Every person strives to be happy. Loneliness often becomes an obstacle on this path. Prayers addressed to Ksenia of St. Petersburg for marriage, coming from the very heart of the person asking, will help you overcome obstacles, find love, and create a strong family.
Memorial Days:
- June 6
- June 28 (movable) – Cathedral of St. Petersburg Saints
- February 6
Every year thousands of believers come to the blessed Saint. Someone makes a pilgrimage to St. Petersburg to the Smolensk cemetery to cling to Ksenia’s coffin. Someone sends letters with the hope of a good deed. The saint hears requests and helps the suffering, and in the heart of each happy person remains the memory of his own personal miracle.
Prayers of Blessed Xenia of St. Petersburg
Blzh. Ksenia Petersburgskaya
First prayer
Oh, holy all-blessed mother Ksenia! Living under the protection of the Almighty, guided and strengthened by the Mother of God, you have received hunger and thirst, cold and heat, endured reproach and persecution, received the gift of clairvoyance and miracles from God, and you have received peace under the canopy of the Almighty isishya. Now the Holy Church, like a fragrant flower, glorifies you. Standing at the place of your burial, before your holy image, as if you are living, existing with us, we pray to you: accept our petitions and bring them to the Throne of the Merciful Father in Heaven, as boldly She who has knowledge towards Him. Ask for eternal salvation for those who flow to you, our generous blessing for good deeds and undertakings, deliverance from all troubles and sorrows. Stand before our All-Merciful Savior with your holy prayers for us, unworthy and sinners. Help, Holy Blessed Mother Xenia, illuminate the infants with the light of Holy Baptism and seal the gift of the Holy Spirit, youths and young women in faith, honesty, fear of God and chastity educate and grant them success in learning; heal the sick and ailing, send love and harmony to families, be worthy to strive for good as a monk and be protected from reproach, shepherds establish in the fortress of the Holy Spirit, people and preserve our country in peace and serenity, pray for those deprived of the Holy Mysteries of Christ at the hour of death. For you are our hope and hope, quick hearing and deliverance, we send thanks to you and with you we glorify the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, now and ever, and to the ages of ages. Amen.
Second prayer
Oh, our glorious holy blessed mother Xenia, warm for us before God in the prayer book! As before we fell to your tombstone, now, after your glorification, we resort to your relics, we ask: pray to the Lord, may He sanctify our souls and bodies, may He enlighten our minds and purify conscience from all filthiness, unclean thoughts, evil and blasphemous intentions and from all exaltation, pride and arrogance, arrogance and insolence, from all Pharisee hypocrisy, and from all our cold and evil customs; May He grant us sincere repentance, contrition of our hearts, humility, meekness and quietness, reverence, and spiritual understanding with all prudence and gratitude. Hidden from the wise of this age, but known to God, ask our Russian country for deliverance from severe troubles, for renewal and correction of all our lives, keep us in every pious Orthodox confession the gift of the Christian faith, so that in pleasing you we may be honored all the days to sing, give thanks and glorify the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, the Trinity of One Essence, Life-Giving and Indivisible forever and ever. Amen.
Prayer three
Oh, holy saint of God, blessed Ksenia! Look mercifully with your eye on us, servant of God (names), tenderly praying to your honorable icon and asking you for help and intercession. Extend your warm prayers to the Lord our God and ask for forgiveness of sins for our souls. Behold, with a contrite heart and a humble spirit, we call upon you a merciful intercessor to the Lady and a prayer for us sinners, as you have received from Him the grace to pray for us and deliver us from troubles. We therefore ask you, do not despise us, unworthy, who pray to you and demand your help, and intercede for everyone everything that is useful for salvation, as if by your prayers to the Lord God, having received grace and mercy, we will glorify everyone good Source and Gift Giver and One God, glorified in the Trinity of Saints, Father and Son and Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.
Personal petition
Oh, our great heavenly intercessor, holy blessed mother Xenia! Ask the Greatly Gifted God for your servants (names), who flow to you with hope (the content of the petition), and for help and instruction in all everyday needs and needs, and for deliverance from all troubles and sorrows. Amen.
Testimonies of Believers
Ksenia Alferova, theater and film actress, TV presenter, founder of the charity foundation “I am!”:
Blessed Xenia is my patron saint. I know well and feel that she always helps when I ask for her help. She is absolutely alive and dear to me. It’s like sharing with a loved one: he will both protect and help. This is roughly the relationship I have with her. And there are so many similar situations that it’s even difficult to give a specific example. Turning to her and asking for support is the first thing that comes to mind when you are in a family conflict or face other problems. These little miracles happen every day.
We quarreled, but there is no strength to reconcile. And it helps, pacifies hearts, and after a while you suddenly feel softened, the resentment fades away and you find the strength to ask for forgiveness, or the other person comes first.
Alena, 45 years old, teacher, Moscow
I love Ksenyushka very much, I always go to the relics when I’m in St. Petersburg. She is also close to me because she was also a widow. It was no coincidence that we named my youngest Ksenia. When I was pregnant, at the very beginning I was in danger of miscarriage (heavy bleeding, placental abruption). It was very worrying.
At this time, my sister was on a pilgrimage, traveling to various holy places. Everywhere, of course, she prayed for me. She was also in St. Petersburg. Then she calls me and says that when she approached Ksenia’s relics, she felt so calm in her soul for me and she knows for sure that everything will be fine! And so it happened. Thank God, our Ksenia was born. Now Ksenyushka has become even closer to me.
Maria, 43 years old, teacher, Moscow
We got married to Blessed Ksenia on February 6th. We didn’t prepare for the wedding at all: we didn’t know where we would live, our things were all in different apartments. After the wedding, complete uncertainty awaited us. I only now understand that this was impossible. We began to think about whether to go somewhere or not. February, there will be as much money as a wedding gift. I went with these thoughts to the parish library and asked the librarian: “Do you know where we can go after the wedding, so that it’s inexpensive if we get together?”
She said, “I know. It's inexpensive and very good. Near Sergiev Posad." She took a piece of paper, one from the pile that was cut up for notes, and wrote down the phone number with the name of the recreation center. I took the piece of paper, thanked her, began to fold it in half, and suddenly I saw “Blessed Xenia of Petersburg” printed on the back of this piece of paper.
Apparently, the saint knew our absolute disorder and made sure that the beginning of family life would be remembered in some way. It was great there: we were alone at the base for several days, went downhill, skied and skated, and walked in the forest. Already on the way back we were informed that my grandmother, with whom I lived, had broken her arm. Soon, almost immediately, my husband’s mother suffered a concussion. So we wandered between them for the first time. But we will remember Blessed Xenia’s gift for the rest of our lives. If the saints take care of us even about such little things, what can we say about anything else!
Natalya, 59 years old, engineer, St. Petersburg
Now on February 6th, the queue to the chapel of Mother Xenia has been lining up since early morning and right from the entrance to the Smolensk cemetery. When I first came here, back in Soviet times, everything was abandoned, it was impossible to get inside the chapel, the entrance was boarded up, but you could see the trash inside and the remains of a Soviet sculpture of some discus thrower, everything was in ruins - a sad sight.
I knew nothing about Blessed Xenia, I was not even baptized, I studied at the institute, was the secretary of the Komsomol organization. But there was this saying going around our institute during the session, addressed to those who successfully passed the difficult exam: “Apparently, Ksenyushka helped.” I couldn’t understand what kind of Ksenyushka she was, where she worked or lived, or what the institute had to do with it.
But you have to understand that it was also a dangerous time: if I went into church, I saw a man in a black coat following me, watching what and how I was doing. I wanted to be baptized for a long time, but it didn’t work out, because in Leningrad at that time people were baptized only upon presentation of a passport and were immediately told “where they should go”: people lost their jobs and were deprived of the opportunity to continue their education.
But one day I decided to find Ksenyushka at the Smolensk cemetery and went, not knowing anything special. An amazing meeting seriously changed my life. Having wandered alone among the ruins, I came out to the destroyed chapel, and then a little old woman came out to meet me and asked me: “Are you going to Ksenyushka? I’ll tell you everything about her.”
We talked for two hours. The woman briefly described the life of Mother Xenia, faith and prayer, which, despite the prohibitions, destruction, war, never stopped in this place. But most of all I was shocked by the prayer in verse that was born during the blockade. This old woman recalled how there were always people who, despite hunger and lack of strength, came here and prayed to the blessed one, believing that she would not leave the city.
She said briefly to herself: “Everyone for whom I prayed to Mother Ksenia returned from the war alive.” My only request then was to be baptized. And literally after a while I, it seems, on a voucher from the institute, ended up in Yalta, where, during a walk on Palm Sunday, I came across the Alexander Nevsky Church, built in memory of the murdered Emperor Alexander II (here is the connection with St. Petersburg!), in which baptisms were performed without a passport entry, and I received holy baptism. And my life changed, I immediately felt it.
Since then, I have advised everyone in especially difficult situations to turn to God and the patron saint of our city, to come to the Smolensk cemetery. And soon churches began to open, there were more and more believers, but there were also many miracles in those days - they were given almost immediately to everyone who came to the Church and turned to God.
I can testify to one more miracle. A few years later, a friend came to visit me one day, who had been married for 8 years, but suffered from the lack of children. She simply cried that day in despair, saying that there were no prospects, she was tired of going to doctors. And I suggested that she not put it off, but go to Smolenskoye right now. But, as often happens, a person’s path to God is not always simple: a tram ran from my house, and at normal times it took me 20 minutes to get to the Smolensk cemetery, but that time it took two hours.
And the weather was against us, and on the way, my friend suddenly became ill, and she sat on a bench. When we finally arrived, she went to the chapel to pray, and I stayed on the sidelines to wait, only briefly thinking that it would be nice if God had sent me a boy. At that time I already had 2 daughters. And then literally 2 weeks later I found out about my pregnancy, without even doubting that it would be a boy. And my friend gave birth to a son six months after me. But we are both convinced that this is the help of Mother Ksenia of Petersburg.
Alexander, 57 years old, Ramenskoye
I want to talk about my experience of seeking help from Ksenia of St. Petersburg, one of the most beloved saints in our family.
I met her back in 2005 through my wife Irina. She went on an excursion to the town of Sizma, Vologda region. The Chapel of Xenia of St. Petersburg, which is located there, occupies one of the first places in the region in terms of the number of pilgrims. The entire chapel is strewn with notes from people asking for help and support.
After that, we bought several books about the life of the saint and began to pray to her for our nephews for the gift of a spouse.
First for my niece Natalya, starting in 2007, when my older brother (her father) died, she was then 21 years old. In 2013 she got married.
Then in 2010 I began to pray for my niece Tatyana when my sister (her mother) died. Tatyana was 20 years old then. She got married in 2021.
In 2010, he began to pray for his nephew Leonid; by that time he was already 25 years old. He got married in 2021. Lenya’s communication with his future wife Ksenia began precisely at Tatyana’s wedding. Ksenia, as it turned out later, had long since paid attention to him, since Lenya often came to visit her neighbors. Lenya did not take Ksenia seriously for a long time due to the large age difference (about 10 years).
Prayer requests for nephews varied. When visiting any temple, if you found an icon of Xenia of St. Petersburg, then you asked for it for your nephews. Occasionally I read an akathist.
Since 2008, when we moved to live near St. Petersburg, almost every month my wife and I went to the Smolensk cemetery and kissed the tombstone of Xenia of Petersburg.
We recently moved to live near Moscow, but every year my wife and I go to St. Petersburg and always visit the chapel of St. Blessed Xenia of Petersburg at the Smolensk cemetery, as well as the Ioannovsky Convent on the Karpovka River and venerate the tomb of St. Righteous John of Kronstadt.
Help from our appeals to these saints comes quickly and very clearly.
Fotinia, 40 years old, employee of the Orthodox service “Mercy”, Moscow
Of the holy wives, Mother Ksenia immediately seemed closest to me. Her feat of love shocked me and became an example. From romantic St. Petersburg, the city turned into a special place for Mother Xenia, and the desire to come there to visit her chapel became a cherished desire. The fact is that I came to God on my own in high school and almost immediately began to dream of an Orthodox family. Thanks to my confessor, I realized that I needed to pray and trust God in this matter. As in everything else.
We got married in the summer of 2003, and in the fall, after our first trip to see friends who then lived next to the Smolensk cemetery, we learned about pregnancy. I immediately came up with a name for my daughter; there was no doubt that the saint closest and dearest to me, with the name I like, is Mother Ksenia. And miracles began at this stage: my husband, with whom we usually have heated arguments, agreed to a funny argument. “She will already have your last and middle names, let me at least choose something!” We began to come to St. Petersburg almost every year and immediately went to see Mother Ksenia.
Now we have four children, and this became possible thanks to the peaceful, hardworking, problem-free eldest Ksenia, whom her patron saint did not abandon even in serious illness. Many of our friends went to Smolensk and brought us oil and holy water from there during those long hospital months.
Troparion
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Having loved the poverty of Christ,/ now enjoying immortal meals,/ having exposed the madness of the world through imaginary madness,/ through humility on the cross you have received the power of God./ Segora O you who have acquired the gift of miraculous help, / Blessed Xenia, pray to Christ God // to deliver us from all evil through repentance.
Kontakion, tone 3
Having been on earth as a stranger,/ sighing for the Heavenly Fatherland,/ a fool from the violent and infidels,/ knowing wisdom and holiness from the faithful,/ and being crowned by God with glory and honor Xia, / Ksenia, courageous and godly, / for this reason we call you: // Rejoice, for after your journey on earth you are at home with the Father.
Greatness
We magnify you, our holy blessed mother Ksenia, and honor your holy memory, for you pray for us to Christ our God.
How to pray?
How to properly pray to Xenia of St. Petersburg, how to ask her for help - this is a question asked by many people who want to receive mercy from the saint.
There are many options for prayers, but if a person feels that it will be difficult for him to pronounce the text in Church Slavonic, it is better to use an impromptu prayer, as they say, in his own words. The saint will definitely see the open heart of every sufferer, therefore the accuracy and sequence of words do not matter much.
Informative! How does prayer to St. Mary Magdalene help?
There are cases when prayers must be memorized and pronounced in accordance with the accepted canon. If a young girl who wants to get married stands in front of an icon for the first time and does not know where to start turning to the saint, before going to church you can watch a video of the prayer of Xenia of St. Petersburg and reviews of people who turned to the saint in need.
You can say prayer either completely alone or surrounded by people. The main thing is that the atmosphere in the room is bright and not irritating. Priests recommend fasting before serious prayers. On the day when you plan to go to church, you should avoid foul language, quarrels and conflicts.
You can pray standing or kneeling. Before asking Ksenia of Petersburg to marry her daughter, it is necessary to notify the girl herself, who will also open her heart to communicate with the Blessed One.
People who for some reason cannot come to church can pray at home. It is advisable to have an icon of this saint in your apartment, but if you don’t have one, you can simply turn to her mentally. Believers and those in need who visited Vasilievsky Island and the Smolensk cemetery, upon arriving at the chapel, try to touch and kiss the iconostasis. On major holidays, when the chapel is overcrowded, those suffering kiss the walls of the building and leave notes with their prayers and wishes.
Important! Where and how to pray so that God hears and helps
Godly Marriage is a Gift of God
The Holy Scripture says: “And the Lord God said: It is not good for man to be alone” (Gen. 2:18). The experience of the Orthodox Church testifies that a good spouse is begged from the Lord God, and a pious Christian marriage is the fruit of fervent prayer. It is not a sin or a shame to turn to the help of God and His holy saints in such situations. Many single people turn to Blessed Ksenia of St. Petersburg in the hope of meeting their soulmate.
Why do they pray to Ksenyushka for marriage?
Living for Christ's sake is a manifestation of true love for God and people. Saint Xenia chose the life of a holy fool for Christ's sake. Her path to God is through love for her neighbors. Even during the time of holy foolishness, she became famous as the intercessor and guardian of Christian marriage. From her life story, two episodes of helping unmarried girls are especially famous.
The first tells how one day the St. Petersburg blessed one came into the house where a girl of marriageable age lived and said: “Go quickly to the cemetery, your husband is burying his wife there.” The girl and her mother ran to the indicated cemetery and provided first aid to the young widower who was burying his wife there. A year later, the young people got married.
The second episode, which occurred after the blessed death of the saint, on the contrary, saved the bride from an unhappy marriage with an escaped convict, who named himself after the colonel he killed. After the bride and mother prayed at the grave of Saint Xenia, the whole truth was revealed.
This is interesting: The Life of Ksenia of Petersburg - a love story
In what cases do they pray to Xenia: commentary from a clergyman
Archpriest Viktor Khokhlov, key keeper of the Cathedral, answers the reader’s question:
Believers all over the world received miraculous help from the saint. People who find themselves in difficult life circumstances pray to Blessed Xenia. They pray to her for marital happiness, for peace in the family, for the health of children, for protection from unjust trials, from slander. Saint Xenia never turned away from people's requests.
They also pray to Saint Xenia when they are sick. It has been noticed that the saint helps when looking for work, and saves those in trouble - when people are in danger. The St. Petersburg saint is one of our own and dear to all of Russia.
How to ask a saint to meet your loved one
As many clergy note, it is important to pray with a certain zeal, as they say, to bear the labor of prayer. Diligent prayer over a period of time tests the degree of importance of the desire. And the Lord Himself determines the time. It is He who arranges everything in our lives. Therefore, priests bless ending prayers with the following request:
“Blessed Xenia, arrange everything according to the will of God.”
How exactly to pray is determined by each person independently, according to the degree of his spiritual maturity. However, it is recommended to consult with a confessor or a clergyman in carrying out the feat of prayer. Reading an akathist or canon, or praying in your own words must be coupled with sincere faith and acts of mercy.
It is wonderful if you have the opportunity to make a pilgrimage to the relics of Blessed Xenia. But if this is not possible, then on the official website of the Smolensk Church, as well as on the official pages on social networks, it is written in great detail how to order a prayer service in the chapel or write a note with personal petitions to Saint Xenia, which will be printed and placed in a special box located next to chapel.
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The consecration of the chapel of St. Xenia of Petersburg at the Smolensk cemetery.
Whom has Ksenia helped today: testimony of Bishop Alexander
Bishop Alexander (Mileant) 1938-2005 shares his observations:
There are many miracles to her credit. And he gives us miracles. I know a Muscovite, Lyudmila Pavlovna Paramonova, for whom Ksenia Petersburgskaya is a family doctor. She became seriously ill and was scheduled for surgery. I went to St. Petersburg to pray to Blessed Ksenia. I defended three prayer services in a row. And the operation was canceled, the diagnosis was not confirmed. Since then, with all the problems - to Ksenyushka. After pneumonia, her son could not come to his senses - weakness, dizziness, apathy. I went to see my healer. She prayed and asked the saint for her only son. And the teenager slowly began to come to life.
Even such a serious illness as epilepsy is within the power of the great saint of God. Daria Tarasovna Kulichkova from St. Petersburg was exhausted with her eldest daughter, who had epilepsy. She took her everywhere and resorted to whatever means. Uselessly. Kind people told her about Ksenia. I went to the Smolensk cemetery with my daughter. We rented an apartment nearby and faithfully went to the blessed chapel for a week, every day, as if going to work. They ordered a prayer service and prayed in their own words. It helped. My daughter has not had seizures for three years now.
The entire chapel of Blessed Xenia is in notes. The suffering Orthodox Christians each ask for their own thing. They will write a note with a request and stick it in the wall. Or they will stand close to the chapel, press their heads against the cold stone - they ask. I know a St. Petersburg neurologist who, when writing prescriptions for a patient, will definitely add:
And definitely go to Ksenia.
Crowds of people are drawn to the blessed grave, to the small, cramped chapel. They not only apply themselves, but also apply its icon to the tomb. Icons travel to all corners of Russia to heal those who cannot come to St. Petersburg in person. And through her icon, blessed Ksenia bestows healing.
Muscovite Taisiya Sergeevna Klepikova’s baby fell ill, the temperature was creeping up and approaching a critical level. The young mother rushed around the apartment and seemed to come across the gaze of Blessed Xenia from the icon. I rushed - help! Then she opened the akathist and began to read it with lips disobedient from fear. And the temperature began to drop little by little.
Prayer to Xenia of St. Petersburg without weekends and holidays. Our holy helpers do not know fatigue.
Examples of the blessed one’s help in establishing a family
The famous Orthodox author Elena Kucherenko devoted one of her articles to the story of meeting her future husband, which happened through the prayers of Blessed Ksenia. Elena worked and studied in graduate school at one of the Moscow theater universities and at the same time, as a newly minted Christian, she dreamed of a quiet family life somewhere in a small village, preferably next to a monastery, surrounded by a bunch of children and under the command of an Orthodox bearded husband. Years passed, but my heart still didn’t skip a beat.
While in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, she came across a small book about Saint Xenia of St. Petersburg, unknown to her at that time. It told about the miraculous help of the saint, including in family matters, and as proof - the testimonies of many believers, and on the last page the address of the chapel was indicated. There was no opportunity to go to St. Petersburg, and the girl wrote a tearful letter to the holy righteous woman with a request to help her get married and a donation of 150 rubles (all that was in her wallet).
This is interesting: Letters to St. Ksenia: how to write notes to the blessed one
Two or three weeks later, Elena received a response letter: a prayer service had been served, thanks for the donation, everything would be fine. And in the letter is a petal of a flower consecrated at the grave of St. Xenia. 10 days later, in the small Ukrainian town of Energodar, where she went with her friends, Elena met her future husband Vadim, bearded and with a cross on his chest. Three days later he proposed, and within a year the young couple signed and got married. True, the quiet family life in Energodar turned out to be not as heavenly as in dreams, and the young couple moved to Moscow. Today they are raising five sweet daughters.
How does the saint help?
They turn to the Blessed One in various life situations.
There are numerous cases where, through prayers to Xenia of St. Petersburg, help in love and a happy marriage were granted. Healing was sent to the terminally ill. Material problems went away, important issues were resolved, success in business appeared, conflicts between relatives stopped, and family relationships strengthened.
In addition, the Righteous One is considered the patroness of women. Each sufferer receives a response to her appeal, be it:
- a mother bringing prayers to Ksenia of Petersburg for the successful marriage of her grown-up daughter,
- a woman who dreams of becoming pregnant and giving birth to a healthy child,
- a young girl offering a prayer to Xenia of St. Petersburg with a request for the granting of love and happiness in marriage.
The holy helper is always nearby and immediately responds to a prayer call with help.
Read the prayers meaningfully, slowly, so that you feel every word spoken with your mind and heart. For greater concentration, pray in front of the icon of St. Xenia of St. Petersburg. A lit candle will help you better concentrate on prayer.
Prayers for family well-being
You can also ask the saint for help in the family when things don’t go well, spouses quarrel, or love feelings slowly cool down. They also ask Blessed Ksenia to save the family when one of the spouses strays from the godly path, so that she would bring them to reason and help them cope with all worldly problems.
The intercessor listens to all prayers with sincerity and pure thoughts, so you need to ask for help with faith in the result. Ask the saint from her face for the preservation of the family with these prayerful words:
“Oh, All-Blessed Mother, Saint Xenia! I direct my speeches and prayers to You, I turn my gaze to Your face, so hear me, a sinful servant of God (state your name)! Do not leave me without a blessing, do not refuse support, do not turn away in difficult times.
Help restore harmony in the family so that you can live happily with your husband, in love and harmony. Let happiness and prosperity reign in our family, and quarrels end with reconciliation, so that strong feelings are mutual forever, and understanding reigns in the family.
Give little children as a reward, so that they can be raised in service and taught the fear of God, a lineage worthy of continuing and being proud of them for the rest of their lives. So that I would be a submissive wife to my husband, and he would be attentive to me, and so that peace, prosperity, love, and mutual understanding would reign in our family.
Oh, Ksenia, I ask You about this, I trust in Your favor, I ask for prayer! Just as you helped everyone who praised and glorified Your deeds and life, so help me. I will bring you praise and gratitude forever, I will sing Your name! Amen".
And the prayer of Ksenia of Petersburg for conception is also powerful. In cases where a married couple is unable to have a child, the only salvation is the words of prayer to the saint:
“Oh, holy all-blessed mother Ksenia! Having lived under the shelter of the Most High, led and strengthened by the Mother of God, having endured hunger and thirst, cold and heat, reproach and persecution, you have received the gift of clairvoyance and miracles from God and you are resting in the shadow of the Almighty.
Now the Holy Church, like a fragrant flower, glorifies you. Standing at the place of your burial, before your holy image, as if you were alive and present with us, we pray to you: accept our petition and bring it to the throne of the Merciful Heavenly Father, as you have boldness towards Him, ask for eternal salvation for those who flow to you, for our good deeds and beginnings are a generous blessing, deliverance from all troubles and sorrows.
Stand before the saints with your prayers before our All-Merciful Savior for us, unworthy and sinful. Help, Holy Blessed Mother Xenia, illuminate the infants with the light of Holy Baptism and seal the gift of the Holy Spirit, educate the boys and girls in faith, honesty, fear of God and grant them success in learning; heal the sick and ill, send down love and harmony to families, honor monastics with a good deed and protect them from reproach, strengthen pastors in the strength of the Holy Spirit, preserve our people and country in peace and tranquility, pray for those deprived of communion of the Holy Mysteries of Christ in the dying hour. You are our hope and hope, quick hearing and deliverance, we send thanks to you and with you. We glorify the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen".
