Glory to Jesus Christ!
A blessed Feast of the Protection (Pokrova) of Our Most Holy Lady Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary to all!
Today the faithful celebrate the feast with joy, illumined by thy coming, O Mother of God. Beholding thy pure image, we fervently cry to thee: Encompass us beneath the precious veil of thy protection; deliver us from every form of evil by entreating Christ, thy Son and our God, that he may save our souls.
— Troparion for the Feast of the Protection of the Morher of God
