My beloved spiritual children in Christ Our Only True God and Our Only True Savior,CHRIST IS IN OUR MIDST! HE WAS, IS, AND EVER SHALL BE.
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PRAYERS OF DIVINE INTERCESSION
Forgive, O Lord, those who hate us and treat us unjustly. Do good to those who do good. Grant our brethren and families their requests which are for salvation and eternal life. Visit those who are ill and grant them healing. Watch over those at sea, land, and air and those accompany those who travel. Be an ally to our armed forces and to those in authority. Grant remission of sins to those who serve us and are kind to us. Be merciful according to Your great mercy to those who have asked us to pray for them, unworthy though we be.
Remember, O Lord, our fathers, and brethren who have fallen asleep before us and grant them rest where the Light of Your countenance shines.
Remember, O Lord, those who are in captivity and deliver them from every distress. Remember, O Lord, those who bring offerings and do good in Your holy Churches and grant them their requests which are for salvation and eternal life.
Remember us, Your sinful and unworthy servants, O Lord, and enlighten our minds with the Light of Your knowledge, guiding us along the way of Your Commandments, by the intercessions of Your immaculate Mother, Our Lady Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary, and of all Your Saints. For You are blessed to the ages of ages. Amen.
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TO THE THEOTOKOS
Exceedingly glorious and Ever-Virgin Theotokos. Bring our petitions before Your Son, and our God, and implore Him that through you He will save our souls. Amen.
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TO THE GUARDIAN ANGEL
Holy Angel, companion of my soul and my whole life, do not abandon me nor depart from me because of my weakness and sin. Do not allow the wicked demon to overcome me by the oppression of this mortal body. Restrain and strengthen me and guide me in the way of salvation.
O Holy Angel of God, guardian and protector of my wretched soul and body, forgive me everything in which I have grieved you all the days of my life, and in which I have sinned in the day just past. Protect me during the coming night and keep me from every influence of the enemy, that I may not anger God in any sin. Intercede for me to the Lord that He may strengthen me in His fear, and make me worthy to be a servant of His Goodness. Amen.
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PSALM 63
O God, You are my God, I seek You, my soul thirsts for You, my flesh faints for You, as in a dry and weary land where no water is. So I have looked upon You in the sanctuary, beholding Your power and glory. Because Your steadfast love is better than life, my lips will praise You. So I will bless You as long as I live, I will lift up my hands and call on Your name. My soul is feasted as with marrow and fat and my mouth praises You with joyful lips, when I think of You upon my bed, and meditate on You in the watches of the night. For You have been my help and in the shadow of Your wings I sing for joy. My soul clings to You, Your right hand upholds me. But those who seek to destroy my life shall go down into the depths of the earth, they shall be given over to the power of the sword, they shall be prey for jackals. But the king shall rejoice in God, all who swear by Him shall glory, for the mouths of liars will be stopped.
PRAYERS
We praise, bless, hymn and thank You, O God of our fathers, for You have led us through the shadows of night and shown us again the light of day.
We entreat Your goodness: cleanse us from our sins and accept our prayer in Your great tenderness of heart, for we run to You, the Merciful and All-Powerful God!
Illumine our hearts with the true Sun of righteousness, enlighten our minds and guard all our senses, that walking uprightly as in the day in the way of Your Commandments, we may attain eternal life.
For with You is the Fountain of Life and we will be made worthy of enjoying Your unapproachable Light.
For You are Our God, and to You, we ascribe glory: to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.
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PRAYER OF SAINT BASIL THE GREAT
O Lord Our God, You have given Your peace to men and sent down the gift of Your peace to men and send down the gift of Your All-Holy Spirit to Your Disciples and Apostles, opening their lips with fiery tongues by Your power.
Open also my lips and teach me, sinner, that I am, how and for what I ought to pray.
Guide my life, O calm Haven of the storm-tossed, and reveal the way in which I should walk.
Renew in me a right spirit and make my mind steady with a governing spirit, so that guided and guarded each day by Your Good Spirit, I may be enabled to practice Your Commandments, always remembering Your glorious presence which looks upon the deeds men do.
Do not let me be deceived by the corrupting delights of this world, but rather strengthen in me the desire to attain the treasures of the world to come.
For You are blessed and praised in all Your Saints, unto Ages of Ages. Amen.
Through the prayers of our Holy Fathers, may the Lord have mercy on us. Amen.
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ANOTHER PRAYER OF SAINT BASIL THE GREAT
O God, Lord of Hosts and Maker of all created things, Who in Your great compassion and mercy sent down Your Only-Begotten Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ, for the redemption of mankind, and by His Precious Cross destroyed the writing of our sins, thereby triumphing over the source and power of darkness.
O Lord and Lover of man, accept also the thanksgiving and fervent prayers of us sinners.
Deliver us from every dark and harmful transgression and from all the visible and invisible enemies which seek to destroy us.
Nail our flesh to the fear of You, and do not incline our hearts to words or thoughts of guile. But wound our souls with Your love, that ever looking to You, and guided by You in the Light, and beholding You, the Light ineffable and everlasting, we may offer ceaseless praise and thanksgiving to You.
To the Father Who has no beginning, together with Your Only-Begotten Son and Your All-Holy, Good and Life-Giving Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.
Through the prayers of our Holy Fathers, may the Lord have mercy on us. Amen.
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ADDITIONAL PRAYERS
O Christ Our God, at every season and every hour, in heaven and on earth, You are worshipped and glorified.
You are long-suffering, Merciful and compassionate, loving the just and showing mercy to the sinner; calling all to salvation through the promise of blessings to come.
O Lord, in this hour, receive our supplications and direct our lives according to Your Commandments.
Sanctify Our souls, hallow our bodies, correct our thoughts, cleanse our minds. Deliver us from all tribulations, evil, and distress.
Surround us with Your holy Angels, that guided and guarded by them, we may come to the unity of the faith and to the knowledge of Your unapproachable glory, for You are blessed unto the ages. Amen.