Oh, all-blessed Saint Spyridon, great saint of Christ and glorious miracle worker! Stand in heaven before the Throne of God with the face of an Angel, look with your merciful eye on the people (names) standing here and asking for your strong help. Pray to the compassion of God, the Lover of Mankind, not to judge us according to our iniquities, but to deal with us according to His mercy!
Ask us from Christ and our God for a peaceful and serene life, mental and physical health, the earth’s prosperity and all abundance and prosperity in everything, and may we not turn the good things given to us into evil generous God, but for His glory and for the glorification of your intercession!
Deliver everyone who comes to God with undoubted faith from all mental and physical troubles, from all yearnings and the devil’s slander!
Be a comforter to the sad, a physician to the sick, a helper in times of adversity, a protector to the naked, a protector to widows, a protector to the poor, a nourisher to the infant, a strengthener to the old, a guide to the wandering, Helmsman afloat, and intercede for everyone, your strong help to those who require, everything that is useful for salvation!
Because by your prayers we are instructed and observed, we will reach eternal rest and together with you we will glorify God, in the Trinity of Saints we glorify the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.
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Oh, our good shepherd and God-wise mentor, Saint Nicholas of Christ! Hear us sinners (names), praying to you and calling for your quick intercession for help: see us weak, caught from everywhere, deprived of every good and darkened in mind from cowardice.
Try, O saint of God, not to leave us in sinful captivity, so that we may not joyfully be our enemies and not die in our evil deeds. Pray for us, unworthy of our Creator and Master, to whom you stand with the disembodied faces: be merciful to us by our God in this life and in the future, so that He does not reward us according to our deeds and according to the impurity of our hearts, but according to his goodness he will reward us.
We trust in your intercession, we boast of your intercession, we call upon your intercession for help, and we fall to your most holy image for help: deliver us, saint of Christ, from evils come upon us, so that for the sake of your holy prayers the attack will not come upon us and we will not sink into the abyss of sin and in the mud of our passions.
Pray to Saint Nicholas of Christ, Christ our God, that He will grant us a peaceful life and remission of sins, and salvation and great mercy for our souls, now and ever and unto the ages centuries.
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Oh, holy all-blessed mother Ksenia! She lived under the shelter of the Most High, guided and strengthened by the Mother of God, hunger and thirst, cold and heat, endured reproach and persecution, and received the gift of clairvoyance and miracles from God and under the shade May the Almighty rest in peace.
Now the Holy Church, like a fragrant flower, glorifies you. Coming (at the place of your burial), before your holy image, as the living being with us, we pray to you: accept our petitions and bring them to the throne of the merciful Heavenly Father; As you have boldness towards Him, ask for eternal salvation from those who flow to you, for our good deeds and undertakings a generous blessing, from all troubles and sorrows, deliverance from all troubles and sorrows, appear as your saints prayers before our all-merciful Savior for us, unworthy and sinners; help, holy blessed mother Xenia, illuminate the infants with the light of holy baptism and seal the gift of the Holy Spirit, boys and girls in faith, honesty, to instill fear of God and grant them success in learning; Heal the sick and ailing, send love and harmony to families, grant monastics the honor to strive for good and protect them from reproach, shepherds in the fortress of the Holy Spirit establish, preserve our people and country in peace and serenity, pray for those deprived of communion of the Holy Mysteries of Christ at the hour of death.
You are our hope and hope, quick hearing and deliverance, we send thanks to you and with you we glorify the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto the ages of ages, amen.
1 Canon. Canon to Saint Spyridon, wonderworker, Bishop of Trimifuntsky.
2 Akathist to Saint Blessed Xenia of Petersburg.