Traditional Prayers

O Heavenly King (Prayer to the Holy Spirit)

The invocation of the Holy Spirit with which Orthodox Christians begin prayer for most of the year, omitted only between Pascha and Pentecost.

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O Heavenly King, Comforter, Spirit of Truth, who are everywhere present and fill all things, Treasury of good things and Giver of life: come and dwell in us, cleanse us of all impurity, and save our souls, O Good One.

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It is the Eastern counterpart of the Veni Sancte Spiritus and is prayed before every task and every service.

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