, when the Almighty appeared before the Trinity, and greater acceptance boldness to pray for our unworthiness and to intercede and protect us in troubles!
For this reason, we, with so many hostile slander, embittered and insidious plots from everywhere, threaten and oppress, your warm and strong God, we entrust ourselves to the protection, and earnestly pray for your goodness: save us unharmed from all troubles and evils, especially from the demonic wiles, let us not be a reproach and ridicule for them, but with your strong help drive them away from us, just as in those days you drove away evil, sometimes dirty tricks, from the monastery acted. Their useless calico has tamed the rebellion against us, so make us confirmed in faith, hope and love, so that no bewilderment or doubt prevails over us. Keep and supply our spiritual and physical feelings in such well-being and more beautiful regularity every day and hour, so that we will never anger the Good and Humane God. Be wise in your mind, so that it thinks more about God, His omnipresence and good providence, rather than worrying about temporary things.
Always correct our corrupted will, so that no one wants, even if he resists the will of God, but let him be satisfied with those things, and let him abid in them serenely and sadly, even if the essence is pleasing and pleasing to God, and salutary and useful to man. In addition, about the reverend fathers, do not forget your fatherland, but in a peaceful dispensation, constantly intercede for him at the throne of the Majesty of God. Keep our most pious sovereign, our emperor, his entire chamber and army, and all the people in his power, peaceful and carefree, and will soon deliver you from every evil situation. When it is time for us to depart from this temporary life and settle into eternity, stand here to help us and free us from the violence of the enemy, just as you once stood before the monk Erasmus, who found himself in grave mortal distress, and so move our hearts to true repentance and the desire for sins, just as his heart was heroic, and we too are in With our clear conscience, we glorify the Most Holy and Indivisible Trinity, together with you and all the saints, forever and ever.
Blessed, glorified, venerable fathers, holy first-principals of the Pecherstia, Anthony and Theodosius, blessed by God, a grace-filled duo, a union of perfection, united by love for God and neighbor, not only in this temporary life, laboring for the benefit of the souls of those who live monastically and in the world of those who live piously, but also upon your departure into eternal life, you promised to help everyone and pray to the Lord God and the Most Holy Theotokos for the salvation of all, especially sinners, from whom I am the first! To you, saints of God and the Most Holy Theotokos, as true intercessors of salvation, I humbly pray: come to my aid, bound by sins, and pray for me. together, move all the heirs of your godly life and the heirs of the Kingdom of Heaven to powerful prayers: for I dare to call all of you unworthy to intercede, wanting you to receive liberation from all my sins.
O venerable fathers of the Pecherstia, who worked godly and rested incorruptibly in the caves, holy hierarsi, hierarchs [priestly leaders], holy monks [holy monks], fasting women [fasters], martyrs [martyrs], virgins [virgins], miracle workers! You are chosen by nature, the royal priesthood, the holy language, people's renewal, the announcement of virtues from the darkness of this corruptible life who called you into the wonderful light: for the earth has not hidden you, even if it hid them under the cover of those who rest, but I believe that Heaven has received everyone, and because of the glory of your confession, so are the names It is impossible for me to eat yours, for I have become like a multitude of stars: unless He himself counts the multitude of stars and gives names to all of them, the King of glory Christ, confessed from you on earth, counts all of you, His venerable ones, by name written in heaven, and fully confesses them before His Heavenly Father.
Help me, a sinner, falling in contrition and humility of my heart, I pray to you: the light of the world and the lamps from under the caves of the souls placed in the heavenly candlestick, illuminate me, darkened by the slander of the enemy, with the light of grace from above, so that as I walk in it, I will not dash my foot against a stone. You are vessels in honor of election, abundantly filled with the grace of God. I pray to you: grant me, a sinner, the fulfillment of your acceptance. You are the salt of the earth, and I am the earth: be salt to me, completely preserving my soul and body from the decay of sin. All of you, venerable Pecherstia, doctors of grace, healing every ailment and every ulcer in people, I pray to you, saints: heal both my mental and physical ulcers, so that I worthily glorify God in my soul and body, sending thanks to all of you: you can, venerable one, for Jesus Christ who strengthens you all, great mercy to people grant. Even if the prayer of one righteous person, hastening for good, can do much, since all the prayers of the All-Merciful God can do more than you, the righteous and reverend ones!
There are not two or three gatherings in the name of Christ, and not two conferring on earth to ask in the name of Christ the Heavenly Father, but a great multitude of you, O Reverend One: pray for me alone from sinners: I believe that God, glorified in the council of all of you, His saints, will hear the petition of those gathered and conferred in His name. O venerable venerable fathers of Pecherstia! you are the joy of the Heavenly King, you are the favorable sacrifice of the Most High, you are citizens of the New Jerusalem, you are the heirs of the Kingdom of God: so about everything, as the desired has been achieved.
I pray, make my feet a good course in the path of the commandments of the Lord, and grant me the desire to comprehend the sinner with your many powerful intercessions: that having entered into the house of the Eternal Kingdom, I will rejoice and be glad, thanking all of you for such love, and together with you I will praise and exalt in praise the One in the Most Holy Trinity, from all creatures in heaven and on earth praise, bless and worship the All-Merciful God, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, with the Most Pure and Ever-Blessed Virgin Mary, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
Our reverend and God-bearing fathers Anthony and Theodosius and all the reverend Pecherstia, the bright earthly luminary, from the dark places of the caves into the lands of Russia, gloriously shone and this many luminous angels equal to your life stars enraged, yet the entire universe of high virtues with lordships and miracles of the Divine shine. surprised! Behold, now, having carnally entered the grave of the mortal West for a time, your souls remain with Christ, the Sun of righteousness, and being the righteous [righteous], you are enlightened, like the sun in the Kingdom of Heaven. There, since your prayers to God extend rays of light for your fatherland, do not forget us, your ever-present prayer books, even in the nights of passions and sorrows, looking upon the illumination from above with grace: for in the light of your virtuous life, we are worthy to see the light of the inviolable glory of God, praising Him together with you in endless centuries of centuries.
Let us honor the two initial Russian luminaries: Anthony, sent by God, and Theodosius, bestowed by God. They were the first, who, like the angels in Russia, shone forth from the Kyiv mountains, illuminating the entire ends of our fatherland, and showing the right path to heaven to many, and the first fathers who were monks, brought the faces of those being saved to God, and now appearing in the highest to the unwavering light of the Divine, pray for our souls.
When you are buried in graves and imprisoned by yourself, then the passions of the flesh are mortified, you are buried in Christ, the God-bearing spirit of the devil in the underground, destroying the fence: for this reason the Angels will give you crowns from heaven.
O great servant of God, Saint Father Arseny! Behold, we, sinners and unworthy children, bring you songs of praise, and we magnify your deeds and virtues and your many mercy to all who flow with faith to your fatherly protection. Graciously accept the prayer of faith and our love, and bring it to the Almighty God, from Whom comes every good gift and every perfect gift: and just as you did good in your earthly life to all who sought your help, so now do not deprive us, merciful father, of your powerful intercession before God. Behold, your incorruptible and multi-healing relics have been given to us by the Lord as assurance, for the great boldness of the Imasha towards him and for how much your intercession before the throne of His goodness can do. Also, do not leave us orphaned and helpless, but always remember us in your holy prayers. Strengthen our feet to walk firmly and unwaveringly in the path of the Lord’s commandments: strengthen our hands to perform prayer and do good deeds: warm our hearts with love for the Lord and for eternal life.
Ask the King of Heaven for our most pious sovereign, Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich, for all Russia, and for the entire reigning house, for a long and peaceful life, health and salvation, for the city of Tferi and your holy monastery, for the well-being and for the entire Russian country, God’s mercy and preservation from all evil. Ask, O saint of God, and to all who with faith resort to the body of your holy relics and reverently call on your name, for whom the gift is beneficial: healing for the sick, deliverance for the needy, consolation for the sorrowful, knowledge of the truth for those who are astray, correction for sinners, prosperity for those who struggle, and all for temporal and eternal life. necessary, for the glory of God, wondrous in His saints, glorified and worshiped in the Trinity, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
Look down from the heights on high, Holy Hierarch Father Arseny, upon us humble and sinners, who come running to her in tenderness of souls and hearts, who trust in you with strong faith, who ask for your intercession with unfeigned love. You need a prayer book favorable to the All-Merciful God. Pray your holy prayers for us, and beg the Lord, the Lover of Mankind, not to destroy us with our iniquities, but to turn us to repentance and correction, so that the rest of our earthly life will not be spent in the work of sin and passion, but in doing the commandments of His saints, we will accompany us and with good hope we will reach the end of our life. At the hour of death, most especially appear to us, Father, good intercessor, then hasten us to pray for us helpless and help us, with the Communion of the Divine Sacraments, to achieve a peaceful and good end, to pass through the menacing ordeal of the air comfortably and usher in the heavenly Kingdom. Hey, Saint of God, do not despise us and do not disgrace our hope, but be a silent intercessor for us to God. O our good shepherd!
Protect us with your cheerful prayers and preserve us from all evil, so that we glorify the ineffable love of our God, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, and your fatherly intercession, forever and ever.
O all-praised saint of Christ and miracle worker, Father Arseny! Do not forget us, children of your holy monastery, and all those who with faith and love resort to the race of your honest and multi-healing relics, but have mercy on us in your holy and favorable prayers to God. Pray for all Christians, Father Saint Arseny, and for this holy monastery, which the Most Pure Lady Theotokos entrusts to you: we consider you ever standing before Christ our God and His Most Pure Mother and having great boldness towards them. Even though you have passed away from us in body, you are alive in soul and remain with us in spirit. Preserve us by your presence before the throne of the Heavenly King from the snares of the enemy, from the temptations of a world lying in evil, and from all sorrow and need. O blessed shepherd and teacher, Father Arseny!
We fall to you and we pray to you, praying to the Almighty God for the benefit of our souls, and ask us time for repentance, so that, having been cleansed from all filth of sin, we will be worthy to be heirs of the Heavenly Kingdom to be with all the righteous, who from the ages have pleased our Lord Jesus Christ, to Him belongs all glory, honor and worship, with His Beginning Father and with the Most Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
Having lived piously in the priesthood, you enlightened people with your teaching, and you labored for the church of the Most Pure One, and became a lover of monks, for this reason you received a crown from Christ for your flock. Moreover, as the vicar of the apostolic throne and the great saint, we pray to you, your blessed child: deliver us from all troubles even with your prayers to Christ, Saint Arseny of Christ, our father.
O most graceful and wonderful wonderworker of the Russian land, most blessed and glorious Prince Daniel, quick helper and warm intercessor in troubles, save us, your heritage, from all troubles with your prayers! All your people ask and pray to you, and have hope for you, we honor and glorify you, and we magnify your great intercession for us to the Lord: we also confess that you will be a source of abundant miracles, a speedy intercessor for the Orthodox, a hungry nourisher for the hungry, a benefactor for the poor, a representative and intercessor for widows and orphans, an inexhaustible richer for the poor, to those who are sick, a shameless physician, to those who grieve, a comforter, and to all who call upon you with faith, a strong helper. For we, too, who are running under your roof and who are praying to you, help us: for we know, truly we know, that the prayer of the righteous can greatly hasten for good. You have a righteous representative and humbly flowing to your warm intercession and intercession, we humbly ask you: O most excellent servant of Christ, all-validated Prince Daniel!
With your powerful prayers, seek health and salvation for our most pious, autocratic, great sovereign, Emperor Nicholas Alexandrovich of all Russia, his wife, the most pious Empress Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, his mother, the most pious Empress Empress Maria Feodorovna, his heir, the blessed to the Tsarevich and Grand Duke Alexy Nikolaevich and the entire reigning house. Grant them victory through your invisible intercession against their adversaries, and grant silence in their days, and protect their kingdom with peace: the reigning city, founded by you and created by you, and all your people through your prayers, preserve unharmed, and establish this holy monastery with goodness, which you yourself rewarded, and in it a good deed Having completed, you left your multi-healing relics after death, and show this in everything that is pleasing to God.
Hear us praying to you, and show your intercession for us to the Most High, and help us, blessed one, so that we may be delivered and unharmed from all the devil’s tricks, and the Heavenly Kingdom through your prayers will improve the inheritance, so that with you, together with you, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, who glorified you and gave you miracles of healing: to Him all befits glory, honor and worship, with His Originless Father and with His Most Holy and Life-Giving Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
O great saints of God and wonderworkers, holy and blessed princes Theodore, David and Constantine! We fall to your holy and multi-healing relics, we pray with humility, faith and love: extend your favorable prayers to our Lord and Creator, and implore His goodness to grant us everything necessary for eternal salvation, and also necessary for this temporary life: We believe without a doubt that everything is possible for you, as His true saint. For this sake and for these we pray to you: ask us from the Tsar of those who reign and the Lord of those who rule for our Orthodox-Russian kingdom peace, silence and prosperity, to our most pious, autocratic, great sovereign, Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich, health, longevity and victory over the enemies who reign to the city, to our city and to all the city and the whole of Russia, prosperity, abundance and protection from evil, to all the faithful people who honor you and come to venerate your holy relics, the mercy of God and the speedy fulfillment of good petitions. Hey, holy wonderworkers!
Do not disgrace our hope, but through your prayers make us heirs of being the Kingdom of Christ, so that we glorify the love of mankind in the Trinity of the glorified and worshiped God, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, and your holy intercession, forever and ever.
As the stars, shining with much light from youth, sanctified the natural hearts of the faithful by the presentation of your venerable relics, in the flesh, as the Angels appeared on earth, nourishing the plantings as quickly as trees by the waters abstinence, water your tears with streams, and wash away the filth: for this reason the friend of God the Spirit appeared to Theodora and David and Constantine. Pray to Christ God to save our souls.
O sacred and long-suffering head, earthly angel and heavenly man, venerable martyr and wonderworker Adrian! We fall to you with faith and love and pray diligently: show us your holy intercession to the humble and sinful. Behold, it is a sin for our sake, not the imams of freedom of the children of God to ask our Lord and Master for our needs, but we offer you a prayer book favorable to Him, and we ask you with zeal for many. Ask His goodness for beneficial gifts to our souls and bodies: rightful faith, undoubted hope, unfeigned love for all, courage in temptation, patience in suffering, constancy in prayer, health of souls and bodies, fruitfulness of the earth, prosperity in the air, contentment of everyday needs, peaceful and a serene life, a good Christian death and a good answer at the Last Judgment of Christ.
Ask, servant of God, from the Tsar of heaven and earth, to our most pious, autocratic, great sovereign, Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich of all Russia, health, salvation and victory over enemies, and to his entire God-protected kingdom for peace, silence and prosperity. Do not forget, holy of God, the holy monastery, created by you and always honoring you, but keep it and all who live and strive in it and who come to worship there are unharmed from the temptations of the devil and all evil. Hey, holy martyr! Do not deprive us of your heavenly help, but with your prayers bring us all into the haven of salvation, and show us to be heirs of the all-bright Kingdom of Christ, so that we sing and glorify the ineffable generosity of the Lover of God, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, and your holy intercession, forever and ever.
Reverend Father, Blessed Adriana, the first of the sowing desert, the enlightener and the founder of monastic life in it, who came into the nude with the Angel of the Lord and sanctified the Most Holy Theotokos with the miraculous icon and grace, in which the bright mirror of chastity appeared in your deeds, a beautiful image of humility, an animated pillar of patience, a well-known rule of abstinence, a true lover of non-covetousness and poverty and an all-perfect saint of Christ! Behold, we sinners, humbly falling down, we pray to you: accept our prayers and offer them up on the altar of God’s mercy. By your intercession, ask us from our All-Merciful God for peace in the world, for the Holy Church, confirmation, agreement in faith, success in piety and Christian virtues, so that we may be worthy of the bounty and mercies of the Gracious God. Constantly guide your spiritual flock and your holy abode with the rod of spiritual wisdom.
Help those who strive, strengthen those who are weakened, raise those who fall, hasten to all of us to bear the yoke of Christ in patience and complacency, and guide us all in peace and repentance, end our lives and, with the hope of salvation, dwell in the blessed bosom of Abraham, where you joyfully rested after your earthly labors, glorifying with all the saints Trinitarian God, Father and Son and Holy Spirit, to the endless ages of ages.
O great servant of God, venerable martyr and miracle worker Adrian! Look upon us sinners, to the honest race of your holy and multi-healing relics, falling and asking for your intercession and help. Sorrow will support us, and not the imams of help and consolation in this fleeting sea: but we resort to you, long-suffering servant of God, who is able to sympathize with us and has gained great boldness in Christ God, to the Unmighty intercessor for all those who resort to you with faith and appear for your intercession and help of those asking. Pray to the Lord, the Lover of Mankind, that having forgiven us our countless sins, He will not turn His mercy away from us, but, as He is Good and Merciful, may He show us His endless love for mankind, and in troubles and misfortunes may He give us His omnipotent help. To her, saint of God, lift up your reverend hands and pray to Christ God, Whom you have served faithfully, may He not reject our prayers for our unworthiness, but may He show us His help and mercy in time of need, may we glorify His generosity and your holy intercession now and ever and unto the ages of ages.
The namesake of the martyr of Christ, O Reverend, you endured many labors in your temporary life, creating a monastic monastery in the desert, where you even suffered from the evil robbers and suffered martyrdom from them, O glorious Adrian. Having been enriched by miracles of grace, today you stand before the King of all, Christ God, to whom we pray to save our souls.
Father Saint Euthymius! From your youth you have loved Christ, and we are strengthened by His grace, you have put to death all carnal wisdom, but with your pure life and meek disposition you have pleased the Lord, and by His grace you have labored on the throne of the holiness, and you have appeared to the flock of Christ of Great Novagrad as a good shepherd, entrusting your soul to your flock. Likewise, even after your death, the Chief Shepherd Christ glorified you with the donations of miracles flowing from you, showing us the image of a virtuous life in you. In the same way, I, sinful and sad, falling before the race of your relics, I earnestly pray to you: give me a helping hand, raise me up with your prayers from the depths of sin: for I am overwhelmed by the waves of carnal passions and other countless everyday worries.
Be a warm intercessor and prayer book for Christ for me, a great sinner, and if I am delivered from the drowning of sin, I will reach the refuge of an immaculate life by the grace of Christ, and with a pure life I will glorify my Savior, who redeemed me with His blood: and having ended this life, I will receive eternal life in the Kingdom of Heaven, where glorified is the most honorable and magnificent name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
Having been chosen by God from his youth, Saint Euthymius, and for this reason, for the sake of the bishopric, he was honored with the rank of rank, having saved the people who were entrusted to you by God: in the same way, after the repose of miracles, you received gifts from the Lord to heal various ailments. Pray for this for us, who honor your memory, so that we may continually please you all.
O great servant of Christ, holy man of God Alexis, stand with your soul in heaven before the throne of the Lord, and perform miracles on earth given from above by various graces! Look mercifully at the people standing before your holy icon, tenderly praying and asking for your help and intercession. Extend your honest hand in prayer to the Lord God, and ask us from Him for forgiveness of our sins, voluntary and involuntary, healing for the afflicted, intercession for the afflicted, consolation for the afflicted, quick help for the needy, and for all who honor your peaceful and Christian death and a good answer at the Last Judgment of Christ. To her, God's servant, do not disgrace our hope, which we place in you according to God and the Mother of God, but be our helper and protector for salvation: with your prayers having received grace and mercy from the Lord, let us glorify the love of mankind of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, in the Trinity of the glorified and worshiped God, and your holy intercession, now and ever and unto the ages of ages.
Having risen to virtue and purified your mind, you have achieved what you desired and the extreme: having adorned your life with dispassion, and accepted a fair amount of fasting with a clear conscience, remaining in prayers as if you were disembodied, you have risen like the sun in the world, blessed Alexie.
O sacred head, reverend father, most blessed Abbo Macarius! Do not forget your poor to the end, but always remember us in your holy and auspicious prayers to God. Remember your flock, which you yourself have shepherded, and do not forget to visit your children. Pray for us, holy father, for your spiritual children, as you have boldness towards the Heavenly King: do not keep silent to the Lord for us, and do not despise us, who honor you with faith and love. Remember us unworthy at the throne of the Almighty, and do not cease praying for us to Christ God: for grace has been given to you to pray for us. We do not imagine that you are dead: even though you passed away from us in body, you remain alive even after death. Do not give up on us in spirit, keeping us from the arrows of the enemy and all the charms of the demonic and the wiles of the devil, our good shepherd. Even though your relics are always visible before our eyes, your holy soul with the angelic armies, with the disembodied faces, with the heavenly powers, stands at the throne of the Almighty, worthy of rejoicing.
Knowing that you are truly alive even after death, we bow down to you and we pray to you: pray for us to the Almighty God, for the benefit of our souls, and ask us time for repentance, so that we may pass from earth to heaven without restraint, from bitter ordeals, demons of air princes and from eternal torment, and from Heavenly Let us be the heirs of the kingdom with all the righteous, who from time immemorial have pleased our Lord Jesus Christ: to whom is due all glory, honor and worship, with His Beginning Father, and with His Most Holy and Good and Life-Giving Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
Carnal wisdom, Father Macarius, you put to death through abstinence and vigil: for the place in which you poured out your notes, like a trumpet cries to God, telling your corrections: and after your death, your honest relics exude healing. We also cry out to you: pray to Christ God to save our souls.
O holy martyr Euphrosyne! Hear our fervent prayer brought to you. Protect and preserve with your holy prayers all this and all the villages and cities of our Orthodox Fatherland from famine, cowardice, flood, fire, sword, invasion of foreigners, internecine warfare and deadly plagues, from all misfortune, sorrow and evil. Pray to the Lord God and our Savior to grant peace to His Church, under the sign of the militant Cross, to our most pious, autocratic, great sovereign, Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich and to the entire reigning house, prosperity and good haste in everything: to our archpastor and shepherd the right to rule the word of truth of the Gospel through your intercession help, and ask all Orthodox Christians for forgiveness of their voluntary and involuntary sins: grant healing to those who are sick through your intercession from illnesses, so that for your sake the most honorable and magnificent name of the Most Holy Trinity, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, may be glorified, now and ever and unto the ages of ages.
From your youth you fixed your mind on God, Blessed Euphrosyne, but you rejected the world and settled in the impenetrable desert, and there we are strengthened by the Lord, you lived valiantly in prayers and fasting, and you ended your life in suffering by murder from the sons of disobedience: for this reason you were married to the saints and martyrs, and with them even now stand before the throne of the Most Holy Trinity. This prayer, we pray to you, forgive us our sins and grant us great mercy.
O blessed martyr, Abbess Anastasia! With the blessed sufferers: priests, churchmen and thirty-five nuns of your Epiphany monastery, together with two hundred pure virgins and sixty wives of the city of Uglich, you endured many different torments, having been beaten by the head and burned by fire, and beheaded by the sword You accepted in the name of Christ, your bridegroom, Whom you loved from your youth and Whom you truly served. And now, when you stand before the throne of the Almighty with the host of your squad that has suffered with you and with the incorporeal heavenly powers singing the trisagion hymn, you rejoice, pray for your holy monastery, this city and for every city and country, in which our king, shepherd, military leader, mayor and all Orthodox Christians will be established in peace, health, salvation and in all prosperity, for the salvation of souls and bodies, we will give eternal blessed lives and there we will glorify the Lord of heaven and earth, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit forever and ever.
O holy Archangel of God Gabriel, stand ever before the throne of the Most High, joyful evangelist and zealous helper of our salvation! With your characteristic mercy, accept this song of praise brought to you by us unworthy. Correct our prayers, and bring me like incense to the heavenly altar of incense: illuminate our minds with the light of knowledge of the mysteries of our saving faith: inflame our hearts with love for Christ our Savior, turn and strengthen our desires to the saving path of His Gospel commandments: that in this time we may live quietly and piously for the glory of God, and in the future we will not be deprived the eternal Kingdom of God, which we may receive through the grace of Christ our God, through the intercession of His Most Pure Mother, the Immaculate Virgin Mary, and through your many powerful prayers to the Lord God for us, and may we glorify with you and the other incorporeal forces of heaven and all the saints the One in the Trinity, glorified God, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and ever forever and ever.
Heavenly armies of the Archangel, we always pray to you, we are unworthy, and with your prayers protect us with the shelter of your immaterial glory, preserving us who fall diligently and cry out: deliver us from troubles, like the commander of the highest powers.
Our Reverend and Blessed Father Euthymius! Come to us, who humbly fall to you and warmly ask for your intercession. Weigh our weaknesses, weigh our sins, but our zeal will not be hidden from you. Pray to our merciful Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, to grant us forgiveness of many of our sins and establish us on the path of doing His commandments. Protect us with your prayers from all temptations and troubles: avert the sorrows and misfortunes that are due to us: grant us to spend the days of our life in health, peace, silence and pleasing to God: ask us time for repentance and a favorable answer at the Last Judgment of Christ, so that with you and with all the elect we glorify the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit forever and ever.
Like a luminous star, you came from the East to the West, leaving your fatherland Nizhny Novgrad, and having reached the God-saved city of Suzdal, you created a monastery in it, and you gathered many monks: and you received the gift of miracles from God, Father Euthymie, you were an interlocutor and companion in Christ with St. Sergius. With him, from Christ God, ask our blessed Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich for health and salvation and great mercy for our souls.
Holy Martyr Abraham, valiant warrior of Christ the Heavenly King, our glorious helper and protector in sorrows and misfortunes! Nothing can separate you from your love for the Lord Jesus: neither flattering promises of temporary blessings, nor reprimand, nor torment from the evil enemies of the Holy Faith of Christ: you, like a lion, went out to battle against the mental wolves, the spirits of malice, who moved against you, for the sake of your good confession, the Bulgarian people of your kindred, and, like a fiery arrow, You struck them down with the power of the grace of the Holy Spirit and your love for God, strong as death. Even though you shed your blood for Christ our God, destroying your temporary life, you also soared with an immortal soul, like an eagle, into the heavenly abode of our Father, and there you received eternal life, glory and unspeakable bliss, but you left us your incorruptible relics, like a valuable and fragrant wine.
We believe, Passion-Bearing Saint, that, standing with the Angels and all the saints at the throne of glory of the Trinitarian God, you offer fervent and God-pleasing prayers not only for us and for this holy monastery and for our city, but also for all the saints of Christ’s Church, and for the Orthodox kingdom of Russia, and for our most pious Tsar. We believe, glorious miracle worker, that you, by the power of the Almighty Lord, through your holy relics, exude abundant gifts of grace-filled help for the salvation of everyone who flows to you with faith, most of all, you ask for the death of those who honor you with repentance, and you mercifully help a weak baby, and all are unanimous We glorify the inscrutable greatness of God’s goodness.
With the same faith and love for your holy relics, falling down and reverently kissing them, we pray to you, our kind prayer book and intercessor in heaven: help us sinners and humble ones with your prayers in all our sorrows, needs and circumstances, save us, this holy monastery and this city from all evil and all adversity, but most of all, promote the eternal salvation of us and all those who ask you for help and intercession. To her, we humbly pray to you, servant of God: pray to Christ our God, may He give peace and silence to all Orthodox Christians and may He turn away from us all anger directed at us, may He deliver us from the snares of the enemy, languor in the bonds of sin and the torments of hell, and may He vouchsafe us unworthy to sit at His right hand at His righteous Judgment and bring us into eternal rest His saints, where those who celebrate the unceasing voice and ineffable sweetness of those who behold the kindness of His face: and thus we can with you and all the saints glorify the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, the Trinity, Consubstantial and Indivisible, forever and ever.
Today, people of good faith, let us come together to praise this noble martyr and sufferer Abramius: for this, we are strengthened by the power of God, lay down your soul for Christ, having suffered much from the evil Bulgarians. For this reason, the crown has been accepted from the Lord, and now it stands before Him and prays for this city and for all of us who honor its memory.
Our chosen and reverend fathers and saints of Christ, Joseph and George, who shone forth with the holiness of your life, and now stand before the throne of the Almighty and have great boldness towards Christ our God! We humbly pray to you with the tenderness of our hearts: pray to the Lord, may He add His mercy to our Orthodox fatherland and grant our most pious sovereign, Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich, health and longevity and good haste in everything: may He give humanity and zeal for the salvation of the flock to the shepherd of the Church, for the mayor and judges, fear of God, righteousness and selflessness, loyalty to the warrior, courage and victory over the enemy, mutual love and like-mindedness for the spouse, I will buy honesty and righteousness for those who work, for the farmer and all those who work, hard work and sobriety, charity for the poor, healing for the sick, intercession for the offended, justification for the slandered, and for all people everything necessary for temporary and eternal life.
Above all, pray to the Lord, our prayer books [prayer books], may he forgive us every sin, voluntary and involuntary, and cleanse us from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, may He deliver us from the snares of the devil and from human slander, may He confirm us in the saving Orthodox faith and unfeigned piety, and may the mountain teach us to be wise and not earthly. Pray, our fathers, to the All-Holy and Divine Spirit, that peace and silence may reign in our land, that the light of His grace may shine upon all our brethren according to the flesh, who sit in the darkness of false faith and superstition, and that all may know Christ the True God, the Only Savior of all men, and that our brethren of other faiths may come to their senses and come into the fold. The Orthodox Church, in which alone eternal salvation is accomplished.
Pray, reverend fathers, that in peace and unanimity, with a burning desire for salvation, we will work for the Lord, and bear each other’s burdens, fighting a good deed, and thus in the quiet haven of the Heavenly Kingdom we will reach and glorify the ineffable love for mankind and mercy of our Savior, Jesus Christ, the Son of God, with His Beginning Father and the Most Holy Spirit, forever centuries.
O venerable and God-bearing Father Daniel! We humbly fall before you and pray to you: do not depart from us in your spirit, but always remember us in your holy and auspicious prayers to our Lord Jesus Christ. Pray to Him, may the abyss of sin not drown us, and may we not be an enemy who hates us, to joy: may Christ our God forgive all our sins through your intercession for us, and may His grace establish unanimity and love among us, and may He deliver us from the snares and slander of the devil, from the hunger of destruction, fire, all sorrow and needs, from mental and physical illnesses and from sudden death: may He grant us, who flow to the race of your relics, to live in true faith and repentance, to achieve a Christian shameless and peaceful end of our life, and to inherit the Kingdom of Heaven, and to glorify His Most Holy Name, with His Eternal Father and the Most Holy Spirit, forever and ever.
From your youth, blessed one, having laid everything upon yourself to the Lord, always obeying God, resisting the devil, you conquered the passions of sin: you also became the church of God, and erected a red monastery for the glory of the Most Holy Trinity, and you saved the flock of Christ gathered in it in a godly manner, and you reposed in the eternal abode. Father Daniel, pray to the Trinitarian God in the One Being to save our souls.
O glorious Hieromartyr Antipos and quick helper to Christians in illness! I believe with all my soul and thoughts that the Lord has given you the gift of healing the sick and strengthening the weak. For this reason, to you, as a blessed doctor of diseases, I am weak [or infirm] and I come running to you, and reverently kissing [or kissing] your venerable image, I pray: by your intercession from the Heavenly King, ask me who is sick [or sick] for healing from dental problems that are depressing me. diseases. Even if I am unworthy [or unworthy] of you, my most gracious father and ever-present intercessor: but you, being an imitator of God’s love for mankind, make me worthy [or worthy] of your intercession through my conversion from evil deeds to a good life: heal the ulcers and scabs of my soul and body with the grace abundantly given to you, grant me health and salvation and good haste in everything, so that, having lived [or having lived] a quiet and silent life in all piety and purity, I will be deemed worthy, with all the saints, to glorify the all-holy name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit forever and ever.
O bishop of God, holy martyr of Christ, Most Blessed Antipos, co-throne of the apostles and saints, glory! You, great bishop, have appeared as the luminary of the Church and the true affirmation of the faith, you boldly confessed Christ against the atheists, and like a fragrant incense sacrifice to God you offered yourself, and like a gentle lamb that was brought to torment, you entered into a kindled ox, and you offered prayers of thanksgiving to God in it. Sending forth, you have shone like the sun, and with your torment you have completely crushed the tormentor of the fierce Belial. For this reason, Christ glorified you on earth and in heaven and bestowed grace upon you, to bestow healing on all those suffering from incessant dental disease, who incessantly call upon you with faith. Hear also us, unworthy, who at this hour of prayer bring you singing, as we offer you an intercessor and a prayer book to God, and trusting in your intercession, to Him we send glory, to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
O great servant of Christ and glorious healer, Hieromartyr Antipos, stand before the throne of God in heaven, enjoy His Trinitarian glory and exude miracles from above through the various graces given to you! Look with your merciful eye at the people ahead and more honestly than your icon, tenderly praying and asking you for healing help and intercession. Extend your warm prayers to the Lord our God and ask for forgiveness of our sins. Behold, with a contrite heart and a humble spirit, we call upon you as a merciful intercessor to the Lady and a prayer book for us sinners, as you have received from Him the blessing of driving away illnesses and healing passions. We therefore ask you: do not despise us, unworthy, who pray to you and demand your help, and intercede for all that is useful for salvation, for by your prayers to the Lord God we have received grace and mercy, let us glorify all the good Source and Gift-Giver, the One God, glorified in the Trinity of Saints, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto the ages of ages.
You abolished idolatrous flattery, Antipos, and trampled down the power of the devil, before the atheists you boldly confessed Christ: in the same way, you are established with the angelic ranks in the highest, bringing praise to the Lady of all, and offering prayerful thanksgiving for us, bestowing the grace of healing. For this reason we honor you, Hieromartyr Antipos: pray to Christ God to save our souls.
Our God-chosen High Hierarch and saint of Christ, Vasily, glorified by the holiness of your life, the wonderful navigation on the waters and the incorruption of your relics! Standing before the throne of the Almighty and having great boldness towards Him, pray to Him to add His mercy to us sinners and unworthy servants of His, and grant to our most pious sovereign, Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich, health, longevity and good haste in everything: may He give spiritual sobriety and zeal for the salvation of the flock to the shepherd of the Church: for the mayor and judges the fear of God, righteousness and selflessness: for the warrior patience, courage and victory over enemies: for the supremacists mutual love, loyalty and like-mindedness: I will buy righteousness for the active, hard work and sobriety for the farmer, charity for the orphan, healing for the sick, intercession for the offended, justification for the slandered, and for all the people of your flock everything needed for temporal and eternal life.
Above all, pray to the Lord, our prayer book, to forgive us every sin, voluntary and involuntary, and to cleanse us from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit: to deliver us from the snares of the age-old enemy, the hater and murderer, and to preserve us from human slander; the soul-destroying teachings of flattering spirits, acting in this regard in the sons of disobedience: may the things on high, and not those on earth, teach us to be wise, not those of the earth, to protect our hearts from being seduced by the reds of this world. Pray, our Father, to the All-All and Divine Spirit, that the light of His grace may shine upon our brethren according to the flesh, who sit in the darkness of false faith, and may they come to know Christ, the True God, the Only Savior of all people: may this light shine upon those wandering on the crossroads of the schism, may they come to their senses and come to the fence of the Orthodox The Church, which alone undoubtedly brings about the eternal salvation of the faithful. O Saint of Christ, our prayer book!
Pray to Christ God and His Most Pure Mother, that He may abolish our enmity and discord, and unite us all with God-like love, and in peace and unity, with a burning desire for salvation, working for the Lord, bearing each other’s burdens, fighting a good deed, and ending the course, having reached the quiet refuge of the Heavenly Kingdom, and glorifying the ineffable love for mankind and mercy of our Savior, Jesus Christ, the Son of God, with His Beginningless Father and the Most Holy Spirit, forever and ever.
First in Murom, you were honored with holiness, from whom you were unjustly expelled, you ascended on a mantle, like on a light ship, on it, more than nature, as if incorporeal, creating a procession on the waters, governing by the providence of the highest and the intercession of the Mother of God, you reached the God-saved city of Ryazan, and in it the bishopric We will take the throne, you have preserved the goodness of the God-given flock of Ryazan, Our Hierarch Father Basil: pray to Christ God to save our souls.
All praise to the martyr Thomaido! For the purity of marriage, even having struggled to the point of blood and having laid down your soul for the sake of chastity, you have found yourself worthy before the Lord; Hear us praying to you: and just as Borimia of old had you from the flesh as a healer, according to the grace bestowed upon you from God, grant to those who now resort to your intercession consolation and freedom from carnal warfare, and a chaste life and a stay without shame in marriage and virginity, with your favorable prayers, strive to intercede with everyone, for our bodies will be a temple of the Holy Spirit living in us. O most chosen among wives and faithful servant of Christ! Help us, so that we do not perish with our passions and lusts, but let us be guided by our minds and strengthened in our hearts in all piety and purity, glorifying your help and intercession, the grace and mercy of the Triune God, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, forever and ever.
Holy martyrs Anthony, Joanna and Eustathia! Look from the heavenly palace at those who require your help and do not reject our petitions, but, as we have dreamed of our benefactors and intercessors, pray to Christ God, that He, who loves mankind and is abundantly merciful, will save us from every cruel situation: from cowardice, flood, fire, sword, invasion of foreigners and internecine warfare. May he not condemn us sinners for our iniquity, and may we not turn the good things given to us from the All-Bounteous God into evil, but into the glory of His holy name and into the glorification of your strong intercession. May the Lord, through your prayers, give us peace of mind, abstinence from destructive passions, and removal from all defilement: and may He strengthen His one holy, catholic and apostolic Church throughout the world, which He has acquired with His honest blood.
Pray diligently, holy martyrs [martyrs], may Christ God bless His anointed one, the most pious sovereign Emperor Nicholas Alexandrovich, with all his reigning house and all his power, may he establish in His holy Orthodox Church the living spirit of right faith and piety: may all her children, freed from superstition and wisdom, be freed in spirit and they worship Him in truth, and strive diligently to keep His commandments: that we may all live in peace and piety in this present world, and may attain blessed eternal life in heaven, by the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, to Him belongs all glory, honor and power, with the Father and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto the ages of ages.
Having rejected earthly honor and glory, nobles and honest sufferers, for the sake of faith you endured the torment firmly and courageously, giving yourself to death for the life of all the Lord: in the same way, Christ gloriously illuminated you from heaven with a pillar of cloud, and crowned you with honors and crowns from the throne of glory. With the upcoming angels, pray for our souls to be saved.
From the root barren, blessed, having grown the Orthodox faith of the branch, he appeared as the first martyr of the same name: for he was not afraid of evil and the wicked prince of wrath, commanding him to renounce Christ. For this reason, having received the crown of martyrdom and from the Angels to the throne of the Lady who is approaching, pray for us, blessed ones, who Orthodoxy honor your holy memory.
We magnify you, passion-bearers Saints Anthony, John and Eustathius, and honor your honest suffering, which you naturally endured for Christ.
O venerable and God-bearing Father, Servant of God Alexander! Hear us sinners and unworthy of your children and all those who fall down and pray warmly to your honest image and your miraculous race. Be an assistant and protector to our most pious sovereign, Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich of all Russia. Ask the All-Bountiful Lord God for monastics and pastors to receive holiness, reverence and fear of God, and for the flock to obey, for prosperity in life and for unflattering preservation of the Orthodox faith. With the power of your holy prayer, quench the schism and heresies of vacillation, but keep us all under your holy roof in peace, intercede for us the goodness of the air, abundance of earthly fruits, bodily health and prosperity in life. At the hour of the exodus of our many sinful souls, appear to us and peacefully lead the non-evening Kingdom, freeing us from the terrible aerial tormentors, so that we may forever abide with you and be honored with all the saints with the most honorable and magnificent name of the Lord and your merciful intercession forever and ever.
O venerable and God-bearing Father Alexander! Having great boldness towards God, pray unceasingly for all of us, before the storm of many troubles and sorrows will overwhelm us: for physical ailments, mental illnesses, and the attacks of the enemy overwhelm us. For our enemy is walking around, looking for someone to devour: but we, careless of our salvation, are not worthy to look below the heights of heaven, nor to call upon the Lord for our help. But be a quick helper to our salvation and an invincible deliverer from evils. Give us the memory of death, tears of repentance and hope of salvation, so that we do not fall into despair, let us not fall into despair, let us rely less boldly on God’s mercy, and by remaining in our sins, let us ultimately destroy ourselves: but may the memory of our sins be a source of warm tears and contrition of our hearts, and God’s mercy and His grace for our salvation, through your prayers, may it be given to us, yours child, forever and ever.
O venerable and God-bearing Father, Servant of God Alexander! Standing before the throne of the Most Holy Trinity, pray unceasingly for our most pious, autocratic, great sovereign, Emperor Nicholas Alexandrovich of all Russia, and for the entire reigning house, for the most holy government synod, and for our most reverend bishop named after him, for all the sacred and monastic rank, the abbot and the brethren thy monastery, about the military leaders and city governors and all Orthodox Christians: may we walk every day worthy of our calling, in which we are called bykh, and may our land be a good land, and all who live on it will be a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy language, people of renewal, now and ever and forever centuries.
To the guardian of infantile kindness and bearer of martyrdom, blessed Gabriel, our country’s precious adamante and the accuser of Jewish wickedness! To you, we sinners come running prayerfully, and lamenting our sins, and being ashamed of our cowardice, we call to you with love: do not disdain our filth, O treasure of purity: do not abhor our cowardice, long-suffering to the teacher: but more than these, Seeing our weaknesses from heaven, grant us healing through your prayer, and teach us to be imitators of your fidelity to Christ. Even though we cannot patiently bear the cross of temptation and suffering, otherwise, do not deprive us of your merciful help, servant of God, but ask the Lord for freedom and weakness for us. Also, hear the mothers who pray for their children, and pray for health and salvation for the baby from the Lord.
There is no such cruel heart that the holy infant will not be moved by hearing about your torments: and even if, apart from this tender sighing, we are able to bring no good deed, but with such a tender thought our minds and hearts, blessedly, have been enlightened for the correction of our life by the grace of God. Instill in us tireless zeal for the salvation of the soul and for the glory of God, and for the hour of death to keep vigilant memory of the hour of death, help us, especially in our deathly dormition, demonic torment and thoughts of despair from our souls through the intercession of your wife, and fill this with the hope of Divine forgiveness, both then and now glorify us the mercy of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, and your strong intercession, forever and ever.
Holy Infant Gabriel, you, for the sake of the One who was pierced by us from the Jews, were cruelly pierced in the ribs by one, and for He who shed His blood for us, you gave up your whole body to be drained of blood into fierce ulcers: now you have dwelled with Him in eternal glory. Thus remember us, we pray, who honor your memory here, asking us for health in our bodies and salvation for our souls.
We magnify you, the passion-bearing saint of the infant Gabriel, and we honor your honorable suffering, which you endured for Christ.
Holy, glorious and all-praised Great Martyr of Christ George! Gathered in your church and in front of your holy icon, the people who worship, we pray to you, known to the intercessor of our desires: pray with us and for us, beseeching God from His mercy, that He may mercifully hear us asking for His goodness, and not abandon all our necessary petitions for salvation and life, and grant to the most pious may the Orthodox army strengthen our emperor with the grace given to you in battle, and let our enemies overthrow the forces of the rebels, let them be ashamed and disgraced, and let their insolence be crushed, and let them know that we are the imams of Divine help: and to all in sorrow and situation Show your powerful intercession to those who exist. Pray to the Lord God, the 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 ever and unto ages of ages.
O all-validated, holy great martyr and wonderworker George! Look upon us with your quick help, and pray to God, the lover of mankind, that He will not condemn us sinners according to our iniquity, but may He deal with us according to His great mercy. Do not despise our prayer, but ask us from Christ our God a quiet and godly life, mental and physical health, fertility of the earth and abundance in everything, and may we not turn into evil the good things given to us by you from the All-Bountiful God, but to the glory of His holy name and to the glorification of your strong intercession, may He give to the Orthodox emperor and all victory over the God-loving army as adversaries, and may He strengthen his kingdom with unchangeable peace and blessings: may His angels protect us saints even more with a militia, so that we, upon our departure from this life, may be delivered from the wiles of the evil one and his heavy airy ordeals, and appear uncondemned throne of the Lord of glory.
Hear us, more passion-bearing than Christ, George, and pray unceasingly for us to the Lord of all God, so that by His grace and love for mankind, with your help and intercession, we may find mercy, with the Angels and Archangels and all the saints at the right hand of the just Judge of the body, and He will continually glorify Him with the Father and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and ever forever and ever.
You fought a good fight, more passionate than Christ’s George, and for the sake of faith you exposed the tormentors’ wickedness: but you offered a sacrifice acceptable to God. In the same way, you have received the crown of victory, and with your prayers, holy one, you grant forgiveness of sins to all.
As the liberator of the captives and the defender of the poor, the physician of the infirm, the champion of kings, the victorious Great Martyr George, pray to Christ God to save our souls.
Glory to the Holy Church and the martyrs, glorious Queen Alexandro! We fall to you in the tenderness of our hearts, and we pray for your intercession with the Lord for us. Even if we are not jealous of your purity, and do not partake of your fearless confession, moreover, with many sins and cruel falls and apostasies, the wrath of God has been attracted: but we do not want to die in our sins, and we look at your feat, and at the overcoming of our passions Let's take up arms. This is true, since apart from grace-filled help we can do no good, we ask you for this help from the Lord. For you, holy passion-bearer, have gained great boldness towards the Master, for having glorified him in the purity of your soul and in your body through suffering, you have renounced the glory and honor of this world, having loved the wealth and praise of Christ.
Moreover, from that wealth and our poverty, grant us spiritual gifts, and from immeasurable sins, preserve our lives, obtain peace and serenity for us, protect us from need and despondency through your intercession, instruct us in obedience and brotherly love to each other, and always lift up the eyes of our hearts to the Lord, so that we may glorify the Father and the Son and Holy Spirit power, and your warm intercession, forever and ever.
Having despised the glory of the earthly kingdom, the only Christ, for the sake of us crucified, you loved, and having courageously confessed, you were crowned with a crown, the all-blessed Queen Alexandro: in the same way, even now you stand before the throne of the King of glory in heaven, praying for the salvation of our souls.
Chosen One of God and miracle worker, Rev. Father Sylvester! You labored valiantly in the desert and kept the faith, and you received the unfading crown of glory from the hand of the Lord. For this reason, we come to you, praying with faith. Yes, pray to Christ God, who will grant prosperity to faith, health and prosperity to our blessed emperor, peace and quiet to the Russian Empire, healing to the sick, help and consolation to the orphaned and needy, to all people a serene life and deliverance from troubles and sorrows, to those calling out from this temporary life, holy parting words, those who have passed away will find blessed rest in the Lord. Hear, God-bearing Father, the voice of our prayer, and lift it up to the Lord, so that by His mercy we glorify in our souls and bodies the all-holy name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
O God-sanctified and Equal-to-the-Apostles Saint Stephen of Christ, a new preacher of God and enlightener of the Great Perm people who lived in idolatry, a guide to the true Gospel light, a good shepherd and a wise teacher, a chosen vessel of the Holy Spirit, a Christ-imitating teacher and leader of the heavenly Zion, an image of good behavior for all. those who want to live, the well-crafted mental ship, through the sea of this world to the heavenly haven of the floating one, the ruler, wondrous in all hierarchs, crowned with Divine grace, the All-Russian lamp, the great miracle worker and warm prayer book!
To you, in the tenderness of our souls and the contrition of our hearts, we, penitents and sinners, reliably flow, and before your miraculous tomb, in which your holy relics rest [or before your holy and miraculous image], we cry out, humbly asking for your help and warm intercession to the Most Good God, and with your favorable prayers ask us from Him humane mercy, forgiveness of many of our sins, health and salvation for our souls and bodies: may the Lord, through your prayers, be pleased to walk comfortably in this world until the end of our life, while during our separation from life, sow our spirit to His saints in repentance and peace, mercifully, as yes from the dark and evil and cruel demonic spirits in the air that have passed without restraint, let us shamelessly present ourselves to Him and worship, and we will be honored with immortal and blessed life with all the saints forever and ever.
With a divine desire from a young age, Stephen the Wise, he was kindled, you took Christ with the yoke, and people who were frozen in ancient times with unbelief of the heart, having sowed the Divine seed in them, you spiritually gave birth to them in the Gospel. In the same way, we honor your glorious memory, we pray to you: pray, Whom you preached, that He may save our souls.
About the all-praise of the holy martyr, the valiant servants of Christ: Theognis, Rufus, Antipater, Theostichus, Artemo, Magna, Theodotus, Faimasia and Philemon! For the sake of Christ, you gathered from different countries, and that perfect God and Man boldly preached in the forge, and were forced to devour idols, idols in vain and the prince to shame, but you were not afraid of various languor and fiery rebuke, and according to various sufferings, cut with the edge of a sword quickly, and shed your blood like water for Christ, and with that, like crimson, you adorned the Church of Christ: in the same way, now, crowned with an unfading crown of immortal glory, in unspeakable joy you are installed with the faces of angels in the heavenly villages, adorned with Divine light and the sight of His ineffable kindness enjoying.
For this reason, we humbly flow to you, and look with tenderness at your holy image, we pray: pray for us to Christ God, as we have boldness towards him, so that with your holy prayers we will be delivered from every ailment and harm, mental and physical, for you have been given a healing gift from God from all sorrows that come to you with faith Heal, just as this glorious man was healed from the shaking illness: and we, having received the same faith, honor you, holy martyrs, who have the gift of Christ God, to whom be glory, together with the Father and the Holy Spirit, always, now and ever, and unto the ages of ages.
About the all-praise of the holy martyr: Theognis, Rufus, Antipater, Theostichus, Artemo, Magna, Theodotus, Faimasia and Philemon, physician of the passions, great name, luminosity and Divine lamp, more sacred, divinely gathered copulation, valor Christ's sufferers, who endured terrible and varied torments for Christ and received grace from Him, even more than by nature, to work miracles! We humbly fall to you, from the depths of our hearts we cry out and pray: preserve this monastery, which has been appropriated to you, from every evil situation. Do not reject us from your protection and intercession, who flow to you with faith and love: even though we have committed many sins, we do not want to perish. Deliver us from the passions that war on our souls: enlighten us with the light of true knowledge of God: pray for us to our Savior, that we may all live in peace and unanimity, so that, like you, united in love in Christ, we may complacently and non-lazily bear the good yoke of a virtuous life, encouraging each other in good deeds.
Strengthen us in the battles raised against us from enemies visible and invisible, so that not when the enemy, like a lion, snatches away our soul, not the one who delivers, nor the one who saves: you will soon hear us, when the day comes you will call. Heal us and all those who flow into this monastery from any illness, especially from the shaking illness: God has given you to the country, healers of this illness, so that all who flow to you receive health and together with us glorify God, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, and your merciful intercession for us, always, now and ever, and unto the ages of ages.
The holy nine-year-old martyr, from various cities, united in one person by the mania of the Divine, courageously united for Christ in suffering, defeated the invisible enemy, the evil-believing princes and tormentors were put to shame by your patience: with the fire of the love of God we liquefied, materially the fire of torment turned you into cold. Moreover, the grace of shaking sickness has been given to you from Christ God; mercifully save us through your intercession from the sickness and from the manifold passions, we pray.
O sacred head, earthly angel, heavenly man, great miracle worker, Reverend Father Paphnutius! We earnestly resort to you with faith and love and tenderly ask for your intercession. We do not dare, for our sake, with the freedom of the children of God to ask our Lord and Master for mercy and forgiveness. But we offer you a prayer book to Him that is favorable and we pray that we ask from His goodness the gifts that are beneficial and saving for our souls: right faith, a strong standing in piety, forgiveness of sins, perfect correction of life, and turning from evil deeds to to please others, we do not anger the Lord of His holy commandments by transgressing. Pray, holy of God, to the Most High Creator to grant peace and piety to our Orthodox kingdom, and health and salvation and victory over enemies to our most pious sovereign and all of Russia. Preserve, O servant of Christ, your holy abode, which you created, and all who live and labor in it are free from all evil.
Look mercifully upon the people who stand before your relics, and fulfill all their requests for good. For all of us, spiritual and physical health, fruitfulness of the earth, a quiet and God-pleasing life, a good Christian death and a good answer at the Last Judgment from the All-Merciful God. To her, father, we know that your prayer can do much before the face of the Almighty Lord, and nothing is impossible for your intercession, unless you desire it: for this reason we trust in you for strength, and in your holy prayers we hope that you will bring us, through your intercession, into a quiet haven of salvation and the heirs of the bright Kingdom of Christ. Do not disgrace our hope, miracle-working saint, and grant us, together with you, the bliss of heaven, let us glorify, praise and magnify the great mercy towards us of the philanthropist God, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, and your goodness fatherly intercession, forever and ever.
Having illuminated your fatherland with the light of your life, you were filled with prayers and fastings with the gift of the Divine Spirit: and in this temporary life, having labored well, you opened the mercy of mercy to all who mourn, and you were an intercessor for the poor. Thus we pray to you, Father Paphnutius: pray to Christ God to save our souls.
Sovereign Lord our God! By your indescribable providence and much grace, providing for your saints, from early childhood a godly life chosen in all hierarchs, who was foreknown marvelously as martyrs, this, like a holy holiness, a burnt offering of words, you glorified the true Gospel of Christ, a follower of Christ, who passed the path of suffering and death at the hands of the Hagarians You have made me worthy to drink this cup. Moreover, you have received the holy soul, like the all-fruitfulness of sacrifice, in the highest monastery, where with boldness you stand and are installed in the face of the saints, may the Hieromartyr Macarius remember us, who worship him with the all-honorable power. To her, pray, most sacred father, that we may be delivered from enemies visible and invisible and receive grace and mercy from the Lord, to Him, together with the Father and the Holy Spirit, be glory, honor and worship forever and ever.
O our good shepherd and godly mentor, reverend Father Gerasima! Hear us praying to you and calling for your speedy intercession for help. See us sinners in our present circumstances: see us weak, caught everywhere, deprived of every good, and darkened in mind from cowardice. Strive, servant of God, do not leave us to remain in sinful captivity, so that we may not joyfully be our enemy and die in our evil deeds. Pray for us, unworthy of the Lord the Savior, to whom you stand with disembodied faces. Let our Creator be merciful to us in this world and in the future, so that he will not reward us according to our deeds and the impurity of our hearts: but according to His goodness, let him do it to us. We trust in your intercession, we boast of your intercession, we call upon your intercession for help, and to your unworthy tomb, we ask for healing.
Deliver us, saints of Christ, from the evil ones who come upon us, and tame the waves of passions and troubles that rise against us, so that for the sake of your holy prayers the attack will not overwhelm us, and we will not sink into the abyss of sins and the mud of our passions. Pray, Reverend Father Gregory, Christ our God, may He grant us a peaceful life, forgiveness of sins, and salvation and great mercy for our souls, now and forever.
About the sacred duo, the beautiful brothers, the virtuous passion-bearers Booris and Gleb, who from their youth served Christ with faith, purity and love, and who were adorned with yours like crimson, and now reign with Christ! Do not awaken us who are on earth, but, as a warm intercessor, have mercy on us through your strong intercession before Christ our God: preserve the young ones in holy faith and purity, unharmed from every excuse of unbelief and impurity, and save and tame all of us who pray from all sorrow, embitterment and sudden death. and all enmity and malice raised up by the action of the devil from neighbors and strangers. We pray to you, Christ-loving passion-bearers, assist our blessed sovereign, Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich in victory over his enemies, ask the great-gifted Master for all of us to forgive our sins, unanimity and health, deliverance from the invasion of foreigners, internecine warfare, plagues and famine. Provide your intercession to this city [or this whole, or this holy monastery] and all who honor your holy memory, forever and ever.
The truthful passion-bearer and the true listener of the Gospel of Christ, the chaste Romance with the kindly David, who did not resist the enemy of my brother, who kills your bodies, but cannot touch your souls. Let the evil power-lover weep: you, rejoicing with the faces of the angels, approaching the Holy Trinity, pray for the power of your relatives, to be pleasing to God, and to be saved as sons of Russia.
O Saint of Christ, servant of God Athanasius! By the command of God, we accepted the lot of the ministry of the hierarchs and placed the Cross of Christ on our shoulders, you were a good shepherd, an all-bright pillar of unshakability, a faithful servant of the Church, a leader of the hierarchs, a defender of Orthodoxy, an eradicator of wickedness: for this reason you were installed in the house of your Lord. We therefore ask you: pray for us, who flow with faith and love to your honest and multi-healing power: do not reject those who ask you for help in sorrows and illnesses. With your prayer, stand before the Almighty Master, intercede for the benefit of our souls and bodies, and open for us the doors of God’s mercy. Through your intercession, preserve the Holy Church, strong and unshakable from the slander of the enemy. Pray to the Lord and Vladyka for the health and prosperity of our most pious, autocratic, great sovereign, Emperor Nicholas Alexandrovich of all Russia, and for the entire reigning house, for the entire chamber and their army: may we live a quiet and silent life in all piety and purity.
Keep this monastery, in which you have settled, from all troubles and misfortunes and from all enemies, visible and invisible: and just as in the life of the Cretan people you delivered from the unrighteous Hagaryan murder, so now in heaven you unceasingly pray to the Lord to deliver us from every evil situation. Give a helping hand to all Orthodox Christians who flow to your honest and incorruptible power and call upon you in their prayers. Hasten to prayer and strive to help, in the image of your destinies, so that everyone who sees God’s unconditional mercy and receives the help they seek, glorify the One who gave you strength and glory, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, in one being glorified God, now and ever and unto the ages of ages.
O great and wondrous Saint Athanasius of Christ, the God-wise, luminary of the Ecumenical Church, Lubensky and all Russia, wonderworker and patron! From your youth, you have abandoned all worldly things and taught us love and spiritual prudence; you exhorted all men, saying: What is wealth to us, what is gold, glory and power to us? smoke spreading through the air: all of it will disappear, all of it will be carried away by the wind! May we have great wealth in the future. Teaching in this way, you yourself were generous, kind, meek, humble and gracious to everyone. Likewise, in your dormition, the All-Good Lord illuminated countless miracles and glorified your incorruptible relics. Having therefore boldness towards the Lord, intercede and through your intercession save our most pious sovereign, Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich, with his entire reigning house and the entire Russian kingdom that you protect and this holy monastery. Pray to Christ God, may all of us be forgiven our sins, voluntary and involuntary, may we get rid of all enemies, visible and invisible, from all troubles and sorrows and all ailments.
Pray that the Lord will be merciful to all of us, both here and in the future, and our fathers and brothers, mothers and sisters and children who have passed away from us, having been elevated to the ranks of saints, may rest in a bright place: may the coming and worshiping race of your relics, the imams of you, never-sleepless liturgist and intercessor for us to the Lord, and be grateful With love we magnify the glorified and obedient you, in the Trinity we glorify God, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
Having enlightened the reigning city with the wisdom of your teachings, you dispersed the darkness of heretical ignorance, most blessed: you brought your blessing to the land of Russia, Our Father to Saint Athanasius, where, having ended your course, you flew on the wings of purity to the Heavenly Kingdom. Pray to Christ God continually for our souls.
O sacred head, earthly angel and heavenly man, venerable and God-bearing Father Theodosius, eminent servant of the Most Holy Theotokos, in Her holy name I built a wonderful monastery on the Pechersk mountains and in it there are many miracles beaming! We pray to you with zeal for many things: pray for us to the Lord God and ask us from Him great and rich mercies: right faith, undoubted hope of salvation, unfeigned love in everything, unshakable piety, soul and health of the body, satisfaction of everyday needs, and let us not turn the good things given to us from His generous right hand into evil, but for the glory of His holy name and our salvation. Preserve, saint of God, through your intercession with your saints, in the health and long life of our blessed sovereign, Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich of all Russia, and the entire reigning house, subduing under his nose all enemies and adversaries.
Keep, O reverend wonderworker, the Orthodox Russian country, its reigning cities, your city and your laurel, are unharmed from all evil: and all the people who flock to worship your honorable tomb and stay in your holy monastery, autumn with your heavenly blessing and mercifully deliver me from all evils and troubles. Most of all, at the hour of our death, your many-powerful intercession will be revealed to us, so that through your prayers to the Lord we will be delivered from the power of the cruel ruler of the world and be able to inherit the Kingdom of Heaven. Show us, Father, your kindness, and do not leave us orphaned and helpless: let us continually glorify God, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, wondrous in our saints, and your holy intercession, forever and ever.
Having risen to virtue, having loved the monastic life from childhood, having valiantly achieved your desire, you moved into a cave, and having adorned your life with fasting and lightness, you remained in prayers as if you were bodiless, shining in the Russian land like a bright light, Father Theodosius: pray to Christ God to save our souls.
Reverend and God-bearing Father James! Receive us now, who earnestly pray to you and fall to your all-honorable and multi-healing tomb, where your holy and laborious body rests. In the spirit in heaven, standing before the Holy Trinity with the Angels and the holy faces of the Father, pray for us, your children, Father, that we may be delivered from all sorrows, illnesses, misfortunes and circumstances, and may we live piously in the present life, walking in the commandments and justifications of the Lord without blemish, and may we appear as followers of your holy and equal-angelic life. To her, Reverend Father, we pray to you, asking us and all who flow to you with faith, forgiveness of sins, bodily health, correction of life and eternal salvation, so that through your intercession of salvation we may be worthy to send glory to the glorified God in the Trinity, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto the ages of ages.
Reverend and God-wise Father James! We know that with the faces of the angels and all the saints you stand ever before the throne of the Lord Almighty and you have the great imash to boldly pray to Him for everyone who calls you with faith and tender tears for help. Do not remain silent, crying out for us as unworthy to the Lord God, so that He may turn away His anger, moving righteously against us for our iniquities, and may we get rid of all sorrows, misfortunes and misfortunes and evil circumstances, and may we live piously in this present world, walking in the commandments and justifications of the Lord blamelessly. O blessed and God-loving Father James!
Pray to the Lord, that in your monastery the zeal for the monastic life and the imitation of your holy and godly life will not become impoverished: save by your intercession to God this monastery and this country from fire, famine, sword, invasion of foreigners and from all evil: and to all who flow into your monastery with faith and love, Ask the Lord God of sins for forgiveness, bodily health, correction of sinful life and eternal salvation: that with you and all the saints we may be worthy to glorify God in the Trinity, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, forever and ever.
Desiring heavenly things, you hated earthly things, and you took up your cross; you followed Christ, and from Him you received the gifts of miracles, to heal the sick. But if you have boldness towards the Holy Trinity, ask our blessed Emperor Nicholas Alexandrovich for health and salvation, and victory for your enemies, and do not forget to visit your children who fall at your healing tomb, Reverend James, our Father.
Reverend and blessed Father Nile, our God-wise mentor and teacher! You, for the love of God, removed yourself from worldly troubles, you deigned to dwell in the impassable desert and in the wilds, and like a fruitful vine, having multiplied the children of the desert, in word, writing and life, you appeared in the image of all monastic virtues: and like an angel in the flesh, having lived on earth, now in the villages of heaven, where those celebrating the unceasing voice, rising up and standing before God from the faces of the saints, unceasingly bring praise and praise to Him. We pray to you, blessed one, instruct us, who live under your roof, to walk unfailingly in your footsteps and to love the Lord God with all our hearts, to lust after Him alone and to think about Him alone, and courageously and skillfully fight against the tempting thoughts and excuses of the enemy always. to conquer: to love all the crampedness of monastic life and the redness of this world, for the love of Christ, help us to hate: and help us to plant every virtue in which you yourself have labored.
Pray to Christ God, and to all Orthodox Christians living in the world, to enlighten the mind and eyes of the heart, which will lead to salvation, confirming me in faith and piety and doing His commandments, saving them from the flattery of this world, and granting remission of sins to all Christians, and will also add everything necessary for temporary life to everyone. May the Lord crown our most pious sovereign, Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich, with the weapon of His favor, strengthen his arm, grant him deep and inalienable peace, and may his entire reigning house be observed in love, unanimity and longevity, and may all principality and power and all his army be guided on the path of truth and fidelity: so are all Christians, in those who live in the desert and in the world, will live a quiet and silent life in all piety and honesty, and will glorify Christ with their lips and hearts, together with His Beginning Father and His Most Holy and Good and Life-giving Spirit, always, now and ever, and unto the ages of ages.
O venerable and blessed Father Nile! Receive us now, who earnestly pray to you and fall to your all-honorable tomb, where your holy and laborious body rests. In the Spirit in heaven we stand before the Holy Trinity, with the Angels and the holy faces of the Father, praying for us, your children, Father, that we may get rid of all sorrows, illnesses, misfortunes and circumstances and live piously in the present life, walking in the commandments and justifications of the Lord without blame. We ask for forgiveness of our sins, health for our bodies and eternal salvation for our souls, for by your intercession we are saved, and we may be honored to send glory in the Trinity to the glorified God, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto the ages of ages.
Having departed, running away from the Davidic world, and having counted everything in it as skill, and having settled in a silent place, you were filled with spiritual joy, Our Father Nile: and having deigned to serve the One God, you flourished like a phoenix, and like a fruitful vine you multiplied the children of the desert. We also cry out with gratitude: glory to Him who strengthened you in the ascetic struggle of living in the wilderness: glory to Him who chose you in Russia as a hermit and a guide: glory through your prayers and to Him who Saviors us.
O sacred head, earthly angel, heavenly man, stewards of silence, lover of silence, venerable and God-bearing Father Arseny! We fall down and pray: pray to the Lord God and our Savior Jesus Christ, that He may grant us, His sinful and unworthy servants, all His good gifts for spiritual salvation: right faith, good hope, unfeigned love, unshakable piety, Christ-consistent wisdom, and all the virtues in The Holy Gospel commanded Him: let us be imitators of your God-pleasing life and together with you we will be worthy to receive eternal salvation and inherit the Kingdom of Heaven. Hey, servant of God! do not despise us, but help us, through your heavenly intercession, to end our temporary life in a pious manner, to receive a good, peaceful and shameless end to accept and receive the bliss of heaven: let us glorify the love of mankind and generosity in the Trinity of the glorified and worshiped God, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, and yours holy intercession, forever and ever.
Prayer 1, from the service with akathist
O all-praised and all-honorable bishop, great miracle worker, saint of Christ, Father Nicholas, man of God and faithful servant, husband of desires, chosen vessel, strong pillar of the church, lampstand bright one, shining star and illuminating the whole universe! You are a righteous man, like a flourishing phoenix, planted in the courts of your Lord: alive in Mirech, you smelled the fragrance of the myrrh, and the myrrh flowed with the ever-flowing grace of God: by your procession, holy father, the sea Be sanctified, when your many miraculous powers marched into the lordly city, from East to West to praise the name of the Lord. O most graceful and wonderful miracle worker, quick helper, warm intercessor, kind shepherd, save the verbal flock from all troubles!
We glorify you and magnify you, as the hope of all Christians, the source of miracles, the protector of the faithful, the wise teacher, those who hunger for a feeder, those who weep with joy, those who are naked, those who are sick, those who are sick, those who swim on the sea, those who swim on the sea, those who are captives of the liberator, widows and orphans a nourisher and protector, a guardian of chastity, infants a gentle chastiser, old fortifications, fasting mentors, rest for the toilers, abundant wealth for the poor and wretched. Hear us praying to you and running under your roof, manifest your intercession for us to the Most High, and intercede with your God-pleasing prayers everything useful for the salvation of our souls and bodies: preserve this holy monastery [or this church], every city and the whole, and every country Christian, and people living, from all embitterment with your help.
We know, we know, how much can the prayer of the righteous, hastening for good: for you, the righteous, according to the Most Blessed Virgin Mary, representative to the All-Merciful God of the Imam, and to yours, most gracious father, warm intercession and We humbly flow to intercession. You have kept us, like a cheerful and good shepherd, from all enemies, destruction, cowardice, hail, famine, flood, fire, sword, invasion of foreigners, and in all our troubles and sorrows, give us your hand help, and open the doors of God’s mercy: for we are not worthy to see the heights of heaven, because of the multitude of our iniquities: we are bound by sinful bonds, and not by the will of our Creator, nor keeping His commandments.
Moreover, we bend the knee of our contrite and humble heart to our Creator, and we ask for your fatherly intercession to Him: help us, servant of God, so that we do not perish with our iniquities: deliver us from all evil and from all things that are opposed, guide our minds, and strengthen our hearts in the right faith, in it through your intercession and intercession, neither with wounds, nor with rebuke, nor with pestilence, nor with any wrath from our Creator We will be humbled, but we will live a peaceful life here, and may we be honored to see good things on the living earth, glorifying the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, the One in the Trinity, glorified and worshiped God, now and ever and unto the ages of ages.
Prayer 2, from the same book
O all-holy Nicholas, exceedingly saintly servant of the Lord, our warm intercessor and quick helper everywhere in troubles! Help me, a sinner and sad person, in this present life: beg the Lord God to grant me forgiveness of all my sins, great sins from my youth, in all my life, in deed, word, thought and all my feelings, and in the departure of my soul help the accursed one, beg the Lord God, the Creator of all creation, to deliver me from airy ordeals and eternal torment: may I always glorify the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, and your merciful intercession, now and ever and forever centuries.
Prayer 3, from the same book
O all-merciful Father Nicholas, shepherd and teacher of all who flow with faith to your intercession and call upon you with warm prayer! Strive quickly and deliver the flock of Christ from the wolves that are destroying it: and protect and protect every Christian country with your holy prayers from worldly rebellion, cowardice, invasion of foreigners and internecine warfare, from famine, flood, fire, sword and sudden death. And just as you had mercy on three men imprisoned, and delivered them from the king’s wrath and the beating of the sword: so have mercy on me, in mind, word and deed, in the darkness of sins, and deliver me from the wrath of God and eternal executions: for through your intercession and help, and through His mercy and grace, Christ God will give me a quiet and sinless life in this world, and will deliver me from this foolish state, and will grant me honor with all the saints forever and ever.
Prayer 4
O good shepherd, our teacher and mentor, Holy Hierarch Father Nicholas! Having lived like an angel on earth, after your repose you shone like a good angel, appearing as a constant helper to those who pray to you. We believe with all our souls and thoughts that through your honest intercessions and grace, abundantly given to you from the Lord our Savior, you will ever contribute to our salvation.
For even at this hour we are unworthy to accept the prayer: free us through your intercession from the vanity and vanity that surrounds us, the unbelief and evil of man: pray for peace to all who give, send peace to the churches, squandered into one, gather together, and preserve the power of our most pious, autocratic external emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich in peace and silence: pray to the merciful Lord, yes, the message of fate, will save us from our sins: pray goodness Him, O mercifully give us and the whole world the need, may we continually glorify, praise, sing and magnify the most honorable and magnificent name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
Prayer 5, which I pray before the miraculous icon of St. Nicholas in the village of Promzin, Simbirsk diocese
O all-praised great wonderworker, Saint of Christ, Father Nicholas! We pray to you, be the hope of all Christians, the protector of the faithful, the feeder of the hungry, the joy of those who cry, the doctor of the sick, the steward of those floating on the sea, the poor and orphan feeder and the quick helper and patron of all, may we live a peaceful life here and may we be worthy to see the glory of the elect God in heaven and with them unceasingly sing the praises of the One God in the Trinity, worshiped forever and ever.
Prayer 6, May in the Intercession Medvedev Monastery of the Edinoverie, Nizhny Novgorod diocese
O great intercessor, the bishop of God, Nicholas the Treble, who shone miracles under the sun, you are a quick listener to those who call, and you always precede them and save them, and deliver them, and save them from all kinds of troubles, from God has given you miracles and gifts of grace! Hear me, unworthy, calling you with faith and bringing you prayerful singing: for I offer you an intercessor for supplication to Christ. Oh, renowned for miracles, saint of heights!
As if you have the boldness, soon stand before the Lady, and reverently stretch out your hands in prayer to Him for me, a sinner, and grant me the bounty of goodness from Him, and accept me into your intercession, and deliver me from all troubles and evils, freeing me from the invasion of enemies visible and invisible, and destroying all slander and evil deeds, and those who fight me in reflecting throughout my life: by my sins, ask for forgiveness, and present me saved to Christ, and be worthy to receive the Kingdom of Heaven for the abundance of that love for mankind, to Him belongs all glory, honor and worship, and with His Beginning Father, and with the Most Holy and Good and Life-giving Spirit, now and ever and unto the ages of ages.
Prayer 7, May in the St. Nicholas Church of the United Faith in the village of Somovki, Nizhny Novgorod diocese
O our good shepherd and God-wise mentor, Saint Nicholas of Christ! Hear us sinners, praying to you and calling on your quick intercession for help: see us weak, caught from everywhere, deprived of every good and darkened in mind from cowardice: strive, saint of God, do not leave us in Let us be in sinful captivity, so that we may not joyfully be our enemy and may not die in our evil deeds. Pray for us unworthy of our Creator and Master, to whom you stand with your disembodied faces: Our God has been merciful to us in this life and in the future, so that He will not reward us according to our deeds and the impurity of our hearts, but according to His goodness He will reward us.
We trust in your intercession, we boast of your intercession, we call upon your intercession for help, and falling to your most holy image, we ask for help: deliver us, saint of Christ, from the evils that come upon us, and tame the waves of passions and troubles that rise against us, and for the sake of your holy prayers The attack will not overwhelm us and we will not wallow in the abyss of sin and in the mud of our passions. Pray to Saint Nicholas of Christ, Christ our God, that he may grant us a peaceful life and remission of sins, salvation and great mercy for our souls, now and ever and unto the ages of ages.
The day of the bright triumph has arrived, the city of the lordly rejoices, and with it the entire universe rejoices with songs and spiritual songs: today is a sacred triumph, in the presentation of the honest and multi-healing relics of the saint and wonderworker Nicholas, like the unsetting sun, rising with radiant rays, dispelling the darkness of temptations and troubles from those crying out truly: save us as our representative, great Nicholas.
Holy, glorious and all-praiseworthy Apostle of Christ Simon, who was deemed worthy to receive into your home in Cana Galimley our Lord Jesus Christ and His Most Pure Mother, our Lady Theotokos, and was a witness of the most glorious miracle of Christ! We pray to you with faith and love: beg Christ the Lord to transform our sin-loving souls into worthy vessels of grace: save and keep us with your prayers from the temptations of the devil and the falls of sin, and ask us from above for help in times of despondency, so that we may not stumble over the stone of temptation, but steadily walk the saving path of Christ’s commandments, until Let us reach those blessed heavenly abodes where you now dwell and rejoice. Hey, Apostle Spasov!
do not disgrace us, who firmly trust in you, but be our helper and protector in all our lives, and help us to end this temporary life piously, to receive a good and peaceful Christian death and to be honored with a good answer at the Last Judgment of Christ: so that having escaped the ordeals of the air and the power of the cruel world ruler, Let us inherit the Kingdom of Heaven and glorify the magnificent name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit forever and ever.
O sacred head, great servant of God, saint of Christ and miracle worker, reverend and God-bearing Father Simon! To you, our heavenly intercessor and warm representative, and with hope we earnestly pray to you: show your mercy to us humble and sinners, and pour out your warm prayers for us to the Lord, Him with the Angels and all the saints in heaven in eternal glory. We know, more holy than God, that mercy is characteristic of you, for while you were still living on this earth, you alone had the care to save the sinful souls of men from destruction: therefore, trembling, with good heart, standing before the terrible throne of the Lord of glory, intercede for our salvation, so that we do not perish through the cruelty of our iniquities. We believe, blessed father, as you, who during your earthly life, with the love of Christ, you loved your neighbor, even more so you love us all in the Lord, being in heaven: we also earnestly pray to you, as you are our Father, that you may always keep us under your protection from all evil.
You, Reverend Father, not only by right faith and good deeds are you well-pleasing to the Lord, but also by teaching others the right to believe and to do the will of God, according to the false promise of Christ, you are called great in the Kingdom of Heaven: in the same way instruct us also, given to you from the Lord grace, so to believe and so to walk the way of the commandments of the Lord, so as not to deviate in any way from the destructive path of unbelief, but even more so to confirm others in orthodoxy and to guide those who sweat on the path of true piety.
We also urgently pray to you, servant of Christ: intercede with the All-Merciful Lady and King of those who reign, may He preserve, under the cover of Your goodness, in health and permanent well-being, our most pious sovereign, Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich, the entire reigning house, and may He deliver them from all evil of the situation: the Holy Church from heresies and schisms, and may he preserve the Orthodox-Russian state from all rebellion, wars and discords: may he give the shepherds of the Church holy zeal for the salvation of his flock and the enlightenment of the infidels: may he grant wisdom and strength to those in authority, zeal and obedience to his subordinates, perspicacity and impartiality to judges, and fidelity to spouses and unanimity, the parent is reason and piety, the child is meekness and obedience, but for all people, every gift is useful to everyone, every timely help in good deeds and everything that is appropriate for the salvation and glory of God, preserve, Reverend Father, with your God-pleasing prayers, the reigning cities, and all the cities and towns of the powers Russian, and this city, from all evil and attacks of the enemy: all Orthodox people, flowing with love and hope to your protection and piously worshiping your power, fall with your heavenly blessing, and fulfill all their requests for good.
Hey, servant of God! do not despise our prayers, and do not disgrace us from our hope and aspiration. Behold, we are unworthy and humble and have fulfilled many sins, knowing that God will not listen to sinners, but if anyone is a reader of God and does His will, he listens to him, we resort to your intercession, so that with your help and intercession, having lived peacefully and piously on earth, we will be worthy of heavenly blessings of perception, glorifying and exalting the Father and Son and Holy Spirit, One in the Trinity, glorified and worshiped God, and your merciful intercession, forever and ever.
O all-praised and all-honorable bishop, saint of Christ, venerable and God-bearing Father Simon! Look down from the heights of heaven, where with the Angels and all the saints you stand before the Lord of glory, who are unworthy and prostrate, humble and sinners, flowing to your powerful intercession with faith, love and hope. Extend your venerable hand in prayer to the Lord and Master, and ask from His generous goodness and forgiveness of our sins, voluntary and involuntary, mental and physical health, a peaceful and serene life, goodness of the air, fruitfulness of the earth, everyday needs contentment, good haste in everything, and let us not turn the good things given to us into evil, but into the glory of His most holy name and our salvation.
We also earnestly pray to you: strive, O merciful one, to intercede with the Lord, the Lover of Mankind, that He may deliver us, according to His great mercy, from all troubles and sorrows, from all ailments and illnesses, from sudden death and from all bitterness, from all the machinations of enemies visible and invisible and from all evil: may He strengthen in us the right faith and piety unfeigned, and may he give us strength to overcome our passions and lusts: may he keep us from the ungodly and soul-destructive teachings of unbelief and superstition, may he implant in our hearts the spirit of humility and meekness, the spirit of brotherly love and kindness, the spirit of patience and chastity, the spirit of holy zeal for the glory of God and the salvation of our neighbors: may he look upon mercy to every soul that requires His grace-filled mercy, and may He grant, according to the ineffable generosity of His love for mankind, healing to the sick, consolation to the grieving, affirmation to the youthful, approval to the despondent, help to the weak, to the needy, protection to the orphans, shelter to the homeless, protection to the offended, patience to the slandered, generosity to the downtrodden, intercession for the persecuted, justification for the slandered, and for all, in all kinds of need and suffering, spiritual consolation and speedy deliverance.
To her, Holiness of God, be a warm prayer book and a diligent intercessor to the Lord for every soul of the faithful who seek your help, so that no one in their trust in you will be put to shame, but may all, through your intercession, find in all circumstances the grace and mercy of the All-Merciful God, to Him belongs all glory and honor and worship, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
The lives of the saints, the father of the Pechersks, are well known to the saint of Christ, the blessed Simon, praying diligently with them to Christ God, that he may rule our life in the world, and may he write us in the books of animals, saving our souls.
O glorification of the language of the Slovenian teachers and educators, holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Methodius and Cyril! To you, as children of our father, with the light of your teachings and writings of enlightenment and instruction in the faith of Christ, we now earnestly resort to you and pray in contrition of our hearts. If also your covenant, as disobedient children, was not kept, and about pleasing God, as you taught, carelessly, and from like-mindedness and love, like the Slavs, as brothers in faith and in the flesh, a good testament, apostate: both, as of old in your life, you do not turn away the ungrateful and unworthy from vanity, but reward evil with good, so even now you will not turn away your sinful and unworthy children from your prayers, but as those who have great boldness in the Lord, diligently pray to Him, that He may instruct and turn us to the path of salvation, May the divisions and discords that arise among brothers of the same faith, pacify the fallen ones, bring us all into unanimity and unite us all with unity of spirit and love in the one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church.
We know, we know, how righteous prayer can do much for the mercy of the Lord, even if it is offered for sinful people. Do not forsake us, sad and unworthy of your children, whose sin is for the sake of your flock, gathered by you, divided by enmity and seduced by temptations from those of other faiths, diminished, and the sheep of their words are scattered from mental wolves and are devoured by them: give us, through your prayers, zeal for Orthodoxy, and with it Let us warm ourselves, we will preserve the traditions of our fathers well, we will faithfully observe the charters and customs of the church, we will run away from all strange false teachings, and so in living a life pleasing to God on earth, we will be honored with a life of paradise in heaven, and there together with you we will glorify the Lord of all, in the Trinity of the One God forever and ever.
As the apostle of uniformity and the Slovenian countries, the teacher, Cyril and Methodius of God, pray to the Lord of all, to establish all Slovenian languages in Orthodoxy and unanimity, to pacify the world and save our souls.
Having loved Christ from a young age, Venerable Dionysius! With your prayers, let our hearts burn with the sacred love of God and be kindled with the warmth of faith. You, having laid the yoke of the Gospel on this and as if you have found it good and easy, you have patiently completed your path to the end, as the winner of the crown from God has been vouchsafed: help us, then, to courageously bear the heavy burden of this life, and for those who have kept faith to the end, we will be rewarded with a merciful reward from God. Having been a thorough and zealous executor of your calling, help us to carry out our calling relentlessly. Saint Dionysius generously endured many intrigues and sufferings from malicious enemies, and for us, caught in the enemy’s net and falling into various temptations, ask from above for help in rebuking them with your prayers. You, always mortifying your flesh by fasting, prayers and vigil, you have revived your soul and you have made this church of the Life-giving Spirit: teach us to imitate you and create a time for repentance and the forgiveness of our sins.
You were a faithful zealot for the glory of the Church and the Fatherland: intercede now and for the peace of the Church, prosperity for the Fatherland, blessing for our autocratic king, and for this church the omnipotent protection of the Lord, may we glorify the Lord who glorified you now and ever and unto the ages of ages.
O blessed virgin Glyceria, saint of Christ! Hear us sinners praying to you. Accept our prayer and bring it to the Merciful and Lover of Mankind God, to whom you now stand in the joy of the saints and from the face of an Angel. Beg His mercy, so that He will not condemn us for our iniquity, but may He deal with us according to His mercy: and ask us from Christ and our God for a peaceful and serene life, mental and physical health, the earth’s prosperity and all abundance and prosperity, and may we not turn the good things given to us from the Almighty God into evil, but into His glory and glorification of your intercession. Grant us to cross the path of temporary life without blemish, deliver us from airy ordeals and guide us on the path leading to the village of the righteous, where they celebrate the unceasing voice, beholding the face of God’s ineffable kindness. Hear our prayer, virgin Glyceria, and constantly pray for us to the Almighty Trinitarian God, to Him belongs all glory, honor and worship forever and ever.
Desiring the highest beauty, you rejected the lower pleasures of the body far from yourself, and having loved non-covetousness more than the vanity world, you pursued the angelic life, O Glyceria, blessed virgin: pray to Christ God that our souls may be saved.
O blessed and great servant of Christ, holy and righteous Isidore!
Praising your life as an angel and glorifying miracles flowing from your honorable relics, I humbly fall at your holy tomb and call with tenderness: Rejoice, most bright star, flowing from the west and shining in the east: Rejoice, you who rejected orthodoxy, observing the statutes of Orthodoxy to the end: Rejoice, you who were like a riot before the eyes of the sinful world, and have acquired the inestimable treasure of God's wisdom: Rejoice, you who have trampled upon the vain and corruptible, so that you may receive the crown of incorruption: Rejoice, with patience resembling the ancient Job: Rejoice, invincible warrior of Christ, valiantly defeating the devil and quenching all the arrows of the evil one: Rejoice, many and wondrous blessings flowed from your holy tomb: Rejoice, rich in humility and a vessel of purity has been chosen to appear: Rejoice, thou who with faith call thee a speedy helper and intercessor: Rejoice, for thou hast ended the course of goodness, and has kept the immaculate faith, and hast trampled down the fleshless enemies with thy patience, and the worldly vanity You have won.
For this reason, your holy, pure soul ascended to heaven rejoicing, the righteous faces met you rejoicing, and the heavenly village received lightly: your blessed and honest body remains incorruptible on earth, giving healing to the faithful. We also pray to you, God-wise Isidora, that you intercede for us with Christ God, so that this city may remain unshakable and serene, and grant our faithful emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich victory and victory for his adversaries, and grant health and prosperity to all Orthodox Christians, so that we may be worthy of all mercy and to the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, to Him belongs glory and power, together with the Originless Father and His Most Holy and Good and Life-Giving Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
O great servant of God, holy and righteous Isidore! Help me, a sinner, always overcome by the passion of sin: for you are an intercessor and intercessor, and a quick helper in my sorrows, and a zealous intercessor for my salvation. By your right faith and your labor you have been granted eternal glory and the Kingdom of Heaven, and now you stand at the throne of the Lord of all, King Christ, our God. In the same way, I pray to you, the passion-bearing righteous one: remember the accursed one, lying in the mire of sin: for I can no longer lift my eyes to the mountainous Zion, I am bound by the net of the devil and the cares of life. Deliver me with your prayers from all the evil slander of the enemy and from all sin, so that I may receive healing from the wounds of sin, from the most wicked serpent imposed on me. All my life I have been cursed, exhausted by the sweets of this world, and I have no helper, and I don’t know anyone to turn to, so that he can give me a helping hand. For this reason I run to you and pray: O holy and righteous Isidore!
Give me help on the day of the Last Judgment: when the Son of Man comes to judge everyone, then beg that Terrible and Unfeigned Judge, not to judge me for my iniquity, but to place me at His right hand according to His great mercy. We prayed to the Master Christ God, that even in this age He may be merciful to us, His sinful and unworthy servant, and may He strengthen our thought, to turn us from all evil, and to keep His saving commandments, and to pass the rest of our life in repentance and observance of God’s commandments, so that we may reach the heavenly abodes, We unceasingly glorify the One Trihypostatic God, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
Having been enlightened by Divine grace, God-wise wisdom, much chastity and patience in your temporary life, you ended the course of goodness. Thus, even after death, the lightness of your life is revealed: for you exude healing grace to those who flow with faith to your holy tomb, blessed Isidora. Pray to Christ God to save our souls.
O sacred head, reverend father, blessed Abbo Euphrosyne! Do not forget your poor to the end, but always remember us in your holy and auspicious prayers to God. Remember your flock, which you yourself have shepherded, and do not forget to visit your children. Pray for us, holy father, for your spiritual children, as you have boldness towards the Heavenly King: do not keep silent to the Lord for us, and do not despise us, who honor you with faith and love. Remember us unworthy at the throne of the Almighty, and do not cease praying for us to Christ God: for grace has been given to you to pray for us. We do not imagine that you are dead: even though you passed away from us in body, you remain alive even after death. Do not give up on us in spirit, keeping us from the arrows of the enemy and all the charms of the demonic and the wiles of the devil, our good shepherd. Even though your relics are always visible before our eyes, your holy soul with the angelic armies, with the disembodied faces, with the heavenly powers, stands at the throne of the Almighty, worthy of rejoicing.
Knowing that you are truly alive even after death, we bow down to you and pray to you: pray for us to the Almighty God, for the benefit of our souls, and ask us time for repentance, so that we may pass from earth to heaven without restraint, from bitter ordeals, demons of air princes and from eternal torment, and may we be delivered Let us be the heirs of the Heavenly Kingdom with all the righteous, who from time immemorial have pleased our Lord Jesus Christ: to Him belongs all glory, honor and worship, with His Beginning Father, and with His Most Holy and Good and Life-giving Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
By the will of the Divine mind, you moved into the desert, O Reverend Father Euphrosyne, and there, fixing your mind on the heavenly, you lived like the angels, in prayers, vigils and sacrifices, becoming your disciple: in the same way, Christ our God, seeing your labors and deeds, in the heavenly village nice you. Now, since you have great boldness towards the Lord, remember your flock, which you have gathered, wise of God, and pray to Christ God to save our souls.
O glorious and wondrous in miracles, beauty of the martyrs, passion-bearing Tsarevich Prince Dimitri! Soon appear before the Heavenly King, and with your martyr hands, stretch out prayers to him for us sinners, as if you have great boldness: preserve with your prayers this city, and all the cities and towns of the Orthodox, and our pious king and his husband and children, and the most holy patriarchs and eminent metropolitans, archbishops and bishops and the entire sacred rank of the church, and our brethren in the chamber, and all Orthodox Christians: accept us all into your intercession, delivering us from all troubles and evils, and freeing us from the invasion of visible and invisible enemies who fight us, and destroying and driving away all slander and evil deeds: ask for forgiveness of our sins, and in the future age of Heaven Bless us and the saved with the kingdom, by the grace and love of mankind of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, to Him honor and worship are due now and ever and unto the ages of ages.
O great and merciful passion-bearer, Tsarevich Prince Dimitri! Hear us sinners, who bring you prayers with zeal, and help us in this life, delivering us from sins, troubles and sorrows, and in the future be a helper and intercessor, freeing us from the torments of hell and making us worthy to worship and sing with you the All-Holy Trinity, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
O holy martyr, faithful to the Tsarevich and Prince Dimitri! Like a gentle lamb slain by a servant, you were crowned with a royal crown from the Lord, and you were the son of kings, an invincible martyr, and instead of earthly and corruptible things, you received incorruptible things in heaven. And now, standing in joy at the Holy Trinity, visit your luminous memory that works faithfully: keep your fatherland and your city unharmed, for this is the affirmation: confirm the Orthodox residence in the deep world: tame internecine warfare: exalt our blessed emperor, and always grant everything useful to your people with your prayers, and with faith and love we cry to you: Rejoice, Saint Demetrius, warm intercessor of faithful people and refuge and adornment of the Russian land.
You stained the royal diadem with your blood, God-wise martyr, you took the cross in your hand by the scepter, you appeared victorious, and you offered yourself an immaculate sacrifice to the Lady: for you have slain a kindly lamb from a slave, and now you rejoice before the Holy Trinity. Pray for the power of your relatives to be godly, and for your Russian sons to be saved.
O Reverend Father and Saint of God Pachomius! Standing before God with the Angels and saints, in your holy prayers do not forget us sinners, but, as a good shepherd and our father, pray for our most pious sovereign, Emperor Nicholas Alexandrovich of all Russia and for all Orthodox Christians, may the Lord God from above grant victory and victory to our king against all his hostile enemies and adversaries, and yes He will establish his kingdom in peace and quiet, and fulfill it with all prosperity. Do not forget us, O Holiness of God, may the Lord protect us with your prayers in our temporal life and may we be honored in Christ Jesus our Lord, to Him be glory, honor and worship, with the Father and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
O venerable and God-bearing Father Ephraim, great wonderworker and our faithful intercessor! Hear our voices of prayer, earnestly offered to you, and look upon us mercifully. Grant us quick deliverance from troubles, take away the sorrow and lamentation of sin from our hearts, heal our mental and physical infirmities, and ask us from the All-Merciful God for forgiveness of sins, and all the good things through your prayers from above have been sent down to us: for you have been given the grace to pray for us, and no one else, flow with faith to the race your relics come from you without help. By you the souls of evil spirits are driven away from people, by you they receive health and relaxation, and various ailments and obsessions are healed: you are an elegant and wonderful doctor to everyone and you fulfill everyone’s good desires.
Do it, O saint of Christ, so that we who live in your monastery, and all of us who have now flown to you with faith and love and the more miraculous race of your future, will live a peaceful and prosperous temporary life, and in the future we will inherit the Kingdom of Heaven, and together with you we will glorify Consubstantial Trinity, Father and Son and Holy Spirit, forever and ever.
From your youth you have enslaved yourself to God, O blessed one: and for this love, you left your fatherland and clan, and settled in the desert: having shown a cruel life in it, you received miracles from God, O Reverend Ephraim. Pray to Christ God to save our souls.
O sacred head, earthly angel, heavenly man, great miracle worker, Rev. Father Cornelius! Today we earnestly resort to you with faith and love, we tenderly ask you, our heavenly representative: to show us the humble and sinners your fatherly love and your many-powerful intercession: behold, sin for our sakes, we do not dare with the freedom of the children of God to ask the Lord and our Master for the things we need, but for you a prayer book to Him We offer favorable things, with faith and without a doubt, as if we could ask for all good things from His goodness. So ask us, servants of God, from the All-Generous and Lover of God, right faith, unshakable piety, perfect repentance, correction of life, and so on. Let us not anger the Lord by violating His holy commandments, but let us be honored to receive forgiveness of our sins from Him.
Pray, miracle-working saint, the King of kings and the Lord of lords to grant peace and prosperity to our all-Russian kingdom, and health, salvation and victory over our enemies to our most pious, autocratic, great sovereign, Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich, for let all who oppose him know, for God and His saints are with us. Save, O Holy One of God, with your prayers the Church of Christ from heresies and schisms, superstition and unbelief of man, may holy Orthodoxy and piety bloom in it. Keep your created abode, and all who live and labor in it according to your charter, from all evil, so that they may remain safe and sound from the temptations of the enemy of human salvation. Look mercifully at the coming race of your relics and praying people, and fulfill all their requests for good: healing to the sick, consolation to the grieving, help to the needy quickly.
For all of us, spiritual and physical health, fruitfulness of the earth, a quiet and God-pleasing life, a good Christian death and a good answer at the Last Judgment of Christ from the All-Merciful God, as you truly have the great boldness to do so. Hey, father! We know that your prayer can do much before the face of the Almighty Lord: for this reason we firmly trust in you, and we strongly hope in your holy prayers, as if you, through your intercession, will lead us into the calm haven of salvation and show us heirs of the all-bright Kingdom of Christ. Do not disgrace, Reverend Our Father, our hope, but grant us, together with you, the bliss of heaven, let us glorify, praise and magnify the great mercy towards us of the Lover of God, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, and your good fatherly intercession, forever and ever.
O sacred head, reverend father, blessed Cornelius! We glorify you and magnify you, we sinners, as our hope, the source of miracles and a great intercessor for people, and we humbly pray to you: do not remain silent when we cry to the Lord for us, and do not despise us, who honor your holy memory with faith and love. Remember at the throne of the Almighty all the benefactors of your abode, and do not cease to pray to Christ God to grant them serenity and peace, an abundance of earthly fruits and good air: we know that the prayer of the righteous can greatly promote good. O extraordinary servant of God, our invincible intercessor! Just as you previously nourished many people in your monastery during small feasts, today be a nourisher for the hungry, a helper for the poor, a comforter for the sorrowful, a doctor for the weak, a strengthener for the old, a mentor for the young: and so, more holy than God, open the door of God’s mercy to all people.
Even if we are not worthy to see the heights of heaven from the multitude of our untruths, but by your mercy and prayer save us from all evil and evil circumstances: help us, so that we do not perish with our iniquities, and ask us time for repentance, in order to avoid the wrath of God and eternal torment: grant us everything that leads to salvation petition, for through your intercession and intercession of the Most Holy Lady Theotokos, and through His mercy and goodness, Christ our God will grant all of us heirs of the Heavenly Kingdom to be and glorify Him, with the Beginningless Father and the Most Holy Spirit, forever and ever.
From your youth, with a burning desire for Divine love, you kindled, you left worldly rumors, O Reverend, you became a zealot of Anthony the Great: following Christ by silence and cruel abiding, by vigil and prayer and fasting, the image was your disciple. In the same way, we pray to the Lord, blessed Cornelius, that our souls may be saved.
O Reverend Father Cornelius, great servant of God and quick representative in troubles! Do not forget, as you promised, to visit us, your children: even though you have departed from us in body, you remain with us in spirit. We pray to you, O Reverend: be an intercessor for us sinners to the Lord Jesus Christ and His Most Pure Mother, our Lady Theotokos, that we may get rid of famine, destruction, cowardice, flood, fire and sword, from the invasion of foreigners and internecine warfare, from sudden death and from all enemies visible and invisible. O Reverend Father Cornelius! Hear us sinners praying to you, and most of all, at this hour, falling with tears to your race: do not cast us away from your intercession.
Even though we are sinners, we flow with faith to your honorable tomb, and lovingly kiss your honorable icon, we tenderly call: accept from us unworthy this prayer, like a fragrant censer, like an auspicious sacrifice, and our souls mortified by evil deeds and thoughts revive, reverend, and enlighten the eyes of our hearts, just as you healed the sick and made you see: and just as you appeared to a sufferer in a dream, and from weakening you became healthy, you brought him into a monastic image, and also us contained By the bonds of the enemy, in which our evil will is bound, pluck us from the depths of our sins, and guide us to the path of repentance, and free us from the snare of the devil through your merciful intercession forever and ever.
From your youth, wisely, you labored diligently, you were instructed by God, you left your fatherland, the city of Pskov, and settled in the desert, in the father of the great Lake Onega, you gathered monks wisely, and with the notification of the Holy Spirit you built a monastery where the church of the Most Holy To the Mother of God, in praise of Her Nativity, you created: with the streams of your tears, having drowned the bodiless enemies, you have copulated with the faces of angels in your life of chastity, Reverend Father Cornelius, with whom you pray to Christ God for the salvation of our souls.
O most honorable and sacred head and filled with the grace of the Holy Spirit, the abode of the Savior with the Father, great bishop, our warm intercessor, Saint Alexis!
Standing at the throne of all the King and enjoying the light of the Consubstantial Trinity and the cherubic Angels shouting the Trisagion hymn, having great and unexplored boldness towards the All-Merciful Master, praying for your flock to save people, your only begotten language: help in battle our most pious, autocratic, great sovereign, Emperor Nicholas Alexandrovich of all Russia, and subdue all the hostile enemies under his nose, reign peacefully and serenely for him: establish the welfare of the holy churches: bishops with splendor adorning the holiness: the monastics have strengthened the deeds of the good trend: the reigning city [this and this holy monastery] and all the cities and countries have been well preserved, and the holy immaculate faith has been kept by the prayer: the whole world has died through your intercession, from famine and destruction deliver us, and save us from the attacks of foreigners: old comforts, young instructions, foolish wise ones, have mercy on widows, intercede for orphans, young children, return captives, heal the weak, and everywhere warmly calling you and flowing with faith to the race of your honest and multi-healing relics, who diligently fall down and pray to you, from all misfortunes and troubles through your intercession for freedom, let us call to you: Rejoice, God’s chosen shepherd, the all-bright star of the mental firmament, the unconquerable secret of Zion pillar, peace-inspired flower of paradise, all-golden mouth of the word, Moscow praise, adornment of all Russia!
Pray for us to the All-Bountiful and Humane-loving Christ our God, so that on the day of His terrible coming He will deliver us from this desperation, and He will create the joys of the saints as partakers with all the saints forever and ever.
Like a rich treasure, hidden in the earth for many years, your honest, miracle-working powers have been found, all-blessed Father Saint Alexis, from them we are enriched with healing, and we glorify Christ, saying: Glory to him who glorifies his saints.
The angelic successors of the bishops co-throne, the shepherd and teacher of all Russia, the all-blessed Father Alexis, the Lord [Lord] of all, pray to grant peace to your flock, and salvation to souls, and great mercy.
O brave warrior and chosen commander of the Heavenly King Christ, conquering the charm of idolatry by the power of the Holy Spirit and enlightening the city of Murom with holy Baptism, holy noble prince Constantine! Diligently approaching the more honest race of your multi-healing relics, we pray to you with tears, asking you to accept us through your intercession to God for the remission of sins. Stand, holy one, as having boldness towards the Holy Trinity, and move with you to prayer your two branches, blessed Prince Michael, obedient to you to death and like a gentle lamb who was slain for Christ, and the blessed Prince Theodore, zealot of piety. With your prayers, ask our most pious, autocratic, great sovereign, Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich of all Russia, and the entire reigning house for peace, health, longevity and victory and conquest against the enemy.
Still with tears, we humbly pray: keep this city, blessed, unharmed, which you loved and freed from the work of demons: keep this monastery, and those who live and work in it, unharmed from all the snares and arrows of demons. Grant, saints, to the reigning city, to this city, to this great city and country, a peaceful and serene life and an abundance of earthly fruits. On the sea, sailing and traveling, and to those who resort with faith to the race of your relics, you will be safe rulers: from the evil ones, grant liberation, a peaceful and joyful return to their homes through your prayers, so that all who resort with faith to the healing race of your relics will receive healing for their souls and bodies, glorify you, our intercessors, glorifying the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
Constantine today cheerfully rejoices at the throne of the Holy Trinity, seeing his fatherland, shining with spiritual masque: he followed Michael and Theodore, his sons, and all three together pray for our souls.
O sacred head, glorious miracle worker, chief shepherd of the holy Rostov Church, Saint Father Leonty! We fall down and pray to you, humble and sinners, and like a father who loves mankind, we ask: instill your love in our hearts, even as you were filled with God and your neighbors in your life, as you laid down your soul for your flock, having suffered as a martyr from idolaters. Teach us, Father, to imitate you faithfully, to love God and our neighbor sincerely and to fulfill the Lord’s commandments infallibly: and we, not only in name, but also in all our life, will be your children. Pray, servant of God, to Christ God for the Holy Orthodox Church and the Russian Empire, that they may remain in peace and prosperity and prosper in piety as unshakable Christians. With your prayers, preserve our Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich of all Russia in health and long life, subduing all enemies and adversaries under his nose. Keep the reigning cities, your city and all the cities and villages of the Russian country unharmed from all evil.
Look mercifully on every Christian soul who seeks mercy and help from you: be a healer to all of us in sickness, a comforter in sorrow, a deliverer in sorrow, a helper in troubles, a protector in the hour of death, so that through your prayers we too may sinners receive eternal salvation and the Kingdom of Christ. inherit. To her, the saint of Christ, we do not disgrace our hope, which according to God and the Most Holy Theotokos we firmly place in you, but show us your powerful intercession, so that we praise, glorify and magnify the great love of mankind in His saints, God, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, forever and ever.
You are an apostle and a faithful prayer book to God, having ascended to heaven through virtue, and you have placed love on the one who loves you, and you have converted unfaithful people to the faith. Therefore, now rejoicing with the angels, you stand before the throne of glory of all the King, Christ God: pray, Saint Leontius, that he may save our souls.
O venerable and ever-memorable, all-praised mother Euphrosyne, angel in the flesh, God’s chosen vessel of the Holy Spirit, praise and adornment to the Church of Christ, glory and affirmation to the monastics, help, protection and protector to your monastery and to our entire country! You are like a tree planted by the rising waters, adorned with the fruits of your virtues and the grace-filled gifts of the Holy Spirit, a teacher in deed and word, chosen, blameless and good. Hear us who pray to you and call on your name: have confidence in the Lord. Ask us for success in a more virtuous life: protect our hearts with faith, hope and love and the fear of God. Give us help in our labors and sorrows: and just as in your life you cared for your monastery and those who live monastically, so now you strive for us, to prosper us in everything: and protect your monastery with peace and protect it from enemies visible and invisible, so that it prospers and prospers in virtues.
Take us away from all need and hardship, from severe illnesses and from unexpected death, and bring us to true repentance when leaving this life: ask the Lord God for a peaceful, painless, non-shameful death, to participate in the Holy Mysteries: and bring us through the ordeal aerial, may the tormentor of the threat not kidnap us because of our sin, but with your intercession and help we will be able to safely overcome the torment of the air, and receive mercy, and appear uncondemned to the terrible throne, and at the Last Judgment be honored at the right hand of the righteous judge, and inherit part of the righteous. To her, madam, all-honorable mother, Venerable Euphrosyne! help us with your prayers: protect us and intercede from all the snares of the enemy, so that we may be worthy to pass this time of life without stumbling and receive salvation through your prayers from Christ the Lord, Whom we will be worthy to sing and praise, with the Father Without Beginning and with the Holy Spirit, forever and ever.
O our reverend and God-bearing mother Euphrosyne! Standing before the throne of the Most Holy Trinity, pray unceasingly for our most pious, autocratic, great sovereign, Emperor Nicholas Alexandrovich of All Russia: for his wife, the most pious empress Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, for his mother, the most pious empress Empress Maria Feodorovna, for his heir, the blessed sovereign Tsarevich and Grand Duke Alexy Nikolaevich, and about the entire reigning house: about the most holy ruling synod and our bishop of the name: about all the sacred and monastic rank, the abbess and sisters of your monastery: about the military commanders and mayors and all Orthodox Christians: let us walk Every one is worthy of our title, in it be called bykhom, and may our land be a good land, and all who live on it will be a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy language, a people of renewal, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
Imitating the twelve-year-old Christ who taught in the sanctuary, you followed God’s word, Euphrosyne: you left the temporal glory and the earthly betrothed, and despised all the worldly things, you disgraced the most beautiful Christ of all for yourself: having taken up the cross, in the way of the angels walking through life, and instructing many to him, in the fragrance of the world, you ascended into the heavenly palace: where you prayed, whom you loved, for those who reverently honor your memory.
O sacred head, reverend father, most blessed Abvo Paisius! Do not forget your poor to the end, but always remember us in your holy and auspicious prayers to God. Remember your flock, which you yourself have shepherded, and do not forget to visit your children. Pray for us, holy father, for your spiritual children, as you have boldness towards the Heavenly King: do not keep silent to the Lord for us, and do not despise us, who honor you with faith and love. Remember us unworthy at the throne of the Almighty, and do not cease praying for us to Christ God: for grace has been given to you to pray for us. We do not imagine that you are dead: even though you passed away from us in body, you remain alive even after death. Do not give up on us in spirit, keeping us from the arrows of the enemy and all the charms of the demonic and the wiles of the devil, our good shepherd. Even though your relics are always visible before our eyes, your holy soul with the angelic armies, with the disembodied faces, with the heavenly powers, stands at the throne of the Almighty, worthy of rejoicing.
Knowing that you are truly alive even after death, we bow down to you and we pray to you: pray for us to the Almighty God, for the benefit of our souls, and ask us time for repentance, so that we may pass from earth to heaven without restraint, from bitter ordeals, demons of air princes and from eternal torment, and from Heavenly Let us be the heirs of the kingdom with all the righteous, who from time immemorial have pleased our Lord Jesus Christ: to whom is due all glory, honor and worship, with His Beginning Father, and with His Most Holy and Good and Life-Giving Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
O sacred head, reverend father, blessed Nikita Martyr! Do not forget your poor to the end, but always remember us in your holy and auspicious prayers to God. Remember your flock, which you yourself have shepherded, and do not forget to visit your children. Pray for us, holy father, for your spiritual children, as you have boldness towards the Heavenly King: do not keep silent to the Lord for us, and do not despise us, who honor you with faith and love. Remember us unworthy at the throne of the Almighty, and do not cease praying for us to Christ God: for grace has been given to you to pray for us. We do not imagine that you are dead: even though you passed away from us in body, you remain alive even after death. Do not give up on us in spirit, keeping us from the arrows of the enemy and all the charms of the demonic and the wiles of the devil, our good shepherd. Even though your relics are always visible before our eyes, your holy soul with the angelic armies, with the disembodied faces, with the heavenly powers, stands at the throne of the Almighty, worthy of rejoicing.
Knowing that you are truly alive even after death, we bow down to you and we pray to you: pray for us to the Almighty God, for the benefit of our souls, and ask us time for repentance, so that we may pass from earth to heaven without restraint, from bitter ordeals, demons of air princes and from eternal torment, and from Heavenly Let us be the heirs of the kingdom with all the righteous, who from time immemorial have pleased our Lord Jesus Christ: to whom is due all glory, honor and worship, with His Beginning Father, and with His Most Holy and Good and Life-Giving Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
In the Orthodox sense, having hated youthful desires and adopted valiant morals, you have defeated the enemy and in prudence you have pleased God: and from above we receive from Him the gift of miracles, to drive away demons, to heal ailments, Most glorious Nikita, pray to Christ God that he may save our souls.
You were the namesake of the martyr of Christ, O Reverend, you endured many deeds and labors for Christ’s sake, and for the sake of the chain you wore, O Blessed One: Now pray for us, Reverend Nikita, to heal our spiritual and physical passions, with faith and love those who ever honor your memory.
Baptist of Christ, preacher of repentance! Do not despise me who repents, but copulating with the heavenly howls, pray to the Lady for me, unworthy, sad, weak and sad, fallen into many troubles, set in motion by the stormy thoughts of my mind. For I am a den of evil deeds, with no end to sinful customs: for my mind is nailed down by earthly things. What will I do? We don't know. And to whom shall I resort, that my soul may be saved? Only to you, Saint John, give the same name of grace, for you are before the Lord through the Theotokos, greater than all born to be: for you have been deemed worthy to touch the top of Christ the King, who takes away the sins of the world, the Lamb of God: pray to Him for my sinful soul, Yes, from now on, at the first ten hour, I will bear a good burden and receive reward with the last. To her, the Baptist of Christ, an honest Forerunner, an extreme prophet, the first martyr in grace, a teacher of fasters and hermits, a teacher of purity and a close friend of Christ!
I pray to you, I come running to you: do not reject me from your intercession, but raise me up, having fallen into many sins: renew my soul with repentance, as with the second baptism, you are the leader of both, wash away original sin with baptism, and cleanse each one from bad deeds with repentance. Cleanse me, the one defiled by sin, and force me to enter, or enter into anything bad, into the Kingdom of Heaven.
Holy Forerunner and Baptist of Christ John! This preacher of repentance, do not despise us who repent, but pray to the Lord Christ for us unworthy slaves, sad, weak, fallen into many sins. We fear death, but we are not sick of our sins and do not care about the Kingdom of Heaven: but do not despise us, the Baptist of Christ, honorable Forerunner, born of all, a teacher of fasters and hermits, a teacher of purity and a neighbor of Christ. We pray to you, we resort to you: do not reject us who ask for your intercession, renew our souls with repentance, which is the second baptism: by your intercession before the Lord, ask for the cleansing of our sins. Unworthy lips cry out to you, and a humble soul prays, a contrite heart sighs from the depths: stretch out your most pure right hand and protect us from enemies visible and invisible. Hey, Lord Jesus Christ! Through the prayers of St. John Thy Baptist, and most especially of Thy Most Pure Mother, our Lady Theotokos, save us Thy sinful servants who repent of our sins.
For You are the God of the repentant, and we place our hope in You as the Savior, glorifying Your most holy name, with Your Originless Father, and with Your Most Holy and Good and Life-giving Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
The Baptist of Christ, the honest Forerunner, the ultimate prophet, the first martyr in grace, the mentor of fasters and hermits, the teacher of purity and the neighbor of Christ! I pray to you, I come running to you: do not reject me from your intercession, but raise me up, having fallen through many sins: renew my soul with repentance, like a second baptism: cleanse me, the sin of my desecration, and compel me to enter, or even anything bad that enters, into the Kingdom of Heaven.
Like the Divine treasure hidden in the earth, Christ has opened your head to us, prophet and forerunner: all who have come together in this discovery, let us sing the songs of the Savior, saving us from corruption with your prayers.
O all-honorable and blessed Father Feraponte! You have been given the grace to pray for us, and we know that, standing before the throne of the Lord, you always manifest your love for us with your unceasing intercessions for us. But still, we, hourly multiplying our sins, have become worthy of your disgust, for this sake, in repentance, with tears falling, we pray to you: do not exchange your mercy for us for our wickedness and filthiness for anger, but show us your mercy to the end, and cleanse us who sin with your prayers, to lead us to repentance, strengthen us in good deeds, and preserve us in Orthodoxy and in every holy thing. Grant us to abide in peace, silence and brotherly love, ask us for times of serenity and an abundance of earthly fruits, deliver us from fire and from drowning and from severe diseases and deadly ulcers. For those who labor, there is good fruit, for those who travel there is a path without stumbling, in the sea there is a quiet refuge for those who swim, for those who are weak and free in captivity, for the orphans there is help and intercession.
Grant to our emperor prosperity in all things, to our army loyalty, courage and victory, and to all of us everything that is useful in temporal and eternal life, and through your protection and love we always sing thanksgiving to the Lord Jesus Christ who has given you, to Him belongs all glory and honor, with His Beginningless Father and with His Most Holy and Life-Giving Spirit, forever and ever.
O holy blessed John! We humbly pray to you: accept our small prayer and beg the All-Merciful Lord our God to add His mercy to us sinners and grant us everything useful for life and salvation. O servant of Christ! Even though we are greatly unworthy of us, with a contrite spirit and a humble heart, we fall back and pray to you: through your intercession to the Lord, make good luck in everything to our most pious sovereign Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich, granting him victory and conquest against all his enemies: the reigning cities, your city Keep Ustyug and all the cities and villages of Russia from all evil and from all misfortune, destruction, famine, cowardice, flood, fire, sword, invasion of foreigners and internecine warfare, from all illness and from all circumstances, so that we sing and magnify the all-holy and magnificent name of God, and your merciful intercession for us, in forever and ever.
With bodily nakedness and patience, he exposed all the enemies of deceit, denouncing his incomparable act: the intense suffering of the sun and the need of great cold, frost and fire, you did not feel, covered by God’s help, John the Wise. For those who honor your memory with faith and diligently flow to your relics, pray to get rid of troubles and avoid fall.
Praise to the zealot of Orthodoxy and denouncer of heresy, to the champion of the Church and monks, O Reverend Father Isaac! We flow to you in the tenderness of our hearts and ask for your help for our salvation. You were jealous of the prophet of God Elijah and you fearlessly denounced the evil king: you exhorted him to the knowledge of the Orthodox faith and you endured reproach and suffering from him, rejoicing. Enlighten us, therefore, with your prayers, to unfailingly observe the gospel gospel and resist all heresies, and resist temptations from our many-passionate flesh, from this world and from the devil. Teach us to gather in the churches of God without laziness and bring repentance to the Lord all day long. We believe and hope, servant of God, that it was not in vain that the most magnificent church in the country of Russia in our reigning city was created in your name by the will of God, but that all Orthodoxy, from all our country who flow to this church, looking at your feat, imitate your faith.
Ask therefore, Reverend Father Isaac, for our blessed king health and salvation, for victory over adversaries, for the shepherd of the Church for the salvation of the faithful, zeal for all Orthodox Christians in faith and success in love, for the departed blessed repose, and through all of your prayers we will accept, together with you we will glorify God, the wondrous in His saints, in the Trinity, glorified, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
Reverend Our Father Anthony! From your youth you loved to walk the path of the cross, in prayers and labors, in fasting and vigils and in silence every day and hour, vigilantly striving and the faithful image handed to you from the Lord by the brethren: in the same way, I live as a sacrifice of everything to myself, holy and pleasing to Him, you were honored with such miracles of gifts from Him, as To command the elements, to drive away illnesses of body and soul, to look upon and provide for the good of the Church and our Fatherland. When, after your death, this well-built place of the godless enemies was quickly abandoned to destruction and desolation, the church and the monastery were burned with fire, and the brethren were cut down with a sword, you, having great boldness towards the King of Heaven, again through your intercession, this church will be rebuilt, and also with the relics You have created for your saints, like a treasure of great value, to rest in it.
Likewise, we, who with faith flock to this church and your sacred shrine with a kind kiss, pray to you, our well-known intercessor: do not cease praying to the Lord our God for those who commemorate your memory, may He extinguish the flame of our passions with the dew of His grace, may He strengthen and gird us with His power from above upon the visible and our invisible enemies, delivering us from all mental and physical ailments and preserving us from all evils: moreover, may He strengthen and exalt the blessed kingdom of His anointed, most pious, autocratic Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich, establishing faith and piety, establishing this with truth and righteousness, with an abundance of blessings and glory crowning, protecting with peace and prosperity: so that we all, peacefully and serenely abiding in all piety and purity, together glorify the most holy name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, and your merciful intercession for us, now and ever and unto the ages of ages.
O sacred head, wonderful ascetic, glorious miracle worker, venerable and God-bearing Father Dionysius! We resort to you with faith and pray with love from the soul: pray for us sinners to the Lord God, our Creator and Provider, and ask us from Him great and rich mercies: health, prosperity, fruitfulness of the earth, prosperity of the air, peaceful and serene life in piety, increase of the Orthodox faith, the kingdom of Russia affirmation, to our blessed Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich, victory and victory over his enemies, the improvement of your holy monastery, and the mercy of God and salvation to all who strive in it and come to worship.
And again, falling to you, as your child, our father, we ask: with your holy prayers, bring us to the quiet refuge of eternal life, and grant us this temporary life to end piously and godly, to receive a peaceful Christian death and inherit the Kingdom of Heaven, with love of mankind, goodness and By the grace of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, we glorify God in the Trinity, through your holy intercession, forever and ever.
O great servant of Christ, our holy and powerful representative and heavenly patron of the entire northern Vologda country, the reverend and blessed Father Dionysius! You stand in heaven with the Angels before the throne of the Most Holy Trinity, and here on earth, in this all-honorable church, you rest in your holy relics, and with the grace given from above, you perform many miracles, giving healing to the sick: you have gained holy and venerable disciples in this place, Amphilochia, Makaria, Tarasia, Theodosia, with them now enjoy the incorruptible joys in the heavenly abodes and strive together with you for many powerful prayers for us sinners. Look mercifully at the more honest people ahead of you, tenderly praying and asking for your help and intercession. Extend your reverend hand to the Lord God in prayer, and as you have great boldness towards him, ask us from him for forgiveness of our sins, voluntary and involuntary.
In illness, grant healing to the afflicted, to the grieving, consolation is sent down, to those in need, grant your quick help, but to all who honor you, pardon and salvation, and in all things, intercede for good haste: so that by your holy intercession, having received grace and mercy from the Lord, we will inherit the Kingdom of Heaven, and together with by you and your disciples we will glorify the great love for mankind of the Triune God, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, forever and ever.
O our good shepherd and mentor, ever-remembered founder and founder of this holy monastery, Rev. Father Dionysius! Remembering your love for your disciples and your concern for their spiritual salvation, we fall down and pray: help us sinners, through your holy prayers, to be cleansed of our sins by repentance and worthy of appearing pardon and forgiveness from our Lord and Creator. By your intercession, keep your holy monastery and the entire Orthodox Russian country unharmed from all evil, and all the people who live in your monastery and come to you there to worship, in the autumn with your heavenly blessing, and in sorrows, troubles and illnesses, grant them consolation, deliverance and healing: let us gratefully glorify, praise and We magnify the Lord, wondrous in His saints, through you beneficent to us, and wondrously glorified in you, the Father and the Son of the Holy Spirit, forever and ever.
We are inflamed with divine love from youth, O Reverend Dionysius, having hated everything red in the world, you loved the One Christ: and for this reason you moved into the inner desert, living with the beasts, all of Christ. The all-seeing eye, having seen your labors, enriched you with the gift of miracles and upon your repose. We also cry out to you: pray unceasingly for all of us, who always honor your honorable memory in songs.
O holy and all-praised disciples of Christ, God-loving Martha and Mary! Pray to the Sweetest Jesus, whom you have loved and loved, Whom you have confessed to be Christ the Son of God, that He may also grant us sinners remission of sins and an unfeigned and firm standing in the right faith. Instill in our hearts the spirit of the fear of God, humble trust in God, patience and mercy towards our neighbors. With your prayers, deliver us from the temptations of everyday life, troubles and misfortunes, so that after living a quiet and peaceful life here, with immaculate thoughts and a pure heart, with the boldness of faith and hope, we will stand at that Last Judgment, and having given a good answer to it, we will be rewarded with unspeakable joy in the Kingdom of Heaven forever and ever.
O blessed and holy women, who followed Christ God with faith and love and settled in the abode of the Heavenly Father! Now, as a sinner, I come running to you and humbly pray: teach me and help me to walk with God in your ways without stumbling and inherit eternal life with you. O righteous Martha, who pleased Christ with your firm confession of faith, strengthen my weak faith. To serve the Lord and the brethren unfeignedly and diligently, help me to carry out my service uncomplainingly and with all my soul. Once upon a time, in your sorrow, you called out to Christ for your sister, and rejoice: the Teacher has come to eat and speaks to you. Now, therefore, stand before me in this difficult hour of testing my faith and love: and in the depths of my heart, proclaim that the Lord Jesus is coming, and through trials will draw me to Himself. Ask me, O holy mother, from our Lord for strength and strength, so that, having risen quickly, I will flow to Him, worship Him, and in His humble love I will find His peace and the salvation of my soul.
And you, O God-speaking Mary, who at the feet of Jesus found the only thing you need, pray to Him for the good part of those being saved and for me to receive the sinners. Having brought fragrant myrrh as a gift of thanksgiving to Christ the Giver of Life, now beg Him and my soul to give the ointment of prayer and repentance, tears, purity and good deeds, a fragrance, so that the Lord will come to my heart renewed by all these and create an abode for Himself.
To you, O holy righteous wives Martha and Mary, I fall and humbly pray: do not leave me in the days of difficult trials, lest I be tempted by the corruptible and red things of this world, especially in the bitter hour of separation of my soul from my body, present yourself to me, and beg our common Master to look upon me in the impoverishment of my strength with a merciful eye, and having forgiven all my sins, he will restore me to endless life in the blessed abodes of the Heavenly Father. Amen.
Righteous Lazarus, the God-loving sisters, Martha and Mary, the most glorious, with the pure heart of Christ in your life, loved the nature, the myrrh-bearers who took the rank, and fearlessly confessed Him as the Son of God: for this reason now in the abodes of the Heavenly Father with the Angels and all the saints gloriously You reign, pray, Whom we loved by nature, and that we sinners may be strengthened in the faith and love of Christ and be granted the Kingdom of Heaven.
O sacred head, earthly angel and heavenly man, venerable and God-bearing Father Methodius! We fall to you with faith and love, and pray diligently: show us the humble and sinners your holy fatherly intercession: behold, it is a sin for our sakes, it is not the imams of the freedom of the children of God who ask our Lord and Master for our needs, but we offer you a prayer book favorable to Him, and with zeal we ask you with zeal: ask of His goodness beneficial gifts to our souls and bodies: right faith, undoubted hope of salvation, unfeigned love for everyone, courage in temptation, patience in suffering, constancy in prayer, health of souls and bodies, fruitfulness of the earth, prosperity in the air, everyday needs contentment, a peaceful and serene life, a good Christian death and a good answer at the Last Judgment of Christ.
Above all, ask, O servant of God, from the King of those who reign and the Lord of those who rule, to our most pious, autocratic, great sovereign, Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich of all Russia, health, salvation and victory over enemies, and to his entire God-protected kingdom for peace, silence, and prosperity. Do not forget, O Holiness of God, your holy abode, which you created and always honor, but keep it and all who live and labor in it and come to worship there from the temptations of the devil and are unharmed by all evil. Hey, Reverend Father! Do not deprive us of your heavenly help, but with your prayers bring us all into the haven of salvation and reveal us to be heirs of the all-bright Kingdom of Christ, so that we sing and glorify the ineffable generosity of the Lover of God, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, and your holy paternal intercession, forever and ever.
O great servant of Christ and glorious miracle worker, Reverend Father Methodius! Look at us, sinners, overwhelmed by the trivial waves of worldly passions and crying out to you: for we, your spiritual children and your verbal sheep, in you, according to God and the Mother of God, we place our hope, and we ask you with tenderness: by your intercession to the Lord God, ask us for peace, health, long life, goodness of the air, fruitfulness of the earth, seasonable rains, and deliver us all from all troubles: hail, famine, flood, fire, sword, harmful worms that eat the fruits of the earth, corrupting winds, deadly plagues and unexpected deaths, and in all kinds of sorrows and in the midst of our sorrows, be our good comforter and quick helper, preserving us with your prayers from the falls of sin and making us worthy to be heirs of the Kingdom of Heaven: may we glorify together with you all the blessings of the Giver, in the Trinity glorified and worshiped God, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, forever and ever.
We are inflamed with divine love from youth, having hated everything red in the world, you loved the One Christ, and for this sake you moved into the desert, you created an abode in it, and having gathered a multitude of monks, you received the gift of miracles from God, Father Methodius, and you were an interlocutor and companion in Christ St. Sergius, with him from Christ God ask our blessed Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich for health and salvation and great mercy for our souls.
About reverence and all-honor, Fathers Vassian and Jono, blessed saints of Christ and glorious miracle workers! By fasting you have pleased God first and have labored piously on earth, like a bright light that has risen in the world after death, enlightening and faithful to miracles of lightness, you have shown yourself as intercessors of warmth: many are suffering in sorrows and troubles and those who have perish, preserve their health, but those who did not listen to your will and those of little faith were punished with vengeance, and before the erring wife, the guide was quicker, and the blind man was again given insight, but the one who boldly touched your healing relics was suddenly rejected, and punished by relaxation have mercy. To this end, another glorious co-delast, and the impoverishment that was in your monastery, was strictly fulfilled, and this unbreakable observance has been observed to this day. We pray now to you, blessed fathers: hear our prayer, do not despise us, who in troubles and sorrows call you by faith, be our helpers of speed and protectors of faithfulness.
Keep our Orthodox Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich in health and peace with your prayers, and unwaveringly preserve his kingdom. For this reason, do not forsake the spiritual meeting for you, but always pray for us to the Lord, so that through your prayers we may receive forgiveness of sins and be made worthy of His grace for the Kingdom of Heaven. For to him belongs all glory, honor and worship, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
Before, by rejecting the world, like the troubles of the sea, you escaped, the reverend fathers: after the will of God in the waters of the sea, you accepted your blessed death, and left the earth rejoicing to a painless rest. Thus, even after the death of Christ God, miracles were abundantly glorified; warmth in troubles was shown to the faithful helpers [helpers]. And now in heaven, standing before the throne of Christ, most blessed Vassiana and most glorious Jonah, pray continually for our souls.
O Reverend Father Paisius: do not forget your poor to the end, but always remember us in your holy and auspicious prayers to God. Remember your flock, which you yourself have shepherded, and do not forget to visit your children. Pray for us, holy father, for your spiritual children, as you have boldness towards the Heavenly King: do not keep silent to the Lord for us, and do not despise us, who honor you with faith and love. Remember us unworthy at the throne of the Almighty, and do not cease praying for us to Christ God: for grace has been given to you to pray for us. We do not imagine that you are dead: even though you passed away from us in body, you remain alive even after death. Do not give up on us in spirit, keeping us from the arrows of the enemy and all the charms of the demonic and the wiles of the devil, our good shepherd. Even though your relics are always visible before our eyes, your holy soul with the angelic armies, with the disembodied faces, with the heavenly powers, stands at the throne of the Almighty, worthy of rejoicing.
Knowing that you are truly alive even after death, we bow down to you and pray to you: pray for us to the Almighty God, for the benefit of our souls, and ask us time for repentance, so that we may pass from earth to heaven without restraint, from bitter ordeals, demons of the princes of the air and from eternal torment, and get rid of Let us be the heirs of the Heavenly Kingdom with all the righteous, who from time immemorial have pleased our Lord Jesus Christ: to Him belongs all glory, honor and worship, with His Beginning Father, and with His Most Holy and Good and Life-giving Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
O venerable and God-bearing Father Jono! You, while you were still making the purchase of life, and floating on the waters of Lake Onega, you were cast out by a storm on the flood of water, and on these shores you found a quiet refuge from the worries of everyday life. In the same way, and without laziness, in your labors, prayers and tears of the Lord, having labored for the sake of the Lord, you have accomplished the purchase of spiritual good, and you have appeared as a wise merchant of the Kingdom of Heaven, and now you are rejoicing in the heavenly courts, with your spirit never departing from the monastery of Klimenitsky, where your body is so laborious. rests. In the same way, you show the way to those floating on the waters of Onega and many times deliver you from drowning to those who miraculously call you, and you are a quick helper and a warm prayer book to everyone. And now, humbly falling to the race of your relics, we diligently pray to you, servant of God: look upon us, cursed and indecent, drowned by a sea of sins, and agitated by a storm of strangled passions, and crushed with a ship strangled on the sea of evil customs.
Be an intercessor for us to the Lord, to the Unman you have acquired good boldness: pour out your warm prayer to Him, may He calm the storm of our passions, and may our cold hearts be warmed by the fire of His Divine love, and so may He make us worthy to bring warm repentance to Him, and the rest of our days will be acceptable before Him live, and bear the labors and sorrows of this life patiently, uncomplainingly and with thanksgiving: when the terrible hour of our departure from this life arrives, may the terrible ordeal of the air help us to pass uncontrollably, let the lower roaring mental lion devour our souls, but allow May He plunge the abyss of our sins into the sea of His mercy, and for the sake of His ineffable love and mercy may He have mercy on us in the human race, making us partakers of His Kingdom, and may He grant us there to enjoy His Divine love, together with you and with all the saints, forever and ever.
O sacred head, venerable and God-bearing Father Kirill! We fall to you with faith and love, and we ask you, our heavenly intercessor: show your great mercy to us humble and sinners, and pour out your warm prayers for us to the Lord God. It is characteristic of you to be merciful, holy of God, for as you live on earth, your only concern is to save human souls from destruction, and your whole holy life is a mirror of good deeds, for which the Heavenly Father is glorified in you. Having acquired great boldness towards Him, ask us from His goodness for right faith, unfeigned piety, true repentance, perfect brotherly love and success in all good deeds. Grant us mental and physical health, fruitfulness of the earth, goodness of the air, a peaceful and serene life, a shameless Christian death and a good answer at the Last Judgment of Christ. Save the holy Church and the Russian state from battles and turmoil.
Help our most pious, autocratic sovereign, Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich, defeat his enemies and adversaries. Protect your honest monastery from all evil, and all the faithful people who come to you and worship with your power, grant your heavenly blessing, and fulfill all their requests for good. To her, father, do not despise our prayers offered to you with tenderness, but be a warm intercessor for us to the Lord, and grant us, with your help, eternal salvation and inherit the Kingdom of Heaven, and let us glorify the great generosity and ineffable mercies of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, in the Trinity of the worshiped God, and your fatherly intercession, in forever and ever.
O blessed and venerable Father Cyril, good and true shepherd, builder of the grapes of Christ, glory to the father of the venerable fellows, monk mentor and perfecter of common life, now in heaven the Holy Trinity stands with all the saints!
We pray to you at your grave, like our man-loving father, and from the heart we cry out with love: O Reverend Father Cyril, remember your flock, which you wisely gathered, and preserve with your prayers the flock given to you by God, and do not despise us who honor your most honorable and joyful memory: save and keep us from all visible enemies and invisible: cleanse our sins, and remove from us the cloud of passions, and enlighten our spiritual eyes: correct our rotten tongue, cleanse our meaning and sanctify our minds: come among us invisibly, and from all of us, receive the prayers of God sent forth, and convey this intercession of all to the Creator and Savior, in To the Trinity of Saints, worshiped by our God, so that we may receive forgiveness of our sins, by the grace and love of mankind of our Lord Jesus Christ, with whom glory befits the Father and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
As thou didst flourish in the desert of David, Father Cyril, uprooting evil thorns, and thou didst gather in it a multitude of disciples, taught by the fear of God and thy teaching, whom thou didst not abandon to the end, as a man-loving father, visiting, and all crying out: Glory to Him who gave thee strength, Glory to Him who crowned you, glory to the One who heals everyone through you.
O blessed father, Reverend Barnabas, our warm intercessor and good helper to all who call with faith! Deliver us with your prayers from every demonic situation: save us, the damned, from the mouth of the destructive serpent, who seeks to devour us and bring our belly to hell: pluck us from our fierce passions and all misfortunes that sin for our sake: give consolation to our souls, plant the fear of Judgment in our hearts God, deliver us from enemies visible and invisible: for you are a warm prayer book and intercessor for the imams for those in troubles and people who have fallen into sins. For you have appeared as a pillar of piety, a rule of abstinence, an image of humility, a mentor of chastity, an intercessor and guardian for the poor and orphans who resort to you. Who will be able to praise your life as angelic, or will your deeds and tears to the Lord be erased? Truly, your corrections have risen like the brightest of the sun: you have appeared as a zealot to all the saints, a teacher of the righteous and a champion and intercessor of the pious king.
Bring all of us in repentance to the Lord with your prayers, most honest Father, so that we too may be worthy of eternal blessings, where you enjoy the heavenly glory of the desired Jesus Christ, to Him belongs all glory, honor and worship, with His Beginning Father and with His Most Holy and Good and Life-giving Spirit, now and ever and unto the ages of ages.
O most graceful and great desert dweller, Reverend Father Onufry! I praise your indescribable miracles and life of illumination, in which you labored from your youth even to old age: no one can erase your deeds, most honorable, but also the Monk Paphnutius was amazed at your cruel life in the wilderness, and he was greatly surprised Having rejoiced, you will gain great feats and perfection as an image. For this reason, and I am a sinner, I bring you praise from my unworthy lips: and friend of Christ, zealot Elijah the Thesbite, John the Baptist heir, intelligent beauty to Egypt, the great luminary of Thebes, red kindness of Libya, red-flowering phoenix, high-flying eagle, in the heavens Be exalted, having acquired citizenship in heaven!
I pray to you, most wonderful saint of the angelic faces of the world: hear me, a sinner and unworthy at this hour, and accept this little prayer of mine, great intercessor of those who come to you: blot out the handwriting of my nasty and unclean deeds with your prayer, with your intercession always cover me and I will bring you to the bright palace prepared for the faithful by your prayers: for, according to our Most Blessed Lady Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary, I honor you as my warmest helpers and intercessors. I pray to the Merciful God, may He forgive me all my sins, voluntary and involuntary, and all the evil deeds I have done, and may He deliver me through your intercession from eternal torment, and grant me the joy of eternal enjoyment, together with all the saints, forever and ever.
O most wonderful and blessed servant of Christ and our abbot, Onufrie the Great! You showed wondrous love for your Lord, and you were strengthened for wondrous deeds by His grace, and for this, for the sake of great boldness towards Him, you were vouchsafed: many miracles and signs of the power of God appeared to people about you. Look now, dear Father, with the merciful eye of your love on us unworthy servants, and grant to everyone according to their every need, according to faith and hope: bring joy to the mourning, comfort to the crying, healing to the sick, to the toiling. help those struggling with the passions and attacks of the enemy, strengthen and bless those who are exhausted in support, your abode and all of us from enemies visible and invisible and save from all evil. Magnify the holy Orthodox faith in our Fatherland, convert the erring, bring to reason those who have fallen away, strengthen the wavering, soften the stubborn, enlighten the unfaithful, and bring everyone to the quiet refuge of the Heavenly Fatherland. O divine glory to the monastics and consolation to all the faithful!
Enlighten us with your glorious deeds and the sweet vision of your miraculous image, and strengthen us for every deed, labor and patience for the glory of the name of God, so that we may be honored with you and all the saints of the eternal and blessed Kingdom of glory of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
By spiritual desire you reached the desert, God-wisdom Onuphrie, and as if you were disembodied in it for many years, you assiduously labored, rivaling the prophet Elijah and the Baptist: and having been planted by the hand of an angel with the mysteries of the Divine, now in the light of the Holy Trinity you dwell together with them. Pray for us, who honor your memory, to be saved.
Our reverend and God-bearing fathers Onuphrie and Peter, the bright earthly light, shining gloriously from the dark places of caves all over the earth, and these many luminous stars similar to their lives, the stars of celestial life, and the high virtues of lightness and miracles of the Divine shine of people surprised. Behold, now, as the mortal west has carnally entered the grave for a time, your souls remain with Christ, the Sun of righteousness, and being the righteous [righteous], you are enlightened like the sun in the Kingdom of Heaven. There, then, your prayers to God light spread out the rays of the entire universe, do not forget we, your dear prayer books, even in the night of passions and sorrows, behold the light of grace from above: for in the light of your virtuous life, walking the right, we will be worthy to see the light the unapproachable glory of God, praising Him together with you forever and ever.
O most blessed and God-bearing Arseny, our father! Who art in the glory of the Heavenly King Christ God, standing before His throne with all His saints, do not despise us who are in the depths, sinners and unworthy, with your most honest race praying to you with tears, but accept our heartfelt groaning and mortal lips: for we all pray to you, O Reverend Father, and We humbly ask you to be an intercessor for us and a warm prayer book for the All-Good God. Pray for His goodness, from our sins, and the message of destinies, to save us. pray to His bounty, to generously give to this monastery and to the whole world what is needed.
Praying to the Giver of peace to all, to send peace to the churches, to gather the scattered into one, to preserve the power of our most pious Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich in peace and quiet, and to grant to every faithful in the house, and on the way, and at sea, and everywhere good and serene days: bless the works of our fathers and brothers, and forgive all sins, voluntary and involuntary: for may we sinners, together with you, glorify the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto the ages of ages.
Inflamed with divine love, having rejected worldly attachments from your soul, you walked the close path of fasting after Christ with an irrevocable mind, most blessed Arseny: from worthlessness we will receive the reward of your labors in heaven, remember us who honor your holy memory and cry out: glory to Him who gave you fortress, glory to Him who crowned you, glory to Him who heals you all.
We are instructed by the Spirit of God, you loved silence, in Him you labor in the Gospel, a wonderful Athonite gift, an icon of the Mother of God, bestowed upon you, most blessed: and the image of the virtues of your flock, Arseny our Father, you ascended to the heavenly triumph, where the angels rejoiced, pray to Christ God for the salvation of our souls.
O reverend and blessed mother Anno! Humbly falling before the race of your honorable relics, we pray diligently with tears: do not forget your poor to the end, but always remember us in your holy and auspicious prayers to God. O blessed Grand Duchess Anno! Do not forget to visit your children: even though you passed away from us in body, you remain alive even after death. Do not give up on us in spirit, saving us from the arrows of the enemy and all the charms of the demonic and the wiles of the devil. Our zealous prayer book! Do not stop praying for us to Christ our God: even though the relics of your cancer are always visible before our eyes, your holy soul, standing with the angelic hosts at the throne of the Almighty, worthily rejoices.
We therefore fall to you and pray to you: pray, most blessed Anno, to our All-Merciful God for the salvation of our souls, and ask us time for repentance, so that we may pass from earth to heaven without restraint, may we be delivered from bitter ordeals and eternal torment, and may we be heirs of the Heavenly Kingdom with all the righteous who have pleased our Lord Jesus from the ages To Christ, to Him be glory, with His Father without beginning, and with His Most Holy and Good and Life-giving Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
Praising the Lord God and our Creator, who accepted the labors and exploits of His saint, the blessed Grand Duchess Anna, with silent lips we will sing and praise: Rejoice, reverend and blessed Princess Anna, who from his youth began to work for God and diligently follow the holy commandments You have received into your hearts, Rejoice, the most honorable village and dwelling of the Holy Spirit, who you forsook all the glory and honor and dominion of this age and spat upon it to the end, and you did not consider anything that exists in the world, and you followed the One Christ, and his most holy yoke on you wore a frame, and you pleased with many virtuous deeds, rejoice, reverend mother Anno, who walked the irrevocable path according to the commandments of your Lord Christ, and preferred nothing more than His love: for this reason Christ also loved you, like a beautiful bride, and with the wise virgins in his palace He considered you to be, and after your dormition he kept your most holy body incorruptible, but he infused your holy soul into the worldly village, and enriched you with many miracles, Rejoice, strong helper to your fatherland and our city and the whole region, a great affirmation, rejoice and be glad, saint
Christ, you have shown yourself to be a doctor to all who come with faith to your healing power and heal our inhealable passions. Pray, holy one, to Christ our God, to grant to our blessed king victory and conquest of our enemies, salvation to the world and the great affirmation of the entire Russian land, that through your prayers we too will receive remission of sins, correction of our lives and heirs of the Heavenly Kingdom, by the grace and love of the Lord God and our Savior Jesus Christ, with whom the Father and the Most Holy and Life-Giving All glory, honor and worship are due to the Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
Today we praise you, reverend mother, great princess nun Anno: for the vine is fruitful among the thorns, you flourished in the city of Kashin with your virtues, you surprised everyone with your wonderful life: in the same way you pleased Christ God, and now you remain rejoicing and having fun from the faces of the saints wives enjoying heavenly beauty and joy. We pray to you, pray for us, the lover of mankind, Christ our God, to grant us peace and great mercy.
O three-numbered saint of the Trinity! O inexhaustible source of miracles! O heavenly kindness, holy saint of God, chosen one of the Savior, great bishop, most blessed saint of Christ Tikhon, illuminate the sunflower and amaze with your miracles! Always standing before the Holy Trinity and bringing prayer for the whole world, heal all those who call on your holy name from every mental and physical ailment, ask for forgiveness of their sins, consume sinful thoughts, and create every misfortune and invasion of the hostile devil far from those who pray to you, and raise us from sleep sinful, order us, entering into your holy church, healthy in soul and body, and with good deeds glorifying the name of the Most Holy Trinity, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, and your prayerful intercession, always, now and ever, and unto the ages of ages.
Desert dweller, and in the body an angel, and a miracle worker appeared, our God-bearing Father Tikhon: by fasting, vigil, and prayer, you receive heavenly gifts, healing the sick and the souls of those who flow to you by faith. Glory to Him who gave you strength: glory to Him who crowned you: glory to Him who heals you all.
You were the image of abstinence, having enlightened everything with the Divine Spirit, having completed the course of orthodoxy, you denounced the evil believers, Our Father to Saint Tikhon: pray to Christ God that our souls will be saved.
O sacred head, great wonderworker, reverend Father Tikhon, most blessed and glorious saint of Christ, praised the fulfillment of fasters by the Holy Spirit, glory to monastics, beautifier of the desert, warm prayer book for us sinners! Now, with the angelic hosts, standing at the throne of all the King of the glory of the Lord, and enjoying the light of the Consubstantial Trinity, and with the heavenly powers, chanting the Trisagion, praying to the All-Merciful Master to save all believers in his name: ask for peace and silence to send down to the holy churches, faith to strengthen the Orthodox, to the most pious, autocratic, great sovereign of ours, Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich, and to his entire legacy, bestow health, and to subdue to them all the nasty languages, those who want to fight, to overthrow the visible and invisible enemies, to establish our cities, pacify the whole world.
Pray to the Merciful God, that through your favorable intercession all Orthodox Christians may be delivered from famine, destruction, cowardice, flood, fire, sword, from the invasion of foreigners and internecine warfare, may they strengthen the old, may they instruct the young, may they make the foolish wise, may they heal the sick, may they free the captives and prisoners, He will protect orphans, raise babies, and save all people from all troubles and misfortunes and from attacks of the enemy, and from deadly plagues and corrupting winds and from all evil. Today, with faith, the coming servants of God named, with fear and love, falling to the holy tomb of your multi-healing relics and kindly kissing the image of your likeness, like our warm intercessor, will be preserved, and in sorrowful circumstances, stand before them, from mental and physical passions of freedom: also on the day of the Last Judgment from Deliver us from standing, and with the gums of the sheep, through your prayers, make us worthy to hear the blessed voice of the Lord Christ our God: come, blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.
To Him belongs all glory, honor and worship, with His Beginningless Father, and with His Most Holy and Good and Life-Giving Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
Like a bright lamp you appeared in the Russian land, O Reverend Father Tikhon, dwelling in the desert, passing through a cruel life there, as if you lived bodiless: for this sake and miracles, God enriched you with the gift. Thus we too, flowing to the race of your relics, touchingly say: Reverend Father, pray to Christ God to save our souls.
O sacred head, reverend and blessed Father Tikhon! You are truly a man of spiritual desires and you have appeared as the second Daniel. like this ancient prophet, with the high virtue and holiness of his life, heavenly visions and wondrous revelations: you, too, reverent one, believing in ascension in your heart, you excelled in virtues, and like a good and faithful servant, you entered into the joy of your Lord. In the same way, we, as your spiritual child, are motivated by love, we will sing songs of praise in honor of your memory, and we prayerfully call for help to our weakness. To this end, we humbly pray to you, our reverend and glorious Father Tikhon: with your prayers favorable to the Lord, protect this desert, beloved by you, the city and the whole: and all, by faith honoring your holy memory, from every slander of the enemy, from all troubles and misfortunes and all evil. Pray, Reverend, for our most pious, autocratic, great sovereign, Emperor Nicholas Alexandrovich of all Russia, for his Christ-loving army and for his entire power.
Pray to the Merciful God for us, humble and unworthy, to forgive us all our sins, to save us with His grace and grant us eternal joy to enjoy in that heavenly Jerusalem, who is the mother of all of us, together with you and with all the saints who have pleased him from the ages, in whom in the Trinity the glorified God is blessed always, now and ever, and in forever and ever.
O venerable and blessed Father Tikhon! Do not forget us, your sinful children, who flow into your holy monastery and always honor your holy and incorruptible relics. Behold, looking at your healing tomb, we zealously fall to it, and kiss it with love, and ask that you pray for us sinners to the Most Holy, Most Pure and Most Blessed Queen, the Mother of the Son of God, so that He may intercede for us with His maternal prayers to His Son. But as you yourself stand at the throne of the Lord of all, the King, Christ God, pray diligently that the monastery and this entire city of Lukh will deliver the entire Russian country from all troubles and evils: surprise us with your miraculous mercy, deliver and have mercy from all troubles and evils who always cry out to you: Rejoice, reverend Father Tikhon, praise and great intercession to this monastery and village and the city of Lukh, always, now and ever, and unto the ages of ages.
By spiritual desire you moved into the desert, and there, having walked irrevocably along the Divine paths, you reached the heavenly abodes: and now with the Angels you stand at the throne of all the King Christ God, to whom you diligently pray to have mercy on this abode, the city and the people, who by faith celebrate your most honorable memory, Reverend Tikhon, our father.
O Reverend Father, our great intercessor, quick to hear those praying to you, servant of God and miracle worker Varlaam! Do not forget, as you promised, to visit your children: even though you have departed from us in body, you are still with us in spirit. We pray to you, O Reverend Father: deliver us from fire and sword, from the invasion of foreigners and internecine warfare, from the corrupting winds and from sudden death and from all the causes of demons that come upon us. Hear us sinners, and accept this prayer and supplication of ours in you, like a fragrant censer and like an acceptable sacrifice, which we offered unworthy, and healed the wounds of our unhealed souls: and like the ancient monk of your monastery Nikita, tormented by evil spirits, he soon healed Thou art, therefore, resolving us, too, from the bonds of the enemy, through thy prayers. Pluck us from the depths of sins, and guide us on the path of repentance, and free us from the snare of the devil by your merciful visit, and deliver us from visible and invisible enemies by your intercession: and help us now in this life, and in the outcome of our souls, and in the future, and forever and ever.
O bishop of God, holy Gurie, stand now before the throne of Christ in the triumphant Church! Do not forget us, who celebrate your holy memory with love, behold evil from our ascension on high. Good Father, look mercifully upon your children: good shepherd, do not despise your flock, which you have acquired from God. Even if you are excommunicated from sinners by your shrine, do not separate yourself from us sinners with mercy, be present to us with your prayers to God for us. See the city in which you worked a lot, see the people you enlightened, and be everyone’s helper, intercessor, protector, protector, provident and director of our lives. I warmly intercede, do not stop crying for us to the Lord, ask for peace in the world, silence for the Christian kingdom, which holds victory, and for all temporary and eternal good.
O most sacred head, first shepherd-in-chief and planter of the Kazan Church, Divine Apostle and first universal shepherd, faithful imitator, always stand before the Heavenly Throne of the Father of all bounties of God and unceasingly enjoy His ever-present light and love!
To you we are the children of your flock, since we do not have the boldness to offer up our prayers to the Lord God, we diligently run to you, and we pray to offer up your God-pleasing prayers for us to the Almighty, may He grant us all, first of all, living according to His holy commandments and forgiveness of sins: then may He deliver us in this short time from the elements that come upon us, due to our sin, infertility, famine, deadly ulcers, fire that destroys our homes, all kinds of sedition, invasions of foreigners, and all the visible and invisible forces that resist us, may he grant a peaceful and prosperous life to our government grants prostration, impartiality and righteous judgment to the priesthood of your flock exemplary holiness, knowledge of pure truth, uncooling and unprofitable zeal for God’s services, a mature word, always ready and dissolved in salt, may the Orthodox faith planted by you continually spread and strengthen, and may the God-hating pagan delusion, the harmful wickedness of the Agarians and all the heresies and soul-destroying schisms will be destroyed: may the all-holy name of our Lord Jesus Christ be proclaimed and glorified everywhere in your former flock, with His Beginningless Father, and with His Most Holy and Good and Life-giving Spirit, now and ever and unto the ages of ages.
Holy Hierarch Father Guria! As we approach the sacred race of your multi-healing relics [or: your honorable image], we earnestly pray to you: be always and everywhere our intercessor, intercessor and patron. Grant your flock peace, silence and prosperity, health and salvation. Be our ever-present intercessor from all enemies, visible and invisible: protect us from all troubles, misfortunes and sorrows, and especially from the temptations of the dark enemy. For those who are standing here and praying, ask the Lord God for everything that they ask for their salvation from him in their needs and sorrows, so that we all glorify the all-holy name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto the ages of ages.
Like a fragrant shrine, your myrrh-streaming relics were offered to St. Guria from the Vertograd Church of the Savior to the Vertograd Church of the Mother of God, to Saint Guria: as an honorable gift was given to you by Christ of His Most Pure Mother, and Her holy church was filled with fragrance yours, and the bishop’s throne rejoiced, receiving you as its chief ruler. The council of the faithful with the saint and the clergy rejoiced at the glorious presentation of your celibate relics, as we joyfully celebrate, we pray to you, servant of God: pray to Christ God to grant our emperor victory and peace against our enemies, and great mercy to our souls.
Baptist of Christ, preacher of repentance! Do not despise me who repents, but copulating with the heavenly howls, pray to the Lady for me, unworthy, sad, weak and sad, fallen into many troubles, set in motion by the stormy thoughts of my mind. For I am a den of evil deeds, with no end to sinful customs: for my mind is nailed down by earthly things. What will I do? We don't know. And to whom shall I resort, that my soul may be saved? Only to you, Saint John, give the same name of grace, for you are before the Lord through the Theotokos, greater than all born to be: for you have been deemed worthy to touch the top of Christ the King, who takes away the sins of the world, the Lamb of God: pray to Him for my sinful soul, Yes, from now on, at the first ten hour, I will bear a good burden and receive reward with the last. To her, the Baptist of Christ, an honest Forerunner, an extreme prophet, the first martyr in grace, a teacher of fasters and hermits, a teacher of purity and a close friend of Christ!
I pray to you, I come running to you: do not reject me from your intercession, but raise me up, having fallen into many sins: renew my soul with repentance, as with the second baptism, you are the leader of both, wash away original sin with baptism, and cleanse each one from bad deeds with repentance. Cleanse me, the one defiled by sin, and force me to enter, or enter into anything bad, into the Kingdom of Heaven.
Holy Forerunner and Baptist of Christ John! This preacher of repentance, do not despise us who repent, but pray to the Lord Christ for us unworthy slaves, sad, weak, fallen into many sins. We fear death, but we never care about our sins and do not care about the Kingdom of Heaven: but do not despise us, the Baptist of Christ, honorable Forerunner, born of all, a teacher of fasting and desert men, a teacher of purity and a close friend of Christ. We pray to you, we resort to you: do not reject us who ask for your intercession, renew our souls with repentance, which is the second baptism: by your intercession before the Lord, ask for the cleansing of our sins. An unworthy mouth cries out to you, and a humble soul prays, a contrite heart sighs from the depths: stretch out your most pure right hand and protect us from enemies visible and invisible. Hey, Lord Jesus Christ! Through the prayers of St. John Thy Baptist, and most especially of Thy Most Pure Mother, our Lady Theotokos, save us Thy sinful servants who repent of our sins.
For You are the God of the repentant, and we place our hope in You as the Savior, glorifying Your most holy name, with Your Originless Father, and with Your Most Holy and Good and Life-giving Spirit, now and ever and unto the ages of ages.
The Baptist of Christ, the honest Forerunner, the ultimate prophet, the first martyr in grace, the teacher of fasters and hermits, the teacher of purity and the neighbor of Christ! I pray to you, I come running to you: do not reject me from your intercession, but raise me up, having fallen through many sins: renew my soul with repentance, as with the second baptism: cleanse me, the sin of my desecration, and force me to enter, and even if nothing bad enters, into the Kingdom of Heaven.
Prophet and Forerunner of the coming of Christ, we are worthy to praise you, we are perplexed by the love of honoring you: the barrenness of your birth and the silence of your father are resolved by your glorious and honest Nativity, and the incarnation of the Son of God is preached to the world.
We magnify you, the Forerunner of the Savior, John, and honor your unfruitful glorious birth.
About the holy righteous youths John and Jacob, dreaming about the prayer books [prayer books] coming to this church! You, who were once chosen by God from the font of Holy Baptism, were quickly adorned with the crown of Christ’s suffering: you received His life in His wondrous death in infancy. We pray to you, for holiness: just as nature once showed the right path to a hunter who lost his way in the thicket of trees and granted healing to a sick monk, so too will we, painfully possessed by the wounds of passions, be delivered from all evil. Hear the bitter cry of fathers and mothers, weak babies, to the honorable race of your relics, hasten to help, ease the sorrows of their hearts, heal bodily ailments, together with spiritual ones, and awaken the wall firm and strong help to all who ask for your intercession.
Preserve your holy church from every evil situation: through your intercession, send down peace from the Lord of glory to the inhabitants of this world; grant us the abundance of the fruits of the earth and prosperity in our labors: after the death of the Kingdom of Heaven, grant all your help to those who call upon you, where all the righteous, together with you, praise the most honorable and magnificent name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit forever and ever.
Through the illnesses of the holy righteous youths John and James, who suffered for you, we pray, O Lord, and heal all our ailments and passions, Lover of mankind.
O great saints [pleasers] of God and wonderful wonderworkers, blessed Prince Peter and Princess Fevronia, intercessor and guardian of the city of Murom, and about all of us zealous prayer books [prayer books] to the Lord! We come running to you and pray to you with strong hope: offer up your holy prayers for us sinners to the Lord God, and ask from His goodness all that is useful to our souls and bodies: faith in the right, hope for good, love unfeigned, piety unshakable, prosperity in good deeds, peace in the world fruitfulness, goodness of the air, health to our bodies and salvation to our souls. Petition from the Heavenly King our most pious, autocratic, great sovereign, Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich, for long life of mental and physical health, against our enemies victory and victory, for the Church of the saints and for the entire Russian state, peace, silence and prosperity, and for all of us a prosperous and good Christian life death.
Protect your fatherland, the city of Murom, and all Russian cities from all evil: and overshadow all the faithful people who come to you and worship your holy relics with the grace of your favorable prayers, and fulfill all their requests for good. Hey, holy wonderworkers! do not despise our prayers offered to you today with tenderness, but awaken for us to intercede with the Lord in your dreams, and with your help make us worthy to receive eternal salvation and inherit the Kingdom of Heaven: let us glorify the ineffable love for mankind of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, in the Trinity we worship God, in forever and ever.
As the pious root of the most honorable branch, you were, having lived well in piety, blessed Peter: so with your wife, the wise Fevronia, you have pleased God in peace, and you have been honored with the life of the venerables. With him, pray to the Lord to preserve your fatherland without harm, and may we continually honor you.
O our representative before the Lord and warm prayer book, Rev. Father Samone! See from heaven that we are perishing in circumstances and sorrows: for in our midst unbelief is added to apostasy and division, love becomes scarce, and lawlessness and temptations, illnesses and sorrows of many homeless, hungry and orphans multiply.
From where, father, let us receive strength, so that we can resist the temptations of the world, let us preserve in our hearts the love and faith of Christ and the hope of the Orthodox, and take care of the sick and poor, if you don’t intercede for us with your warm intercession, asking us for help from God in our weaknesses: preserve therefore with your prayers the blessings of the Christ-loving our sovereign, Emperor Nicholas Alexandrovich, the fortress of the Russian state, peace and tranquility of the Holy Church, protect us all and keep us steadfast in the midst of the infidels who blaspheme our faith, protect us from temptations, awaken the hearts of the poor to pardon the poor, warm the cold, feed the hungry and provide charity to the homeless, satisfy increase of sorrows and illnesses, famine and other troubles that hurt us, grant relief to the suffering infant, send down from the Lord strength, consolation and joy to women in the throes of childbirth, and to everyone in hard work, in hospitals, in imprisonments and prisons to the discouraged, so that we all glorify in the Trinity the glorified God, the Father and Son and Holy Spirit, forever and ever.
Warm prayer book, gracious father, Reverend Samona! Pray to God for me, a sinner, and to send my help and deliverance from the All-Blessed Master: for my life is temporary and full of labor, sorrows and illnesses. Strengthen my heart, so that I can bear my burden, and do not let me, so that my many small strengths will overcome temptations, but help me with your intercession, and in the midst of circumstances and troubles, direct my path to the Kingdom of Heaven, so that I may glorify the Lord who is glorified in you forever and ever.
In your patience you have gained your reward, O Reverend Father, in your prayers you are unceasingly patient, loving the poor and making this convenient: but pray to Christ God, most merciful and blessed, to save our souls.
O most glorious wonderworker, Reverend Father Xenophon, who by the grace given to you from above exudes various miracles! Look mercifully at the people who are more honest than yours and who are asking for your strong help, and through your prayers we will guide you to live a short life pleasing to God and free from the wiles of the evil devil: and at the end of our souls, help us, many sinners, to get rid of airy ordeals and eternal torment, and may we obtain through your intercession the heavenly blessings prepared for the faithful, and may we glorify together with you all the good things of the Giver, the One All-Powerful One in the Trinity of Holy Glorified God, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, and your merciful intercession, now and ever and unto the ages of ages.
Thou didst appear in the desert for good vegetation, O Reverend Father, for from youth thou destined to live a pure life, following the spiritual teacher, and by that teaching, thy mind was fixed on the heavenly ones, thou movedt into the desert, and in it thou didst create a monastery, and thou didst appear to thy flock as a wise mentor, and to the great Novograd praise and statement: Christ also, like a lamp that brightened the light, enriched and glorified you with miracles. Xenophon, our father, pray to Christ God to save our souls.
O glorification to the Apostles Peter and Paul, who gave up their souls for Christ and fertilized His pasture with your blood! Hear your children's prayers and sighs, now offered with broken hearts. Behold, we are darkened by lawlessness, and for this reason we are covered with troubles, as if we were covered with clouds, but the oil of a good life is greatly impoverished, and we cannot resist the predatory wolf who is boldly trying to plunder the heritage of God. O strength! Bear our infirmities, do not be separated from us in spirit, so that we may not be separated in the end from the love of God, but protect us with your strong intercession, may the Lord have mercy on all of us for your prayers for the sake of, may He destroy the handwriting of our immeasurable sins, and may He be honored with all the saints in the blessed Kingdom and marriage of His Lamb, to Whom is honor and glory, and thanksgiving and worship, forever and ever.
Holy Supreme Apostle Peter, the stone of faith, founded on Christ as the cornerstone of confession! Pray, and from now on I will not be shaken by intelligent thoughts and carnal lusts, on the same Christ, the living Stone, chosen, honorable, I will be created by faith, and I will be made spiritual in love in the church, in order to offer spiritual sacrifices to the God of Jesus Christ.
O holy supreme Apostle Paul, chosen vessel of Christ, the grace and glory of God is full! Pray to the Creator who has power over creation, that I, now a destroyed vessel, will create for himself a vessel in honor, sanctified and beneficial, prepared for every good deed, forever and ever.
About the supreme apostles: Peter, the steadfast exponent of the faith of Christ, and Paul, the sweet-talking gusset of the teachings of the Lord! We see you like a multi-flowing river of the legends of Christ’s words, flowing from the depths of the Lord and revealing to us the depth of the treasure trove of revealed truths: we see you like luminaries, from heaven currents of warmth of Divine love making clear to us. We bless you, for you have suffered labors and illnesses, in the hedgehog of all the teachings of the Divine seeds, and the soles of your feet, flowing around the ends of the earth. We tenderly ask you, holy apostles: make us, too, in the rage of sin, bow before our teacher the Lord, behead our pride, and strive to lead us with your unceasing prayers to the Kingdom of Heaven, so that there we may glorify from the faces of the angels and apostles the wondrous Father of all in His saints, and His ambassador to peace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit of the same essence, forever and ever.
O holy supreme apostle Peter, firmly established by your confession in the stone of faith, the immovable foundation of the Church according to Christ, shepherd of the verbal flock of Christ, keymaster of the Kingdom of Heaven, wiser and wiser, draw people from the depths of unbelief! I humbly pray to you, may your Divine catch embrace me and bring me out of the depths of destruction. We know that you have received from God the power to bind and decide: let me be bound by the bonds of sin, show me your wicked mercy, and revive my soul killed by sin, just as you raised Tabitha from the dead before: raise me up for a good course, like the lame man at the Red Gates You have raised up your mother’s womb: and as through your sickness you have healed all, so that the grace given to you from God will overshadow me, healing my mental and physical illnesses.
For you can do all things, holy one, by the power of Christ, for whose sake you forsook everything and followed His holy footsteps: also pray to Him for me, the accursed one, that He may deliver me from all evil through your prayers and may He teach me with a pure heart to send glory to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto the ages. centuries.
O holy supreme apostle Paul, the chosen vessel of Christ, the teller of heavenly mysteries, the teacher of all languages, the church trumpet, the proverbial vetie, who endured many troubles for the name of Christ, who measured the sea and circumambulated the earth and us from flattery Reversible idol! I pray to you, and I cry to you: do not disdain me, who is filthy, but raise up the one who has fallen through sinful laziness, just as you raised me lame from the womb from my mother’s womb: and just like Eutychus, who was dead, you revived, you also raised me from dead works: and Just as through your prayer you once shook the foundations of the prison and you freed the prisoners, pluck me from the net of the enemy and strengthen me to do the will of God. For all you can do by the authority given to you from Christ God, to Him belongs all glory, honor and worship, with His Beginning Father, and with His Most Holy and Good and Life-Giving Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
The first apostles and universal teachers, pray to the Lord of all to grant peace to the universe and great mercy to our souls.
We magnify you, apostles of Christ, who have enlightened the whole world with your teachings and brought all ends to Christ.
Holy, glorious and all-praiseworthy apostles, the chief Hierarch of the confession of our Jesus Christ, the chosen disciples and builders of His mysteries: Peter and Andrew, James and John, Philip and Bartholomew, Thomas and Matthew, James and Judas, Simone and Matthias! Pray to Christ God, that from my vanity in this world He will make me worthy to stand on His right hand in His Kingdom, and that the former child of obedience will make me the son of disobedience, that I may put off the old man and put on the new one, created by God in righteousness and in the veneration of truth, and in Walking in the righteousness of faith, I will reach the Heavenly Father for the inheritance of eternal dignity, and there, even as I contemplate here by faith, I will see more clearly in glory, and I will glorify the Holy Trinity to the endless ages of ages.
Master Almighty, Lord our God, who chose his beloved disciples and apostles to preach salvation to the whole world, giving them the power to forgive sins! Accept their petitions for the race of humanity, and judge with them and then: we dare to bring those very same ones, like your friends, who are very honest to us, unworthy, in intercession to you, which will greatly advance the salvation of our souls, to bring, praying to them earnestly.
Holy chief apostles Peter and Paul, evangelists of Christ John the Theologian and Matthew, first-called disciple Andrew, who blessed Russia by planting the cross, holy apostles James, brother of John, with another James, Philip, Bartholomew, Thomas, Simon, Judas and Matthias! All holy chosen apostles, most noble servants of Christ, eradicators of godlessness and planters of true faith! Help us with your powerful intercession before the Lord, to get rid of all evil and enemy flattery, and to firmly preserve the Orthodox faith that you have devoted, in which, through your intercession, we will not be diminished by wounds, nor reprimand, nor pestilence, nor by any wrath from our Creator, but we will live a peaceful life here, and we will be honored to see good on the land of the living, glorifying the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, the One in the Trinity glorified and worshiped God, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
About Reverend Peter to the Tsarevich, Rostov miracle worker! Just as the Lord once called you from pagan darkness into the light of the Gospel teaching, so now pray to Him that He, in His ineffable goodness and love for mankind, will take us from the darkness of sin, and may our hearts be illuminated to do His Divine commandments. And just as you escaped the turmoil of worldly unrest and were deemed worthy to achieve an angel-like, sorrowful life, so grant us sinners the depths of this sea, driven by passion, to sail serenely, for those who have you, Father, about our Lord the helmsman, and thus through pure repentance we are worthy to reach the haven of eternal salvation. And just as you had the supreme apostles Peter and Paul as your accomplices in the creation of your monastery, so even now we have asked those who are unworthy to help us, together with them begging Christ for us. We believe that even though your relics are holy and hidden in the earth, yet in your spirit you reign in heaven with God’s elect: intercede, therefore, that through your prayers the door of the Kingdom of Heaven will be opened to us sinners forever and ever.
O Reverend Father, Peter the Tsarevich! With your soul in heaven you stand before the throne of God and enjoy the glory of the Trinity, but with your body you rest on earth in this Divine church and with the grace given to you from above, you exude various miracles. Look with your merciful eye on the more honest people ahead of you and those who tenderly ask for your help. Behold, we have brought upon ourselves the righteous wrath of God through immeasurable sins, and have received all kind of mercy unworthy: even though we do not dare to raise our eyes to the heights of heaven, we lower ourselves to raise a prayerful voice to the Lord, with a contrite heart and a humble spirit, we call upon you for intercession and help. Ask the Lord for glory to our most pious, autocratic, great sovereign, Emperor Nicholas Alexandrovich and his entire reigning house and army for victory over the enemy, health and salvation, long life in their days, prosperity for the church, prosperity in the air, fruitfulness of the earth.
Deliver all who by undoubting faith come to God and flow to the race of your relics from all spiritual and physical troubles: be a comforter to the sad, a physician to the sick, a helper to the afflicted, an intercessor to widows, a protector to the orphans, a nourisher to the infant, a strengthener to the old, a guide to the wandering, Helmsman for those floating, and intercede for everyone who requires your help, everything useful for salvation. As we instruct you through your prayers, we will comfortably complete the path of our short life on earth, and having established eternal peace in heaven, we will glorify together with you all the goodness of the Giver, in the Trinity of the glorified God, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto the ages of ages.
About the blessedness of the saints [pleasers] of God, all saints, standing before the throne of the Most Holy Trinity and enjoying indescribable bliss! Behold, now, on the day of your common triumph, look mercifully upon us, your least brothers, who bring you this song of praise and through your intercession ask for mercy and remission of sins from the Most Blessed Lord: we know, truly we know, that whatever you desire, you can ask Him. Therefore, we humbly pray to you: pray to the Gracious Master, may he give us the spirit of your zeal for keeping His holy commandments, so that, following in your footsteps, we will be able to pass through the earthly field in a virtuous life without vice, and in repentance to reach the glorious villages of paradise, and there together with you glorify the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit forever and ever.
To you, about all holiness, as a guiding lamp, with your deeds illuminating the path of the heavenly sunrise, I, a great sinner, humbly bow the knee of my heart and from the depths of my soul I cry: beg for me, the Lover of Mankind, God, may he not allow me to wander further along the crossroads sin, but may my mind and heart be enlightened by the light of His grace, so that we are illuminated and strengthened by it, I will be able to pass the rest of my earthly life on the right path without stumbling, and through your intercession to the Most Good Lord I will be honored to become a small partaker of your spiritual meal in the heavenly chamber of the King of Glory: To Him, with His Beginningless Father, and the Most Holy, Good and Life-Giving Spirit, be glory, honor and worship forever and ever.
Blessed and most luminous souls [spirits], Archangels and Angels and all the Heavenly Powers of honor, always standing before the Most Holy and Divine Trinity and illuminated by the light of the ever-present glory of glory, constantly glorifying Her name! We come running to you with prayer and supplication: intercede for us at the throne of the Lord Almighty, and as a servant of grace, helping us all who want to inherit salvation and rejoicing in the name of one repentant sinner, assist us in the pious conduct of our temporary life, and strengthen our feet ours is on the path of salvation.
Glorification and God-brightening to the souls [spirits] of the righteous, the saints of God, who lived on earth in the flesh pleasing to God and are now in heaven with the rejoicing angels: the honorable prophets who foreshadowed the days of our deliverance: the Forerunner of the Lord, preaching the Lamb of God who takes away sin peace, and was worthy to baptize the Source of holiness in the streams of the Jordan: the apostles of Christ, the God-established pillars of the Church, who enlightened the whole world with the saving teaching of Christ and the divinely wise and sacred laws of the Church of Christ, immovably establishing: holiness and shepherd of the flock Christ, through the prayers and sacred rites of the holy and Divine mysteries, the faithful who sanctified everything and taught me to walk in the way of the Lord’s commandments: the passion-bearers of Christ and martyrs, before the rulers and kings of Christ God, who boldly confessed and shed their honest blood for Him: the reverend and the righteous, who walked their narrow and sorrowful path who committed the mortification of the flesh and passions and crucified Christ!
We pray to you, ever-blessed ones: ask us from Christ our God for forgiveness of sins, correction of life and all the good things needed for temporal and eternal life. O most honorable and glorious council of the saints of God, ethereal Angels and those who lived in the flesh and pleased God, our intercessors and prayer books [prayer books]! Kindly look at us and at our earthly vale, remember us who wander and come, and with the grace and strength given to you from God, guide us to the Heavenly Fatherland: strengthen our weakness, protect us from temptations and enticements, save us from falling into sin, arouse in us holy love for the Lord and zeal for our salvation, plant Divine fear in our hearts, direct our steps to doing the commandments of Christ and to fulfilling the good and perfect will of God.
Grant, O saints of God, that we may live chastely and righteously and honorably in this present age, and always remember the hour of death and the terrible second coming of the Lord God and our Savior Jesus Christ, so that by His grace and love for mankind we are observed and saved, and we, sinners and unworthy people, will be honored in the Kingdom of Heaven with you to bow to the throne of God and gratefully and joyfully glorify the Most Holy, Life-giving and Indivisible Trinity, Father and Son and Holy Spirit, forever and ever.
Holy God and rest on the saints, praised with the thrice-holy voice in heaven by Angels and praised on earth by man in His saints, giving grace to everyone by Your Holy Spirit according to the bestowal of Christ, and thereby establishing Your Church as holy, both as Apostles, as prophets, as evangelists, But these are the shepherds and teachers, whose word of preaching, who acted for You in all things, accomplished many holiness in every generation and generation, with various virtues pleasing You, and leaving us the image of their good deeds, having come to You in joy, prepare the being in whom the temptations themselves were, and for us to be attacked help!
We remember all these saints and praise their godly lives, we praise you who acted in them, and for your goodness, the gift of being a believer, we diligently pray to you, the Saints: grant us sinners to follow their teaching, life, love, faith, long-suffering, and their prayerful help, and moreover, by Your all-effective grace from Heaven, you will be worthy of glory with them, praising Your Most Holy Name, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, forever and ever.
The Most High God, the Eternal God, the Immortal God, whose kingdom is great and strong, whose power is endless, His mercy from generation to generation, even without leaving from Your people, Abraham for the sake of Your beloved, and Isaac Your servant, and Your holy Israel, and all Your righteous saints chosen from the creation of the world! I, this earth and ashes, call on all of these to beseech you, the Most Merciful Master, so that for their sake I may receive your mercy, for the salvation of my damned soul. And if the prayer of one righteous person can do much, how much more can the prayer of the darkness of the righteous of all Your saints, the throne of Your majesty surrounding them, do much: for Your eyes, O Lord, are on the righteous, and Your ears are on their prayer. To them I cry out:
About the holiness and praise of the patriarchs, who by faith pleased God and all the faithful fathers! Truly blessed and blessed are you, as you sit at the table of a blessed dinner in the Kingdom of God. But I, believing in God, I pray you, like fathers: please me, like your child, to receive from the grains that fall from your meal.
Holy great prophets! You all prophesied, having understood in part, and you have seen Christ the Lord as in a mirror and in fortune-telling, but now you understand Him completely and see Him face to face. Pray, and even though I am a sinner, understanding a part of Him here, I will be worthy to see Him there with you as He is.
Holy apostles of Christ! You are vessels, in honor of sanctification and favor to the Lady, prepared for every good work, abundantly filled with the grace of God. I pray that from your fulfillment I will also be worthy of acceptance. Holy praises of the martyr of the Lord! All of you are blessed; having endured temptation, having been tempted, you have received the crown of life. Help me too, a sinner, so that I may be complete and complete in patience and lacking in nothing, and may the temptation of my faith in various adversities turn into praise and honor and glory in the revelation of Jesus Christ.
Holy Hierarchs, shepherds, residents and teachers! You are all the light of the world and lamps, set on the candlestick in the church on high, not made with hands. You will illuminate me, so that I may correct my steps to do the commandments of the Lord, and may my path not be dark and creeping, but may I be guided on the right path, leading me into the habitable city.
Holy reverend fathers, who have accomplished your good works for the sake of Christ the Lord, who have labored since your youth! All of you have accepted the perfect reward of your labors, and through your laborious gratification, even the accursed one, even if he came at the one-tenth hour, will be honored to receive a penalty from the Most Good Lover of Mankind. Holy virgins, betrothed to the One Bridegroom, Christ! All of you have gone to the palace of heaven with the wise virgins. Pray for me too, who is unworthy, for even I will not be deprived of the heavenly palace.
Holy hermits [hermits], fasting women [fasters], confessors [confessors], miracle workers and all every order of righteous women [righteous men], who were named and killed for the great multitude of the stars of heaven, it is impossible to eat, except for God Himself, who counts the multitude of stars, in whom your names were written in the book of life from the addition peace! I am weak in your help, and from you there are many communions, I humbly dare to confess and call on you: pray to our Savior, that He will grant to me, more than any man on earth who is a sinner, to seek the highest, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God the Father.
As for the rest, what is true, what is honest, what is righteous, what is most pure, what is most lovable, what is goodly praised, if there is any virtue and if there is any praise, let us ask for all this from the Merciful God, the Lover of Mankind, who fulfills all things. Your petitions, as I am grateful and unworthy not only in this time, but also in the endless future, I will be deemed worthy to sing from your faces the wisdom and glory and honor and power and strength of our God, the One Almighty, forever and ever.
Throughout the whole world, Your Church is adorned with your blood, like scarlet and visor, and with these cries out to You, O Christ God: to your people be generous.
Thy has come down, grant peace to Thy living. And great mercy to our souls.
God our father, always deal with us according to Your meekness, do not leave Your mercy from us, but through their prayers guide our lives in peace.
Apostles, martyrs [martyrs] and prophets [prophets], saints, venerables and righteous ones, who have accomplished good deeds and kept faith, who have boldness towards the Savior, pray for us as the Good to be saved, we pray, for our souls.
We magnify you, apostles, martyrs, prophets, and all saints, and we honor your holy memory: for you pray for us to Christ our God.
O blessed and holy fathers, reverends, saints, holy martyrs and venerable martyrs, myrrh-streamers and miracle workers, earthly angels and heavenly people, sowing holy mountains, nuns and adornments, according to the Mother of God our intercession before the Lord, beneficence and observation, the royal victorious militia in the body that defeated the disembodied demons, the Queen of Heaven, the Most Pure Mother of God, the worldly spirit, blossom, the light-fruitful tree of this mental paradise of the Ever-Virgin, the ever-flowing rivers of spiritual gifts! Accept this praiseworthy word that we bring to you, as the Lord has accepted two mites of widows, and embrace the general celebration that we celebrate in honor and memory of you, as the aroma of fragrance and the sacrifice are pleasing: it is not the imams, for what else should we bring according to our duty as our benefactor for the great good deeds that we received and received? imams accept from you. To her, we confess that because of our sin, we are not worthy to live in this place and be called your sons: but you, out of your goodness, do not deny being our fathers.
Do not forget us humble ones, but observe your sacred monasteries and all hermitages and cells, and save us living in them and deliver us from every temptation and misfortune in this life, in the future, may we be honored with your holy prayers of bliss together with you, sons with our fathers, flock with our shepherds, our students and our teachers, and let us hear from you that blessed voice to the Lord: Behold, we are the children that you have given to us, Lord! and rejoicingly let us give all glory, honor and worship to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, forever and ever.
About reverence and God-bearing our fathers Athos, the bright earthly light, from the deserted expanses of the holy Mount Athos in the Orthodox Church gloriously shone and the holy mountain of the infusion of your life with the kindnesses of heaven, the whole universe of high lordship virtues and Divine miracles shining and surprising! Behold, now you, the mortal West, having carnally entered the grave for a time, your souls remain with Christ, the Sun of Truth, and being a righteous woman, you are enlightened like the sun in the Kingdom of Heaven. Therefore, your prayers to God, the true light, extends rays, do not forget us, your spiritual children, even in the night of passions and sorrows, looking upon the light from above with grace: for in the light of your virtuous life, walking the right way of the commandments of Christ, we will be worthy to see the light of inviolable glory God, praisingly joined with you in the Trinity of the Holy Ones, we glorify and worship God, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
The desert fathers of Athos, the angels in the flesh, the confessors together and the saints, we honor the saints and martyrs in the songs, imitating their virtues, calling in accordance and saying: glory to the One who forsook you, glory to the One who crowned you, glory to the One who showed us in troubles.
We bless you, reverend fathers of Athos, who fasted in this grief, and we honor your holy memory, mentor of monks and interlocutor of Angels.
To you, saints without money and miracle workers Cosmos and Damian, as to a quick helper and a warm prayer book for our salvation, we unworthily resort, and cry out earnestly: do not despise the prayers of us sinners, the weak, who have fallen into many iniquities and are sinning all the days and hours. Pray to the Lord to add to us, His unworthy servants, His great and rich mercy: deliver us from all sorrow and illness, having received the infinite grace of healing from the Lord and our Savior Jesus Christ, we have accepted our nature, firm for the sake of your faith and martyr for the sake of death. Hear us praying, and by your favorable intercession ask from Christ God our most pious, autocratic, great sovereign, Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich, health and salvation, victory and victory against the enemy, and God’s blessing to the entire reigning house.
Also, for all of us from the Lord, all that is beneficial in our temporary life, especially for eternal salvation, to ask for, so that through your prayers we may achieve a painless, shameless and peaceful Christian death, and may we get rid of the wiles of the devil and eternal torment, the endless and blessed Let us be heirs to the Kingdom of Heaven. Hey, saints of God! do not stop praying for us, who flow to you with faith: if, due to the multitude of our sins, we are not worthy of your mercy, then, faithfully imitating God’s love for mankind, create with your prayers, so that fruits worthy of repentance will be brought, we will achieve eternal rest, praising and blessing the wondrous Lord God and our Savior Jesus Christ in His saints, and His Most Pure Mother, and your warm intercession, always, now and ever, and unto the ages of ages.
Holy unmercenaries and wonderworkers Cosmos and Damian, visit our infirmities: accept tuna, give us tuna.
Holy passion-bearers of Christ and miracle workers, blessed princes Vasily and Constantine! As the valiant warriors of Christ, valiantly, in their bodily being, they labored: through faith and piety and all good deeds, like a shining lamp, you conquered the evil one and quenched all his kindled arrows. For this reason, having received the unfading crown, from the faces of the saints today you stand before the throne of God, giving praise and thanksgiving to Him. In the same way, we, flowing to your race, pray: be intercessors before God and our Lord Jesus Christ, that He may deliver this city and country from every cruel situation and grant us all that is good for life: moreover, may He grant us, according to the riches of His glory, to be established in the inner man, and may He grant us worthy inherit the Kingdom of Heaven and glorify the All-Holy Name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
About the holy faith of Princes Vasily and Konstantin, the blessed parents of the most honorable branch, the princes of Russia, the divinely crowned beauty, who during your life established cities, nourished orphans and widows, and nourished holy churches with divine icons decorated! We resort to you, God’s chosen ones, and in the humility of our hearts we pray to you: be intercessors before the All-Merciful Master, may His blessing rest on this church, where you rest incorruptible your bodies, on our city, which you loved, and on the people living in it, and in orthodoxy and purity will be established. Pray to Christ God, the saints of God, may he preserve the power of your relatives intact and indivisible, may he grant peace and silence to our land, may people advance in faith and piety, may he also deliver us, to the holy race of your multi-healing relics flowing with faith, from troubles and misfortunes, ailments of body and soul, and may He vouchsafe His Heavenly Kingdom forever and ever.
Holy and righteous John and Loggina, saints of Christ and wonderworkers of glory! You have labored in fasting and in deeds of piety on earth, pleasing God, just as two bright lights shone in the world after death, and you faithfully enlighten all your miracles with a bright ray. In the same way, our intercessors showed themselves warm in heaven, and now many who are in sorrow, suffering in troubles, and having perished, are kept healthy by your prayers. And just as before, having touched your relics with impudence, you suddenly rejected and punished with relaxation, with the touch of the holy relics you were merciful, so to this day you have performed wonderful miracles all over the world from the place where your multi-healing relics were located. For this reason, people who come to your holy church pray to your holy relics with reverence and fear of God, and ask to receive health for their souls and bodies.
Now, O blessed saints of Christ and wonderworkers of glory, John and Loggina, hear the prayer of us sinners, calling you with faith: be our helpers of speed and warmest patron in travel and in sailing and in staying at home: and all Sanctify Orthodox Christians with your prayers, keep them in peace and quiet, provide them with abundance in every way, and grant this life in all good things through your intercessions to God: so, having received forgiveness for our sins through your prayers, we will be made worthy of being partakers of the Kingdom of Heaven, by grace and love for mankind of our God, to Him belongs all glory, honor and worship, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
O venerable and God-bearing Father Nicodemus! Having great boldness towards God, pray unceasingly for all of us, before the storm of many troubles and sorrows will overwhelm us: bodily ailments, mental illnesses and the attacks of the enemy overwhelm us. For our enemy walks about, looking for someone to devour, and every hour we are caught by him. Moreover, even if we are careless about our salvation, we are not worthy to look up to the heights of heaven, but be our quick helper and deliverer: and just as you yourself were tempted by the enemy, and you valiantly defeated him, so teach us that we understand his evils and enemies. Give us therefore the memory of death, tears of repentance and hope of salvation: may we not fall into despair, may we not fall into despair, relying boldly on God’s mercy, and by remaining in our sins will we ultimately destroy ourselves, but may the memory of our sins be a source of warm tears and contrition of our hearts, and mercy
God and His grace, through your prayers, for our salvation, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
O venerable and God-bearing Father Nicodemus! Standing before the throne of the Most Holy Trinity, pray unceasingly for our most pious, autocratic, great sovereign, Emperor Nicholas Alexandrovich of all Russia, and for the entire reigning house, for the most holy governing synod and for the most reverend bishop of our name, for all the sacred and monastic rank, the abbot and the brethren of the monastery yours, about the military leaders and city leaders and all Orthodox Christians: let each one walk worthy of our title, in which we are called bykh, and may our land be blooming with piety, and all who live on it will be a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy language, a people of renewal, may they appear who glorify the Lord now and ever and forever and ever.
O Reverend Father Nicodemus! Hear us sinners who pray to you and flow to your miraculous tomb, and call upon your holy name with all our hearts for help and protection. Be a merciful intercessor for us to the Almighty Lord God, the One worshiped in three hypostases, and as you have boldness towards him, pray for us, many sinners, and for the entire Orthodox Christian race, so that we may have hearts to seek the heavenly fatherland, and deviate from all those who support us passions, and that we may be delivered from troubles and misfortunes and sorrows, so that having done the will of God in this temporary life, we will be pleasing to him and be worthy of the Heavenly Kingdom, glorifying the Glorified Thee, the Heavenly King and the Trisagion God, now and ever and unto the ages of ages.
From the reigning city and the great monastery existing in it, you appeared as a sojourner, we are instructed by the providence of the Divine mind, you rushed to the sea countries, and there you settled in the desert, avoiding worldly rumors, by the power of the Holy Spirit Having armed yourself with the weapon of the cross, you drove out your enemies, completing your life with fasting and unceasing prayer, being jealous of the great fathers Anthony and Onuphrius and Paul of Thebes: with them you prayed to the Lord, Father Nicodemus, to save our souls.
O Reverend Father Athanasius, a great servant of Christ and the great Athonite miracle worker, during the days of your earthly life you guided many on the right path and into the Kingdom of Heaven, wisely guiding, comforting the sorrowful, a helping hand to those who fell a generous, and kind, merciful and compassionate father to everyone! Even now, in your heavenly abiding lordship, you most especially multiply your love for us who are weak, who are variously distressed in life, tempted by the spirit of malice and their passions that war against the spirit. For this reason, we humbly pray to you, holy father: according to the grace given to you from God, help us to do the will of the Lord in simplicity of heart and humility, to defeat the temptations of the enemy and dry up the sea of fierce passions: so that we will unfalteringly pass through the abyss of life and through your intercession to Let us be worthy of the Lord to achieve the Kingdom of Heaven promised to us, glorifying the Beginningless Trinity, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
Even in the flesh, you were amazed at your angelic life, how you came out with your body to the invisible plexus, most glorious, and you wounded the demonic armies. Well, Athanasius, Christ has rewarded you with rich gifts: for this reason, Father, pray for our souls to be saved.
O sacred head, venerable and God-bearing Father Sergius, by your prayer, and by faith and love for God, and by purity of heart, while still on earth in the monastery of the Most Holy Trinity, you established your soul, and was granted angelic communion and the visitation of the Most Holy Theotokos, and received the gift of miraculous grace upon departure But in yours, especially from those on earth, you draw closer to God and share in the heavenly powers, but also do not retreat from us in the spirit of your love, and your honest power, like a full and overflowing vessel of grace, left to us! Having great boldness towards the All-Merciful Master, pray to save His servants, who believe in His grace existing in you and flow to you with love. Help our most pious, autocratic, great sovereign, Emperor Nicholas Alexandrovich of all Russia, may his kingdom be well-governed in peace and prosperity, and may all opposition submit under his feet.
Ask us from our Greatly Gifted God for every gift that is beneficial to everyone and anyone, the observance of blameless faith, the establishment of our cities, peace, deliverance from famine and destruction, preservation from the invasion of foreigners, consolation for the afflicted, healing for the sick, restoration for the fallen, and restoration for those who have gone astray to the path of truth and salvation, strengthening for those who strive, prosperity and blessing for those who do good in good deeds, education for children, instruction for the young, admonition for the ignorant, intercession for orphans and widows, departing from this temporary life for eternal good preparation and guidance, blessed rest for those departed, and all By your prayers, on the day of the Last Judgment, grant us that part of you will be delivered, and the right lands of the land will be commoners of life and the blessed voice of the Lord Christ to hear: come, blessed of My Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the destruction peace.
O sacred head, reverend father, most blessed Abvo Sergius the Great! Do not forget your poor to the end: but always remember us in your holy and auspicious prayers to God. Remember your flock, which you yourself have shepherded, and do not forget to visit your children. Pray for us, holy father, for your spiritual children, as you have boldness towards the Heavenly King: do not keep silent to the Lord for us, and do not despise us, who honor you with faith and love. Remember us unworthy at the throne of the Almighty, and do not cease praying for us to Christ God: for grace has been given to you to pray for us. We do not imagine that you are dead: even though you passed away from us in body, you remain alive even after death. Do not give up on us in spirit, keeping us from the arrows of the enemy and all the charms of the demonic and the wiles of the devil, our good shepherd. Even though your relics are always visible before our eyes, your holy soul with the angelic armies, with the disembodied faces, with the heavenly powers, stands at the throne of the Almighty, worthy of rejoicing.
Knowing that you are truly a living being after death, we bow down to you and pray to you: pray for us to the Almighty God, for the benefit of our souls, and ask us time for repentance, so that we may pass from earth to heaven without restraint, from bitter ordeals, demons of the princes of the air and from eternal torment may we be delivered, and heirs of the Heavenly Kingdom, may we be with all the righteous, who from time immemorial have pleased our Lord Jesus Christ: to whom is due all glory, honor and worship, with His Beginning Father, and with His Most Holy and Good and Life-giving Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
O citizen of heavenly Jerusalem, Rev. Father Sergius! Look upon us mercifully, and lead those who are devoted to the earth to the heights of heaven. You are burning in heaven, we are on earth below, the being is far from you not only by place, but by our sins and iniquities: but to you, as our kin, we resort and cry, instruct us to walk in your way, enlighten us and guide us. It is characteristic of you, Our Father, to have mercy and love for mankind: for those who live on earth, I should care not only about my own salvation, but also about all those who come to you. Your instructions were like the reed of a cursive scribe, who inscribes the words of life on the hearts of people. You didn’t just heal bodily illnesses, but more than spiritual ones, you appeared as an elegant physician: and your whole life was a mirror of all virtues. Even though you were so holy, more holy than God, on earth: how much are you now in heaven! Today you stand before the throne of unapproachable light, and in it, as in a mirror, you see all our needs and petitions: you are together with the Angels, rejoicing over the one sinner who repents.
And God’s love for mankind is inexhaustible, and your boldness towards Him is great: do not stop crying to the Lord for us. Through your intercession, ask from our All-Merciful God the peace of His Church, under the sign of the Militant Cross: agreement to faith and unity of wisdom, destruction of vanity and schism, affirmation in good deeds: healing for the sick, consolation for the sad, intercession for the offended, help for the needy. Do not disgrace us, who flow to you with faith. Even if we are unworthy of such a father and intercessor: but you, being an imitator of God’s love for mankind, make us worthy by turning from evil deeds to good living. All God-enlightened Russia, filled with your miracles and blessed by your mercies, confesses you to be their patron and intercessor. Reveal your ancient mercies, and those whom your father helped, do not deny us their children, who are walking towards you in their footsteps. We believe that you are present with us in spirit. For where the Lord is, as His word teaches us, there also His servant will be.
You are a faithful servant of the Lord: and God exists everywhere, you are in us, and He is in you, moreover, you are with us in body. Behold, your incorruptible and life-giving relics, like a priceless treasure, God entrusts to us with miracles. Before them, as you live, we fall down and pray: accept our prayers, and offer me on the altar of God’s mercy, so that you may receive grace and timely help for our needs. Strengthen our cowardice and confirm us in faith, so that we undoubtedly hope to receive all the good things from the mercy of the Master through your prayers. Do not cease to rule your spiritual flock, which you have gathered, with the rod of spiritual wisdom: give help to those who struggle, raise up the weakened, hasten to bear the yoke of Christ in complacency and patience: and guide us all in peace and repentance to end our lives and depart from trust in the blessed bosom of Abraham, where you now rest joyfully through your labors and struggles, glorifying, with all the saints, God, glorified in the Trinity, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto the ages of ages.
From your youth you accepted Christ in your soul, O Reverend, and most of all you desired to avoid worldly rebellion: you courageously moved into the desert, and you raised the children of obedience in it, the fruits of humility. Thus, having given residence to the Trinity, you enlightened everyone with your miracles who come to you with faith, abundantly giving healing to everyone. Our Father Sergius, pray to Christ God to save our souls.
O Venerable Princess Euphrosyne, kind ascetic among women, praiseworthy servant of Christ! Accept the prayer of us unworthy, with faith and love for the race of your relics who have fallen, and with your warm intercession to God, ask for your city and people to be preserved from troubles and misfortunes, for the monastery you created to be established and prosperous: promote those who struggle in your monastery, like a child-loving mother, bear the yoke of Christ with complacency and patience and strive well to correct your life: in the world, ask the Lord for those who live piously in faith, firmness in faith, progress in piety, and always give to everyone who comes to you with faith and asks for your help and intercession healing of ailments, consolation in sorrows and prosperity in all life: most of all, beg the Lord to pass away earthly life in peace and repentance, so that we may be delivered from bitter ordeals and eternal torment and receive the Kingdom of Heaven through your intercession, where you stand before the Lord with all the saints, so that we glorify the Father and the Son and The Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
Through earthly widowhood, having lost the knowledge of the Heavenly Bridegroom and having lived as an ascetic in the princely palace, you left both the palace and your children for God’s sake, Venerable Euphrosyne, and entered the monastery you created, and in a different way showed many deeds You are, and by the grace of God you crowned your holy life with a blessed death. Now stand before Christ God, pray for the salvation of our souls.
O great servant of God and miracle worker, holy blessed servant Procopius! We pray to you and ask you: pray for us to the All-Merciful God and our Savior Jesus Christ, that He may add His mercy to us unworthy and grant us everything we need for life and piety: advancement of faith and love, increase in piety, strengthening of peace, fruitfulness of the earth, prosperity in the air and good in all things. haste: may he preserve our most pious, autocratic, great sovereign, Emperor Nicholas Alexandrovich of all Russia, in health and longevity, granting him victory and victory over enemies visible and invisible. Be a good helper, patron and protector through your prayers to him and his entire kingdom. By your intercession, keep the reigning cities, your city of Ustyug and all the cities and towns of Russia, unharmed from all evil.
To all Orthodox Christians, who prayerfully call upon you, grant to each according to his needs: healing to the sick, consolation to the grieving, help to the needy, encouragement to the discouraged, provision for the poor, charity for the orphaned. We have all asked for the spirit of repentance and fear of God, so that having ended this temporary life in a pious manner, we may be worthy to receive a good Christian death and inherit the Kingdom of Heaven with God’s chosen ones. Hey, righteous one of God! do not disgrace our hope, which we humbly place in you, but be our helper and intercessor in life, in death and after our death: that through your intercession we have improved our salvation, together with you we glorify the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, and your strong intercession for us, forever and ever.
Having been enlightened by Divine grace, God-wise, and having unswervingly placed all your mind and heart from this vanity world to the Creator, with chastity and much patience in your temporal life, you ended the course of goodness, and you kept your faith immaculate. Likewise, even after death, the lightness of your life appeared: you flow forth an inexhaustible source of miracles with faith flowing to your holy tomb, blessed Procopius. Pray to Christ God to save our souls.
O great miracle worker, holy righteous Procopius! Hear me, a sinner, praying to you and calling on your holy name. See me poor, in the capital's misfortune; see me weak, caught from everywhere and deprived of every good and my mind darkened from cowardice. Strive, holy of God, to free me captive: do not leave me a sinful enemy in the joy of being and dying in my evil deeds. Pray for me, unworthy of my Creator and Master, to whom you stand with your disembodied faces: be merciful to me, my God in the present world and in the future, that He may not repay me according to my evil deeds and the impurity of my heart, but may He reward me according to His goodness. I trust in your intercession, and I boast in you, and I call on your holy name for help, and falling to your whole-bearing tomb, I ask for help. Deliver me, O saint of Christ, from the evils that come upon me, and subdue the waves that rise against me from everywhere, so that they may not attack me to the end, and may I not sink into the abyss of sin and in the mud of my passions.
Pray, holy and righteous Procopius, Christ our God, to grant me great sinner mercy, that I may glorify the great name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto the ages of ages.
Having been enlightened by divine grace, and after death you grant healing to those who flow to the race of your relics, the wise Procopius: in the same way, we now honor the appearance of your honorable relics, joyfully together for soul and body. Thus we all cry out: glory to Him who gave you strength; glory to Him who crowned you; glory to Him who heals you all.
O our good shepherd and mentor, ever-remembered leader of the Russian monks, venerable and God-bearing Father Anthony! You are burning in heaven, but we are on earth below, being removed from you not only by place, but by our sinful uncleanness. Moreover, remembering your fatherly love for your kindred people, we fall down and pray to you with tenderness and faith: help us sinners to be cleansed by repentance and worthy of being pardoned and forgiven by our Lord and Creator. implore His goodness to grant us great and rich mercies: fruitfulness of the earth, goodness of the air, deep peace, sincere brotherly love, unfeigned piety, contentment with everyday needs, and may we not turn into evil the good things given to us from His generous right hand, but for the glory of His holy name and for our salvation. Preserve, saint of God, through the intercession of your saints, in health and long life our blessed sovereign, Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich of all Russia, and his entire reigning house, punishing under his nose all enemies and adversaries.
Keep, O miraculous saint, through your powerful prayers the reigning cities, your monastery and the entire Orthodox-Russian country unharmed from all evil: and all the people who live in your monastery and come to worship there, in the fall with your heavenly blessing, and in sorrows, troubles and illnesses, consolation, deliverance and healing to them Grant us: let us gratefully glorify, praise and magnify the Lord who has glorified you, who through you has wonderfully benefited us, the Beginningless Father, His Only Begotten Son and His Consubstantial Spirit, the Life-Giving and Indivisible Trinity, and your holy intercession, forever and ever.
You came from the rebellion of the world, and by rejecting the world you followed Christ in the Gospel: and having lived a life equal to the angels, you reached the quiet refuge of the holy Mount Athos, from there, with the blessing of the fathers, you came to the mountain of Kyiv, and there, having completed your hard-working life, your fatherland You have enlightened, and shown to many monastics the path leading to the Heavenly Kingdom, You have brought this to Christ: Pray to Him, Reverend Anthony, that He may save our souls.
O holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Grand Duchess Olgo, First Lady of Russia, warm intercessor and prayer book for us before God! We resort to you with faith and pray with love: be your helper and accomplice in everything for our good, and just as in temporal life you tried to enlighten our forefathers with the light of the holy faith and instruct me to do the will of the Lord, so now, in the heavenly abiding light, your favorable to God with prayers, help us in enlightening our minds and hearts with the light of the Gospel of Christ, so that we may advance in faith, piety and love of Christ. In poverty and sorrow, present consolation, give a helping hand to the needy, stand up for those who are offended and mistreated, those who have been misled by the right faith and blinded by heresy, and ask us from the Almighty God for all the good and useful life of temporal and eternal life, so that it is pleasing to God here Having lived, we will be worthy of inheriting eternal blessings in the endless Kingdom of Christ our God, to Him, together with the Father and the Holy Spirit, belongs all glory, honor and worship, always, now and ever, and unto the ages of ages.
O great saint of God, God-chosen and God-glorified Equal-to-the-Apostles Grand Duchess Olgo! You rejected pagan evil and wickedness, you believed in the One True Trinitarian God, and you accepted Holy Baptism, and you laid the foundation for the enlightenment of the Russian land with the light of faith and piety. You are our spiritual ancestor, you, according to Christ our Savior, are the first culprit of the enlightenment and salvation of our race. You are a warm prayer book and intercessor for the kingdom of all Russia, for its kings, rulers, the army and for all people.
For this reason, we humbly pray to you: look at our weaknesses and beg the most merciful King of Heaven, so that he will not be very angry with us, as through our weaknesses we sin all the days, and may he not destroy us with our iniquities, but may he have mercy and save us in His mercy, may He let His saving fear enter our hearts, so that our minds may be enlightened by His grace, so that we may understand the ways of the Lord, leave the paths of wickedness and error, and strive in the paths of salvation and truth, the unwavering fulfillment of the commandments of God and the statutes of the Holy Church.
Pray, blessed Olgo, to God, the Lover of Mankind, to add His great mercy to us: may He deliver us from the invasion of foreigners, from internal disorder, rebellion and strife, from famine, deadly diseases and from all evil: may He give us the blessing of the air and the fruitfulness of the earth: may He preserve and save our most pious sovereign, Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich, from all the intrigues and slander of the enemy: may he grant him victory at the gates, may all his good desires be fulfilled: may his throne be protected by wise and faithful servants, may he observe truth and mercy in judges and rulers: may he give zeal to the shepherds for the salvation of his flock, and to all people haste to diligently correct our services, to have love among one another and to have like-mindedness, to strive faithfully for the good of the fatherland and the Holy Church: may the light of saving faith shine in all its ends in our kingdom: may non-believers turn to faith: may all heresies and schisms be abolished: so those who have lived in the world in earth, with you we will be worthy of eternal bliss in heaven, praising and exalting God forever and ever.
Now you are greatness and praise, O God-wise One: by you we have been freed from the flattery of idols and have been converted into the faith of Christ by Holy Baptism. You are a pure teacher of the law and a teacher of the faith of Christ, who appeared to people. Accept therefore praise from us unworthy, who bow before your honest icon and humbly ask, so that through your prayers and intercession we may be freed from misfortunes and misfortunes and the sorrows of fierce sins: also, deliver us from future torment, honestly creating your holy memory and glorifying God who glorified you in the Holy Trinity glorified, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
Having fixed your mind with the wings of God's understanding, you soared above all visible creations: having sought God and the Creator of all things, and having found Him, you received birth through baptism: enjoying the tree of the living, you remain incorruptible forever, Olgo, ever-glorious.
We magnify you, blessed and equal to the apostles Princess Olgo, and honor your holy memory, who trampled idols and enlightened many Russian people with Holy Baptism.
Servant of God, most blessed Reverend Father Arseny, stand with your soul in heaven before the throne of God and enjoy the glory of the Trinity, but rest your body on earth in the Divine Church. Look with your merciful eye at the more honest people ahead of you and those asking for your strong help. As you have acquired boldness before the Lord, ask for His prosperity for the Church, for the goodness of the air, for the fruitfulness of the earth. Deliver all who come to God with undoubted faith and reverently honor your memory from all spiritual and physical troubles, from all yearnings and excuses of the devil. For with your prayers we instruct you, let us comfortably complete the path of our short life on earth, and having improved endless peace in heaven, let us glorify together with you all the goodness of the Giver, the One in the Trinity of the glorified God, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto the ages of ages.
Inflamed with divine love, you rejected all worldly attachments, took the Cross of Christ to the frame, and deigned to walk after Him: leaving your fatherland, you reached Great Novagrad, and working with God’s irrevocable thought, you were granted the gift of miracles. In the same way, reverent Arseny, we honor you, and cry out: glory to Him who gave you strength, glory to Him who crowned you, glory to Him who heals you all.
O most blessed and reverend Father Stephen, illustrious servant of the Most Holy Trinity! Standing before Her Throne from the faces of the saints is an Angel and all the saints, remember us, in troubles and sorrows, those who fall and pray to your whole-bearing tomb: hear our prayers and bring me to the throne of the Trinitarian God, asking Him for us rich mercies, health for our souls and bodies, above all, remission of sins, grace and salvation. Because you have boldness towards Him, you can beg Him to give us all good things in our life, for our benefit and in preparation for eternal life. O good and faithful servant of God, true disciple of Christ, chosen vessel of the Holy Spirit, miracle worker Stephen!
Through your prayers, make us sinners also partakers of grace-filled gifts, in whose image God has enriched you, and be, according to God, a mentor to us for a godly life, a comforter of the storm of passions, a helper in sorrows and troubles, and a good intercessor from enemies visible and invisible: and we too, sowing the path of life pleasing to God Having passed, we will appear as heirs of the Kingdom of God through your intercession, and we will be worthy, together with you, to stand before the throne of the King of glory, to Him belongs all glory, honor and power forever and ever.
A zealot of Orthodoxy, a teacher of piety and purity, a guiding lamp for those seeking salvation, a divinely inspired adornment to monastics, a spiritual interlocutor of St. Sergius, Stephen the Wise, with your teachings and good deeds you have enlightened souls and you have populated deserts. Pray to Christ God for our souls to be saved.
About the Glorification, holiness and long-suffering of the martyrs of Christ Kirich and Julitto, the beautiful blossom and aroma of the blessed paradise, the angel of the interlocutor and the merchant, with whom you are now worthy to sing a pure song before the throne of the Lamb, who takes away the sin of the whole world, the Lord God and our Savior Jesus Christ, who by His will deigned to lay His soul on the altar of the Cross for our sake! Hear us sinners and unworthy servants, praying in this all-honorable church and celebrating your holy long-suffering memory. Ask us from the Lord with your many-powerful prayers for grace, even unto salvation, and for forgiveness of all the sins we have committed, for the prosperity of the earth, a peaceful dispensation for the world and liberation from the fierce wiles of the devil, for the Christian end of our life and for the peaceful passage to heaven through the airy ordeal: for you have received this natural grace from the Lord, pray for us, and if you want to have mercy on us who honor your sacred memory, you can do everything.
Do not despise us, unworthy, holy martyr Kiriche, three-year-old gentle lamb, with your long-suffering matter, Saint Julitta. Ask from the Lord all that is good and useful to our souls, so that we too will be worthy to glorify and sing together with you His all-holy and magnificent name in the primeval Kingdom of Heaven, where there is a dwelling place for all saints, forever and ever.
Holy duo, passion-bearers of Christ, blessed Kirich, who suffered at the age of three, with the God-wise matter Julitta! With your blood, as if you were adorned with crimson and the heavenly palaces and honored with eternal glory, do not forget us on earth, but through your warm intercession before God, deliver us all from all sorrow and illness. Behold, to your most honest and miraculous icon, we reverently fall and kiss you, unworthy and sinful to you, as if we were our quick helper and warm prayer book, we cry out with a contrite and humble spirit: do not despise the prayers of us sinners, the weak, who have fallen into much iniquity, but, as through the grace of God at the wedding, cleanse us from our ailments and ask us from Christ our God for mental and physical health. You have received the infinite grace of healing from our Savior Jesus Christ for your faith, sealed by torment.
In the same way, help those who are lying in severe infirmities and help those who despair of humanity, but those who come running to you warmly with faith, and give healing to those who are unsparing: remission of sins to all the faithful and ask, may they glorify the wondrous Lord God and our Savior Jesus Christ in their saints, and His Most Pure Mother, and your warm intercession, always, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
O glorification and divine wisdom, passion-bearers of Christ, holy martyrs [martyrs] Kirich and Iulitto! Because of your prayers for us sinners, the Lover of Mankind, the Lord, desiring to bestow on people the grace of infinite healings and inexhaustible spiritual blessings, deign to glorify this miraculous icon that has existed since ancient times.
For this reason, we, sinners, fall to this whole-hearted shrine, O passion-bearers, we sing your mighty intercession, and glorify your strong intercession for us sinners, we humbly pray to you and cry out with tears: you, the true intercessors of our salvation, come to the aid of all of us, and deliver us from ailments and diseases, from hunger and fire, from unexpected death and deadly ulcers and from all evil: wean away from us the mental destroyer of the serpent, seeking to devour and bring our souls to hell: protect us from the temptations and temptations of this world: confirm our hearts in humility, meekness, obedience, in silence and in abstinence, in patience and forgetfulness of malice and love, even in Christ Jesus our Lord: but strengthen us, who live in the monastery, in all our monastic labors. You are vessels of the fulfillment of God's grace: shine upon us, darkened by the slander of the enemy, with the light of holy grace, enlightening us, so that walking in it, we will not stumble our feet on a stone.
You are doctors of grace, healing every ailment and every ulcer among people: heal our ailments and bodily ulcers, so that we may worthily glorify God in our souls and bodies. you are the joy of the highest: you are worthy warriors of the King of Heaven: you are an acceptable sacrifice to God: you are citizens of the New Jerusalem: you are heirs of the Kingdom of Heaven. We earnestly pray to you that we are unworthy, and grant us a good course in the path of the Lord’s commandments and grant us what we desire to receive. Above all, keep our most pious sovereign, Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich, in peace, health and long life, and give his power a strong defense, so that having lived piously and carelessly on earth, we will achieve eternal rest in peace, where we will be worthy of the Heavenly Kingdom of Christ our God, to Whom is all glory befits, with the Father and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
O great servant of God, God-chosen and God-glorified, equal to the apostles Prince Vladimir! You, having rejected pagan evil and wickedness, believed in the One True Trinitarian God, and received holy baptism, you enlightened the entire Russian country with the light of divine faith and piety. In the same way, we glorify and thank our Most Merciful Creator and Savior, we glorify and thank you, our Enlightener and Father, for by you we know the saving faith of Christ and in the name of the Most Holy and Divine Trinity we are baptized. By this faith we have been delivered from the righteous condemnation of God, and from the eternal work of the devil and the torment of hell we have been freed: by this faith we have been freed from the grace of being born into sons and the hope of inheriting heavenly bliss. Moreover, we glorify you as the first language of our guide to the Author and Finisher of our salvation, the Lord Jesus Christ, and we glorify you as your representative before the throne of the King of those who reign about the kingdom of all Russia, about His kings, the rulers of the people, the army and about all people.
Our language will not be able to depict the greatness and height of the good deeds that you have poured out on our land, our fathers and forefathers and those unworthy of us. O blessed father and our enlightener! look at our weaknesses and pray to the most merciful King of Heaven, may He not be very angry with us, as through our weaknesses we sin all day long, and may He not destroy us with our iniquities, but may He have mercy and save us by His mercy, may He implant repentance and saving fear in our hearts May God enlighten our minds with His grace, so that we may leave the paths of wickedness and turn to the path of salvation, and unswervingly keep the commandments of God and observe the statutes of the Holy Church.
Pray, kind-hearted God, the Lover of Mankind, may He show us His great mercy: may He deliver us from the invasion of foreigners, from rebellion and strife, from famine, deadly diseases and from all evil: may He give us the blessing of the air and the fruitfulness of the earth: may He preserve and save our most pious sovereign, Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich from all the machinations and slander of the enemy: may he grant him victory over his enemies, may he fulfill all his good desires, and may his throne be protected by wise and faithful servants: may he preserve truth and mercy in judges and rulers: may he give zeal to the shepherds for the salvation of his flock, and to all people mutual love and unanimity for prosperity of the Fatherland and the Holy Church, the everlasting care: may the light of saving faith multiply in our kingdom, convert unbelievers to orthodoxy, and overthrow heresies and schisms: may all of us, having lived in peace on earth, be worthy with you of eternal bliss, praising and exalting God in forever and ever.
How can we praise you, the most courageous Vladimir among earthly rulers? How shall we give thanks to you, since by you the knowledge of the Lord and the flattery of idols has been abundant, since by your command Christ is glorified throughout all our land? How did you believe? How did you seek Christ? Tell us, your children, where the scent of the Holy Spirit comes from? You have not seen Christ, nor walked on him: what kind of disciple have you found? You did not see the apostle come to your land, you did not see him casting out demons in the name of Christ, healing the sick, raising the dead. Amazing miracle! And the king and ruler, seeing all this coming from holy men, did not believe, but rather gave them over to passions and torments: but you, O blessed one, without seeing or hearing all these, you came to Christ, understanding that One is the Creator of the visible and the invisible, the heavenly and the earthly, and as an ambassador to peace, ours for the sake of salvation, His beloved Son. And having thought this, you entered the holy font.
And now, in the nine hundredth summer and many more that have passed, look upon your land, see your children, see the most pious sovereign Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich painting the table of your land, rejoice and be glad. See how your people live, how they preserve the essence of the Lord, how they keep their faith according to your tradition, how they glorify Christ, how they worship His name. See the city and its shining majesty, see the blossoming church, see the growing Christianity, see your city Kyiv, so many saints of God, resting in incorruption, shining, and fragrant with incense, and with the praises and divine songs of the saints we announce.
Seeing how your faithful radiance through your intercession and intercession was not quickly dried up by the heat of unbelief, but that the rain of God’s haste brought forth abundant fruit, rejoice in spirit, in the lords of the apostle, who did not restore the dead body, but in the present soul He raised the dead! Rejoice, our comforter and teacher of good faith!
You were, O honorable head, a garment for the naked, a feeder for the hungry, a helper for widows, a strange refuge, a protector for the offended, an enrichment for the poor. With this good deed in heaven, having received retribution and the sight of the sweet face of God, satiated, do not cease praying for your land and for the children in whom you reigned faithfully, especially for the most pious sovereign Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich, may he keep me in peace and good faith, betrayed by you, and yes Orthodoxy is ever glorified in our land, and may the Lord not forsake us, even if we still wander this long century, and even if we still sin against our Lord and Master, like a newly purchased slave, unable to please his master.
We raise our hands to you and pray to you: pray to the Lady of all, may he extend, as long as peace endures, His mercy on our fatherland and His people, driving away enemies, establishing peace, delivering from famine, our king, our co-dealer, a terrible adversary, instructing the Bolyars, establishing cities, growing His Church, preserving His inheritance, saving husbands and wives and babies, and preserving His mercy, in the unity of faith together we cheerfully and joyfully glorify our Lord Jesus Christ, with the Father and with the Holy Spirit, the Indivisible and One-Divine Trinity, reigning in heaven and on earth, now and ever forever and ever.
You became like a merchant looking for good beads, glorious Vladimir, at the height of the table of the gray-haired mother of cities, God-saved Kyiv, testing and sending to the royal city to take away the Orthodox faith, and you found priceless beads, Christ, who chose you as the second Paul and shook off blindness in the holy font, both spiritual and physical: we also celebrate your dormition, your people. Pray for the salvation of your Russian power, the ruler, the Christ-loving emperor and the multitude of those who rule.
We magnify you, holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Prince Vladimir, and honor your holy memory, who trampled idols and enlightened the entire Russian land with Holy Baptism.
O Reverend Father Irinarsha, servant of God and prayer book for our souls! Hear us now praying to you, for you who have boldness in the Lord, may you give us everything for our benefit in this life and in preparation for eternal life. Be a mentor to us in spiritual life, a calmer to the storm of passions, a helper in sorrows and an intercessor from the invisible enemies who fight us: so that we, having passed the field of this life in a godly manner, will be heirs of the Kingdom of Heaven, and we will be worthy, together with you, to glorify the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit in forever and ever.
Having loved a life of fasting according to God, you subjugated all carnal wisdom to the spirit, and by abstinence of passions you slain, in labor and vigils and prayers you became an image of virtue: thus you appeared to be a mentor of monastic life, Father Reverend Irinarsha. Pray to Christ God for our souls to be saved.
O most praiseworthy and wonderful prophet of God Elijah, who shone forth like the angels of your life on earth, and was glorified by your ardent zeal for the Lord God Almighty, also glorified by signs and glorious wonders, and at the end of your life on a chariot of fire with your flesh to heaven naturally delighted, in recent years, with the transfigured Savior of the world on Tabor, he was able to talk, and now he always dwells in the heavenly villages and stands before the throne of the Heavenly King! Hear us, sinners and indecent ones, standing before your holy icon and zealously resorting to your intercession. Pray for us to the Lover of Mankind, may He give us a spirit of repentance and contrition for our sins, and by His omnipotent grace will help us to leave the paths of wickedness, to excel in every deed, and in the fight against our passions and lusts, may He strengthen us: may He implant in our hearts the spirit of humility, meekness, the spirit of brotherly love and kindness, a spirit of patience and chastity, a spirit of zeal for the glory of God and one’s salvation and good care for one’s neighbors.
By your prayers, prophet, we have abolished the evil customs of the world, and especially the pernicious and pernicious spirit of this age, turning away the Christian race from the Divine faith and statutes of the Holy Church, and seducing the parents and authorities with disrespect, and thus all people into the abyss of wickedness and destruction overthrown. Through your intercession, turn away from us the righteous lord of God, and deliver all the cities and villages of our kingdom from rainlessness and famine, from cowardice and deadly ulcers and diseases, from the invasion of enemies and internecine warfare. Strengthen with your prayers, most glorious, our most pious sovereign, Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich, prosper him in all his good deeds and undertakings. Help the All-Russian Christ-loving army in battle against our enemies.
Ask, prophet of God, from the Lord our shepherd, holy zeal for God, care for the salvation of the flock, wisdom, piety and strength in temptation in teaching and governance: ask for impartiality and selflessness for judges, for all those in power, mercy and justice, for subordinates, obedience and zealous zeal for your obedience: so it is in the world and having lived piously in this world, we will be worthy to partake of eternal blessings in the Kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, to whom honor and worship are due, with His Beginning Father and the Most Holy Spirit, forever and ever.
O great and glorious prophet of God Elijah, for the sake of your zeal for the glory of the Lord God Almighty, not patient to see the idolatry and wickedness of the sons of Israel, you exposed the lawbreaking king Ahab and, as punishment for them, a three-year famine on the land of Israel, through your prayer you asked from the Lord, the widow of Zarephath in He was wonderfully fed by the famine and her son died through your prayer, resurrected, after the passage of the time of famine, the people of Israel were gathered on Mount Carmel for apostasy and wickedness, reproaching the same fire for your sacrifice from heaven, and by this miracle Israel who turned to the Lord, who put to shame and put to death the cold prophets of Baal, who through prayer again resolved the sky and asked for abundant rain on the earth, and made the people of Israel rejoice! To you, wonderful servant of God, we diligently resort to sin and humility, rainlessness and languid heat. We confess that you are unworthy of the mercy and blessings of God, but are worthy of your wrath more than the cruel punishments.
We did not walk in the fear of God and in the ways of His commandments, but in the lusts of our depraved hearts, and without shame we created every kind of sin: for our iniquities have surpassed our head, and we are not worthy to appear before the face of God and to see into heaven. We also humbly confess that for this reason the heavens were closed and like copper were created, for this reason our hearts were first closed with mercy and true love: for this reason the earth was hardened and became barren, because the fruits of good deeds were not brought to our Lord: for this reason there was no rain, lower dew, like tears the tenderness and life-giving dew of thought are not the imams: for this reason every grain and grass withered, as if every good feeling had dried up in us: for this reason the air has become darkened, for our mind has been darkened with cold thoughts and our heart has been defiled with lawless lusts. We confess that we are unworthy and you, prophet of God, should beseech you.
You, having become a servile man to us, became like an angel in your life, and like an incorporeal being, you were caught up into heaven: but with our cold thoughts and deeds we became like dumb cattle, and made our soul like flesh. You surprised angels and people with fasting and vigil: but we, indulging in intemperance and lust, become like senseless cattle. You were constantly burning with the utmost zeal for the glory of God: but we, carelessly about the glory of our Creator and Lord, are ashamed to confess His venerable name. You have eradicated wickedness and evil customs: but we have enslaved the spirit of this age, observing the customs of the world more than the commandments of God and the statutes of the church. What a sin and untruth we have not created! And so our iniquities exhaust the long-suffering of God. Moreover, the just Lord was righteously angry with us, and in His anger punished us.
Moreover, knowing your great boldness before the Lord and trusting in your love for the human race, we dare to pray to you, most praiseworthy prophet: be merciful to us, unworthy and indecent, beg the Great and All-Bountiful God, so that he will not be completely angry with us and may he not destroy us with our iniquities, but yes abundant and peaceful rain will fall on the thirsty and parched earth, may it bestow fruitfulness and goodness in the air: bow with your effective intercession to the mercy of the King of Heaven, not for us for the sake of the sinful and nasty, but for the sake of His chosen servants, who did not bend their knees to the Baal of this world, for the sake of the gentle babies, for the sake of dumb cattle and birds of the air, who suffer for our iniquity and are consumed by hunger, heat and thirst.
With your favorable prayers we have asked from the Lord the spirit of repentance and heartfelt tenderness, the spirit of meekness and self-control, the spirit of love and patience, the spirit of the fear of God and piety, so that, having returned from the path of wickedness to the right path of virtue, we walk in the light of God’s commandments and achieve the good things promised to us, by the good will of the Beginning Father, by love of mankind His only begotten Son and the grace of the All-Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
O holy, glorious prophet of God Elijah, great zealot of the law of God! You are a fair and brave avenger in the murder of the Baal priests and a consumer of their idolatry: for you wanted to see the glory of God not diminished, but multiplied forever, and you were not afraid of their many people’s fury, like the Jezebel priests on the flood [stream] You slain Kiss with a knife, and then, as if taken by a whirlwind on a chariot of fire, you ascended to the heights of heaven with glory. For this reason, we, unworthy and sinners, humbly pray to you, honest prophet of God: grant us worthily to glorify and sing of your most honorable intercession, so that having found you as a great intercessor, we may be worthy of rich mercy from the Lord. Likewise, now, gloriously pleasing you, we pray: protect our power with peace, and deliver us from every slander of the enemy, from hunger and cowardice and the fire of lightning, and do not forget us sinners, who celebrate your blessed memory and constantly glorify the Lord who glorified you forever and ever.
In the flesh, an angel, the foundation of the prophets, the second forerunner of the coming of Christ, the glorious Elijah, who from above sent Elisha the grace to drive away illnesses and cleanse lepers: and he also brings healing to those who worship him.
We magnify you, holy, glorious prophet of God Elijah, and honor your glorious ascent to heaven on a chariot of fire.
O most honorable and sacred head, blessed father, Abvo Abramie! Do not forget your poor to the end, but always remember us in your holy and auspicious prayers to God. Remember your flock, even if you yourself fell, and do not forget to visit your children. Pray for us, holy father, for your spiritual children, as you have boldness towards the Heavenly King: do not keep silent to the Lord for us, and do not despise us, who honor you with faith and love. Remember us unworthy at the throne of the Almighty, and do not cease praying for us to Christ God: for grace has been given to you to pray for us. We do not imagine that you are dead: even though you passed away from us in body, you remain alive even after death. Do not give up on us in spirit, keeping us from the arrows of the enemy and all the charms of the demonic and the wiles of the devil, our good shepherd. Even though the relics of your cancer are always visible before our eyes, but your holy soul with the angelic hosts, with the disembodied faces, with the Heavenly Powers, stands at the throne of the Almighty, it is worthy to rejoice.
Knowing that you are truly alive even after death, we bow down to you and we pray to you: pray for us to the Almighty God, for the benefit of our souls, and ask us time for repentance, so that we may pass from earth to heaven without restraint, from bitter ordeals, demons of air princes and from eternal torment, and may we be delivered Let us be the heirs of the Heavenly Kingdom with all the righteous, who from time immemorial have pleased our Lord Jesus Christ: to Him belongs all glory, honor and worship, with His Beginning Father, and with His Most Holy and Good and Life-giving Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
About the worldly rebellion, you left for the quiet refuge of the monastery of St. Sergius, and there, having lived an equal life with the angels, you came to the country of Galich, where you instilled the faith of Christ and cleansed newly baptized people from filthy superstitions, performing many and great feats. You raised up and created four monasteries, You saved the faces of the monks for good and brought them to Christ the Savior: Pray to Him, Reverend Father Abram, to save our souls.
Holy myrrh-bearing and all-praised equal-to-the-apostles disciple of Christ Mary Magdalene! To you, as the most faithful and powerful intercessor for us to God, we sinners and unworthy people now diligently run to you and pray in contrition of our hearts. In your life you experienced the terrible snares of demons, but by the grace of Christ you were clearly freed from them: and with your prayers deliver us from the snare of demons, so that always, in all our life, in deed, word, thought and the secret thoughts of our hearts, we will faithfully serve the One Holy Master our God. You loved the Sweetest Lord Jesus more than all earthly blessings, and you followed Him well through all your life, nourishing your soul with His Divine teachings and grace, and bringing many people from pagan darkness into Christ to the wonderful light. This knowingly, we pray to you: ask us from Christ God for the grace that enlightens and sanctifies us, so that we may be overshadowed by it, in faith and piety, in the struggles of love and self-sacrifice we will succeed, and we will strive to serve our neighbors without laziness, your love for mankind the image is memorable.
You, O holy Mary, lived vigilantly through the grace of God on earth, and went to the heavenly abode rejoicing: pray to Christ the Savior, that we too may be worthy of our journey in this vale of weeping without stumbling, and may end our life in peace and repentance, so that we may live in holiness on earth, eternal We will be worthy of a blessed life in heaven and there with you and all the saints together we will praise the Indivisible Trinity and sing of the One Divinity of the Father and the Son and the All-Holy Spirit forever and ever.
O holy myrrh-bearer, Equal-to-the-Apostles Magdalene Mary! With your warm love for Christ God, you trampled the evil machinations of the enemy, and having found the priceless beads of Christ, you achieved the Kingdom of Heaven. For this reason, I fall to you with a tender soul, and with a contrite heart I cry out to you: look down from the heights of heaven upon me, with sinful temptations I fight: see, since with many sins and troubles the enemy stumbles me every day, he seeks my destruction. Moreover, O glorious and all-praiseful disciple of Christ Mary, beg Christ God, Who is beloved by you and Who has loved you, to grant me forgiveness of many of my sins, and to strengthen me with His grace soberly and cheerfully to walk along the path of His holy commandments and to make the temple of the Holy Spirit for me: so much so difficult Having ended my life on earth, I am worthy to dwell in the bright and blessed abodes of heavenly paradise, where you and all the saints joyfully glorify the Consubstantial Trinity, the Father and the Son and the All-Holy Spirit, forever and ever.
For Christ's sake, born of the Virgin, you followed, venerable Magdalene Mary, who kept the justifications and laws: and today we celebrate your all-holy memory, the destruction of sins through your prayers is acceptable.
O great faster and silent one, helper in sorrows and intercessor in troubles, Reverend Father Cornelius! Hear us who pray to you at this hour, and do not be silent in crying out for us to the Lord from the faces of the saints and saints: do not forget to visit us, your children, and do not fail in your prayers for the sorrowful and poverty-stricken and for all your relics flowing to the race, now and ever and ever.
O venerable and God-bearing Father Macarius! We warmly believe that you, standing before the throne of the Most Holy Trinity, have great courage in prayers to the All-Merciful Lord God, who will always listen to you, your faithful servant and saint. For this reason, with tenderness, we humbly fall to you, Holy One of God, and pray fervently: do not keep silent for us to the Lord God, worshiped and glorified in the Trinity, pray that having mercifully looked upon us, He will not allow us to perish in our sins, but may He raise up the fallen, and may He bring correction to our evil and damned life, delighting us from future falls, and may everyone forgive us if we have sinned in thought, word and deed, from our birth to this hour.
Weigh, our Father Macarius, the weakness of our nature and the heaviness and sorrow of these times: pray unceasingly to the Lord God, that His indescribable mercy may leave us, but that He may keep us from worldly temptations, from the devil’s snares and from carnal lusts, so that we may receive from the Lord God all that we need in temporary life, from I will weaken troubles and misfortunes and good patience until the end of our life. Ask the Lord God for us to end our lives in peace and repentance and pass unrestrained from earth to heaven, to be delivered from the ordeals and demons of the air and eternal torment, and to be honored with the Kingdom of Heaven with you and with all the saints who pleased the Lord God and our Savior Jesus Christ, to Him belongs all glory, honor and worship, with His beginningless Father, and with His Most Holy and Good and Life-giving Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
O venerable and blessed Father Macarius, universal luminary, adornment of monks and ascetics, intercessor of the Galich countries and all Russian lands, indefatigable and warm to our All-Merciful Savior and God Jesus Christ and to His Most Holy and Most Pure Mother, our Lady Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary, for us sinners of the prayer book! We pray to your all-honorable shrine, your unworthy disciples: do not forget your humble children, but like a loving father, visit with your spirit the infirmity of our souls.
Ask with your prayers from Christ our God, that He may sanctify our souls and bodies, and enlighten our mind and sense, and cleanse our conscience from all filth and from unclean thoughts and evil intentions and destructive despondency: may He deliver us from all demonic incessant slander and bitterness, day and night, and yes gives us sincere repentance, contrition of heart, tears and tenderness, abstinence and sobriety, humility and meekness and silence, purity of soul and body, love of poverty and love of strangers, and unfeigned love and mercy for each other, and all monastic reverence. O most blessed Father Macarius!
Grant us, according to our strength, your holy and equal-angelic life to follow, as if by the all-merciful intercession of the Most Blessed and Glorified Mother of God and Ever-Virgin Mary, Heavenly Queen, Christian intercessor and patroness, and by your holy prayers, the Most Blessed Christ our God will show His grace and mercy to us sinful servants, and may He free us from present evils and future eternal torments, and may He grant us heirs to be the heirs of His Heavenly Kingdom, glorifying and magnifying Him, together with His beginningless Father and His Most Holy and Good and Life-giving Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
Today your city of Galich boasts of you: in the end it was brightened like a great sun, and with your miracles, Reverend Macarius, you illuminated everything. and now pray to the Lord, that our souls may be delivered from the charms of the enemy, and that your city may be saved from the filthy influx.
Holy and long-suffering Martyr Paraskeva! We fall warmly to you for us in the prayer book of God and diligently pray: beg our Lord and Master to add His mercy to us as His unworthy servants, to grant us mental and physical health, fruitfulness of the earth, prosperity of the air, prosperity in piety for Christians, necessary for our temporary life contented, and all in need of salvation: that having lived peacefully and piously, we may be worthy to achieve a good Christian end and inherit the Kingdom of Heaven. To her, our good representative! Do not disgrace our hope, which according to God and the Most Holy Theotokos we firmly place on you, but be an intercessor for our salvation, so that we may be honored, together with you and all the saints, in the joy of eternal bliss, to glorify in your intercession the great mercy of our God, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto the ages of ages.
Having diligence in accordance with your name, you have chosen the same faith in cohabitation, victorious Paraskeva: you also pour out healings and pray for our souls.
O glorious martyr and valiant warrior of the Heavenly King, the most blessed Panteleimon, the most eminent imitator of the Merciful God, who boldly confessed Christ on earth and endured manifold torments for Him, you received an unfading crown in heaven, where you enjoyed eternal bliss and with stand before the throne of the Trisolar Deity with boldness! We sinners resort to your Christ-like compassion according to God, and with all our zeal we pray to you, our warm intercessor and representative: do not cease to look upon us in our present needs and sorrowful circumstances, but with your prayerful help and healing power, always deliver us from cruel evils, all-destructiveness and all kinds of other troubles and illnesses. For you, O holy one, received the boundless grace of healing from our Savior Jesus Christ for your firm faith in Him, sealed by your immaculate life with martyrdom and crowned with your many-victorious death, in which, by the grace given by you and from Christ, Panteleimon, the same name of mercy, was named.
For this reason, leading you to be a merciful helper and healer to all, we look to you with faith: through your God-pleasing intercession, give us all that is useful in this life and necessary for eternal salvation.
With your martyr boldness, beg the Merciful God to have mercy on us sinners and unworthy according to His great mercy, to deliver us from coward, flood, fire, sword and all righteous anger and reproach, prompting us in due time to cleansing and propitiatory repentance for our sins, for the sake of His many bounties: may He give to all for us a comfortable, quiet and godly life, for our rightful emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich, victory and victory against all enemies, and may His Angels preserve all of us from enemies visible and invisible with His grace and invincible militia, in whose image we are protected and instructed, may we live in this world repentance, purity and in the creation of godly deeds: may we be honored by your warm intercession to achieve a Christian death that is painless, peaceful, shameless, and to get rid of the machinations of the airy princes of darkness and from eternal torment, and to be the heir of the endless, all-blessed Kingdom of His existence. Hey, servant of God!
do not cease to pray for our sinners, so that through your intercession we may deliver you from temporary and eternal troubles, we magnify you, our intercessor and prayer book, and we eternally glorify our common Master and Lord Jesus Christ, to Him belongs all glory, honor and worship, with His Beginning Father and the Most Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto the ages of ages.
O great servant of Christ and glorious healer, Great Martyr Panteleimon, stand before the throne of God with your soul in heaven and enjoy His Trinitarian glory, but abide with your holy body and face on earth in Divine churches and exude various miracles by the grace given to you from above! Look with your merciful eye on the people ahead and more honestly than your icon, tenderly praying and asking for your healing help and intercession: extend your warm prayers to the Lord our God and ask our souls for forgiveness of sins. Behold, for our iniquities we do not dare to raise our countenance to the heights of heaven, with a contrite heart and a humble spirit, we call upon you a merciful intercessor for us sinners, for you have received grace from Him to heal ailments and drive away passions. We therefore ask you: do not despise us, unworthy, who pray to you and demand your help.
Be a comforter to us in our sorrows, a doctor to those who are severely afflicted, a quick protector to those who are cared for, a giver of insight to those who are ill, a quick intercessor and healer to those who are sick and infants in illness: intercede for everyone everything that is useful for salvation, as through your prayers to the Lord God you have received grace and mercy, let us glorify all the good Source and Gift-Giver God, the One in the Trinity of Saints, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
O holy great martyr and healer Panteleimon, imitator of the Merciful God! Look with mercy and hear us sinners, fervently praying before your holy icon. Ask us from the Lord God, Who stands with the Angels in heaven, for the forgiveness of our sins and transgressions: heal the mental and physical illnesses of the servants of God who are now remembered, those who are coming here and all Orthodox Christians who come to your intercession. Behold, for our sin, we are fiercely possessed by many ailments and are not imams of help and consolation: we resort to you, for you have given the grace to pray for us and heal every ailment and every disease. Grant therefore to all of us, through your holy prayers, health and well-being of souls and bodies, advancement of faith and piety, and all that is needed for temporary life and salvation, for having been granted great and rich mercies by you, let us glorify you and the Giver of all blessings, wondrous in the saints of our God, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, forever and ever.
O great saint of Christ, passion-bearer and much-merciful physician, Panteleimon! Have mercy on me, a sinful slave, hear my groaning and cry, propitiate the heavenly, supreme Physician of our souls and bodies, Christ our God, may He grant me healing from the illness that oppresses me. Accept the unworthy prayer of the most sinful man above all. Visit me with a gracious visit. Do not disdain my sinful sores, anoint you with the oil of your mercy and heal me: so that, healthy in soul and body, I may spend the rest of my days, by the grace of God, in repentance and pleasing God and be worthy to receive the good end of my life. Hey, servant of God! Pray to Christ God, that through your intercession He may grant health to my body and salvation to my soul. Amen.
Holy Great Martyr and Healer and Wonderworker Panteleimon, all-round servant of God and prayer-book of Orthodox Christians! You are worthily named Panteleimon, that is, all-merciful, for you have received from God the grace to pray for us, to heal illnesses, and to give all those who come to you the necessary gift of temporary life and salvation. For this reason, we, too, who are unworthy, having been worthy of your mercy, fall before you before your holy icon, and we sincerely thank you, as a sincere saint of God, our faithful prayer book and healer, and glorify the Giver of all the good things of the Lord our God for the great blessings that you have given us from Him. Therefore, mercifully accept this small prayerful thanksgiving of ours, it is not the imams who are concerned with anything other than what is due to give you: and for the rest of our life, do not deprive us, weak and sinners, of your help and prayerful intercession with the Lord our God, to whom is due all glory, thanksgiving and worship, to the Father and the Son and the Holy One Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
Passion-bearing saint and healer Panteleimon, pray to the Merciful God that He will grant remission of sin to our souls.
We magnify you, passion-bearing saint and healer Panteleimon, honoring your venerable suffering, which you endured for Christ.
O blessed saint of Christ Nicholas! You, while still in the flesh, the red one of this world, for the sake of Christ, you imputed the skills of Christ, and you guided people on the path of salvation with words and deeds: for you were a quick helper and prayer book to the poor, and a accuser of the rich. And now standing before the Trinity in the highest, you show great boldness to the Lady, for the Lord Most High has sanctified you as His saint. Blessed indeed is Novgrad and the place on which your honorable body was laid. For this reason, we pray to you: be our helper and intercessor, deliver us from enemies, visible and invisible, as well as everyone, not only here in Velikiy Novegrad, but everywhere who call on your holy name. Look, most blessed Nicholas, upon us who have sinned many times, now commemorating your repose, and be merciful to us who flow with faith to the race of your relics, for we may be saved through your prayers and unceasingly glorify the Most Holy Trinity, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and forever centuries.
Wise on high, living holyly and running away from the glory of the world, you chose the foolishness of Christ for Christ’s sake, blessed Nicholas: and now standing before the Trinity in the highest, we glorify your honorable memory and come with faith to the race of your relics, granting healing, and pray to Christ God to save our souls.
Blessed and glorified is the Lord God, who called you, our holy father Pitirim, from the first hour of the workman into His grapes, who showed in you unwavering obedience to His will, zeal for the Forerunner and love for Pavlov, and also appointed you as a priest to the Tambov church and bishop You are great and showy. With the grace of the holiness we strengthen and inflame with the fire of the love of Christ, you, our good shepherd, did not give sleep to your eyes, lower slumber, toiling every day, praying and preaching the gospel, unfaithful enlightenment, erring admonishing, raising up the fallen, strengthening the weak, comforting those who mourn, becoming all to everyone, just as Saint Paul was, and saving everyone. When the time of your work in the heliport of the Lord of the House of Christ was fulfilled and you departed from the earthly to the villages above to receive the reward of your labors, let you, saint of God, stand before the throne of the King of Glory from the faces of the saints and from there admonish your flock, for us sinners pray, bear the infirmities of the weak, heal illnesses, quench sorrows.
For this reason, from the day of your blessed dormition, your faith never ceased to flow to you in sorrows and illnesses, and with the touch of your robe, from the water from your well, health and deliverance from all troubles improved. Even now, having come to your whole-bearing tomb, we glorify God, wondrous in His saints, and we magnify and pray to you, most sacred Father: do not depart from us with your love, with your prayers preserve the Orthodox Church unshakable from unbelief and schism, and protect the Russian state from troubles and misfortunes, granting peace and tranquility to it: Protect our most pious, autocratic Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich from all enemies, protect the Church of the Saints from all enemies, correct the works of their hands, and melt their hearts with zeal for the salvation of the verbal flock entrusted to them, but all of us, in obedience to the saving gospel of Christ, observe the work of salvation, as the only thing needed, impute our help, so that together with you, with one mouth and one heart, we all sing and glorify the Savior Christ with the Father and the Holy Spirit forever and ever.
Teacher of faith and piety, Lamp of the Church, monastic image, Saint Pitirim the Wise, you piously shepherded your flock and brought you to Christ: you are also adorned in the highest with a crown of glory, you are with us on earth in spirit, shining miracles. Pray to Christ God for our souls to be saved.
O glorious servant of Christ John the Warrior! You were brave in battle, a chaser of the enemy and an intercessor of the offended, but now you are a quick helper to all Orthodox Christians. Remember us sinners and unworthy, and intercede for us in troubles and sorrows and sorrows and in every evil adversity and from every evil and offending person, protect us: for you have been given the grace from God to pray for us sinners, those who suffer evil. Deliver us from those who offend us, be our champion strong against all our visible and invisible enemies. Grant to our most pious, autocratic, great sovereign, Emperor Nicholas Alexandrovich, victory over the enemy, strengthening his army in battle: for with your help and strong betrayal and combat all those who show us evil will be put to shame. O great champion, John the Warrior! Do not forget us sinners who pray to you and your help and the endless mercy of those asking, and make us sinners and unworthy people worthy to receive indescribable goodness from God.
For to him belongs all glory, honor and worship, to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
O great martyr of Christ John, champion of the faithful, chaser of enemies, patron of the Christ-loving army and intercessor of the offended! Hear us, in troubles and sorrows, we pray to you, for grace has been given to you from God to console the sad, to help the weak, to deliver the innocent from vain death, and to pray for all those who suffer evil. May our champion be strong against all our visible and invisible enemies, for with your help and struggle we will be put to shame by all those who show us evil. Pray to our Lord, that He may grant us, His sinful and unworthy servants, to receive from Him the ineffable goodness that is prepared for those who love Him, in the Trinity of the Holy Ones, glorifying God, always, now and ever, and unto the ages of ages.
O great passion-bearer of Christ, John the warrior! Today, movingly approaching your most honest and miraculous icon and falling and kissing you, we fervently pray to you: be a strong champion and protector for us, who flock to you, from enemies visible and invisible: and just as in the days of your flesh you fought courageously for the sake of faith, so also for us, for you according to God those who trust, strive with the power of your prayers for the Immortal King and God, to whom you truly fought: for you have been given from Him the grace to pray for us sinners and weaklings and to deliver us from troubles and misfortunes. O good and true warrior of Christ! do not despise our prayer, and do not abandon us, as the protector and representative of those who resort to you. Our Orthodox faith and our kingdom are confirmed by the power of your prayers. To our most pious and great sovereign, Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich of all Russia, fight for adversaries, she, the passion-bearer of Christ!
We pray to you, do not leave us who are in troubles and sorrows, never to let our strength become impoverished: give us strength and protection through your intercession before God, to Him belongs all glory, honor and worship, to the Father and the Son of the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
O all-validated, holy great martyr and wonderworker John the Warrior! Pray with us and for us, the Lover of Mankind, God, may He not condemn us for our iniquity, but may He deal with us according to His great mercy. Ask us from Christ our God for a quiet and godly life, health and good haste in everything, fertility of the earth, abundance in everything and everything needed for salvation and temporary life. O holy passion-bearer John! Falling before your honorable icon and bowing to you, we pray to you: reveal your powerful intercession to all who are in adversity, sorrow and illness, and deliver us from all evil and from the offending person. Pray to the All-Bountiful Trinitarian God, that He may grant our most pious sovereign victory over his adversaries, and may his kingdom be strengthened and blessed with unchangeable peace and prosperity, for with your help and strong struggle all those who show us evil will be put to shame. Protect us with your holy prayers all the days of our life.
Pray to the Merciful Master of all, that he may grant us a Christian end to our life that is painless, shameless, peaceful, and that I may participate in the Divine Mysteries: after our departure from this life, may the holy Angel protect us with a militia, so that we may be delivered from the wiles of the devil and his heavy airy ordeals, and present ourselves uncondemned to the throne of the Lord Glory, and glorify him with all the saints in His Heavenly Kingdom forever and ever.
The blessed servant and warrior of the All-merciful God and King appeared to John the wonderworker: having suffered courageously for the sake of faith, having blissfully ended the course, you see the All-Creator Lord in the heavens most brightly, from whom you receive the granting of miracles, you help the suffering person in all kinds of adversities: you strengthen the warriors in battles: from the enemies of captivity, wounds and you take away sudden deaths and severe misfortunes. In the same way, pray to the Lord Christ, of all times, that he may show us mercy in every situation and not lead us into temptation, but save our souls, as a lover of mankind.
Having loved the blessedness of the Gospel, the god-wise John, you honored the purity of your heart with virginity; you also disdained the vanity of this world, you sought to see God, who glorified you with miracles in healing the variously afflicted. For this reason, we pray to you, ask Christ the Lord for deliverance from all sorrows and to receive the Kingdom of Heaven.
O venerable and God-bearing Father Herman, leader of the silent monastic life on the island of Solovetsky! We pray to you, unworthiness, your truly honorable coffin, together with the miraculous crayfish of our venerable fathers Zosima and Savvaty, this God-chosen place is consecrated: be you too, with these saints of God and the whole Russian land as heavenly intercessors, prayer book and intercessor for us sinners before the throne of the Almighty God, who stands boldly with the Angels and all the saints, may He grant us, as He is Good and Lover of mankind, all that is necessary for life and piety, for our souls and bodies, health, success in all good things and His all-powerful help in all temptations, troubles and the misfortunes brought against us by the enemies of our salvation: pray for your monastery to be delivered from every evil situation, and for those who come to you, near and far, to receive all the spiritual and physical benefits they ask for.
Most of all, O saint of Christ, I asked for the remission of sins for all of us, the Christian end of life and the inheritance of the Kingdom of Heaven from Christ our God, to Him is due all glory, honor and worship, with His Beginning Father, and with His Most Holy and Good and Life-giving Spirit, now and ever and unto the ages of ages.
Inflamed by spiritual desire from youth, Reverend Herman, you followed Christ’s close path of life, and you settled in a deserted sea island like a quiet haven, where you lived for many summers in a fasting manner, where you lived with the blessed father Zosima and Savvatius. You are: with Him, pray to Christ God for us, who honor your holy memory with love.
O great servant of Christ, true friend and faithful servant of the All-Creator of the Lord God, blessed Basil! Hear us, many sinners, now crying out to you and calling on your holy name: have mercy on us who fall today before the race of your relics: accept our small and unworthy prayer, have mercy on our misery, and with your prayers heal every ailment and disease of the soul and body of our sinner, and make us worthy to pass this life unharmed from visible and invisible enemies and to pass sinlessly, and to have a shameless, peaceful, serene Christian death, and to receive the inheritance of the Heavenly Kingdom with all the saints forever and ever.
O blessed Basil! You, having ascended to the height of virtues, have come closer to God, and like a bright star, having shone with your life, you have enlightened our whole country, and having left your parental love, you have loved the One Glorious God in the Trinity, and having followed Him with an irrevocable desire, and having chosen to live as a fool according to the Apostle, peace You didn’t regard this red thing as anything. We pray to you, most blessed Vasily: pray to the Master Christ our God, and ask through your prayers for our most pious, autocratic, great sovereign, Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich of all Russia, and for the entire reigning house, health and salvation, and victories in all languages, wars they desire. To the Most Holy Governing Synod, and to the Most Reverend Lord of our name, to all the Most Reverend Metropolitan, Archbishop and Bishop, Archimandrite and Abbot, and to the entire sacred and monastic rank, ask for mental and physical health, and for the reign of our city, and for this city, and for this holy monastery, approval, and peace to all the world.
Also, keep our immaculate faith with your prayers, deliver us from famine and destruction and save us from the attacks of foreigners, comfort the old, guide the young, wise the foolish, have mercy on widows and orphans, raise babies, and save this people who create your holy memory from all troubles and misfortunes. And grant us sinners, on the day of judgment, to the right hand of the Son of God, with your holy prayers to the Savior and His Most Pure Mother, our Most Blessed Lady Theotokos, from all generations blessed now and ever and unto the ages of ages.
Your life, Vasily, is not false, and your purity is not desecrated: for Christ’s sake you exhausted your body with fasting and vigil, and with frost and the warmth of the sun, and with sunshine, and with a rain cloud, and your face was illuminated like the sun: and now the Russian people are coming to you, the king and princes and all people, glorifying your holy dormition. Therefore, pray to Christ God that He will deliver us from barbaric captivity and internecine warfare, and that the world will grant great mercy to our souls.
Our good shepherd and mentor, Rev. Father Anthony! You, who are still in the flesh, are controlled by the divine beckoning, ancient Rome, your fatherland, and you left your family, and from there you, miraculously, across the waters on stone, like on a light ship, with your coming you illuminated this city, and in it you erected the church of the Mother of God, through your labors and you have enlightened this monastery with your deeds (the very foundation of which you were), you have multiplied your children in it, instructing them in the image of good deeds and teaching: for this, for the sake of the incorruption of your relics and miracles, God glorify you with radiance; more miraculous than thy race and thy might, pray with the lips and the hearts of those who kiss. Even now, as if you had boldness towards the Lord Christ, be a prayer book and an intercessor about your upcoming troubles, those who worship with your honest power and ask for your merciful intercession.
To her, we pray to you, servant of Christ and saint, our heads and hearts bow to you: do not despise this poor prayer of ours, but look upon us mercifully, fulfilling every need, health to the sick, prosperity to those traveling along the way, granting quick and comfortable voyage to those who sail: save this monastery from all troubles that suddenly appear, and those who live and work in it, and those who benefit them, from all misfortunes, freedom: may we all live on earth pleasingly to God through your prayers, and we will be heirs [heirs] of the Heavenly Kingdom, worthy to glorify the All-Holy Trinity of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
Having left your fatherland of Old Rome, you ascended onto a stone like a light ship, and on it, more than by nature, as if bodiless, you walked on the waters: guided by the providence of the Divine mind, you reached the Great Novagrad, and having created a monastery in it, you offered your body in it, as a gift consecrated. Thus we pray to you, Father Anthony, pray to Christ God to save our souls.
Reverend Our Father Job, through your prayer and faith and love and purity of heart, while still on earth in the abode of the Eternal God the Word, you settled your soul and sealed your life with a sword from a robber by beheading your head, and after your departure from the earthly, especially drawing closer to God, but and your spirit of love did not depart from us, and your honest power, like a full vessel of grace, was left to us! Have great boldness towards the All-Merciful Master, pray to Him to save us believers and those who flow to you with love and warm prayer. Help our most pious, autocratic, great sovereign, Emperor Nicholas Alexandrovich of all Russia, may his kingdom be well-governed in peace and prosperity, and may they submit to his resistance.
Ask us from our Greatly Gifted God every gift that is useful to anyone for salvation, the observance of immaculate faith, the establishment of our cities, peace, deliverance from the invasion of foreigners, preservation from famine and destruction, upbringing of infants, instruction for the young, intercession for orphans and widows, consolation for the afflicted, for those floating on the sea, cold deserts and dark wilds for those who pass by, faithful guidance to refuge, healing for the ailing, liberation for the demonic from the demonic invasion, repentance and rebellion for those who have fallen into sins, admonition for those who have fallen away from the Church of Christ and return to the path of salvation, strengthening for those who struggle, to those who do good in good deeds, prosperity and blessing, to those who depart from this temporary life to eternal good guidance, to those who have departed from blessed repose. O sacred head! Visit this holy place, anciently stained and washed with your honest blood: guard and strengthen your abode with your prayers, expand it, decorate your sisters with virtues, and preserve all the good things that flow to you forever and ever.
O venerable and God-bearing Father Job! Having great boldness towards God, pray unceasingly for all of us, even though the storm of many troubles and sorrows will overwhelm us: for physical illnesses, mental illnesses, and the attacks of the enemy overwhelm us. For our enemy is walking around, looking for someone to devour: but we, careless of our salvation, are not worthy to look down upon the heights of heaven, nor to call upon the Lord for our help. But you be a quick helper to our salvation and an invincible deliverer from evils. Give us the memory of death, tears of repentance and the hope of salvation, so that we do not fall into despair, with low confidence in God’s mercy, but by remaining in sins, we will ultimately destroy ourselves: but may the memory of our sins be a source of warm tears and heartfelt contrition, God’s mercy and His grace for our salvation, through your prayers, yes will be given to us, your children, forever and ever.
O venerable and God-bearing Our Father, servant of God Job! Standing before the throne of the Most Holy Trinity, pray unceasingly for our most pious, autocratic, great sovereign, Emperor Nicholas Alexandrovich of all Russia, and for the entire reigning house, for the most holy government synod, and for our most reverend bishop named after him, for all the sacred and monastic rank, the abbot and the brethren of the monastery yours, about the military commanders and city leaders and all Orthodox Christians: may we walk every day worthy of our calling, in which we were called, and may our land be a good land, and all who live on it will be a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy language, people of renewal, now and ever and unto the ages of ages.
About reverence and God-bearing our fathers Zosimo and Savvatiya, earthly angels and heavenly people, close friends [friends] of Christ and saints [pleasers] of God, your abodes are the glory and adornment, but all the northern countries, especially the entire Orthodox fatherland of ours, are an insurmountable wall and great intercession! Behold, unworthy and many sinners, with reverent love for the relics of your honorable relics, falling down, with a contrite and humble spirit, we diligently pray to you: pray unceasingly to our Blessed Master and Lord Jesus Christ, for there is great boldness in those who have it, so that His all-effective grace will depart from us, and may the protection and intercession of our Most Holy Lady Theotokos remain in this place, and may the zealots of the truth of the angelic life in this holy monastery never fail, where you, God-bearing fathers and rulers, with immeasurable labors and puppies, With tearful and omnipotent vigils, unceasing prayers and supplications, make the beginning of monastic life.
To her, saints [pleasers] of the saints, prayer books [prayer books] most favorable to God! With warm prayers to Him, protect and preserve us and this holy village of yours from cowardice, flood, fire and sword, invasions of foreigners and deadly plagues, from enmity and all kinds of disorder, from all misfortune and sorrow and from all evil: may the most holy name of the Lord be piously glorified in this place, in peace and silence, and God, and obtain His eternal salvation. About the blessedness of our fathers Zosimo and Savvatie!
Hear now, sinners, living unworthily in your holy abode and under the roof of your protection, and through your powerful intercessions to God, ask for forgiveness of sins for our souls, correction of life and eternal blessings in the Kingdom of Heaven: for all believers, who in every place and in every need call on you for help and intercession, and those who flow into your monastery with reverent love, do not cease to pour out all grace and mercy, preserving them from all resistance, from all adversity and from all evil circumstances, and giving them everything they need for mental and physical benefit.
Most of all, pray to the Most Merciful God, may he grant to our most pious, autocratic, great sovereign, Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich, and to his entire reigning house, health and long life, joy and salvation, victory and victory over enemies and prosperity in all things: may he establish his Holy Church, and all our Orthodox May the fatherland be preserved and preserved in peace and silence, in love and unanimity, in orthodoxy and piety forever and ever.
O reverend fathers, great [great] intercessors [intercessors] and speedy hearers of prayers, saints [pleasers] of God and miracle workers Zosimo and Savvatie! Do not forget, as you promised, to visit your children. Even though you have departed from us in body, you will always remain with us in spirit. We pray to you, O Reverends: deliver us from fire and sword, from the invasion of foreigners and internecine warfare, from corrupting winds and from sudden death and from all the attacks of demons that come upon us. Hear us sinners, and accept this prayer and our supplication, like a fragrant censer, like an acceptable sacrifice, and revive our souls, evil deeds and advice and thoughts killed.
And like a dead damsel you have raised, and healed the inhealable wounds of many, and delivered the tormented from evil spirits of unclean spirits: so take us, who are kept in the bonds of the enemy, and deliver us from the snares of the devil, from the depths of sins inform us, and by your merciful visit and intercession protect us from enemies, visible and invisible, by the grace and power of the Most Holy Trinity, always, now and ever, and unto the ages of ages.
Like the luminaries who appeared to the All-Light, in the father of the ocean of the sea, the righteous fathers Zosimo and Savvatie: for you took up the Cross of Christ on the frame of the earth, diligently followed that, and having approached with the purity of God, from there you were enriched with the powers of miracles. In the same way, we kindly flow to the crayfish of your honorable relics, and touchingly with the verb: O Reverend, pray to Christ God to save our souls.
Your fasting and equal-angelic life, venerable fathers Zosimo and Savvatiya, has created you in the knowledge of the universe: various miracles, God-bearing enlightenment, you who call upon and honor your honorable memory are enlightened by faith.
O most holy and wonderful passion-bearer of Christ, Archdeacon Lawrence! Praising your faith and suffering, we honor your victory and crowned passage through burning coals from the darkness of this age to the unevening light of the throne of the majesty of God. Moreover, we pray to you: as in ancient times you who flowed with faith to your protection, you established your miracles, so take us under your roof, and in sickness and in our sorrows, let us be your intercessor: and as from the blindness of the bodily eyes of Criskentian By the application of your hands you healed, so may you also heal our spiritual blindness by your intercession at the throne of God.
Look at the relaxation of our body and soul, strengthen us with vigor against our enemies, visible and invisible, depressing us with misfortunes, so that with your help the path of this short life has passed, invincible from troubles and sorrows and every cruel situation, we will achieve unapproachable glory the majesty of God, where you stand, pray with boldness for the people who come running to you in faith and sing wonderful praises in the saints of the God of Israel forever and ever.
O holy and God-glorified righteous and miracle worker Lawrence, quick helper and zealous intercessor of all who come running to you in prayer with faith and love! Behold, we, humble and sinners, burdened with the heavy yoke of many of our iniquities, in deep tenderness we resort to you, and falling to the multi-healing rasp of your holy relics, we pray and ask you: pray for us to the Lord God, so that he will not destroy us with our iniquities, but will turn us to the path of repentance and salvation. We know, we know, how much the prayer of a righteous person can do before him: but to you, who truly exists as a righteous person, we offer him a supplication, trustingly, as if for your sake of heavenly intercession before Him, we will not be worthy of mercy.
Ask us from our Creator for the great and rich gifts of His goodness: fruitfulness of the earth, goodness of the air, seasonable rains, peace in our days, increase in piety, health for the sick, comfort for the sorrowful, encouragement for the discouraged, charity for the poor, provision for the needy, for those who struggle. prosperity, a good Christian death for the dying and eternal salvation for all true believers. Our most pious, autocratic, great sovereign, Emperor Nicholas Alexandrovich of all Russia, and his entire God-protected kingdom, preserve with your holy prayers in prosperity, unharmed from all evil, and protect the weapons of his Christ-loving army in battle from the enemy: your city is yours. and keep your holy abode in peace and prosperity, as their constant guardian and guardian. Hey, saint of God! do not disgrace our hope, but show us your holy intercession, so that we magnify you without silence, as our great representative, and glorify the indescribable love for mankind in His saints of the Triune God, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, forever and ever.
Turning earthly warfare into spiritual warfare and showing good care for your people, blessed Reverend Theodora! Today we resort to you in the confusion of our hearts, and we humbly dare to ask for your help for our country and our souls. We all know, O servant of God, how our cowardice and spiritual laziness tears us away from your pasture and makes us worthy of every kind of disgust: but your mercy towards your enemy and your traitor is remembered, for whom you again appeared as a defender, we pray for the same mercy of yours to us unworthy.
You, the saint of Christ, from the Hagarians, our devastated land and from the Gentiles who were oppressed, embraced pity and love, and again you called to a vigorous life of the faithful, only through military victories, only through prayer and the way of your life, like a golden candlestick shining: you, having left the vanity of this worldly life, for you yourself have given yourself over to the care of your soul in cave solitude, and you have commanded the care and healing of our earth to your glorious family, and thus your limit is for another two hundred years and more after your death from the snares of heretics you protected. You and the distant Czech tribe, our same blood, tried to bring you closer to the Orthodox faith and protected you from the Latin invasion. Even now, living in heaven with your soul and the Angels, and resting in your incorruptible body among us, do not reject our sorrowful voices, but hear the prayerful cry of the sinning sons of our land. Having sinned and being untruthful and having apostatized from the Covenants of God, fallen into corrupted customs and fallen into evil, and to eat only what we need, the salvation of our souls lies in neglecting the rest.
In God there is truth and glory to you, Reverend Father, but to us it is shame on our faces. Moreover, as much as we appear as sinners, we demand your greatest compassion and in repentance we call upon you: your inexhaustible love will be beamed to us afterward: the wrath of God, righteously driven upon us, will be averted from us by your prayer, His saving grace was brought down to us by your unworthy intercession, and from the sinful abyss to the heights of repentance he raised us, so that we too strive to correct our lives, let us begin to renew the fortress of our land, but the enemies of the faith of Christ and the evil ones We will fearlessly reflect the charms in word and life, and we will gratefully glorify our Savior with all the saints, glorifying Him, with the Father and the Holy Spirit, forever and ever.
O Reverend Father Theodore, praise and refuge to the land of Volyn, glory and adornment to the Holy Lavra of the Pechersk! Look at the people ahead, asking for your help with faith and confessing their sins to you: accept their fervent prayers, and deliver them from all sorrow and need through your intercession. Help us, saints of God, to lead our lives here in peace and repentance, to keep the remembrance of God’s commandments in every possible way in prosperity, and to protect ourselves from grumbling and despondency in troubles: both, fulfill our hearts with the best thoughts, and your kindness and imitators of the faith and zeal of the former, of whom we will be worthy of eternal blessings, and now, adorning ourselves, offer up prayers for our salvation to the Lord, to Him be glory, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto the ages of ages.
You transformed the glory of your earthly reign into a humble image of monasticism, and instead of visible enemies you took up arms against the invisible, and the victor appeared beautiful to both, you alone appeared from the wonderworker of the Pechersk: in the same way, we also asked for the gift of God’s zeal, enlightening our hearts with brotherly love, and for eternal salvation guide our path, O blessed Theodore.
O great servant of God and glorious miracle worker, our holy saint Tikhon! With tenderness to the race of your honorable and multi-healing relics, we praise, glorify and magnify the God who glorified you and showed us unworthy in you great mercy, and with all diligence, through faith and love, honor your holy memory, we pray to you: bring our prayer to all who contain and to the saving Lover of Mankind, the Lord, to whom you now stand as an Angel and stand with all the saints, so that the spirit of right faith and piety will establish in His Holy Orthodox Church, and may the shepherd give her holy zeal for the salvation of the people entrusted to them, so that believers, weak and infirm in the faith, may observe their right to strengthen, to instruct the ignorant, to reprove the contrary.
May our most pious, autocratic, great sovereign, Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich, grant with long life mental and physical health and salvation, victory for adversaries, prosperity for the establishment of the kingdom and blessing for all his good undertakings, and for the entire reigning house His great mercy and prosperity: those appointed from May the authorities and judges in his kingdom bestow upon him zeal, wisdom and impartiality, so that we may live a quiet and silent life. We believe, Reverend Father, that you, who are alive in heaven, love us now with the same love that you loved all your neighbors, that you will always remain on earth.
Ask the All-Merciful Lord and all of us for a gift that everyone needs and everything useful for temporary and eternal life, peace, the strengthening of our cities, fruitfulness of the land, deliverance from famine and destruction, preservation from the invasion of foreigners, consolation for the afflicted, healing for the sick, restoration for the fallen, return to the path of truth for those who go astray, strengthening for those who strive in good deeds, prosperity for those who do good, blessing for parents, upbringing and teaching for children in the passion of the Lord, knowledge and piety for a mentor, admonition for the ignorant, help and intercession for the orphaned, poor and needy, for those who depart from this. temporal life for eternal good preparation and guidance, blessed repose for those who have departed. For all of these, most especially, ask us, Holy Saint Tikhon, from the Generous God, for you have great boldness towards Him: for you are the acquisitive intercessor and warm prayer book for us before the Lord, to whom all glory, honor and worship is due, to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and forever and ever.
O all-praised saint and saint of Christ, our Father Tikhon! Having lived like an angel on earth, you, like a good angel, appeared in your wondrous glorification. We believe with all our souls and thoughts that you, our merciful helper and prayer book, with your honest intercessions and grace, abundantly bestowed on you from the Lord, are constantly contributing to our salvation. Accept, therefore, blessed servant of Christ, even at this hour our unworthy prayer: free us, through your intercession, from the vanity and superstition that surrounds us, the unbelief and evil of man.
Strive, speedy representative for us, with your favorable intercession to beg the Lord, may He add His great and rich mercy to us sinners and unworthy His servants, may He heal with His grace the inhealable ulcers and scabs of our corrupted souls and bodies, may He dissolve our petrified hearts with tears of tenderness and contrition for our many sins, and may He deliver us from eternal torment and the fire of Gehenna: and may He grant to all His faithful people peace and silence, health and salvation, and good haste in everything, so that they may live a quiet and silent life in all piety and purity, Let us be honored with the Angels and with all the saints to glorify and sing the all-holy name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit forever and ever.
From your youth you loved Christ, O blessed one, you were the image of all in word, life, love, spirit, faith, purity and humility: therefore you also dwelt in the heavenly abodes, where, standing before the throne of the Most Holy Trinity, you prayed to Saint Tikhon that our souls be saved.
Teacher of Orthodoxy, teacher of piety, preacher of repentance, Chrysostom zealot, good shepherd, new luminary and wonderworker of Russia, you have shepherded your flock well, and with your writings you have taught us all: with the same crown of incorruption you are adorned from Chief Shepherd, pray to Him to save our souls.
O sacred head, earthly angel and heavenly man, venerable and blessed Our Father Macarius! We fall to you with faith and love and pray diligently: show us your holy intercession to the humble and sinful. Behold, it is a sin for our sake, not the imams of freedom for the children of God to ask our Lord and Master for our needs, but we offer you a prayer book favorable to Him, and we ask you with zeal for many. Ask His goodness for beneficial gifts to our souls and bodies: faith in the right, undoubted hope of salvation, unfeigned love for everyone, courage in temptation, patience in suffering, constancy in prayer, health of souls and bodies, fruitfulness of the earth, prosperity in the air, contentment for everyday needs, peaceful and a serene life, a good Christian death and a good answer at the Last Judgment of Christ.
Ask, servant of God, from the King of kings and the Lord of lords, our most pious, autocratic, great sovereign, Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich of all Russia, health, salvation and victory over enemies, and for the whole God-protected kingdom his peace, silence and prosperity. Do not forget, Reverend Father, the deserted place of your deeds, but be kind to it and glorify it with your miracles: and mercifully deliver all who come to venerate the relics of your saints from the temptations of the devil and all evil. Hey, miracle-working saint! Do not deprive us of your heavenly help, but with your prayers bring us all into the haven of salvation, and show us heirs of the All-Bright Kingdom of Christ, so that we sing and glorify the ineffable generosity of the Lover of God, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, and your holy paternal intercession, forever and ever.
Leaving Rome, your fatherland, you moved into the desert, and there in an empty place you found a home for yourself, you ran away from the vanity of this world, and in a silent refuge you directed yourself to the Lord. For this reason, we who honor you, flowing to the race of your relics and kindly kissing thee, pray to you, Father Macarius: pray to the Lord for us, may he have mercy on us on the day of judgment.
Having left your old fatherland of Rome, you came to the Russian country, O Reverend, and settled in the desert of the thieves, there you found a quiet refuge for salvation, and you lived a silent life pleasing to God, directing yourself to the Lord with unceasing prayers: for this sake Christ loved you and glorify miracles, Father Macarius, having revealed you to be the shepherd of the goodness of His verbal flock. Likewise, we, flowing to the race of your relics, tenderly say: pray to the One who glorified you, that our souls may be saved.
O most honorable head and filled with the grace of the Holy Spirit, the abode of the Savior with the Father! Standing at the throne of all the King and enjoying the light of the Consubstantial Trinity and cherubically with the Angels proclaiming the trisagion hymn, having great and unexplored boldness, praying for us to the All-Merciful Master. Help our sovereign Tsar Nikolai Alexandrovich, and subdue all the nasty enemies under his nose. Keep the holy, immaculate faith, establish our cities, pacify the whole world through your intercession, deliver us from famine and destruction, and save us from the attacks of foreigners: old comforts, young guidance, foolish wisdom, widows have mercy, protect the orphans, raise the infants, and save all your people from all misfortunes. And on the day of the Last Judgment, deliver us from the evil part, and order us to be with the sheep of your right hand through your prayers, and moreover, make us worthy to hear that blessed voice from the Lord Christ: Come, blessed of My Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world, forever and ever.
The basis of repentance, the prescription of tenderness, the image of consolation, spiritual fulfillment, your life was like an Angel, reverend: in prayers and fastings and in tears, Father John, praying to Christ God for our souls.
O great Father Abraham, worthy ascetic of Christ, our glorious helper and protector in sorrows and misfortunes! Nothing can separate you from your love for the Lord Jesus: neither persecution, nor slander, nor rebuke of your enemies. You, like a lion, have come forth to fight against the mental wolves, the spirits of malice, and for your good confession the people of Smolensk, your kindred, raised up against you: but these you have struck down like a fiery arrow, we are strengthened by the power of the grace of the Holy Spirit, and like an eagle in the mountains. You soared from the abode of the Heavenly Father, inheriting eternal life, glory and indescribable bliss there. We believe, holy of God, that, standing with the Angels and all the saints before the throne of glory of the Trinitarian God, zealous and God-pleasing prayers are offered not only for this holy monastery, built by you, and for our city, but also for all the holy Church of Christ, and for the Orthodox kingdom of Russia, and our most pious emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich.
Vema, glorious miracle worker like you, by the power of the Almighty Lord Jesus Christ, while still alive, you begged the land of Smolensk, thirsty for the sins of people, to give abundant rain to water, and after your dormition, abundant gifts of grace-filled help for the salvation of all who come running to you with faith flow forth, Most of all, give your death to those who honor you with repentance, and let us all unanimously glorify the inscrutable greatness of God’s goodness. In the same way, with faith and love, falling and reverently kissing your holy icon, we pray to you, our good prayer book and intercessor in heaven: help us sinners and humble ones with your prayers in all our sorrows, needs and circumstances, preserve us and this holy monastery of yours and this city of Smolensk and all Orthodox Christians The Russian country from all evil and all misfortune, most of all, promote our eternal salvation, and preserve everyone who asks for your help and intercession.
Also pray to Christ our Savior, may he grant peace and silence to all Orthodox Christians, and may he turn away from us all anger towards the present, may he deliver us from the snares of the enemy, languor in the bonds of sin and the torments of hell, and may he grant us, unworthy and sinful, to stand at His right hand at His righteous Judgment and lead us into the eternal rest of His saints, where those who celebrate the unceasing voice and ineffable sweetness of those who behold the kindness of His face: and so may we with you and all the saints endlessly glorify the Trinity, Consubstantial and Indivisible, forever and ever.
Today your memory has risen up for us, more glorious than the sun, illuminating the world with radiant rays and driving away the darkness of the night of evil spirits from us: today the Heavenly Powers of the saints, angels and the souls of the righteous mentally triumphantly rejoicing. Today we, sinners, fall into prayer: Father Reverend Abraham, we pray to Christ God unceasingly to save the city and the people who kindly worship you.
O great saint, glorious miracle-worker, primate of the Russian Church, guardian of the city of Moscow and zealous prayer book for all of us, our Father Peter! We humbly fall to you and pray: stretch out your hands to the Lord God and pray for us, sinners and unworthy servants of His, may He add to us His mercy and bestow on us all the gifts of His goodness that we need for our temporary life and eternal salvation, and especially yes protects us with peace, brotherly love and piety from all the temptations of the enemy the devil, and grants us to be your faithful child not only by name, but also by all our life. We pray to you, Saint of Christ, through your heavenly intercession, preserve our most pious, autocratic, great sovereign, Emperor Nicholas Alexandrovich of all Russia, in health and prosperity for many years, subduing under his nose all his enemies and adversaries, and may your blessing rest on him, anciently to his ancestor, the Grand Duke John, given by you. Hey, servant of God!
Hear us kindly, and be a helper and intercessor to all of us in all troubles and misfortunes, do not forget us even at the hour of our death, when we most of all demand your intercession: so that through the prayers of your saints we may also receive a good death and inherit the Kingdom of Heaven, glorifying our wondrous God in His saints, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, forever and ever.
Today has come the all-honorable feast of the presentation of your honorable relics, Saint Peter, greatly cheering your flock and the faithful emperor and people: for them do not be destitute, praying to Christ God, who from Him will preserve your flock from the enemy and save your souls. ours.
O sacred head, reverend father, blessed Abvo Arsenios the Great! Do not forget your poor to the end, but always remember us in your holy and auspicious prayers to God. Remember your flock, which you yourself have shepherded, and do not forget to visit your children. Pray for us, holy father, for your spiritual children, as you have boldness towards the Heavenly King: do not remain silent for us to the Lord, and do not despise us, who honor you with faith and love. Remember us unworthy at the throne of the Almighty, and do not cease praying for us to Christ God: for grace has been given to you to pray for us. We do not imagine that you are dead: even though you passed away from us in body, you remain alive even after death. Do not give up on us in spirit, keeping us from the arrows of the enemy and all the charms of the demonic and the wiles of the devil, our good shepherd. Even though your relics are always visible before our eyes, your holy soul with the angelic armies, with the disembodied faces, with the Heavenly Powers, stands at the throne of the Almighty, worthy of rejoicing.
Knowing that you are truly alive even after death, we bow down to you and we pray to you: pray for us to the Almighty God, for the benefit of our souls, and ask us time for repentance, so that we may pass from earth to heaven without restraint, from bitter ordeals, demons of the princes of the air and from eternal May we be delivered from torment, and may we be heirs of the Heavenly Kingdom with all the righteous, who have pleased our Lord Jesus Christ from time immemorial: to Him belongs all glory, honor and worship, with His Beginning Father, and with His Most Holy and Good and Life-giving Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
Having retired from the world, you settled in the desert, and you settled in the desert, and there you fought a good deed, fasting and prayers and much patience, and you lived and showed many miracles: and after your repose you exuded various healings with faith to those who come to your honest tomb, Arseny our father. pray to Christ God for the salvation of our souls.
O sacred duo, holy martyrs of Christ Adrian and Natalia, blessed spouses and noble sufferers! Hear us praying to you with tears, and send down upon us all that is good for our souls and bodies, and pray to Christ God to have mercy on us and to deal with us in His mercy, so that we do not perish in our sins, O holy martyr! Receive the voice of our prayer, and deliver us with your prayers from famine, destruction, cowardice, flood, fire, hail, sword, invasion of foreigners and internecine warfare, from sudden death and from all troubles, sorrows and illnesses, and always strengthened by your prayers and intercession, we will glorify the Lord Jesus the Hist, to Him belongs all glory, honor and worship, with His Beginning Father and the Most Holy Spirit, forever and ever.
O Reverend Father Adrian, servant of God, desert dweller, novice of Christ! You suffered murder from wicked people at the instigation of the enemy, but the Lord God of His right hand stood with the saints. For this reason, we fall down before the race of your honorable relics and pray to you earnestly: be a prayer book to the Lord God for us sinners, with your holy prayers save us from all evil, fire, famine, flood and from all illness and sudden death: and beg the Lord God to grant us remission of sins, and for us too. May we continually glorify the Most Holy Trinity, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, forever and ever.
O holy passion-bearer, holy martyr Kuksha, your fellow tribesman, our father, who accomplished the apostolic deeds in the midst of your dwelling, you enlightened them with the light of true knowledge of God, and according to the grace of the Holy Spirit, you drove away demons, brought down rain from heaven, dried up the lake and having performed many miracles, and crowned your long-suffering feat with a martyr’s death! Receive from us tender and fervent prayers and lift me up to the throne of the Holy Trinity, where you stand in the face of the saints, for through your intercession the Merciful Lord will establish in peace and glory the power of our most pious sovereign, Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich, and in the children of the holy Orthodox Church may the spirit of faith and piety strengthen the shepherds, may it increase its zeal for the edification of the flock and may it look with a merciful eye on the people coming and resorting to your help. Hey, holy servant of God! We know that for the sake of your suffering, your prayer can do much for the mercy of the Lord.
For this reason, as your children by faith, falling to the race of your honest and multi-healing relics, we pray to you with a contrite spirit and humble heart: do not despise our prayers, poured out before you, but I lift them up to the All-Bountiful God, like a fragrant censer for yours Through intercession, His grace will ever rest in this city, in which your glorious name is honored, and may the people living in it be preserved from famine, fire, deadly plagues and sudden death, from all troubles and misfortunes. Make haste, Hieromartyr Kuksha, with your holy prayers to the honest brotherhood of your holy church, may this multiply and prosper for the glory of the Triune God, to the praise of your name and for the good of the holy Orthodox Church, so that everything, protected by your intercession, is peaceful and pious Let us pass through this field of life, glorifying and giving thanks to the One True God, glorified in the Holy Trinity, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, forever and ever.
Baptist of Christ, preacher of repentance! Do not despise me who repents, but copulating with the Heavenly Ones, pray to the Lady for me, unworthy, sad, weak and sad, fallen into many troubles, troubled by the stormy thoughts of my mind. For I am a den of evil deeds, with no end to sinful customs: for my mind is nailed down by earthly things. What will I do? We don't know. And to whom shall I resort, that my soul may be saved? Only to you, Saint John, give the same name of grace, for you are before the Lord through the Theotokos, greater than all who were born: for you were deemed worthy to touch the top of Christ the King, who takes away the sins of the world, the Lamb God: Pray for my sinful soul, so that from now on, in the first ten hours, I will bear a good burden and accept recompense with the last. To her, the Baptist of Christ, the honest Forerunner, the ultimate prophet, the first martyr in grace, the teacher of fasters and hermits, the teacher of purity and the neighbor of Christ!
I pray to you, I come running to you: do not reject me from your intercession, but raise me up, having fallen through many sins: renew my soul with repentance, as with the second Baptism, you are the leader of both, wash away the original sin with Baptism, and cleanse each of your deeds with repentance bad. Cleanse me, who am defiled by sin, and force me to enter, or even anything bad that enters, into the Kingdom of Heaven.
Holy Forerunner and Baptist of Christ John! This preacher of repentance, do not despise us who repent, but pray to the Lord Christ for us unworthy slaves, sad, weak, fallen into many sins. We fear death, but we are no longer concerned about our sins and we do not care about the Kingdom of Heaven: but do not despise us, the Baptist of Christ, honorable Forerunner, greater [greater] than all born, fasting and hermit mentor, purity teacher and neighbor friend of Christ. We pray to you, we resort to you: do not reject us who ask for your intercession, renew our souls with repentance, which is the second Baptism: by your intercession before the Lord, ask us for the cleansing of sins. Unworthy lips cry out to you, and a humble soul prays, a contrite heart sighs from the depths: extend your most pure right hand and protect us from enemies visible and invisible. Hey, Lord Jesus Christ! Through the prayers of Saint John Your Baptist, and most especially of Your Most Pure Mother, our Lady Theotokos, save us, Your sinful servants, who repent of our sins.
For You are the God of the repentant, and in You the Savior we place our hope, glorifying Your most holy name, with Your Originless Father, and with Your Most Holy and Good and Life-giving Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
The Baptist of Christ, the honest Forerunner, the ultimate prophet, the first martyr in grace, the teacher of fasters and hermits, the teacher of purity and the neighbor of Christ! I pray to you, I come running to you: do not reject me from your intercession, but raise me up, having fallen into many sins: renew my soul with repentance, as with the second Baptism: cleanse me, the sin of the defiled, and force me to enter, or even anything bad enters, into the Kingdom of Heaven.
The memory of the righteous is with praise, but the testimony of the Lord is sufficient for you, O Forerunner: for you have shown that you are truly more honorable than the prophets, as in the streams of baptism you were deemed worthy to preach. Moreover, having suffered for the truth, rejoicing, you preached the good news to those in hell of God revealed in the flesh, who takes away the sin of the world and gives us great mercy.
We magnify you, John the Baptist of the Savior, and honor all your honorable heads.
Quick helper to all those who diligently come running to you and our warm representative before the Lord, holy and faithful Grand Duke Alexandra! Look mercifully upon us, unworthy ones, who have created many iniquities that have no use for themselves, who now flow to the chain of your relics [or to your holy icon] and from the depths of your heart cry out to you. In your life you were a zealot and defender of the Orthodox faith: and you unshakably established us in it with your warm prayers to God. You have carefully carried out the great service entrusted to you: and with your help, instruct us to abide in whatever we are called to eat. Having defeated the regiments of adversaries, you drove them away from the borders of Russia: and you will overthrow all visible and invisible enemies against us who have taken up arms. You, having left the corruptible crown of the earthly kingdom, have chosen a silent life, and now you are righteously crowned with an incorruptible crown in heaven: intercede for us, we humbly pray to you, for a quiet and serene life, and through your intercession arrange for us a steady march towards the eternal Kingdom.
Standing with all the saints before the throne of God, pray for all Orthodox Christians, especially for our most pious, autocratic, great sovereign, Emperor Nicholas Alexandrovich of all Russia, may the Lord God preserve them with His grace in peace, health, long life and all prosperity in the future summer, may we ever glorify God in the Holy Trinity, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
As the pious root of the most honorable branch you were, blessed Alexandra: Christ reveal you, as a certain Divine treasure of the Russian land, a new miracle worker, glorious and acceptable to God. And today, having come together in your memory with faith and love, in psalms and songs we joyfully glorify the Lord, who gave you the grace of healing: We pray to Him to save this city, and for the power of your relatives to be pleasing to God, and for the sons of Russia to be saved.
Know your brothers, Russian Joseph, not in Egypt, but reigning in heaven, blessed Prince Alexander, and accept their prayers, multiplying the lives of people with the fruitfulness of your land, protecting the cities of your dominion with prayer, and your heir, the blessed emperor ours, fighting against the resistance.
O sacred head, earthly angel and heavenly man, venerable and God-bearing Father Alexandra, great servant of the Most Holy and Consubstantial Trinity, show many mercies to those living in your holy monastery and to all who flow to you with faith and love! Ask us for everything that is useful for this temporary life, and even more so for our eternal salvation. Help with your intercession, servant of God, our most pious sovereign, Emperor Nicholas Alexandrovich of all Russia, against enemies visible and invisible, so that the Holy Orthodox Church of Christ may abide in peace, and his kingdom is founded in good order, indestructible in all piety. Be to all of us, miracle-working saint, a quick helper in every sorrow and situation. Most of all, at the hour of our death, a merciful intercessor appeared to us, so that we may not be betrayed in the ordeals of the aerial power of the evil world ruler, but may we be honored with a stumbling-free ascension into the Kingdom of Heaven. Hey, Father, our dear prayer book!
Do not disgrace our hope, do not despise our humble prayers, but always stand for us before the throne of the Life-Giving Trinity, so that together with you and with all the saints, we may be honored, even if we are unworthy, in the villages of paradise glorify the greatness, grace and mercy of the One in The Trinity of God, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, forever and ever.
From your youth, the wise God, having settled in the desert with spiritual desire, you desired the one Christ to follow diligently in the footsteps: in the same way, the angels were visibly surprised, as you labored with the flesh against invisible deceptions, and, wisely, you conquered the army. passions by abstinence and you appeared equal to the angels on earth, Reverend Alexander. Pray to Christ God to save our souls.
O holy Angel, my good guardian and patron! With a contrite heart and a painful soul I stand before you, praying: hear me, your sinful servant named, with a strong cry and a bitter cry: I will not remember my iniquities and untruths, because I, the accursed one, anger you all the days and hours and create abomination for myself before our Creator Lord: show yourself merciful to me and do not leave me unclean even until my death: awaken me from the sleep of sin and help with your prayers the rest of my life pass without blemish and create fruits worthy of repentance: moreover, keep me from the mortal falls of sin, so that I will not perish in despair, and let the enemy not rejoice over my destruction. I truly and shamefully confess that no one is such a friend and intercessor, protector and champion, like you, holy Angel: for standing before the throne of the Lord, pray for me, indecent and most sinful of all, so that the Most Good One will not take away my soul on the day of my hopelessness and on the day of the creation of evil.
Do not cease to propitiate the Most Merciful Lord and my God, may He forgive me the sins that I have committed in my entire life with deeds, words and all my feelings, and even in destinies, may He save me: may He punish me here according to His ineffable mercy, but may He not convict and not He will torture me according to His impartial justice: may He vouchsafe me to bring repentance, and with repentance may I be worthy to receive Divine Communion, for this I pray more than anything and I earnestly desire such a gift. In the terrible hour of death, be persistent with me, my good guardian, driving away the dark demons who have the power to frighten my trembling soul: protect me from those trappings, when I go through airy ordeals, may I protect you, I will safely reach desired by heaven, where the faces of the saints and heavenly powers continually praise the all-honorable and magnificent name in the Trinity of the glorified God, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, to whom honor and worship are due forever and ever. Amen.
Holy Angel of Christ! Falling down I pray to you, my guardian saint, given to me for the preservation of my sinful soul and body from Holy Baptism. But with my laziness and my evil custom I angered your most pure lordship and drove you away from me with all the evil deeds: lies, slander, envy, condemnation, contempt, disobedience, brotherly hatred and resentment, love of money, adultery, rage, stinginess, gluttony. satiety and drunkenness, long talk, evil and crafty thoughts, proud customs and lustful indignation, self-desire for all carnal lust. O my evil will, which even beasts do not do without words! How can you look at me, or approach me like a stinking dog? Whose eyes, Angel of Christ, look upon me, entwined with evil in vile affairs? But how can I ask for forgiveness for my bitter and evil and crafty deed, I fall into misery all day and night and at every hour?
But I pray to you, falling down, to my holy guardian: have mercy on me, a sinful and unworthy servant of your name, be my helper and intercessor against the evil of my opponent, through your holy prayers, and make me a partaker of the Kingdom of God with all the saints, always and now and ever and unto the ages of ages. Amen.
Holy Angel, stand before my wretched soul and more passionate than my life! Do not forsake me, a sinner, forsake me for my intemperance: do not give room to the evil demon to possess me with the violence of this mortal body: strengthen my poor and thin hand and guide me on the path of salvation. To her, holy Angel of God, guardian and patron of my accursed soul and body! forgive me everything that I have offended you with in so many ways all the days of my life: and if I have sinned in this night that has passed, cover me on this day: [or: and if I have sinned in this day, cover me in this night:] and keep me from every temptation of the opposite, so that I may not sin in any way I anger God: and pray for me to the Lord, that He may strengthen me in His passion and show me worthy as a servant of His goodness. Amen.
Angel of Christ, my holy guardian and patron of my soul and body! Forgive me of all who have sinned this day: and from every wickedness of the enemy who opposes me, deliver me, so that in no way will I anger my God: but pray for me, a sinful and unworthy servant, that you may show me worthy of the goodness and mercy of the All-Holy Trinity, and the Mother of my Lord Jesus Christ, and all saints Amen.
Angel of God, my holy guardian, keep my life in the passion of Christ God, my mind is confirmed in the true path, and my soul is wounded towards heavenly love, so that we are guided by you, I will receive great mercy from Christ God.
From the book: Rule of prayer for the divine and worshiped Paraclete of the Most Holy Spirit, creation of the monk Maxim the Holy Mountain
Come, Crystal-like Life and Almighty Hand, All-Holy and Life-Giving and Creator of the Soul, in the sovereign equality of Honor and Filiality, Whose is in the Three Persons the identity of dignity and Divinity, the advice of the consent, and the hedgehog one will. Come, my Lord, for whom my soul longs and desires. Come, the former desire within me, which created the desire for You, who is by no means unapproachable. Come, my dear, Joy and Pleasure and Glory. Come, my Breath, my Belly, Consolation of my soul. Be with me One Spirit, Most Good Master, inconceivably, immutably, unchangeably God above all. Be Yourself all to me in all, Food that cannot be spoken and that is never spent, eternally overflowing in the mouth of my soul and flowing from the wellspring of my heart: A robe that shines and is afflicted by demons: The cleansing that washes me with imperishable and holy tears, even Your coming grants, you will come to him. Be me the Unevening Light and the Unsetting and Unconcealed Sun: where are you hidden, nowhere do you have a place for Your peace?
Or is it for the sake of it that you don’t turn away anyone from everyone? That is why we always hide ourselves from You with our sins, not wanting to come to You. Leave me, O Lord, all harmful exaltation, and give me chastity of the eyes: put bridle on my tongue, submit my ears to your holy commandments: give me patience in sorrows, give understanding and strengthen my heart in long-suffering, in kindness, in abstinence, in compassion, in alms, in love, in humility, in quietness towards everyone, in aversion to demonic corruption. Grant me skillful reasoning in thoughts, which is worthy of preference: grant me to understand the flattering wiles of the devil, and to renounce them, and to cut off my own will, and to place what I care about myself on your providence, and from there on what is useful trust: for You have my life, my light, my salvation, and I will bless, and glorify and bow to You with Your Eternal Father, and Your Ever-Eternal and Natural Son, always, now and ever, and unto the ages of ages.
Come, O All-Honorable One to the Omnipotent, Omnipotent Soul, All-Visitor, All-Wise, Omnipotent, All-Powerful, Immutable, Immutable, Indescribable, Incomprehensible, Unknown and Unsearchable, Innumerably Gifted, Most Good, Executive of the Whole World in Essence, Inconceivable in Strength, Like the Life and Source Itself belly, Wisdom Himself and the Source of wisdom, Strength Himself and the Source of strength, the Most Good and All-Bountiful God. Come, to all who want to be saved, the true Hope. I will come, One to One: for I am one, as you see. Come and dwell in me, and cleanse me from all filthiness, and keep me from every admonishment and slander of the contrary. Let us bless Thee, O most blessed King of all, for from Thee we have to be, to breathe, to be wise, to know God, to You the All-Holy Spirit, and the Beginning Father, and the Only Begotten Son. Let us bless Thee, for from Thee we have the goodness of heaven, the solar current, the circle of the moon, the decoration of the stars, and the harmony and various movements of all.
Let us bless You, for from You we understand the hourly changes, the changes of times, the changes of winds, the circulation of summer. We thank You, for from You we have hope for the Kingdom of Heaven, the Angel of equality, the glory of sight, now as in a mirror and fortune-telling, not according to many more perfect and pure. We thank You for giving us everything: agriculture and food, arts, laws, customs, virtues and living. What tongue will speak of Your greatness, O Master, which is greater and more wonderful than words and reason?
You are the eternal and unceasing Source of purity and holiness, the vast Abyss of wisdom and strength, countless and incomprehensible, the immense and indescribable Abyss of life and immortality, the inexhaustible and inexhaustible Treasure of reason and meaning, the universal and inexhaustible Repository of goodness and mercy: You are You breathed into the prophets, and the future proclaimer, and the Only Incarnation of the preacher: you came to the Most Blessed Mary, called before the age of being the Mother of God, chosen from all generations, as pure and most pure, and having built Her consecrated womb, a dwelling for God the Word, with Him you created His most holy perception: You were with the Word of Christ, as if you were co-natural with Him and consubstantial and equal in honour, and you did a marvelous sign of God: from time to time you ascended into heaven and sat magnificently with the perceived being at the right hand of the Father, inseparably as God, You, who came to His holy disciples and apostles in a fiery vision tongue, and words and wisdom and boldness, having fulfilled them, you made them mighty in signs.
I now pray to You, I bow down to You, I am dear to You: bow down to me, Your servant, and visit me with goodness, and bring me out of the depths of sins, known and unknown, which I do not understand: cleanse me from all defilement of the flesh and spirit, sanctify me, make me wise, enlighten me, to every saving mind instruct me, show courage and unflagging against passions, all the strongest opposing forces, clothe me in the womb of generosity, meekness, long-suffering, truth, righteousness, silence and self-control, which is the foundation of all virtues: create me a church worthy of Your glory. Be your ruler in me, guarding and bestowing all Your rich gifts: for You are the perfect action of all good things, and to You, together with the Father and the Son, we offer due praise, always, now and ever, and unto the ages of ages.
Receive, Master, the Most Good Paraclete, the One and only Holy and Indivisible Trinity, this evil prayer, which from a sinful and condemned man you deigned to bring to You: and forgive my sins, voluntary and involuntary: cleanse me from my secrets, and from strangers, spare me the slave Yours. Be kind to me, a sinner and indecent, and visit the infirmities of my soul with Your grace, and heal its contrition.
Have mercy on me, Master Paraclete, God, have mercy on me, sanctify my soul and body, enlighten my mind, cleanse my spiritual conscience from all filth, unclean thoughts and evil thoughts, and blasphemous understandings, and from all exaltation, pride and arrogance, arrogance and insolence, and satanic vacillation, and from all Pharisee hypocrisy and contempt: and from every cold and evil custom of mine, deliver me to the end, for the glory of Your name: and grant me sincere repentance, contrition of heart and humility, meekness and quietness, and all Christian reverence, reason and spiritual art, with all prudence, thanksgiving and perfect patience, by her, God! For the sake of glory, in Your name, hear me, a sinner, praying to you, and grant me, during the rest of my damned life, to sincerely repent of my iniquities, with all humility, chastity and true continence, and help me to retreat from all doubt, double-mindedness and insensitivity.
And keep me, O Master, in every pious and Orthodox confession of the Christian faith, so that all the days of my life, without a doubt, I may be vouchsafed to the Lord to sing, bless, glorify and say: Holy God, Father without Beginning: Holy Mighty, Son without Beginning: Holy Immortal, Holy Soul, proceed from the Father and rest in the Son: All-Holy Trinity, glory to Thee. Glory to Thee, Holy Trinity, Consubstantial, Life-giving and Indivisible, for the sake of all, glory to Thee.
Glory to Thee, Mother of God, refuge of the faithful, and deliverance in those who suffer, and Divine consolation for my soul: my all-condemned soul, O God-gracious One, wounded by the shooting of a warrior, I entrust to Your omnipotent intercession, to protect, protect and save unharmed from demonic snares, Yes, I cry to You: Rejoice, Unbrideless Bride.
From the vanity of life and the thoughts of our minds, having gathered into one, we lift up the eyes of our souls and bodies to your icon, the Mother of God, and we cry out to you: do not, O Most Pure One, leave us weak in our sins to be corrupted, do not allow the evil demon Drive away our souls from Thy Son into the wilds of passions, but help us to always remember His commandments, so that we give ourselves over to fornication, and reproach each other with malice, but as today, Thy holiness lies ahead, about the direction of our life with jealousy We are inflamed, so having departed from Thy church to our own homes, we strive to preserve this good intention.
For now, our bodily needs are satisfied, and our sorrows are healed by Your prayer, O All-Singing One. We know that it is more appropriate for us to endure all this graciously and to ask the Lord for patience in sorrows: but for the time being our souls faint in sorrow and the thoughts of our despondency shake our faith, for this reason in contrition of hearts to we cry to you. Just as you healed countless sick sufferers and comforted the grieving, so you also fall before your miraculous icon and hear those praying to you in sorrow, and fulfill all requests for good, give health to the sick, give consolation to the grieving, in enmity God sends peace to those who exist, and affirmation of faith to those who doubt.
Hear Thy sinful servants, O Most Pure One, raise us up to praise Thy thanksgiving, may the faith of Thy people increase, may Thy intercession be glorified in them, so that the Kingdom of Thy Son may be established in our midst, to whom all glory, honor and worship befits, with His Beginning Father, with the Most Holy and Good and By His life-giving Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
The assurance of Your intercession and Your mercy, the appearance of the icon of Ozeryansk to us, Lady, appeared before her; we pour out our souls in prayer and cry out to You in faith: look, O Merciful One, upon Your people, all our sorrows and sorrows are quenched, good consolation has descended into our hearts, and ask for eternal salvation for our souls, O Most Pure One.
O Most Holy Virgin, Mother of Christ our God, Queen of heaven and earth! Hear the much-painful sighing of our souls, look down from Thy holy height upon us, who with faith and love worship Thy most pure [and miraculous] image. Behold, we are immersed in sin and overwhelmed by sorrow, looking at Your image, as if You were alive with us, we offer our humble prayers. The imams have no other help, no other intercession, no consolation, except You, O Mother of all who mourn and are burdened! Help us the weak, quench our sorrow, guide us who err on the right path, heal our painful hearts and save the hopeless, grant us the rest of our lives in peace and repentance, grant us a Christian death, and at the Last Judgment the Son Your merciful Intercessor has appeared to us, may we always sing, magnify and glorify You, as the good Intercessor of the Christian race, with all those who have pleased God, forever and ever.
About the ever-glorifying righteous women of Christ, the holy godfathers Joachim and Anno, standing before the heavenly throne of the Great King and having great boldness towards Him, as from your Most Blessed Daughter, the Most Pure Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary, He who deigns to be incarnated! To you, as a powerful representative and a zealous prayer book for us, we resort to sins and unworthiness. Pray for His goodness, that He may turn away His anger from us, according to our righteous deeds, and may He despise our countless sins, turn us to the path of repentance, and may He establish us on the path of His commandments.
Also, through your prayers, save our life in the world, and in all good things, ask for good haste, all the life and piety we need from God as a gift, from all misfortunes and misfortunes and sudden death, through your intercession we are delivered and protected from all enemies, visible and invisible, so that we may live a quiet and silent life in all piety and purity, and thus in the world, this temporary life has passed, we will achieve eternal peace, whereby through your holy supplication we may be made worthy of the Heavenly Kingdom of Christ our God, to whom, together with the Father and the Holy Spirit, be due all glory, honor and worship forever and ever.
We celebrate the memory of your righteous ones, O Lord, and hereby we pray to you: save our souls.
Who in the lawful grace of righteousness Joachim and Anna gave birth to us, the God-given child. Meanwhile, today the Divine Church, honoring your memory, triumphs brightly, joyfully celebrating, glorifying God, who raised the horn of salvation for us in the house of David.
Troparion, tone 4: Thy Nativity, O Virgin Mother of God, proclaim joy to the whole universe: from Thee has risen the Sun of Truth, Christ our God, and having destroyed the oath, given blessing, and having abolished death, given us eternal life.
Magnification: We magnify Thee, Most Holy Virgin, and honor Thy holy parents, and glorify Thy Nativity all-gloriously.
Troparion, voice: O Lord, save Thy people, and bless Thy inheritance, granting victories to our blessed Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich against the resistance, and preserving Thy residence through Thy Cross.
Magnification: We magnify You, Life-Giving Christ, and honor Your Holy Cross, by which You saved us from the work of the enemy.
Troparion, tone 4: today is the day of God’s favor, the transfiguration, and the salvation of men is preached: in the church of God the Virgin clearly appears, and foretells Christ to everyone. To that we too will loudly cry out: Rejoice, fulfillment of the Creator’s vision.
Magnification: We magnify You, Most Holy Virgin, God’s chosen Maiden, and we honor Your entry into the Church of the Lord.
Troparion, tone 4: Thy Nativity, O Christ our God, the light of reason has arisen in the world: in it, for those who serve the stars, I study with the star, I bow to You, the Sun of Truth, and I lead You from the heights of the East. Lord, glory to You.
Magnification: We magnify You, Life-Giving Christ, for our sake, now born in the flesh of the Blessed and Most Pure Virgin Mary.
Troparion, tone 1: In the Jordan I am baptized to You, O Lord, the Trinity adoration appears: for the voice of your parents bears witness to You, naming Your beloved Son: and the Spirit, in the form of a dove, proclaims Your words of affirmation. Appear, O Christ God, and enlighten the world, glory to You.
Magnification: We magnify You, Life-Giving Christ, for our sake, now baptized in the flesh by John in the waters of the Jordan.
Troparion, tone 1: Rejoice, Blessed Virgin Mary, for from You has risen the Sun of Truth, Christ our God, enlightening those who are in darkness: rejoice and you, the elder righteous one, accepted for the embrace of the Liberator of our souls, Who gives us resurrection.
Magnification: We magnify You, Life-Giving Christ, and honor Your Most Pure Mother, Who, according to the law, has now been brought into the church of the Lord.
Troparion, tone 4: the main thing is the day of our salvation, and the revelation of the sacrament from the ages: the Son of God is the Son of the Virgin, and Gabriel preaches grace. In the same way, we cry out to the Mother of God: Rejoice, full of grace, the Lord is with you.
Troparion, tone 1: Assuring the general resurrection before Your passion, You raised Lazarus from the dead, O Christ our God. In the same way, like children who bear the sign of victory, we cry out to You, the Conqueror of death: Hosanna in the Highest, blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord.
Magnification: We magnify You, Life-Giving Christ, hosanna in the Highest, and we cry to You: Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord.
Troparion, tone 4: Thou art exalted in glory, O Christ our God, having brought joy to the disciple by the promise of the Holy Spirit, which was communicated to them by the blessing that thou art the Son of God, the Savior of the world.
Magnification: We magnify You, Life-Giving Christ, and honor the hedgehog in heaven, with Your most pure flesh, the Divine Ascension.
Troparion, tone 8: Blessed are you, O Christ our God, who are wise fishers of phenomena, having sent down to them the Holy Spirit, and with them you have caught the universe: Lover of mankind, glory to you.
Magnification: We magnify You, Life-Giving Christ, and honor Your All-Holy Spirit, Whom You sent from the Father as Your divine disciple.
Troparion, tone 7: You were transfigured on the mountain, O Christ God, showing to Your disciples Your glory, as to man: may Your ever-present light shine upon us sinners, through the prayers of the Mother of God, Light-Giver, glory to You.
Magnification: We magnify Thee, Life-Giving Christ, and honor Thy most pure flesh, the glorious Transfiguration.
Troparion, tone 1: at the Nativity you preserved your virginity, at the Dormition you did not abandon the world, O Theotokos: you reposed in the life, Mother of the Being of the Life, and through your prayers you delivered our souls from death.
Greatness: We magnify You, the Immaculate Mother of Christ our God, and we glorify Your Dormition all-gloriously.
Troparion, tone 2: We worship Your most pure image, O Good One, asking for forgiveness of our sins, O Christ God: for You have pleased the flesh to ascend to the Cross, so that You may deliver what You have created from the work of the enemy. We also cry out to you in gratitude: You have filled all joy, O our Savior, who came to save the world.
Let us now diligently approach the Mother of God with sin and humility, and let us fall in repentance, calling from the depths of our souls: Lady, help us, having mercy on us: trying, we are perishing from many sins: do not turn away the slaves Your vanity, You are the imam’s only hope.
Let us never be silent, O Mother of God, from Your unworthy words of power: if You had not stood before us to pray, who would have delivered us from such troubles? Who would have kept them free until now? We will not retreat from You, Lady, for Your servants always save you from all evil ones.
Greatness: it is worthy to magnify you, the Mother of God, the Most Honest Cherub and the Most Glorious without comparison, the Seraphim.
Troparion, tone 4: of the heavenly armies of the Archangels, we always pray to you, we are unworthy, and with your prayers protect us with the blood of your immaterial krill of your glory, preserving us who fall diligently and cry out: deliver us from troubles, for officials of the highest powers.
Magnification: We magnify you, Archangels and Angels and all the hosts, Cherubim and Seraphim, glorifying the Lord.
Or this: we magnify you, Archangels, Angels, Principalities, Powers, Thrones, Dominions, Powers and Cherubim, terrible Seraphim, glorifying the Lord.
Troparion, tone 2: I commemorate Your prophet, O Lord, in celebration, so we pray to You: save our souls.
Magnification: we magnify you, prophet of God’s name, and honor your holy memory: for you pray for us, Christ our God.
Troparion, tone 3: Holy apostles, pray to the Merciful God that he may grant remission of sins to our souls.
Greatness: We magnify you, apostles of Christ, who enlightened the whole world with your teachings and brought all ends to Christ.
Troparion, tone 4: the rule of faith and the image of meekness, abstinence, a teacher like the truth of things to your flock: for this reason you have acquired high humility, rich in poverty. Father Hierarch of the name, pray to Christ God to save our souls.
Magnification: We magnify you, holy father, and honor your holy memory: for you pray for us, Christ our God.
Troparion, tone 4: O God of our fathers, do always with us according to your meekness, do not leave your mercy from us, but through their prayers guide our lives in peace.
Magnification: We magnify you, O holy majesty, and honor your holy memory: for you pray for us, Christ our God.
Troparion, tone 8: To you, father, it is known that you were saved in the image: for you accepted the cross, you followed Christ, and in your deed you taught to despise the flesh, for it passes away, but to be diligent about the soul of the thing that is immortal. In the same way, venerable name, your spirit also rejoices with the Angels.
Greatness: we please you, reverend father of the name, and honor your holy memory, mentor of monks and interlocutor of Angels.
Troparion, tone 4: O God of our fathers, do always with us according to your meekness, do not leave your mercy from us, but through their prayers guide our lives in peace.
Greatness: We honor you, reverend fathers, and honor your holy memory, mentor of monks and interlocutor of Angels.
Troparion, tone 4: Thy martyr, O Lord, named in his suffering received an imperishable crown from Thee our God: for having thy strength, I have overthrown the tormentors, crushed the demons of weak insolence. Our prayers saved his soul.
Greatness: We magnify you, holy name of the passion-bearer, and honor your venerable sufferings, which you endured for Christ.
Troparion, tone 4: Thy martyrs [martyrs], O Lord, in their sufferings received incorruptible crowns from Thee our God: for having thy strength, I have overthrown the tormentors, crushed the demons of weak insolence. Our prayers saved those souls.
Troparion, tone 1: May we pray for the illnesses of the saints who suffered from you, O Lord, and heal all our illnesses, O lover of mankind, we pray.
Greatness: We magnify you, holy passion-bearers, and honor your honest sufferings, which you endured for Christ.
Troparion, tone 4: and having been an apostle in character and a vicar of the throne, you gained your work, inspired by God, in a vision: for this reason, correcting the Word of truth, and for the sake of faith, you suffered even to the point of blood. Named Hieromartyr, pray to Christ God to save our souls.
Greatness: We magnify you, holy martyr of the name, and honor your holy memory: for you pray for us, Christ our God.
Troparion, tone 4: O God of our fathers, do always with us according to your meekness, do not leave your mercy from us, but through their prayers guide our lives in peace.
Magnification: We magnify you, holy martyrs of Christ, and honor your holy memory, for you pray for us, Christ our God.
Troparion, tone 8: To you, father, it is known that you were saved by the image: you accepted the cross, you followed Christ, and you taught to despise the flesh, for it passes away, but to be diligent about the soul of the thing that is immortal. In the same way, the venerable name of your spirit also rejoices with the Angels.
Greatness: we please you, O venerable martyr of your name, and honor your holy memory, teacher of monks and interlocutor of Angels.
Troparion, tone 4: O God of our fathers, do always with us according to your meekness, do not leave your mercy from us, but through their prayers guide our lives in peace.
Greatness: We honor you, holy martyr, and honor your holy memory, mentor of monks and interlocutor of Angels.
Troparion, tone 4: Thy lamb, Jesus, calls the name with a great voice: I love Thee, my Bridegroom, and seeking Thee I suffer, and I am crucified, and I am buried in Thy Baptism: and I suffer for Thy sake, that I may reign in Thee: and I die for Thee: that I may also live with you: but as an immaculate sacrifice, accept me, sacrificed to You with love. Through prayers, for He is merciful, we save our souls.
Greatness: We magnify you, the passion-bearer of Christ, and we honor your honest suffering, which you endured for Christ.
Troparion, tone 1: the lambs of speech, the Lamb and the Shepherd were brought to Christ by torment, having finished their course and kept the faith: the same day, with a joyful soul, we celebrate your holy memory, magnifying Christ.
Greatness: We magnify you, holy passion-bearers, and honor your venerable sufferings, which you endured for Christ.
Troparion, tone 8: To you, mother, it is known that you were saved by the image: having accepted the cross, you followed Christ, and in action you taught to despise the flesh, which passes away, but to be diligent about the soul of the thing that is immortal. In the same way, the Angels also rejoice, O holy name, your spirit.
Greatness: we please you, reverend mother of the name, and honor your holy memory: for you pray for us, Christ our God.
Troparion, tone 2: unsatisfied with true pity, Christ-glorifying, and the temporary betrothed, having rejected copulation, and having grown in virtuous deeds, to the height of the east of incorruptibility, red-spirited and much-rich, the pillars of monastic wives and the rule: Pray the same for us unceasingly, as we celebrate your memory with love.
Greatness: we please you, reverend mothers, and honor your holy memory: for you pray for us, Christ our God.
Troparion, voice 4: Your lamb, Jesus, calls your name with a great voice: I love You, my Bridegroom, and seeking You I suffer, and I am crucified, and I am buried in Your Baptism: and I suffer for Your sake, for I reign in You: and I die for You: that I may also live with you: but as if I accepted an immaculate sacrifice, sacrificed to You with love. Through prayers, for He is merciful, we save our souls.
Magnification: We magnify you, holy passion-bearer, and honor your holy memory: for you pray for us, Christ our God.
Troparion, tone 8: teacher of Orthodoxy, piety to the teacher and purity, lamp of the universe, divinely inspired fertilizer for the bishops, named after the wise, with your teachings you have enlightened all things, O spiritual soul: pray to Christ God for the salvation of souls ours.
Greatness to the holy confessor: we magnify you, holy father, and honor your holy memory: for you pray for us to Christ our God.
Greatness to the venerable confessor: we please you, reverend father of the name, and honor your holy memory: for you pray for us, Christ our God.
Troparion, tone 8: Holy unmercenaries and wonderworkers, visit our infirmities: accept tuna, give us tuna.
Greatness: We magnify you, miracle workers of the name of glory, and we honor your honorable sufferings, which you endured for Christ.
Troparion, tone 1: Hearing the voice of your Apostle Paul, saying: We are fools for Christ’s sake, Thy servant, O Christ God, who was called a fool for thy sake. We also honor his memory, we pray to you, Lord, save our souls.
Greatness: we please thee, holy righteous name, and honor thy holy memory: for thou prayest for us, Christ our God.