Our incorruptible treasure and inexhaustible wealth: grant to this Thy servant, created in Thy image and likeness, to know the flattery of wealth, and as the whole earth is vanity, shadow and sleep, and for You alone are our wealth, peace and joy.
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Oh, servant of Christ, holy man of God Alexie! Look mercifully upon us, servant of God (names), and stretch out your honest hand in prayer to the Lord God, and ask us from Him forgiveness of our sins, voluntary and involuntary, peaceful and Christian life and a good answer at the Last Judgment of Christ. To her, saint of God, do not disgrace our trust, which we place in you, according to God and the Mother of God; but be our helper and protector for salvation; and through your prayers, having received grace and mercy from the Lord, let us glorify the love of mankind of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit and your holy intercession, now and ever and unto the ages of ages.
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To you, saints without mercenary and miracle workers Cosmos and Damiana, as a quick helper and a warm prayer book for our salvation, we, unworthy (names), kneel, resort and fall We cry out earnestly: do not despise the prayers of us sinners, the weak, who have fallen into many iniquities, and who continue to sin all the days and hours. Beg the Lord to grant us, His unworthy servants, His great and rich mercy: deliver us from all sorrow and illness, for you have received it naturally from God and our Savior Jesus Christ's endless grace of healing, for the sake of firm faith, free healing and martyrdom is yours. To her, pleasers of God, do not cease praying for us, who flow to you with faith: even though, due to the multitude of our sins, we are not worthy of your mercy, both of you, faithful imitators God's love for mankind exists, create, so that we may bear fruits worthy of repentance, and may reach eternal rest, praising and blessing the wondrous Lord and God and our Savior in His saints Jesus Christ and His Most Pure Mother, and your warm intercession, always, now and ever, and unto the ages of ages. Amen.
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Oh, saint of Christ, our Father Ephraim! Bring our prayer to the merciful and all-powerful God and ask us, the servants of God (names), from His goodness all that is for the benefit of our souls and bodies, right faith, hope without doubt, unfeigned love, meekness and kindness, courage in temptation, patience in suffering, prosperity in piety, so that we do not turn the gifts of the All-Good God into evil. Do not forget, O miracle-working saint, this holy temple (house) and our parish: preserve and preserve them with your prayers from all evil. To her, Holy One of God, grant us a good end and the Kingdom of Heaven to inherit, so that we may glorify the wondrous God in His saints, to Him belongs all glory, honor and power, forever and ever.
* Righteous John of Kronstadt. My life in Christ. Volume 1. 171.
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