In infirmos

Lord and Master, the physician of the sick and God of all consolation, who does not wish man to be sickly or in pain, but cheerful and completely healthy, do You Yourself raise up Your servant Maria, who has fallen into bodily weakness and become in utter despondency; have mercy, do not overlook her, quench the fever, soothe the pain, drive away the lethargy. You who raised up Peter’s mother-in-law when she was burning with fever and lying grievously ill, and restored her by Your word to serve You, do You Yourself, O King, now also attend to Your servant Maria and soothe the pain of her soul and the sickness of her body. You who led the foremost of the apostles out of the bonds of his imprisonment through an angel, You who rescued Paul the apostle, the herald of the Church, from the punishment of the emperor Nero, do You Yourself also deliver Your servant from the pain that besets him. You who rescued Your bosom friend and beloved John the Theologian from Patmos and Artemis, You who saved the all-wise Noah from the dreadful and all-destructive flood, do You Yourself now also stretch forth Your invisible and spiritual right hand and raise up Your creature from this delusion. You who rescued the hospitable and most righteous Abraham from all distress and pain, You who raised up the much-enduring Job from the dunghill, do You Yourself also raise up Your servant Maria from the bodily weakness that encompasses her.

the one who called the lawgiver and most just Moses out of Egypt, the one who delivered your beloved child Israel from the most evil and wicked slavery of the most bitter Pharaoh, do you yourself help your servant Maria, quench the fever, soothe the pain, drive away every evil sickness from her, and raise up your servant from a bed of pain and from a couch of affliction. The one who delivered Jacob from the hand of Esau, the one who gave sight to Tobit and granted him light, the one who delivered the most beautiful Joseph, sold wickedly by fratricidal and evil men, the one who delivered the all-wise David and wondrous prophet from the hand of Saul: do you yourself have mercy on your servant who lies in sickness and is in need of your mercy, pity her, raise her up, preserve her, remove her from every evil. The one who delivered the most just Daniel the prophet from the terrible snatching of the lions, the one who snatched Jeremiah from the dark and gloomy pit, the one who delivered the three youths Ananias, Azarias, and Misael from the seven-times-heated furnace and turned the fire into dew: do you yourself release your servant from the pain that besets her. The one who gave light to the eyes of the blind, the one who cleansed the flesh of the lepers, the one who raised the dead: do you yourself raise her up, do you yourself give her life, and do not give us back according to our sins. The one who strengthened the paralytic with a word, the one who healed the woman with the issue of blood, the one who healed the legion.

Yourself, O Master, be entreated, I beg, be moved, I exhort, be compassionate, I implore, as one who is long-suffering; do not lead me down to Hades while I am still alive, but rather raise me up with your invisible and spiritual right hand. Holy Three Youths who quenched the furnace, holy Seven Youths in Ephesus who raised from the dead, help; holy Nine Martyrs in Cyzicus who work wonders, holy Ten Martyrs perfected in Crete, holy Forty Martyrs in Sebasteia who work wonders, holy Thirty-three Martyrs from Rome, holy Three hundred and eighteen God-bearing Fathers in the city of Nicaea who work wonders, holy Ten thousand men perfected in Theologus (sic); holy Therapon from Smyrna, holy Parthenius from Lampsacus, holy Julian from Caesarea, holy Leontius from Tripolis, holy Demetrius from Thessalonica, holy George from Cappadocia, holy Unmercenaries Cosmas and Damian and Panteleemon, Cyrus and John, Samson and Diomedes (sic), Florus and Laurus and Hermolaus; holy Andronicus with the holy Athanasia, holy Confessors from the city of Edessa, Guria, Samonas and Abibus, who snatched the maiden from the tomb and brought her back to her homeland.

Holy Akindynos, hasten; holy Apthonios, overshadow; holy Elpidiphoros, raise up; holy Anempodistos, do not overlook; holy Unmercenaries, hasten; holy Panteleimon, chief physician, overshadow; holy Cyrus and John, hasten; holy Agapetos of Synaos; holy John the Theologian; holy Peter of Rome; holy Paul of Damascus; holy Euthymios of Madytos; holy Nicholas of Myra; holy Basil of Caesarea; holy Epiphanios of Cyprus; holy John Chrysostom; holy Thyrsos, Leukios, and Philemon; holy Alypios and Prokopios; holy Lady Theotokos of Athens; holy Anastasia the Pharmakolytria; holy Barbara of Patras; holy Marina who trampled the demon; holy protomartyr Theophano of Constantinople; holy Catherine of Alexandria; holy John, prophet, forerunner, and baptist of Christ; holy prophets, apostles, martyrs, ascetics, and righteous ones; all the heavenly powers of the holy angels and archangels, principalities, authorities, and the many-eyed cherubim and the six-winged seraphim; the incomprehensible power of the precious and life-giving cross; fall down, beseech the only supremely good God, that you may grant the servant of God Maria health and salvation and release from the afflicting evils, and drive away this grievous sickness from the servant of God Maria: fever, internal fever, violent chills, mild chills, destructive chills, harmful disease, grievous disease, terrible disease that has come upon her, both sent and made.

I exorcise you, the seventy-two infirmities which the man has, to depart from the handmaid of God, Maria; not from heaven did the infirmity descend, nor from stars, nor from sun or moon, nor from the darkness of a cloud, nor from chill air, nor from thunder or from lightning did it descend, nor from earthquake or crash and collapses, nor from mountains, valleys, or ravines or slopes, nor from hill or plain or fields, nor from stone or water or spring or road or river or country or field or garden, nor in garden or in orchard, nor in crossroads or in three-ways, nor in entrances or in exits, nor in courtyard of bath or furnace or mill, nor in door or in window or upper rooms or lower rooms or courtyard or threshing-floor, and you came to tempt the handmaid of God. Not that some enchanter by envy wrought or contrived, nor from poison or envy or jealousy, nor from heavy shameful eyes, nor from sorcery and every other approaching calamity, nor fiery or groin-affecting or sent or head-affecting or of hands, heart, and feet or demonic phantasmal or mountain-spot, nor ass-leg-affecting or of nereids, nor of those flying in the darkness of the air, and you came to wrong the handmaid of God. Not headache or eye-ache or toothache or chest-ache or diaphragm-ache or hand-ache. Nor difficulty of urination or triple-urination or internal blockage or external protrusion or womb or colic or joint-pain or ordinary rupture or sleeplessness or excessive sleepiness. I exorcise you, if there is anything wronging the handmaid of God: depart and go away into the wild mountains, wherever you may be lying and wronging the handmaid of God.

withdraw and depart into the wild mountains, not in the hairs of the head, not in the marrow of the skull, not in the cranium or the half-cranium, not in the foreheads or the temples or the eyelids or the mind, not in the nostrils or the ears, not in the mouths or the jaws or the lips or the teeth, not in the necks or the shoulder blades of the hands, not in the chests or the inflammations or the heart and every moisture, not in the spines or the loins or the navels and the lower bellies, not in the knees of the feet or the ankle bones or the fingers and the nails, wherever it may be lying and harming and lurking in her, withdraw and depart upon the heads of those who made and sent it and of those who knew of it, whether a stranger did it or a relative or a traitor or a slave or a free man, not a sorcerer, not a magician or a witch or a wizard or an envious person. I exorcise you, all unclean afflictions, by the great name of our Lord Jesus Christ and by his immaculate head and by his mighty right hand, withdraw from the handmaid of God. I adjure you by the one who hung the earth upon the waters, I adjure you by the one who founded the heavens in impassable coils, I adjure you by the throne of God which is unshaken, I adjure you by the blessed powers and immaterial orders, I adjure you by the four archangels Michael, Gabriel and Uriel and Raphael, I adjure you by the twenty-four elders who serve the throne of God, I adjure you by the twelve apostles.

withdraw and depart from the handmaid of God Maria, and give her, Master Lord, health, life, peace, long life, that the all-holy name of yours, of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, may be glorified also by her, now and always and unto the ages of ages, amen.