A Prayer Against Bad Weather

A Prayer Against Bad Weather

 

O Master, Lord our God,

Who through Thy Consubstantial and Beginningless Word

and Thy Life-Giving Spirit Who is equal in honor,

hath brought everything out of nothingness into being;

 Who hath set sandy barriers to the sea,

and weighed the mountains and the valleys in a balance;  

Who hath measured the skies and holdeth the water in the palm of Thy hand;

Who hath given to this visible world of the senses its laws and rules,

its harmony and order;

 Who hath appointed changes to the weather

and variations in the orbit of the sun;

Who, through the mingling of the elements,

holdeth all things together by Thine inexpressible power,

and keep them from harm and intact:  

Do Thou Thyself, O All-Good King,  

extending to us Thine innate and customary love and goodness,

visit the works of Thy hands. 

Do not deprive us of Thy mercies and Thy compassion,

 and do not destroy Thine inheritance,

 for Thou didst ineffably create us in Thine own image. 

 Thou hast given Thine Only-Begotten Son as a ransom for us,

and through the mystical communion of Thy Spirit

hath made us to share in Thine own Divinity;

forgive, we pray, the multitude of our sins,

in the far greater multitude of Thy mercies. 

Thou didst wash away the sin of mankind

through the Cross and the Blood of Thy Son. 

 Restore the world of nature,

which hath been grievously disturbed into an unnatural state

because of the unruliness and disorderliness

of our lawless and corrupt behavior,

and bring it back to its natural harmony and order. 

Make the great ocean return to its usual calmness,

 bring to an end the tempest and the disturbance of the elements

that threaten us,

 order the winds to blow once more with gentleness and moderation. 

Rebuke the raging of the sea and the unnatural violence of the gales;

allow the spirit of the storm to be stilled, 

and the tempest to be returned to tranquility. 

Through the intercessions of the Most-Blessed Lady Theotokos,

of the God-like Angels and all the Saints,

and through the good pleasure and love of Thine Only-Begotten Son,

with Whom Thou art blessed,

together with Thine All-Holy, Good and Life-Giving Spirit,

now and ever,

and unto the ages of ages.

AMEN.