From your youth you loved Christ, O blessed one, / and you ardently desired to work for Him alone, / you labored with unceasing prayer and labor in the desert, / with a tender heart having acquired the love of Christ,/ the chosen one is beloved of God, you appeared to the Mother./ For this reason, we cry out to you: save us with your prayers, Seraphim, like our Father.
Having left the beauty of the world and the corruption in it, O monk, / you moved into the Sarov monastery, / and there you lived like an angel, / you were the path to salvation for many, / for this reason, Christ glorify you, Father Seraphim, / and enrich us with the gift of healings and miracles. / Moreover, we cry to you: Rejoice, Seraphim, our holy father.
Oh, wonderful Father Seraphim, great miracle worker of Sarov, quick and obedient helper to all who come running to you! In the days of your earthly life, no one was tired of you and was inconsolable when you left, but everyone was blessed with the sight of your face and the sweet voice of your words. Moreover, the gift of healing, the gift of insight, the gift of healing for weak souls has appeared in you abundantly.
When God called you from earthly labors to Heavenly rest, your love ceased from us, and it is impossible to count your miracles, multiplying like the stars of heaven: behold, in all At the end of our earth you appear to the people of God and grant them healing.
In the same way, we cry out to you: O humble and meek servant of God, bold man of prayer to Him, deny those who call upon you! Offer up your merciful prayer for us to the Lord of strength, may He grant us all that is beneficial in this life and all that is useful for spiritual salvation, may He protect us from the falls of sin and may He teach us true repentance, in let us enter without stumbling into the eternal Kingdom of Heaven, where you now shine in everlasting glory, and there sing with all the saints the Life-Giving Trinity forever and ever. Amen.
Oh, great saint of God, our reverend and God-bearing Father Seraphim! Look down from the heights of glory upon us, the humble and weak, burdened with many sins, your help and consolation to those who ask. Reach out to us with your kindness and help us to preserve the commandments of the Lord immaculately, to firmly maintain the Orthodox faith, to diligently offer repentance for our sins to God, in piety May Christians prosper with grace and be worthy of your prayerful intercession to God for us.
To her, Holiness of God, hear us praying to you with faith and love, and do not despise us who demand your intercession: now and at the hour of our death, help us and intercede for us with your prayers from evil slander of the devil, may those powers not possess us, but may we be honored with your help to inherit the bliss of the abode of paradise.
We place our trust in you now, O merciful Father: be truly a guide to our salvation and lead us to the eternal light of eternal life through your pleasing intercession at the Throne Most Holy Trinity, let us glorify and sing with all the saints the venerable name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit forever and ever. Amen.
Oh, reverend Father Seraphim! Offer up for us, servants of God (names), your merciful prayer to the Lord of hosts, may He grant us all that is useful in this life and all that is useful for spiritual salvation, may He protect us from the falls of sin and true may he teach us repentance, so that we may enter without stumbling into the eternal Kingdom of Heaven, where you are now in everlasting glory, and there sing with all the saints the Life-Giving Trinity in eyelids of centuries.
Oh, great saint of God, our reverend and God-bearing Father Seraphim! Look upon us (names), humble and weak, and burdened with many sins, asking for your help and consolation; come to us with your compassion and help us (content of the petition). We place our hope in you now, merciful father: lead us to the everlasting light of eternal life by your God-pleasing intercession at the throne of the Most Holy Trinity, may we praise and sing with by all saints the venerable name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit forever and ever. Amen.
Memorial Days January 2/15, July 19/August 1
All-Russian elder-comforter, miracle worker and prayer book for the Russian people. He became famous for his solitary exploits in a forest cell, his special love for people, kindness towards offenders, healings, and insight. Wild forest animals felt the peace and joyful mood of St. Seraphim and came to his cell. He left several prophecies about the last times and fate of Russia.
*Minea. July 19th.
** Canon. Canon to St. Seraphim, Wonderworker of Sarov.