Prayer at the Blessing
of Vehicles of Travel
Let us pray to
the Lord:
Kyrie eleison.
O Master, Lord
our God, hearken unto the prayer which we now send up to You, and bless this
vehicle with Your holy right hand (+);
Send down upon it
Thy guardian Angel, that all who desire to journey therein may be safely
preserved and shielded from every evil end;
And as the
Ethiopian, riding in the chariot and reading of Your holy prophecy, was granted
faith and Grace through Your Apostle Philip,
So do You now
manifest the path of salvation to Your servants who shall travel in this
conveyance, that with Your helping grace they may be clothed upon with good
works and after the completion of this life may be vouchsafed' everlasting joy
in Your heavenly Kingdom,
For Yours is
the might, and the Kingdom, and the power, and unto You do we send up glory; to
Father, and to Son, and to Holy Spirit, both now and ever, and unto ages of
ages:
Amen.
The priest
sprinkles all over the vehicle with Holy Water, saying.
May Christ our
true God,
Through the
intercessions of His all‑pure Mother,
Through the
protection of the bodiless powers,
Of the holy,
glorious and all‑praiseworthy Apostles,
And of St.
Nicholas,
And all the
Saints,
Have mercy on us and save us, as He is good and loves mankind.
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