A champion of Orthodoxy,/ a great worker and teacher of repentance and prayer,/ a divinely inspired adornment to the bishops,/ glory and praise to the monastics:/ you have made us all wise through your writings./ Spiritual treasure, Ignatius the wise God, / pray to the Word of Christ God, / Whom you carried in your heart, / / to grant us repentance before the end.
Even though you followed the path of earthly life, to St. Ignatius, / you constantly saw the laws of eternal existence, / teaching this to your disciples with many words, / also Follow us, holy one, and pray.
Oh, great and wonderful servant of Christ, Holy Hierarch Father Ignatius! Mercifully accept our prayers, offered to you with love and gratitude! Hear us, orphan and helpless (names), who come to you with faith and love and your warm representation for us before the Throne of the Lord of Glory of those who ask. We know how much the prayer of the righteous can do, propitiating the Lord. From the years of infancy you have passionately loved the Lord and having desired to serve Him alone, you have imputed all the beauty of this world for nothing. You have denied yourself and taken up your cross; you have followed Christ. You chose the narrow and sorrowful path of monastic life by your own will, and on this path you acquired great virtues. With your writings, you filled the hearts of people with the deepest reverence and humility before the Almighty Creator; you filled the sinners who fell with your wise words in the consciousness of their insignificance and their own You instructed them to resort to God in repentance and humility, encouraging them with trust in His mercy. You rejected none of those who came to you, but you were a loving father to all and a good shepherd. And now do not leave us, who fervently pray to you and ask for your help and intercession. Ask our humane-loving Lord for mental and physical health, confirm our faith, strengthen our strength, which is exhausted in the temptations and sorrows of this age, warm with fire prayers that have cooled our hearts, help us, who have been cleansed by repentance, to receive the Christian end of this life and enter into the palace of the Savior, adorned with all the chosen ones, and there together with you worship the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit forever and ever. Amen.
Memorial Day April 30/May 13
He had an excellent education and favor at the royal court, but renounced worldly honors and embarked on the path of monasticism. He worked a lot to improve the monastic monasteries. Known as a spiritual writer, researcher and continuer of the tradition of the holy fathers. He left a large number of ascetic writings. St. They pray to Ignatius for the granting of a feeling of repentance, with excessive attachment to the blessings of the world, for zeal for the fulfillment of Christian service for the church hierarchy, for a firm position in Orthodoxy.
*Minea is additional. April 30th.
** Akathist to Saint Ignatius (Brianchaninov).