Scroll back to November 29 for an introduction to this 13 part prayer.
Kontakion 8
How near you are in the day of sickness. You yourself visit the sick; you yourself bend over the sufferer's bed. Their hearts speak to you. In the throes of sorrow and suffering you bring peace and unexpected consolation. You are the comforter. You are the love which watches over and heals us. To you we sing the song: Alleluia!
Ikos 8
*When in childhood I called upon you consciously for the first time, you heard my prayer, and you filled my heart with the blessing of peace. At that moment I knew your goodness and knew how blessed are those who turn to you. I started to call upon you night and day; and now even now I call upon your name.
Glory to you, satisfying my desire with good things.
Glory to you, watching over me day and night.
Glory to you, curing affliction and emptiness with the healing flow of time.
Glory to you, no loss is irreparable in you, giver of eternal life to all.
Glory to you, making immortal all that is lofty and good.
Glory to you, promising us the longed-for meeting with our loved ones who have died.
Glory to you, O God, from age to age.
* Do you remember your first conscious prayer — not a prayer you'd memorized and rattled off to get through it, but which came from a deeply felt place. Not simply the night time, "God bless..." litany, but from an inner place of wonder, gratitude, light and belief.
