Kiev, December 24, 2025
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The Holy Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church approved a number of liturgical texts and prayers at its session on December 16, reports Pravlife.
The approved texts include:
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A prayer for spouses who have been awaiting a child for many years
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Rite of supplication for those who cannot hear
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Service and Akathist to the New Martyrs of the Upper Dnieper
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Service to the Hieromartyr John Mogilevsky
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The prayer for spouses who have been awaiting a child for many years reads:
O Lord our God, Creator and Maker of all things!
Look down mercifully upon these spouses (names), and forgive them every transgression; reward them with Thy bounties and mercies in return for human sins. And if it be pleasing to Thy all-good will, account unto them the burden of childlessness they have borne until now as a humble sacrifice from a contrite heart, and resolve their barrenness, granting them to see their own child as the fruit of their prayer and faith.
We know, O Lord, and confess that Thou desirest all to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. Although Thou hast established various paths to salvation, yet through Thy Apostle Paul Thou hast declared that woman shall be saved through childbearing.
We, confessing the great and wondrous miracles wrought by Thee upon the righteous Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebecca, Zacharias and Elizabeth, Joachim and Anna, humbly pray Thee: fulfill the blessing pronounced at the Mystery of the crowning in marriage upon these Thy servants (names); grant them joy in the fruit of their womb, and to have consolation in this throughout all their days, offering praise and thanksgiving to Thee, the all-good God and our Provider, glorified and worshipped in the Holy Trinity forever, together with Thine Only-begotten Son and Thine all-good and life-creating Spirit.
Amen.
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The rite of supplication for those who cannot hear reads:
Deacon: Bless, Master.
Priest: Blessed is our God, always, now and ever, and unto ages of ages.
Reader: Amen. Trisagion prayers
Priest: Exclamation
Reader: Amen. Lord, have mercy (12x), Glory, both now. O come let us worship God our King…
Ps. 133
Deacon: God is the Lord…
Verse 1: Confess ye to the Lord, for He is good, for His mercy endureth forever.
Verse 2: All nations compassed me round about, and by the Name of the Lord I warded them off.
Verse 3: I shall not die, but live, and I shall tell of the works of the Lord.
Verse 4: The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner. This is the Lord's doing, and it is wonderful in our eyes.
Troparion, Tone 2:
O Christ God Most Merciful, hear the prayers of Thy servants, which we now call out to Thee with our hearts: Bless us, O Lord, in piety and purity of life, and eternal salvation.
Glory, both now in the same tone:
O warm prayer and unshakable wall, wellspring of mercy, refuge of the world, we earnestly cry to Thee: O Theotokos and Sovereign Lady, anticipate and deliver us from adversity, Thou Who alone art swift to intercede.
Prokeimenon, Tone 4: The Lord will hear me when I call out to Him. Verse: When I called, the God of my righteousness heard me.
Reading of the Gospel (Mark 7:31–37)
Litany:
Deacon: Have mercy on us, O God, according to Thy great mercy, we pray Thee, hear us and have mercy.
Choir: Lord, have mercy (3x)
Deacon: Again we pray for our lord the Most Reverend Metropolitan Onuphry, and for our lord the Most Reverend Metropolitan Agafangel, and for all our brethren in Christ.
Again we pray for our God-preserved land, its authorities and armed forces, that He will grant us peaceful and undisturbed life in all godliness and purity.
O merciful Lord, grant consolation to Thy servant [name], to his (her) heart which calls out to Thee and to his (her) kin; grant them to accept Thy will concerning them, we pray Thee, hear us and have mercy.
Look down, O Lord, mercifully upon Thy servant [name], speak into his (her) heart, and grant him (her) to know the sweetness of divine communion, and fulfill him (her) with every blessing, we pray Thee, hear us and have mercy.
Priest: Hear us, O God our Savior, the hope of all the ends of the earth and of those in the sea far off, and be merciful, be merciful, O Master, upon our sins, and have mercy on us. For Thou art a merciful and loving God, and unto Thee do we send up glory, to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, now and ever, and unto ages of ages.
Choir: Amen.
Deacon: Let us pray to the Lord.
Choir: Lord, have mercy.
The priest says the prayer of the Savior:
Incline, O Lord, Thine ear and hear Thy servant [name], who calls out to Thee with his (her) heart; grant him (her) peace and tranquility, spiritual and bodily health; make wise his (her) soul by Thy grace to wholly submit to the will of Thy holy ones.
O our God, speak into his (her) heart, that he (she) may desire eternal salvation, deliver him (her) from despondency, fill his (her) mind with joy, granting him (her) at all times to be a helmsman in the sea of life, teaching patience in prayer, forgiveness and love, sending people to his (her) aid in hopes for Thee.
For it is Thine to console, to show mercy and to save us, O our God, and unto Thee do we send up glory, to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, now and ever, and unto ages of ages.
Choir: Amen.
Deacon: Wisdom.
Priest: Most Holy Theotokos, save us.
Choir: More honorable than the Cherubim and beyond compare more glorious than the Seraphim, who without corruption gavest birth to God the Word, the very Theotokos, thee do we magnify.
Priest: Glory to Thee, O Christ God, our hope, glory to Thee.
Choir: Glory, both now. Lord, have mercy. (Thrice) Bless.
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