Your care for your flock in her journey,/ this is the prototype and prayers of yours, for the whole world, which are always offered up./ Thus we believe, having known your love,/ to the saint and wonderworker John! / All of God has been sanctified by the sacred rites of the most pure Mysteries, / in whom we ourselves are constantly strengthened, you hastened to the suffering, most dear to the healer. // Hasten even now to help us with all your heart who honor you.
Your heart embraces all those who pray to you, Saint John, and remember the feat of your life. faithful servant.
The creation of Hieromonk Seraphim Platinsky
O our holy father John, good shepherd and seer of the mysteries of human souls! Now at the Throne of God you pray for us, just as you yourself said after death: “Even though I am dead, I am alive.” Beg the all-generous God to grant us forgiveness for our sins, so that we may rise up cheerfully and cry out to God to grant us the spirit of humility, the fear of God and piety in all the paths of our lives, As a merciful teacher and skillful teacher who was on earth, now be a guide for us and Christ’s admonition in the turmoil of the church. Hear the groaning of the troubled youths of our hard times, overwhelmed by the demon of the all-evil one, and look at the despondency of the exhausted shepherds from the oppression of the corrupting spirit of this world and those languishing in Idle negligence and hasten to prayer, we cry out to you tearfully, O warm man of prayer; visit us orphans, scattered all over the world and living in our fatherland, wandering in the darkness of passions, but drawn by weak love to the light of Christ and waiting for your fatherly instructions, so that we may become accustomed to piety and heirs of the Kingdom of Heaven, where you abide with all the saints, glorifying our Lord Jesus Christ, to Him is honor and power, now and ever and forever and ever. Amen.
Akathist to Saint John, Archbishop of Shanghai and San Francisco, wonderworker
O wonderful Saint John, you have only spread your heart, as if it comfortably accommodates many people who worship you from different tribes and peoples! Look at the wretchedness of our words, both brought to you out of love, and help us, saint of God, from now on to cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, working for the Lord with fear and rejoicing in Him with trembling. And that we will reward you for this joy, even if we felt it quietly, seeing your holy relics in the holy temple and glorifying your memory; Truly, there is no imam to repay, just as soon as we begin to correct ourselves, what is new instead of what is old. Sowing the grace of renewal, be our intercessor, Saint John, help us in our weaknesses, heal illnesses, heal passions with your prayers; reposed from this time into another eternal life, instruct you in the same way, the Most Pure Lady, Hodegetria of the Russian Dispersion, with Her miraculous icon Root Kursk, whose companion you appeared on the day of your repose, rejoicing now in the face of the saints who glorify the One in the Trinity glorifying God, the Father and the Son and The Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.
Akathist to Saint John, Archbishop of Shanghai and San Francisco, wonderworker