Lord, enlighten the mind and heart of this Thy servant to the knowledge of Thy great, countless unsearchable gifts, which will be received from Thy innumerable bounties. In the blindness of my passion I forgot You and Your rich gifts, and I was impoverished to be impoverished; I am rich in Your blessings, and for this reason I see the delight in the good of my servants Thy image, oh, most ineffable Goodness, thou hast spared all that is contrary to his power and according to the intention of Thy will. Take away, O All-merciful Master, the veil of the devil from the sight of the heart of Your servant and grant him heartfelt contrition and tears of repentance and gratitude, so that the enemy will not rejoice over him, alive caught from him according to his will, and let him not be torn out of your hand.
* * *
Oh, reverend Father Seraphim! Offer up for us, servants of God (names), your merciful prayer to the Lord of hosts, may He grant us all that is useful in this life and all that is useful for spiritual salvation, may He protect us from the falls of sin and true may he teach us repentance, so that we may enter without stumbling into the eternal Kingdom of Heaven, where you are now in everlasting glory, and there sing with all the saints the Life-Giving Trinity in eyelids of centuries.
* * *
Oh, wonderful servant of God, Father Silouan! By the grace given to you by God, to pray tearfully for the whole universe - the dead, the living and the coming - do not keep silent for us to the Lord, who fervently come to you and are tenderly touched by your intercession those asking (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 the chosen one of God prays to God for our sins, to be merciful and long-suffering, even if we do not remember our untruths and iniquities, but by ineffable goodness Our Lord Jesus Christ will graciously and save us according to His great mercy. She, 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 mountain Athos and its God-loving desert dwellers will be preserved in the world from all troubles and slander of the enemy.
May the Angels deliver saints from evils and be strengthened by the Holy Spirit in faith and brotherly love, until the end of the age, pray for the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church They show everyone the path of salvation, so that the Earthly and Heavenly Church may continually glorify the Creator and Father of Lights, enlightening and illuminating the world in the eternal truth and goodness of God. Ask the people of the whole earth for a prosperous and peaceful life, the spirit of humility and brotherly love, good morals and salvation, the spirit of the 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 godly enmity and fratricide, but in the power of Divine love and truth, As in heaven and on earth, hallowed be the name of God, may His holy will be done to man, 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, covered by the omnipotent omophorion of the Mother of God, may he be delivered from famine, destruction, cowardice, fire, sword, invasion of foreigners and civil strife, and from all enemies, visible and invisible, and thus from the most holy house of the Blessed One The Mother of God will remain with him until the end of time, the Cross with life-giving power, and he will be established in the love of God inexhaustibly. For all of us, who are immersed in the darkness of sins and warmth of repentance, who do not have less than the fear of God and who never cease to insult the Lord who loves us immeasurably, ask, O All-Blessed One, from the All-Merciful One May our God, by His omnipotent divine grace, visit and revive our souls, and may He abolish all the malice and pride of life, 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 the truth of God to be established and well-behaved in the grace-filled love of God, and to draw closer to the son-loving One. 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 Beginning Father, His Most Holy and Good and Life-giving Spirit, now and ever and unto the ages of ages. Amen.
1 Righteous John of Kronstadt. My life in Christ. Volume 1. 171.
2 Canon. Canon to St. Seraphim of Sarov.
See ENVY