For Traditional Catholics and Orthodox Faithful facing the Great Apostasy

Our Heavenly Father Let us not be caught in the fear of servile religion; keeping Tradition out of ignorance and offering our "correctness" as a sign of righteous enlightenment.

Let us not be caught in the tyranny of our rational minds, which creates "innovations" upon the faith, which leads us to hold prideful "theologies" that diminish God to the level of our understanding, or worse, which deny Him altogether.

Let us not be caught by the tyranny of our emotions, mistaking our soul's phantasy-producing powers for the working of the Holy Spirit, the Lord, and Giver of Life.

Let us not be caught in the mere form of the visible church, but in the LIFE of it, who is Jesus Christ, the Living Word of God, present to all that truly seek Him.

Let our keeping of Tradition spring from the warmth of your Love, from a heart that seeks continual repentance, from a broken spirit, a broken and contrite heart you will not despise. Amen. - Archpriest Symeon Elias