The Shepherd, August 2004
A PRAYER FOR OUR TIMES
O LORD JESUS CHRIST, Son of God, deliver us from the seductions of the soon coming God-abominating and wickedly crafty antichrist, and deliver us from all his wiles.
Shelter, in the mystical wilderness of Thy salvation, my spiritual father (… name…), all of us his spiritual children, and all our Christian neighbours, from his artful snares.
And grant us, O Lord, that we might not dread the fear of the devil more than the fear of God, and so apostatise from Thee and from Thy holy Church.
Rather, do Thou grant us, O Lord, to suffer and to die for Thy holy name and for the Orthodox Faith, and neither to deny Thee nor to accept the seal of the accursed antichrist or to bow down before him.
Day and night grant us, O Lord, tears for our sins, and be merciful unto us, O Lord, in the day of Thy dread judgment. Amen.
A Prayer Hand-Written in Church Slavonic by the Ever-Memorable Abbess Elisabeth of the Convent of the Annunciation, Willesden, and translated into English for this magazine.
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