Saints without money and wonderworkers Cosmos and Damian,/ visit our infirmities // accept, give us the same.
Grace receives healings, you extend health to those in need, doctors, wonderworkers of glory, but by your visit to the warriors you overthrow insolence, healing miracles for the world.
O miracle workers of glory, physician of mercilessness, Cosmos and Damian! You, who have loved Christ God from your youth, have received not only the art of healing, but moreover the inexhaustible grace of healing all sorts of ailments from God, received by nature. Likewise, you will soon hear us, falling before your honorable icon. young children, asking for your help in the teaching of the book, instruct them with your prayers, so that by your life, jealously, they will acquire not earthly things, but even more in piety and righteousness May they continue to continue in their faith. To those who are lying on the bed of illness, those who despair of human help, but to those who come running to you warmly with faith and fervent prayer, grant healing of illnesses with your merciful miraculous visit; Likewise, from severe illnesses to despondency, cowardice and murmuring, the grace that has come to you from God through patience, confirm and instruct, so that they may understand God’s holy and perfect will for them, and participants are made of God's saving grace. Keep the brethren of this holy temple, entrusted to your holy intercession by God, and all those who diligently come running to you from severe diseases unharmed, and protect them from sudden death, and protect the powerful By your intercession to God in the right faith, keep firm and prosper in piety, so that together with you, in the future, they will be able to constantly sing and glorify the all-holy and magnificent the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit forever and ever. Amen.
Wonderworkers of glory, doctors of mercilessness, Cosmos and Damiana! From your youth you have loved Christ God and kept His commandments with all your heart, even giving yourself medical teaching, but virtuous teaching for the sake of life and purity of soul, by the power of Christ God, Not only the art of healing, but moreover the inexhaustible grace of healing all sorts of ailments was received from God by nature. Because of your love and mercy for the sick ascetics, not only people, but also cattle, you provide healing of diseases, with your countless miracles you fill the whole world, and not of the body. Not only do you heal ailments, but you also enlighten souls with the faith of Christ, strengthen them in patience with illnesses, admonish those in serious illness about correcting their lives, and draw them to Christ through repentance. The same now, who fall to you in front of your honest icon, you will soon hear, young children, asking for your help in the teaching of the book, with your prayers instruct, so that zealous for life, they will not acquire earthly teaching, but rather may they prosper in piety and right faith. To those lying on the bed of illness, human help to those desperate, but to those who come running warmly with faith and fervent prayer, grant healing of illnesses with your merciful, miraculous visit. Many times in illness and from severe illnesses you fall into despondency, cowardice and murmuring, with the grace given to you from God in patience, confirm and instruct, so that they understand the will for them They betray God’s holy and good will to themselves and their own living will of Christ God. Those who are ill, but not concerned about correcting their lives, those who do not repent of their sins, those who are hardened in heart, crush them for salvation and call them to repentance, so that those who are weak in body may remain healthy soul, and the participants become partakers of God's saving grace. Preserve the brethren of this holy temple, entrusted to your holy intercession by God, and all who diligently resort to you unharmed from long illness, from severe and incurable diseases, from relaxation bodies, from frenzy of mind, from deadly ulcers, from sudden death, and by your omnipotent intercession to God, keep in the right faith those who are steadfast, advancing in piety, in good deeds diligent, diligent in prayer to God, so that together with you in the future we will be able to constantly sing and glorify the all-holy and magnificent name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, in eyelids of centuries. Amen.
Memorial Day November 1/14
Educated and skilled doctors, the holy martyrs Cosmas and Damian, acquired the gracious gifts of the Holy Spirit - through the power of prayers to heal mental and physical ailments, to keep their souls in non-covetousness and brotherly love.
*Minea. November 1st.
** Our holy doctors. Comp. Elena Igonina. Publishing house "Word and Deed", 2013.