Prayer for a Woman Suffering from Addiction
O much-suffering and all-praised Martyr Boniface! We now resort to thine intercession. Reject not our prayers, but mercifully hear us. Heal our sister , who is possessed by the grievous sickness of drunkenness and is falling away thereby from her mother, the Church of Christ, and from eternal salvation.
O holy Martyr of Christ, touch her heart with the grace given thee by God; swiftly raise her from sinful falls and lead her to saving self-restraint.
Entreat the Lord God, for Whose sake thou didst suffer, that, having forgiven our transgressions, He turn not His mercy away from His people, but strengthen her in sobriety and purity. May He help her by His right hand to preserve her saving resolve to the end, that, keeping watch day and night in His service, she may give a good answer at the dread Judgment.
Accept, O favorite of God, the prayers of mothers who shed tears for their children; of honorable wives who weep for their husbands; of abandoned and destitute children forsaken by drunkards; and of all of us who fall down before thine icon. May this cry of ours, through thy prayers, reach the throne of the Most High. Protect and preserve us from the evil one’s snares and from every device of the enemy.
At the dread hour of our departure, help us pass unhindered through the trials of the air; by thy prayers deliver us from eternal condemnation, and may the mercy of God cover us unto the endless ages of ages. Amen.