The Orthodox Standard Journal

 And so for keeping up continual recollection of God this pious formula is to be ever set before you.  'O God, be attentive unto helping me: O Lord, make haste to help me,"        for this verse has not unreasonably been picked out from the whole of Scripture for this purpose. It embraces all the feelings which can be implanted in human nature, and can be fitly and satisfactorily adapted to every condition, and all assaults. Since it contains an invocation of God against every danger, it contains humble and pious confession, it contains the watchfulness of anxiety and continual fear, it contains the thought of one's own weakness, confidence in the answer, and the assurance of a present and ever ready help. For one who is constantly calling on his protector, is certain that He is always at hand.  It contains the glow of love and charity, it contains a view of the plots, and a dread of the enemies, from which one, who sees himself day and night hemmed in...

  Let us walk in the prosperity of the light of this day, In the Virtue of the Most High God, the greatest of gods, In the Good Pleasure of Christ, In the Light of the Holy Ghost, In the Faith of the Patriarchs, In the Righteousness of the Prophets, In the Peace of the Apostles, In the Joy of the Angels, In the Splendour of the Saints, In the Works of the Monks In the Virtue of the Just, In the Martyrdom of the Martyrs, In the Chastity of the Virgins, In the Wisdom of God, In much patience, In abstinence of the flesh, In continence of the tongue, In the abundance of peace, In the Praises of the Trinity, In acute senses, In ever good actions, In spiritual forms, In Divine words, In blessings, In this is the path of all laboring for Christ, Who leadeth the Saints, after their departure, eternally into Joy, That I may hear the voice of the Angels praising God and saying: Holy, Holy, Holy! [From the 9th Century Anglo-Saxon Book of Cerne, a prayer book of Bishop Aedeluald] SOURCES: http...

  [10th / 11th Century Anglo-Saxon Prayer / Antiphon on the Holy Cross from the Service to the Holy Cross from the Pre-Conquest English Winchester Prayer Book of Abbot Aelfwine] "Thy Cross we adore, O Lord, and Thine Holy Resurrection we praise and glorify; Thou Who didst deign to be Born, to Suffer, to Die, and Rise Again from the dead; save us and have mercy on us. May the Sign of Thy Cross be upon us and defend us from all evils past, present, and future, both within and without through the Sign of Thine Holy Cross; and deliver us from all persecutions, and through this Sign of the Cross lay prostrate enemies and drive off the demons. Through this Sign of the Cross deliver us from the dangers of the world. O Cross, Life to me! O Cross, Health to me! O Cross, Resurrection to me, unto eternal life. Amen."   The Aelfwine Prayer Book is currently set into a print edition by the Henry Bradshaw Society, and can be purchased from them.