Prayer before the Icon of Christ

Before Your most pure image we bow in worship, O Good One, begging forgiveness for our stumblings, O Christ God; because You chose of Your own free will to ascend upon the Cross in the flesh in order to deliver from the enemy's bondage those You had created. For this reason we cry out to You in thanksgiving: "You have filled all things with joy, O our Saviour, when You came to save the world."