And while the prayer is being said by the priests, they sing these troparia.
Tone iv.
Thou that alone art quick to help, O Christ, make manifest from on high a speedy visitation to thine ailing servant: deliver him from sicknesses and bitter pains, and raise him up, that, without ceasing, he may praise and glorify thee, through the God-bearing one’s entreaties, O thou sole lover of mankind.
With blinded spiritual eyes to thee, O Christ, I come, as he that from his birth was blind; and penitentially to thee I cry, Be merciful to us, thou that alone the good physician art.
Tone iii.
My soul, that, Lord, by every kind of sin and unbecoming deeds is paralys’d, O by thy godlike intervention do thou raise, as thou of old a paralytic didst upraise, that I, being sav’d, may cry to thee, Give healing unto me, O Christ compassionate.
Tone ii.
O just one, as the Lord’s disciple, thou the gospel didst receive; as martyr, dost possess that which unwritten is; a daring, as God’s brother, hast; as hierarch, hast to pray: do thou beseech Christ God to save our souls.
Tone iv.