Dismissal Hymn - Kontakion - Petition - Prayer

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SUNDAY OF THE HOLY DOCTORS

Dismissal Hymn

First Tone. A desert dweller.

O Doctors, by subjecting to God the knowledge of medicine and serving science with acts of love, you gained as com­pensation of your labors, the hundredfold witness of your miraculous healing of the sick. Glory to Him who made you worthy of wonder. Glory to Him who granted you, His grace. Glory to Him who gifted healing to us all.

Another.

Third Tone. Of Divine Faith.

In concert with Divine Grace, you proved yourselves Saints among doctors by ad­dressing the needs and wants of the ailing, revealing to the ends of the earth the glory of God. Wherefore, ever fervently intercede be­fore Him that He grant us health and happi­ness.

Kontakion.

Plagal of Fourth Tone. Invincible Defender.

Let us worthily honor the Holy Doctors whose lives imitated Christ and brought forth the blossoms of incorruption. Now,  they all rejoice in the courts of Paradise granting the grace of healing to all who cry out, ʺHail, precious assembly.ʺ

Petition

“Again we pray for all those that have fallen sick
and are in extremity,
and for the doctors and nurses and all those in the areas of health,
who serve and minister to the sick,
offering care and comfort; that the Lord our God will furthermore strengthen them, work through them and guide them in all things”.

Prayer

Almighty Master, the help and salvation of the world; the redeemer and Savior of the sick; the physician and aid of the ailing; the healer of the sorrows of mankind’s bodies and souls; who vanquished death: our God. We now beseech, You, cleanse and rid us, and all those that have fallen sick and are in extremity, of every malady of body and soul. Lord be not far from us. Send down upon us Your heavenly power of healing. Cast far from us every lurking illness. Grant us aid in time of suffering and deliver us from every evil, grief and sorrow. End every scourge and grant us patience, O Lord. Uplift us and be a physician to us all. Raise us from our bed of pain and from our bedding of affliction.We especially ask on this feast of the Holy Doctors, accept the entreaties of the doctors and nurses, together with all whose efforts serve and minister to the sick. For they offer care and comfort. In Your love of mankind, aid them. By Your power strengthen them.Restore us who hope in You to Your Holy Church, healed and in health, to worship and glorify Your holy name, through the intercessions of the Most Holy Theotokos, of the Holy Doctors, and of all Your Saints. For You are our God, the doctor of our souls and bodies, and to You we give the glory: Father, Son and Holy Spirit, now and always and unto the ages of ages.  Amen.

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