Oh, reverend Father Macarius! We pray to you, unworthy ones, through your intercession, ask our All-Merciful God for mental and physical health, a quiet and godly life and a good answer at the Last Judgment of Christ. With your prayers, extinguish the arrows of the devil kindled against the servants of God (names), so that the malice of sin may not touch us, and having piously ended our temporary life, we will be worthy to inherit the Kingdom Heavenly and abundantly with you, glorify the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit forever and ever. Amen.
Reverend Father Macarius! Look upon us mercifully and lead those who are devoted to the earth to the heights of heaven. You are grief in heaven, we are on earth below, removed from you, not only in place, because of our sins and iniquities, but we run to you and cry: instruct us to walk in your way, with understanding and lead. Your whole holy life will be a mirror of all virtue. Don’t stop, saint of God, crying to the Lord for us. By your intercession, ask our All-Merciful God for the peace of His Church, under the sign of the militant cross, agreement in faith and unity of wisdom, the destruction of vanity and schisms, establishment in good deeds, healing for the sick, consolation for the sad, intercession for the offended, help for the needy. Do not disgrace us, who flow to you in faith. All Orthodox Christians, through your miracles and benevolent mercies, confess that you are their patron and protector. Reveal your ancient mercies, and to whom you helped your father in all things, do not deny us, their children, who are marching towards you in their footsteps. Before your most venerable icon, as I live for you, we fall down and pray: accept our prayers and offer them up on the altar of God’s mercy, so that we may receive your grace and timely help for our needs. Strengthen our cowardice and confirm us in faith, so that we undoubtedly hope to receive all the good from the mercy of the Lord through your prayers. Oh, great servant of God! Help all of us who flow to you with faith through your intercession to the Lord, and guide us all in peace and repentance to end our lives and dwell with hope in the blessed the bosom of Abraham, where you now rest joyfully in your labors and struggles, glorifying God with all the saints, glorified in the Trinity, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and forever and ever. Amen
Oh, sacred head, reverend father, most blessed Abvo Macarius, do not forget your poor to the end, but always remember us in your holy and auspicious prayers to God. Remember your flock, which you yourself shepherded, and do not forget to visit your children. Pray for us, holy father, for your spiritual children, as if you have boldness towards the Heavenly King, do not remain silent for us to the Lord, and do not despise us, who honor you with faith and love. Remember us unworthy at the Throne of the Almighty, and do not stop praying for us to Christ God, for the grace has been given to you to pray for us. We do not imagine that you are dead, even though you have passed away from us in body, but even after death you remain alive. Do not give up on us in spirit, keeping us from the arrows of the enemy and all the charms of the devil and the snares of the devil, our good shepherd. Even though your relics are always visible before our eyes, your holy soul with the angelic hosts, with the disembodied faces, with the heavenly powers, standing at the Almighty Throne, rejoices with dignity. Knowing that you are truly alive even after death, we bow down to you and we pray to you: pray for us to the Almighty God, for the good of our souls, and ask us time for repentance, so that we may pass from earth to heaven without restraint, from bitter ordeals, demons of air princes and from eternal torment, may we be delivered from eternal torment, and may we be heirs of the Heavenly Kingdom with all the righteous, from eternity who pleased our Lord Jesus Christ, to whom all glory, honor and worship is due, with His Beginning Father and with His Most Holy and Good and Life-Giving Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.
Oh, Reverend Father Macarius! We pray to you, unworthy ones, by your intercession, ask our All-Merciful God for mental and physical health, a quiet and God-pleasing life and a good answer at the Last Judgment of Christ. With your prayers, extinguish the arrows of the devil, so that sinful malice may not touch us, and having piously ended our temporary life, we may be worthy to inherit the Kingdom of Heaven and together with you glorify the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit forever and ever. Amen.
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