Prayer for the Dormition of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Oh, Most Holy Theotokos, Virgin, Lady, Highest Angel and Archangel, and Most Honest of all creatures! Angelic great surprise; Prophetic high sermons; Apostolic most glorious praise; Saints - a fair decoration; martyrs - a strong statement; monks - saving instruction; fasters - inexhaustible abstinence; virgins - purity and glory, Mothers - quiet joy; babies - wisdom and punishment; widows and orphans - breadwinner; naked—garment; for those who are sick - health; captives - deliverance; those floating on the sea - silence; for those overwhelmed - a calm haven; wandering - an easy mentor; traveling - easy passage; for workers - a good rest; in real troubles - an ambulance to the intercessor; for the offended - protection and refuge; those who do not hope - hope; those who require - to the assistant; for the poor - inexhaustible wealth; for the sad - everlasting consolation; hated - loving humility; sinners - salvation and appropriation to God; true believers of all - firm protection, invincible help and intercession!
We see You, the Lady, the Invisible One, and we offer our prayers to You, O Lady, the sins of Your servants! Oh, Most Merciful and Most Wonderful Queen of Light, Who gave birth to the King Christ our God, the Life-Giver of all! Glorified from the heavenly (forces) and praised from the earthly!
Angelic mind, Radiant star; Most Holy Saints; Queen of Queens; Mistress of all creatures; Graceful Maiden; Undefiled Bride; Chamber of the Holy Spirit; the fiery throne of the Invisible King; Heavenly ark; Carried the Words of God; fire-shaped chariot; The chamber of the living God; the ineffable composition of the flesh of Christ; Nest of the Heavenly Eagle; The Bogoglasnaya Turtledove; The dove is meek, quiet and gentle; Mother is child-loving; the abyss of mercy, dispelling the cloud of God’s wrath; immeasurable depth; unspeakable mystery; unknown miracle; The Church not made by hands of the One King of all ages; fragrant censer; honest scarlet; Richly woven porphyry; spiritual paradise; life-giving garden industry; beautiful color; the grape of our salvation; cup of the Heavenly King, in which the wine of inexhaustible goodness dissolved from the Holy Spirit; intercessor of the law; the true faith of Christ was conceived; unshakable pillar; destruction of heretics; the sword of God's wrath against the ungodly; intimidation of demons; victory in battle; True guardian of all Christians - and the world of all, known salvation!
Oh, All-Merciful Lady, Virgin, Mother of God, hear us praying to You, and show Your mercy to Your people! Pray to Your Son: deliver us from all evil, and save our monastery and every monastery, and the city, and the country of the faithful, and people who piously resort and call on Your Holy Name, from all misfortunes, destruction, famine, cowardice, flood, fire, sword, invasion of foreigners and internecine warfare; from every illness and every situation: neither by wounds, nor by rebuke, nor by pestilence, nor by any righteous wrath of God, may Thy servants diminish, but protect and save with Thy mercy, O Lady, praying for us, and grant us the beneficial goodness of the air, at the time of the fruitful offering. Ease, rise up and have mercy, O Merciful Lady, the 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 grace of Your mercy: may we be comforted with thanksgiving, having found You as a helper! Have mercy, O Most Pure Lady, on Your weak people, our Hope!
Gather the scattered, the lost, guide them on the right path; those who have fallen away from the pious faith of their fathers, return them again; support old age; punish the young ones; raise babies; and glorify, glorifying Thee, - more significantly - the Church of Thy Son - observe and preserve for the length of days! Oh, merciful and most merciful Queen of heaven and earth, Ever-Virgin Mother of God! By Your intercession, have mercy on Our Most Pious, Most Autocratic, Great Sovereign, Emperor Alexander Nikolaevich and the entire Reigning House, the chamber and all their army, and all Orthodox Christians, preserving them under the roof of Your mercy, with the robe of Your honest protection; and pray from You, Who has become incarnate without the seed of Christ our God: may He gird us with strength from above against all our visible and invisible enemies; against foreigners fighting against us and against our Orthodox faith! Save and have mercy, O Lady, - the Most Holy, Governing Synod and the Most Reverend Metropolitans, Archbishops and Orthodox Bishops; priests and deacons, and the entire church congregation, and all the faithful people worshiping and praying before Your honorable Icon!
Look upon us all with the mercy of Your merciful intercession! Raise us 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 terrible Judgment of Your Son, pray for us; Thy servants who have ceased in piety from this life - in eternal life with the Angels and Archangels and with all the saints - parables: that they may appear at the right hand of Thy Son and God! And through Your prayer grant all Orthodox Christians to live with Christ and enjoy the joys of Angels in heavenly villages! For you are, Lady, the glory of the heavenly and the hope of the earthly; You are our hope and intercessor of all who flow to you and ask for your help! You are our warm prayer service to Your Son and our God! Your Motherly prayer can do a lot to implore the Lord, and through Your intercession to the throne of grace, His Most Holy and Life-giving Mysteries, we dare to approach, even if we are unworthy!
By the same Thy All-Honorable Image, and by Thy hand, holding the Almighty, - seeing on the icon - we rejoice in sins; with tenderness and love we kiss this (image), longingly, Lady, with Your holy, auspicious prayers, to reach the heavenly, endless lives and shamelessly, on the day of judgment, at the right hand of Your Son and our God, glorifying Him, together with the Beginning Father, and the Most Holy, Good, Life-Giving and Consubstantial Son, in forever and ever. Amen.
Prayer for the Day of the Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Oh, Most Holy Virgin, Mother of the Lord of the highest powers; heaven and earth to the Queen; our city and land - Omnipotent intercessor! Accept this singing of praise and gratitude from us, Thy unworthy servants, and lift up our prayers to the throne of God, Thy Son! May He be merciful to our untruths and add (continue) His grace to those who honor Your All-Honorable Name, and with faith and love who worship Your Miraculous Image! We are not worthy to be pardoned by Him, unless You propitiate Him for us, the Lady, for all things are possible for You from Him. For this reason, we resort to You, as to our undoubted and immediate intercessor!
Hear us praying to You: cover us with Your Almighty protection and ask God, Your Son: zeal and vigil for our souls as our shepherds; to city rulers wisdom and strength; to judges - truth and impartiality; mentor - reason and humility; to spouses - love and harmony; chadam—obedience; to the offended - patience; to those who offend - the fear of God; to those who mourn - complacency; those who rejoice - abstinence; to all of us: 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 Your weak people: gather those who are scattered; guide those who are lost on the right path; old age - support, young - chastity; bring up babies, and look upon us all with the care of Your merciful intercession! Raise us from the depths of sin and enlighten the eyes of our hearts to the vision of salvation; You will be merciful to us here, and there: - in the land of earthly coming and at the terrible judgment of Your Son! Our fathers and brethren, who have presented themselves in faith and repentance from this life, to eternal life, with the Angels and with all the Saints, create!
For you are, O Lady, the glory of heaven and the hope of earth! You, according to Bose, are our hope and intercessor of all 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 forever and ever. Amen.
Prayer to the Holy Guardian Angel