At Night: Selected Orthodox Christian Prayers

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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.

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. 

Glory to you.


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

Instructed Vesting, Proskomide, and Liturgy

Archbishop Lazar Puhalo of the OCA 

2 helpful videos on the Orthodox Liturgy and its preparatory rites.











Some of Archbishop LAZAR's commentary is magnificent, and the two videos are definitely worth watching and viewing again.  Some will remember the good archbishop as Deacon Lev Puhalo who took on Seraphim Rose and Rose's presentation of the 'aerial tollhouse' theorgy of the afterlife as dogmatically true.  Deacon Lev went in the opposite direction making claims about which no one could be certain; however, his opposition to Rose gave hope to many Orthodox who did not believe the 'aerial tollhouse' afterlife theory and believed it underminded the seriousness and validity of Orthodoxy's actual doctrinal claims.

+Kyrie eleison imas.