O Lord God of powers, and God of our salvation, O God, who alone work wonders:
look down with mercy and compassion on Your humble servants, and out of love for
mankind hearken and have mercy on us and on the land of Ukraine.
For, behold, enemies have once more gathered together, in order to cause division and
enmity. But You who know all things, understand that they have risen up
unrighteously, and that it will be impossible to oppose their multitudes unless You
show us Your help.
Therefore, we who are sinful and unworthy pray unto You in repentance and with
tears: Help us, O God, our Savior, and deliver the land of Ukraine for the sake of the
glory of Your Name, that the enemy may not to say: “Their God has forsaken them,
and there is none to deliver and save them.” But let every nation understand that You
are our God, and we Your people are always protected under Your dominion.
Reveal Your mercy, O Lord, and let the words spoken by Moses unto the people of
Israel (Exodus 14:13-14) be applied to us: “Fear not. Stand still, and see the salvation
of the Lord. For the Lord shall fight for us.” Work for us a sign for good, that they
who are filled with hatred may see our orthodox faith and be humbled and shaken.
Yes, O Lord God, our Savior, our Strength and Hope and Help, remember not the
transgressions and unrighteousness of Your faithful people, and turn not away from us
in Your anger. But visit Your mercies and compassions upon Your humble servants,
those who fight in defense of Ukraine and her much-suffering people, outnumbered
though they be, and hear us who fall down before Your deep compassion. With Your
mercy enlighten and make glad the hearts of the civil authorities, and strengthened
them by Your might.
Rise up to their help and lay low the evil councils purposed against them by the
enemy. Judge them that provoke and make war, and turn their impious boldness into
fear and flight. But grant unto the just and God-fearing armies of the children of
Ukraine, great boldness and courage to advance and overtake them, and to defeat
them in Your Name. And unto them that You have judged to lay down their lives for
faith and country, forgive them their trespasses, and in the day of the righteous
reckoning grant unto them incorruptible crowns.
For You are the health and victory and salvation of them that put their hope in You,
and unto You do we send up glory: to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy
Spirit, now and ever, and unto the ages of ages.
Amen.
Courtesy of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Toronto and Eastern Canada.
“Prepared by the sinful Reader Ilya, feast of the Hieromartyr Clement of Ancyra.
Brampton, 2022.”