Novena To Blessed Leonid Feodorov (February 27 - March 7)

Repeat the following Novena prayers every day for 9 consecutive days.

Prayer to Blessed Leonid

O great and wonderful champion of Christ,
O holy Hieromartyr Father Leonid!
Mercifully accept our prayers
brought to you with love and thanksgiving!
Hear us orphaned and helpless ones,
who bow down before you with faith and love
and request your fervent intercession for us
before the Throne of the God of Glory.
O light of Russia,
pray for your homeland and her protection.
We know that the prayer of a righteous man
avails much to win the Master’s favor.
You had an ardent love for the Lord from your youth
and having desired to serve Him alone,
you always considered the things of this world as nothing.
Denying yourself and having taken up your cross,
you followed Christ

O Holy Exarch,
you voluntarily did take upon yourself
the narrow and most-sorrowful path of monastic life,
following the life of the great St. Theodore the Studite,
and on this path you acquired great virtues.
You endured years of sufferings
and persecutions at the hands of the godless.
With your life you filled the hearts of men
with deep reverence before the Almighty Creator.
You encouraged fallen sinners with your wise counsels,
teaching them to flee unto God in repentance and humility,
all the while reassuring them with hope
in His rich and great mercy.
You never turned away those who came to you,
but were a kind and loving father and pastor to all.
And now, do not abandon us who earnestly pray to you
and entreat your help and intercession.
Watch over and protect with your powerful intercession
your children of Rus’
and your spiritual inheritance spread over the whole world.
Beseech the most holy God that He grant us
the acquisition of the Holy and Life-Giving Spirit
which you were granted,
through your holy prayers
now offered before the throne of God
with the angelic powers.
Obtain for us from our Lord
Who loves mankind spiritual and physical health,
establish our faith, and strengthen us
who are utterly exhausted in the temptations
and ungodliness of this age,
when men have rejected and even hated the Word of God.
With the fire of your incessant prayers
warm our hearts cooled
through our rejection of our sweetest Lord Jesus Christ.
Help us to receive a Christian end
to this life cleansed by repentance,
and thus to enter the most well-adorned bridal chamber
of the Savior with all of the elect,
and there, together with you,
to bow down to the Father
and to the Son
and to the Holy Spirit
unto the ages of ages.

Amen.

Prayer of Blessed Leonid

Merciful Lord Jesus, Our Savior,
hear the prayers and petitions of Your unworthy sinful servants
who humbly call upon You
and make us all to be one
in Your one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church.
Flood our souls with Your unquenchable light.
Put an end to religious disagreements,
and grant that we Your disciples and beloved children
may all worship You with a single heart and voice.
Fulfill quickly, O grace-giving Lord,
Your promise that there shall be one flock
and one Divine Shepherd of Your Church;
and may we be made worthy to glorify Your Holy Name
now and ever and unto the ages of ages.

Amen.

Blessed Leonid,
Pray continuously for us.

Blessed Leonid,
Pray continuously for us.

Blessed Leonid,
Pray continuously for us.