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Holy Relics of Martyred Saints: Vehicles of God’s Superabundant Grace
O Lord our God, faithful in your words and truthful in your promises, you who have enabled by your grace, your holy martyrs to fight the good fight, to finish the race of godliness and to keep the true faith; all-holy Lord, respond in mercy to their prayers and look upon us, your unworthy servants in your grace and grant that we may share in their inheritance, that by imitating them, we also may receive the blessings which await them. Through the mercy and love for mankind of your only-begotten Son with whom you are blessed, together with your all-holy, good and life-giving Spirit, both now and always, and unto the ages of ages. Amen.
[From the Service of Consecration of an Orthodox Church]
