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PRAYER OF ST. IOANNIKIOS
+ My hope is the Father.
+ My refuge is the Son.
+ My shelter is the Holy Spirit.
O Holy Trinity, glory to you.
All creation rejoices in you, O Full of Grace.
Glory to you.
PRAYER TO THE VIRGIN ADVOCATE
THEOTOKION: ALL CREATION REJOICES
I commit my every hope to you, O Mother of God.
Guard me under your protection.
All creation rejoices in you who are full of grace— both the company of the angels and the human race. Holy Temple and Spiritual Paradise, boast of virgins, from you God was made flesh and became a child, the same who was our God existing before the ages. He made your womb into a throne, making you more spacious than the heavens.
All creation rejoices in you, O Full of Grace.
PRAYER TO THE VIRGIN ADVOCATE
Most glorious Ever-Virgin and blessed Mother of God, present our prayer to your Son, who is our God, and pray that, through your advocacy, he will save our souls.
PRAYER TO THE LORD JESUS CHRIST
by Antiochos, Monk of the Pandektes Monastery
Master, grant us rest of soul and body as we go now to sleep. Guard us from the gloomy somnolence of sin and from every dark seduction of the night. Calm the turmoil of our obsessions, extinguish the blazing arrows of the evil one so craftily aimed at us. Subdue the rebellions of our flesh, and calm all our earthly and material thoughts. Grant us, O God, a vigilant mind, chaste thought, a sober heart, and sleep that is light and free of all evil dreams. Raise us up again at the hour of prayer, secure in your commandments and holding fast within us the memory of your judgments. Grant that we may sing of your glory all the night long, that we may praise and bless and glorify your all-honorable and majestic name: + of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, now and ever and to the ages of ages. Amen.
THE SEAL OF PRAYER
+ Through the prayers of our holy Fathers and Mothers,
Lord Jesus Christ our God, have mercy on us and save us. Amen.
Father John A. McGuckin
Priest of the Romanian Orthodox Church
Prayer Book of the Early Christians
Paraclete Press
