Prayer for Those 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 brothers and sisters , who are possessed by the grievous sickness of drunkenness and are falling away thereby from their mother, the Church of Christ, and from eternal salvation.
O holy Martyr of Christ, touch their hearts with the grace given thee by God; swiftly raise them from sinful falls and lead them 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 them in sobriety and purity. May He help them by His right hand to preserve their saving resolve to the end, that, keeping watch day and night in His service, they 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.