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Prayer to the Holy Seven Youths of Ephesus

(there is a tradition of praying when babies have sleep disturbances)

Oh, most wonderful holy seventh youth, praise to the city of Ephesus and all the hope of the whole universe! Look from the heights of Heavenly glory at us, who honor your memory with love, and especially at the Christian infants, entrusted to your intercession by their parents. Bring down upon her the blessing of Christ God, O Lord: leave the children to come to Me. Heal those who are sick, comfort those who mourn, keep their hearts pure, fill them with meekness, and in the soil of their hearts plant and strengthen the grain of the confession of God, even with strength so that they may increase in strength. And all of us, the holy icons of yours who stand before you, who kiss your might with faith and pray warmly to you, vouchsafe to enhance the Kingdom of Heaven and glorify the silent voices of joy there magnificent Name of the Most Holy Trinity, Father and Son and Holy Spirit, forever and ever. Amen.

Prayer of the Holy Seven Youths for the weak and not sleeping

Let's pray to the Lord. Lord have mercy.

Great God, praiseworthy, and incomprehensible, and inscrutable, who created man by Your hand, dust from the earth and honored him in Your image, Jesus Christ, desired name, with Your Beginning Father, and with Your Most Holy, and Good, and Life-Giving Spirit, appear on Your servant [or Thy servant] name, and visit him [or with soul and body, we beg from the Most Glorious Lady of our Mother of God, and the Ever-Virgin Mary: the holy heavenly powers of the disembodied: and the honorable, glorious Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist John: the holy glorious and all-praised apostles: like our holy fathers, and the universal teachers, Basil the Great, Gregory the Theologian, John Chrysostom: Athanasius and Cyril, Nicholas in Mireh, Spyridon the Wonderworker, and all the holy leaders: the Holy Apostle the First Martyr and Archdeacon Stephen: the Glorious Saints and Great Martyrs, George victorious, Demetrius the Myrrh-Bearer, Theodore the Stratelate, and all the holy martyrs: our venerable and God-bearing fathers, Anthony, Euthymia, Sava the sanctified, Theodosius the general life of the chief, Onuphrius, Arsenia, Athanasius of Athos, and all the saints: saints and healers, unmercenaries Cosmas and Damian, Cyrus and John, Panteleimon and Hermolai, Sampson and Diomede, Falalea and Tryphon, and others: the holy name, and all Your saints, and give him the sleep of repose, the sleep of bodily health and salvation and belly, and strength of soul and body: as You sometimes visited Your saint Abimelech, in the temple of Agrippa, and You gave him a dream of consolation, even though he did not see the fall Jerusalem: and this one who slept in a nourishing sleep, and again this one who was resurrected in a single moment of time, to the glory of Your goodness, but also Your holy glorious seventh youth, confessors and witnesses of Your appearance, showing, in the days of Decias the king and the apostate: and he who slept in the den for the summer, like babies warmed in their mother’s womb, and having in no way endured corruption, for the praise and glory of Your love for mankind, and for the demonstration and announcement of our rebirth and the resurrection of all. O O Tsar who loves mankind, appear even now by the influx of Your Holy Spirit, and visit Your servant’s name, grant him [or her] health, strength and blessings, through Your goodness: for from You comes every good gift, and every gift is perfect. For You are the physician of our souls, and to You we send glory, and thanksgiving, and worship with Your Eternal Father and with Your Most Holy and Good and Life-giving Spirit, now and ever and ever, amen.

Prayer to the Holy Venerable Irinarch, the recluse of Rostov

Oh, reverend Father Irinarsha! Behold, we pray to you earnestly: be our ever-present intercessor, ask us from Christ God for peace, silence, prosperity, health and salvation, and protection from all enemies, visible and invisible, and cover us through your intercession from all kinds of troubles and sorrows, and especially from the temptation of the dark enemy, may we all glorify with you the all-holy name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto the ages centuries. Amen.

Menea. August 4th.

Breviary in civil script (1906)

✒ Orthodox House translation — being checked against the traditional text.
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