Oh, great and wonderful servant of Christ, Holy Hierarch Father Ignatius! Mercifully accept our prayers offered to you with love and gratitude! Hear us, the orphan and helpless (names), who fall to you with faith and love and your warm intercession for us before the Throne of the Lord of Glory of those who ask. We know how much the prayer of the righteous can do, propitiating the Lord. From the years of infancy you have passionately loved the Lord and having desired to serve Him alone, you have counted all the beauty of this world for nothing. You denied yourself and, having taken up your cross, you followed Christ. You chose the narrow and regrettable path of monastic life for yourself, and on this path you acquired great virtues. With your writings, you filled the hearts of people with the deepest reverence and humility before the Almighty Creator, and sinners who fell with your wise words in the consciousness of their insignificance and their sinfulness, You instructed them to resort to God in repentance and humility, encouraging them with trust in His mercy. You rejected none of those who came to you, but you were a loving father and a good shepherd to all. And now do not leave us, who fervently pray to you and ask for your help and intercession. Ask our Humane-loving Lord for mental and physical health, confirm our faith, strengthen our strength, those who are exhausted in the temptations and sorrows of this age, warm the fire of prayer has cooled the hearts and, help us, who through repentance have cleansed the Christian death of this life, receive this life and enter into the palace of the Savior, adorned with all the chosen ones, and there with you worship the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit forever and ever. Amen.
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Oh, servant of Christ, our Father Ephraim! Bring our prayer to the merciful and all-powerful God and ask us (names), from His goodness all that is for the benefit of our souls and bodies: right faith, undoubted hope, 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, 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. Amen.
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Oh, reverend fathers, great intercessors and quick hearers of prayers, saints of God and miracle workers Zosimo and Savvatie! Do not forget, as you promised, to visit your child: although you have departed from us in body, you remain with us ever in the Spirit: we pray to you, for veneration: deliver us from the fire and the sword, from the invasion of foreigners and civil strife, from corrupting winds and from sudden death, and from all the attacks of demons that come upon us: hear us, your sinful children (names), and accept this prayer and our prayer, like a fragrant incense, like an acceptable sacrifice, and revive our souls, evil deeds and advice and thoughts killed; and just as you have raised up a dead damsel and delivered her from the evil spirits who were tormented by evil spirits: so also, take us, who are kept in the bonds of the enemy, and deliver us from the snares of the devil from the depths of sins inform us, and by your merciful visit and intercession protect us from enemies, visible and invisible, by the grace and power of the Most Holy Trinity, always, now and ever and unto the ages centuries..
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Oh, sacred head, earthly angel and heavenly man, our reverend and God-bearing father Alexandra, great saint of the Most Holy and consubstantial Trinity, many mercy Reveal to those living in your holy monastery and to everyone who flows to you with faith and love! Ask us for everything we need for this temporary good in life, and, moreover, for our eternal salvation: help us with your intercession, servant of God, so that we may abide in deep peace The Holy Orthodox Church of Christ, and in prosperity the Fatherland is founded, in all piety is indestructible: be to all of us, miracle-working saint, in all sorrow and emergency assistant: especially at the hour of our death, a merciful intercessor appeared to us, may we not surrender to the power of the evil ruler of the world in the ordeals of the air, but may we be counted worthy of the one who does not stumble sunrise into the Kingdom of Heaven. Hey, Father, our dear companion of prayer! Do not disgrace our hope, but stand for us, the servants of God (names), before the throne of the Life-Giving Trinity, so that we may be worthy together with you and with all the saints, even if we are unworthy We are, in the villages of paradise, glorifying the greatness, grace and mercy of the one in the Trinity of God, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, forever and ever. Amen.
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Oh, great elder and saint of God, reverend our father Ambrose, praise from Optina and all Russia to the teacher of piety! We glorify your humble life in Christ, for whom God has exalted your name, even as you still exist on earth, especially crowning you with Heavenly honor upon your departure to the palace of glory eternal. Accept now the prayer of us, your unworthy children (names), who honor you and call upon your holy name, deliver us by your intercession before the Throne of God from all sorrowful circumstances, mental and physical ailments, evil misfortunes, pernicious and evil temptations, send down peace, silence and prosperity to our Fatherland from the great-gifted God, be the immutable patron of the holy monastery, in which you yourself will prosper You have labored and you have pleased with all in the Trinity our glorious God, to Him belongs all glory, honor and worship, to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto the ages centuries. Amen.
*Minea is additional. 10.10. Venerable Ambrose, Elder of Optina.
See section MONASKING