PRAYERS IN TIME OF INVASION
BY THE NATIONS

By Makarios of Philadelphia

FIRST PRAYER IN TIME OF INVASION BY THE NATIONS 

Deacon:     Let us entreat the Lord.

Choir:      Lord, have mercy.

Priest:      O Master Lord, our God, who is like Thee among the gods, O Lord our God? What
god is as great as our God, manifesting his power in mercy and his goodness in
strength, to console us and to save us?  O God, remain not silent nor allay the
retribution which Thou owest to the prideful, for behold, thine enemies are strong,
and them that hate Thee raise their head, against thy people have they woven their
plots, they have taken measures against thy faithful. They said: “Come, let us destroy
them, that their name Israel be remembered no more.” The nations have come into
thine inheritance, they have defiled thy holy …