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What is this prayer about?
We are used to the fact that every prayer is a request. However, there are also prayers of thanksgiving, which are often undeservedly left aside. In fact, they have great power, because gratitude literally means giving a blessing.
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Troparion, voice 4
We are grateful to Your unworthy servant, O Lord, for Your great good deeds upon us who were glorious. We praise, bless, thank, sing and magnify Your goodness, and slavishly love with a cry of Ti: Our Blessed Savior, glory to Thee.
Kontakion, voice 3
Your good deeds and gifts to the tune, like a slave to indecency, have been granted, Vladyka, assiduously flowing to You, we give thanks in strength, and to you as a Benefactor and Creator gloriously, crying out: glory to you, Omnipotent God.
Glory to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and forever and forever and ever, amen.
Mother of God
Theotokos, the Christian Helper, Your intercession has acquired Your servant, is grateful to You with a cry: Rejoice, Blessed Virgin Mary, and always deliver us from all our troubles with Your prayers, The One Who is coming soon.
PRAYER FIRST
We thank Thee, Lord our God, for all Thy good deeds, even from the first age to the present, in us, unworthy Thy servants (names), who were, theirs is also visible and not visible, about the manifested and unmanifested, even the deeds of the former and the word: loving us, as if and give Thy only begotten Son for us, vouchsafe us worthy of being Thy love. Give by Your word wisdom and Your fear, inhale strength from Your strength, and if we sin willingly or unwillingly, forgive and do not blame, and save our holy soul, and present to Your Throne, I have a clean conscience, and the end is worthy of Your humanity; And remember, Lord, all who call upon Your name in truth; the same we pray to Thee, Lord, give us Thy benevolence and great mercy.
PRAYER TWO
The Cathedral of the Holy Angels and Archangels, with all heavenly powers, sings to Thee, and says: Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord of Hosts, heaven and earth are full of Your glory. Hosanna in the highest, blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, hosanna in the highest. Save me, Thou art in the highest King, save me and sanctify me, Source of sanctification; From Thee, for all creation is strengthened, To Thee without number howls sing the thrice-holy song. You and I am unworthy, sitting in the light impregnable, everyone is horrified of him, I pray: enlighten my mind, cleanse my heart, and open my mouth, as if I could worthily sing to You: Holy, Holy, Holy are you, Lord, always, now, and ever and in endless ages of ages. Amen.
SONG OF PRAISE OF SAINT AMBROSE OF MEDIOLANUS
We praise God to you, we confess the Lord to you, all the earth magnifies to you the eternal Father. To you all the angels, to you the heavens and all the powers, to you the cherubim and seraphim with unceasing voices cry out: Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of hosts, heaven and earth are full of the majesty of your glory. The most glorious apostolic countenance, Thee is a prophetic laudatory number, The brightest martyr army praises Thee, The Holy Church confesses Thee throughout the universe, the Father of incomprehensible majesty, worshiping Thy true and only-begotten Son, and the Holy Comforter of the Spirit. You, Christ the King of glory, you are the ever-present Son of the Father: you, accepting man for deliverance, did not abhor the Virgin’s womb. Having overcome the sting of death, you opened the Kingdom of Heaven to the believers. You sit at the right hand of God in the glory of the Father, Judge come believe. We ask you: help your servants, whom you have redeemed with honest blood. Vouchsafe to reign with Your saints in Your eternal glory. Save Thy people, O Lord, and bless Thy inheritance, I amend and exalt them forever: we will bless Thee all the days, and we will praise Thy name forever and ever. Grant, O Lord, on this day, without sin, be preserved for us. Have mercy on us, Lord, have mercy on us: be Thy mercy, Lord, on us, as if we put our trust in Thee: in Thee, Lord, let us put our trust in you forever. Amen.
PRAYER OF GRATITUDE FOR ALL THE BLESSINGS OF GOD, SAINT JOHN OF KRONSTADTS
God! What will I bring to You, how will I thank You for Your unceasing, Your greatest mercy to me and to Your other people? For, behold, every moment I am enlivened by Your Holy Spirit, every moment I breathe the air, poured by You, light, pleasant, healthy, strengthening – I am enlightened by Your joyful and life-giving light – spiritual and material; I feed on spiritual food, sweet and life-giving, and drinking the same, the holy Mysteries of Your Body and Blood, and food and drinks of material sweetness; You dress me with a bright, beautiful royal robe – by Yourself and material clothes, cleanse my sins, heal and purify my many and fierce passions of sin; you will take away my spiritual corruption in the power of Thy immeasurable goodness, wisdom and strength, fill with Thy Holy Spirit – the Spirit of holiness, grace; you give my soul truth, peace and joy, space, strength, boldness, courage, strength, and you endow my body with precious health; you teach my hands to fight and my fingers to fight with the invisible enemies of my salvation and bliss, with the enemies of the sanctuary and the power of Your glory, with the spirits of malice in high places; you crown with success my deeds done in your name … For all this I thank, glorify and bless your all-good, paternal, all-powerful power, God, Savior, our Benefactor. But be known by Your other people as well, as if You appeared to me, Lover of mankind, may they know You, the Father of all, Your goodness, Your providence, Your wisdom and strength, and glorify You, with the Father and the Holy Spirit, now and forever and forever and ever. Amen.
ANOTHER PRAYER ST. JOHN OF KRONSTADTS
I thank You, Lord my God, for giving me life, for giving birth to me in the Christian faith, for the Most Pure Virgin Mary, the Intercessor for the salvation of our family, for Your holy saints, praying for us, for the Guardian Angel, for the public worship that supports us faith and virtue, for the Holy Scriptures, for the Holy Mysteries, and especially Your Body and Blood, for the mysterious grace-filled consolations, for the hope of receiving the Kingdom of Heaven and for all the blessings You have given me.
PRAYER TO THE HOLY TRINITY, SAINT JOHN OF KRONSTADTS
O Trinity, our God! Simple Being, who created our soul in Your image, but in You we have our life and peace! O Trinity, our Nourisher and Hope! Give us in Thee alone, always our hope to believe, in Thee alone life and peace to find. Oh Trinity! You, like a mother, carry us all in Your arms and feed us all from Your hands, like a most tender mother! You will never forget us, for You Yourself said: if the wife forgets her child, I will not forget you – to nourish, preserve, protect, deliver and save.