Lord, teach Your servant, who has fallen into the pride of the devil, meekness and humility and to remove from his heart the darkness and burden of satanic pride!
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Oh, servant of Christ, holy man of God Alexie! Look mercifully upon us, servant of God (names), and stretch out your honest hand in prayer to the Lord God, and ask us from Him forgiveness of our sins, voluntary and involuntary, peaceful and Christian life and a good answer at the Last Judgment of Christ. To her, saint of God, do not disgrace our trust, which we place in you, according to God and the Mother of God; but be our helper and protector for salvation; and through 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 and your holy intercession, now and ever and unto the ages of ages.
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Oh, wonderful servant of God, Father Silouan! By the grace given to you by God, to pray tearfully for the entire universe - the dead, the living and the coming - do not keep silent for us to the Lord, who fervently come to you and tenderly ask for your intercession (names). Move, O all-blessed One, to prayer the Zealous Intercessor of the Christian race, the Most Blessed Mother of God and Ever-Virgin Mary, who miraculously called you to be a faithful worker in Her earthly heliport, where God’s chosen one beseeches God for our sins, the merciful and long-suffering being of God, not to remember our untruths and iniquities, but for his ineffable goodness Our Lord Jesus Christ will spare us and save us according to His great mercy. To her, saint of God, with the Most Blessed Lady of the world - the Most Holy Abbess of Athos and the holy ascetics of Her earthly lot, ask the saints for the Most Holy Word of the Holy The grief of Mount Athos and its God-loving desert dwellers will be preserved in the world from all the troubles and slander of the enemy.
Yes, the Angels deliver the saints from evils and are strengthened by the Holy Spirit in faith and brotherly love, until the end of the age about the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church, creating prayers and saving for all They show the way, so that the earthly and heavenly Church may continually glorify the Creator and Father of Lights, enlightening and sanctifying the world in the eternal truth and goodness of God. Ask the people of the whole earth for a prosperous and peaceful life, a spirit of humility and brotherly love, good morals and salvation, a spirit of fear of God. Let it not be malice and lawlessness that harden the hearts of men, which can destroy the love of God in men and cast them into hostility and fratricide, but in the power of Divine love and righteousness, as in Heaven and on earth, hallowed be the name of God, may His holy will be done among men, and may peace and the Kingdom of God reign on earth.
So also for your earthly Fatherland - the Russian lands, ask, saint of God, the longed-for peace and heavenly blessing, in the same way, with the all-powerful omophorion of the Mother of God covered, may he be delivered from famine, destruction, cowardice, fire, sword, invasion of foreigners and internecine warfare, and from all enemies, visible and invisible, and thus by the most holy house of the Blessed Virgin Mary He will remain until the end of the age, the Life-giving Cross by the power and love of God; the inexhaustible one will be established. For all of us, who are immersed in the darkness of sins and warmth of repentance, who have no lower fear of God and who constantly insult the Lord who loves us immeasurably, ask, O all-blessed one, from our All-Bountiful God, May He, with His omnipotent divine grace, visit and revive our souls, and may He abolish all malice and worldly pride, despondency and negligence in our hearts.
We also pray for us, strengthened by the grace of the All-Holy Spirit and warmed by the love of God, in love for mankind and brotherly love, in humble crucification for each other and for everyone, in truth Be established in God's grace and be strengthened in the grace-filled love of God, and draw closer to Him who loves His sons. Yes, so, doing His all-holy will, in all piety and purity of temporary life, let us walk the path shamelessly and with all the saints of the Heavenly Kingdom and His Lamb marriage. To Him from all on earth and in heaven be glory, honor and worship, with His Beginningless Father, His Most Holy and Good and Life-Giving Spirit, now and ever and unto the ages of ages. Amen.
* Righteous John of Kronstadt. My life in Christ. Volume 1. 171.
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