From your youth, O God-Wise One, you settled in the desert with spiritual desire,/ you desired the one Christ, diligently following in your footsteps,/ and also the angels, seeing you, were amazed,/ how, with the flesh towards the invisible wiles, you labored, O wise one,/ you conquered the hosts of passions through abstinence/ and you appeared like an angel on earth,/ Reverend Alexandra,/ pray to Christ God, // may he save our souls.
Like a many-bright star today in the Russian countries you have shone, O Father,/ having settled in the desert, you have zealously desired to follow Christ’s footsteps/ and the holy yoke is upon your frame. to us is the honorable cross, / you have put to death your labors, your bodily leaps, / therefore we cry out to you: / save your flock, which you have gathered, wise, let us call you: Rejoice, Reverend Alexandra, our father.
Oh, sacred head, earthly and human angel of heaven, our reverend and God-bearing father Alexandra, great servant of the Most Holy and Consubstantial Trinity, manifesting many mercy to those living in your holy monastery and to all who flow to you with faith and love! Ask us for everything that is useful for this temporary life and necessary for our eternal salvation. Help with your intercession, saint of God, against enemies visible and invisible, so that the Holy Orthodox Church of Christ may abide in peace and be founded on prosperity in every way piety is indestructible. Be to all of us, miracle-working saint, a quick helper in every sorrow and situation. Most of all, at the hour of our death, a merciful intercessor appeared to us, so that we may not be betrayed at the ordeals of the air by the power of the evil ruler of the world, but may we be honored with an unfaltering ascension into the Kingdom Heavenly. Hey, Father, our servant of prayer! Do not disgrace our hope, do not despise our humble prayer and intercede for us before the Throne of the Life-Giving Trinity, so that we may be honored together with you and with all the saints, we, the unworthy, in the villages in heaven glorify the greatness, grace and mercy of the One in the Trinity of God, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, forever and ever. Amen.
Oh, our reverend and God-bearing Father Alexandra! Humbly falling to the race of your honorable relics, we diligently pray to you, raise your hand for us sinners, to our Lady Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary, so that we may remember His ancient mercy, in which He promised to remain constant from your monastery; and he will give us strength and strength against our spiritual enemies who lead us away from the path of salvation, so that when they emerge as victors, on the day of the Last Judgment we will hear from you a praiseworthy voice: Behold, I and the children, what you gave to me, O God! And we will receive the crown of victory from the conqueror of the enemies of Christ, the Son of God, and together with you we will receive the inheritance of eternal blessings, praising the Most Holy Trinity, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, and your merciful intercession and intercession, now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.
Memorial Days April 17/30 and August 30/September 12
Born within Veliky Novgorod, in the small town of Obonezhskaya Pyatina - Manderakh in 1448. He early discovered a penchant for asceticism, but his parents did not bless him on the path of monasticism and sent him to study. The youth was weak in science and was very sad about it. Finally, after his fervent prayers, the Lord imparted to the youth the gift of understanding book scriptures. As a young man, St. Alexander went to Valaam, where he was tonsured a monk, however, burdened by fame, he soon moved to the river. Svir, to the wild places. Gradually a monastery was formed around his cell, and the monk himself became its abbot. After his death from the incorruptible relics of St. Alexander Svirsky’s healing occurred more than once, especially for patients suffering from relaxation. St. They pray to Alexander in their desire to become a monk, for guidance in monastic practice, for consolation of the hearts of parents who are overly grieving over their child’s choice of the monastic path, for help in learning, as well as for help in the ailment of relaxation.