Tenth decade: Let us remember the Mother of God standing at the Cross of the Lord, when grief pierced through her heart like a sword. Let us pray to the Mother of God for the strengthening of our souls and the banishment of despondency.
Rejoice, O Virgin Mother of God… (Ten times)
After: Our Lady, Blessed Mother of God, strengthen my soul and banish my despair.
Our Father...Open unto us...
Eleventh decade: Let us remember the Resurrection of Christ and ask the Mother of God in prayer to resurrect our souls and give us new courage for spiritual feats.
Rejoice, O Virgin Mother of God… (Ten times)
After: Our Lady, Blessed Mother of God, resurrect my soul and give me constant readiness for spiritual feats.
Our Father...Open unto us...
Twelfth decade: Let us remember the Ascension of Christ, at which the Mother of God was present. Let us pray and ask the Queen of Heaven to raise up our souls from earthly and worldly amusements and direct them to striving for higher things.
Rejoice, O Virgin Mother of God… (Ten times)
After: Our Lady, Blessed Mother of God, deliver me from worldly thoughts and give me a mind and heart striving towards the salvation of my soul.
Our Father...Open unto us...
Thirteenth decade: Let us remember the Upper Room and the descent of the Holy Spirit on the Apostles and the Mother of God.
Let us pray: Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me (Psalm 51).
Rejoice, O Virgin Mother of God… (Ten times)
After: Our Lady, Blessed Mother of God, make me a clean church in which God’s Holy Spirit will ever dwell.
Our Father...Open unto us...
Fourteenth decade: Let us remember the Dormition of the Blessed Mother of God, and ask for a peaceful and serene end.
Rejoice, O Virgin Mother of God… (Ten times)
After: Our Lady, Blessed Mother of God, grant me a peaceful and serene end.
Our Father...Open unto us...
Fifteenth decade: Let us remember the glory of the Mother of God, with which the Lord crowned her after her removal from earth to heaven. Let us pray to the Queen of Heaven not to abandon the faithful who are on earth but to defend them from every evil, covering them with her honorable and protecting veil.
Rejoice, O Virgin Mother of God… (Ten times)
After: Our Lady, Blessed Mother of God, preserve me from every evil and cover me with your honorable protecting veil.
Our Father...Open unto us...
It is truly meet to bless thee, O Theotokos, ever blessed and most pure, and the Mother of God. More honorable than the Cherubim, and beyond compare more glorious than the Seraphim, who without corruption gavest birth to God the Word, the very Theotokos, thee do we magnify.
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, both now and ever and unto the ages of ages. Amen.
Lord, have mercy. (Three times.)
O Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, for the sake of the prayers of Thy most pure Mother, our holy and God-bearing fathers, and all the saints, have mercy on us. Amen.
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