Leaving the darkness of idolatry / and with ardent love accepting the light of the Orthodox faith of Christ, / you appeared, Saint Lyudmila, like the morning star, / and the light of holiness yours // the true day of worship of God in the Honor of the Earth has begun.
Your all-honorable temple, / as all the faithful have found spiritual health, / we cry loudly to you, / to the great martyr Lyudmila, the great one // pray to Christ God unceasingly for all of us.
Oh, holy saint of Christ, martyr Princess Lyudmila, first saint of the Czech country and the capital city of Prague, adornment, warm prayer book for us before God, behold, we, many sinners, humbly falling, we pray to you, do not allow us to perish in the mire of our sins, but offer up a prayer for us to the Lord, may He have mercy on us and grant us repentance. Oh, blessed mother Lyudmila, do not forget to visit your children, even if you have passed away from us in the heavenly abodes. Together with the holy martyr and your grandson Vyacheslav, when the youth Vyacheslav grew up, his father, your son, according to the custom of that time, ask the bishop and priests with everything with the help of the church to call upon him the blessing of God. The bishop, having served in the Church of the Most Holy Theotokos, placed the youth on the steps of the temple and blessed him thus: Lord God Jesus Christ, bless this Youth, as you blessed him Your righteous ones, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and crown him, as You crowned the faithful kings, Equal-to-the-Apostles Constantine and Helen.
Likewise, you, his holy foremother, ask us sinners for God’s blessing on our children and on all of us, so that we, too, who have sinned, will thank the Lord for bestowing His grace. May we together glorify the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit and your great intercession for us forever and ever. Amen.