The Wise Creator leads people to salvation along different roads. He often sends His chosen ones to unenlightened peoples, so that, by doing as much good as possible, they will lead the ignorant to the true faith. Such chosen ones of God include Saints Cosmas and Damian, who lived in Asia around the 4th century.
Saints Cosmas and Damian of Asia
Prayer 1**
O miracle workers of glory, physician of mercilessness, Cosmos and Damian! You, who have loved Christ God from your youth, have received not only the art of healing, but moreover the inexhaustible grace of healing all sorts of ailments from God, received by nature. Likewise, you will soon hear us, falling before your honorable icon. young children, asking for your help in the teaching of the book, instruct them with your prayers, so that your life with zeal will not acquire earthly things, but even more so in piety and the true faith of unceasing Let them prosper. To those who are lying on the bed of illness, those who despair of human help, but to those who come running to you warmly with faith and fervent prayer, grant healing of illnesses with your merciful miraculous visit; Likewise, from severe illnesses to despondency, cowardice and murmuring, the grace that has come to you from God through patience, confirm and instruct, so that they may understand God’s holy and perfect will for them, and the partakers of so They rejoice in God's saving grace. Preserve the brethren of this holy temple, entrusted to your holy intercession by God, and all who diligently resort to you from severe illnesses unharmed, and protect them from sudden death, and through powerful intercession Let us strive firmly towards God in the right faith, and abound in piety, and may it be with you together they will be able in the future to constantly sing and glorify the all-holy and magnificent name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit forever and ever. Amen.
Prayer 2
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Wonderworkers of glory, doctors of mercilessness, Cosmos and Damiana! From your youth you have loved Christ God and kept His commandments with all your heart, even giving yourself medical teaching, but virtuous teaching for the sake of life and purity of soul, by the power of Christ God, not healing. We have received art, but even more so, the inexhaustible grace of healing all sorts of ailments from God. Because of your love and mercy for the sick ascetics, not only people, but also cattle, you provide healing of illnesses, you fill the whole world with your countless miracles, and you healed not just bodily illnesses. You know, but also with the faith of Christ you enlighten the soul, strengthen you in the patience of illnesses, in serious illnesses about By correcting your life you admonish people and attract them to Christ through repentance. The same now, who come to you before your honorable icon, you will soon hear, young children, asking for your help in the teaching of the book, instruct us with your prayers, and be jealous of your life. Indeed, they will not acquire earthly teaching, but rather in piety and right faith may they prosper. To those lying on the bed of illness, human help to those desperate, but to those who come running warmly with faith and fervent prayer, grant healing of illnesses with your merciful, miraculous visit. Many times in illness and from severe illnesses you fall into despondency, cowardice and murmuring, with the grace given to you from God in patience, confirm and instruct, so that they understand God’s holy will for them They betray both their goodness and their own will to Christ God. In those who are ill, but who are not concerned about correcting their lives, who do not repent of their sins, who are hardened in heart, crush them for salvation and call to repentance, so that the infirmities of the body may remain healthy in the soul, and the The pages are made of God's saving grace. Preserve the brethren of this holy temple, entrusted to your holy intercession by God, and all who diligently resort to you unharmed from long illness, from severe and incurable diseases, from weakening of the body, from frenzy from a deadly ulcer, from sudden death, and through your all-powerful intercession to Keep those who are steadfast in the right faith, those who excel in piety, who are diligent in good deeds, who are diligent in prayer to God, so that together with you in the future they will be able to sing everlasting praise and praise. Cherish the all-holy and magnificent name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, forever and ever . Amen.
Canon
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Song 1 Irmos: As on dry ground, Israel having walked through the abyss with its feet, seeing the persecutor Pharaoh being drowned, we sing a victorious song to God, crying out.
Illuminated by the glory of the Divine, God's light without silver, illuminate our souls, devastating the passionate darkness, as if we honor you with faith.
Having purified the corrupting diseases first of passions by transmutation, you cleanse our fierce ailments, wisdom, and alleviate mental illnesses.
From all the Lords, the gift of holiness, miracles of gift, ours, heal many and the inconveniences of the healing passions of the flesh, we pray.
Bring the prayer, bezrebrenitsa and healer, to God, that He may deliver us from many temptations and sorrows and tremulous and terrible torment.
Theotokos: Besides the birth of natural laws, the Pure One, the Lawgiver, Jesus the Deliverer, pray to Him to deliver us, O Theotokos, from many of our iniquities.
Song 3 Irmos: There is nothing holy like You, O Lord, my God, who lifted up the horn of Your faithful, O Good One, and established us on the rock of Your confession.
The world sings yours, saints, many blessings and many miracles, miracle workers and doctors, the angel of all equals.
We pray to both of you, the givers of light, the stars on the heights of the secret Church, Cosmo and Damiana, illuminate the hearts of the faithful.
Drops of ever-flowing holiness and healing, wash away all the spiritual filthiness and stop all the currents of passionate flesh.
Behold, the people who have come together, holy ones, sing from everywhere your great gifts within your church, but fulfill the prayers of all.
Theotokos: Holy Pure Lady, who embodied the Most Holy Word in words, my wordless passions, singing Thee piously with Divine words, deliver, Most Immaculate.
Sedalen, voice 8 From the source of the abyss, Jesus, streams of miracles are beautifully drawn, holy, with secret clouds of passions you drive away the dark clouds and give healing to the ailing person. By those who have received healthy joy, we are surprised by you, glorified, and we call: God-bearing unmercenaries, pray to Christ, the God of sins, to forgive your sins and grant those who celebrate love your holy memory.
Song 4 Irmos: Christ is my Strength, God and Lord, the honest Church sings divinely, crying out from a pure meaning, celebrating in the Lord.
The Divine birth is truly fruitful, the Divine vines, which drain the secret wine, will please the wise without money in joy.
A weapon has appeared, shooting at invisible enemies, and deliver us from their arrows, protecting our lives, with the wisdom of the unmercenary.
There is no man who has not acquired good things, prayer books to Christ, the Holy One without money, Whom you pray to the eternal fire to deliver us.
You, blessed one, who calls you, are freed from both the earth and the sea of all kinds of troubles, thereby deliver us from the opposite situation.
Theotokos: The Lord, the Pure One, dwells in Your midst, the holy receptacle, the source of many, manifesting healings and purification of passions, O Ever-Virgin Mother of God.
Song 5 Irmos: With God's Light, O Blessed One, illuminating the souls of You with love, I pray, Lead You to the Word of God, the true God, calling out from the darkness of sin.
Divine enlightenment attracted the source of radiance, loving it with all zeal, and miracles always enlighten us with the dawning of greatness.
The red companion of existence, wisdom, has raised the reins of souls with signs of God, ever reaping passions like tares, and health class historically.
Infused with the strength of Christ, in the wickedness of the mighty you have destroyed all the strength, from whose torment you will deliver us, our vigilant intercessors, without money.
Strengthen us to walk the right path and do the will of God, holy ones, calming the passions of our hearts and alleviating the ailments of our bodies.
Theotokos: Deliver me, Good Lady, from the temptations of the enemy, and the torment of hell, and the captivity that holds me, and do not disgrace me, the hymn-speaking Thee.
Song 6 Irmos: The sea of life, raised in vain by misfortunes and storms, flowed to Your quiet refuge, crying out to You: lift up my belly from aphids, O Omni-merciful One.
Living, martyrs, joyfully in Heaven, come to your honorable temple and heal our ailments of body and passions of the heart.
Having dressed yourself red in Divine splendor, as if in destruction, holiness, Divinely clothe the nakedness of the essence of virtues and now expose the passions of dishonor.
As with the adornment of miracles of clothing, the savior of the world has always appeared, and you will deliver us from all worldly harm, holy ones, and the passions of wickedness and torment.
Having mortified, holy, the deadly passions of all flesh, through grace, through life-giving miracles, you revive the suffering and deliver the gates of death.
Theotokos: Without scorching Your womb, this Fire, Jesus, comes from Your flesh; This, Pure One, pray to the fire and all torment to deliver by faith those who praise Thee.
Kontakion, tone 2 Receive grace more than healings, extend health to those in need, physicians, wonderworkers of glory, but with your visit to the warriors, bring down insolence, healing miracles to the world.
Ikos Of all reason and wisdom, the word of wise doctors passes, and knowledge is given to everyone: Having received the highest grace, invisibly health is granted to everyone. It is from this that I, too, have been given the grace to sing, as God-bearing saints of Christ and servants, giving many healings, ridding all diseases, healing the world with miracles.
Song 7 Irmos: The angel made a germinating cave for the venerable youth, and the Chaldeans were exhorted by the scorching command of God to the tormentor to cry out: Blessed art thou, O God of our fathers.
Keep your mind focused on the Heavenly good applications and quickness of the community of Divine gifts, cry out to the eagle, cross the whole earth, miraculously everlastingly.
Enlightened, like good-shine, without silver, gold, enriched with the Divine grace of healings of multitudes. Therefore, be generous to us, overwhelmed by the fierce temptations.
Having offered to the Lord your pure spirits, without silver, receive the gift from Him to always drive away unclean spirits, and deliver us all from their bitter evils.
Sleep in righteously due sleep, wisdom without money, and vigilance in the prayer book for the faithful; so that our souls and our bodies will always sleep through fierce passions.
Theotokos: Do not cease to pray to the Lover of Mankind, our God, All-Immaculate, so that we may ultimately accept the remission of the evil and receive in Heaven the good things prepared for those who love Him.
Song 8 Irmos: From the flames of the saints you poured dew and burned the righteous sacrifice with water, for you did everything, O Christ, only as you wished: We exalt you to all ages.
The warriors of all kinds of ailments, with the help of the Divine Spirit, holy ones, quench the ailments of our souls and alleviate the illnesses of our bodies.
The Lord's vision of beauty now exists truly; visit this red, God-bearing temple of yours and perform many miracles as a source.
From the source of paradise, emanating like two rivers, everything poured streams of healing onto the face of the earth, drying up clouds of ailments.
Having received blessed hopes from everyone, be worthy of being blessed as the fulfiller, blessed, of our God of Divine desires, having appeared without silver.
Physician of incurable passions, lack of money, heal our incurable passions, and quench the storm of temptations, and kindle the clouds of despondency.
Trinity: With the holy angels we sing hymns to the Father, and the Word, and the Holy Spirit, One Divinity in Three Hypostases, One Kingdom and One Power.
Song 9 Irmos: God cannot be seen by man, but the angels do not dare to look at Him; By You, O All-Pure One, the Word incarnate as man, Who magnifies Him, with the Heavenly Ones we please You.
This temple of your miracles is decorated with all grace, like bright stars, and, rejoicing in agreement, is always blessed and celebrates your honest memory piously, with the honesty of the unmercenary.
Like light, like two great suns, you adorn the rational firmament, without money, and with signs of dawn you enlighten all faithful hearts. To those we call: resolve the darkness of our passions, we pray.
In the village of Vyshnyaya, let us dwell, holy, in the midst of us, be invisibly merciful, who in the midst of your Divine Temple send up songs to the Almighty and diligently bless you, all-praised.
The earth with the Highest rejoices on your bright Divine holiday, the saints: those who perform it, deliver us from darkness, and illness, and all kinds of oppression, and the cruelty of hell, wisdom, and torment.
Theotokos: Trembling birth of the possessed, All-Pure One, on the Terrible Day of Testing, I pray, deliver me from the terrible answer and create for those who are saved the standing of a communicant, faithfully singing Thee, O One Who delights in God.
Luminary is the Grace of healing from God, unmercenary bliss, to heal the sick and to heal everything that faithfully flows to your Divine temple. For this reason, we honor your honorable memory.
