Closing prayer for the Church's flourishing through the martyrs' intercession
Cyril, the author and bishop, closes the sermon with a prayer that the Church may flourish through Christ's grace and the intercession of the three holy young men just commemorated.
May it happen by the grace of Christ and through the intercession of the victorious martyrs just remembered, that the Church of Christ flourishes and advances, thriving in the fruit of righteousness. May fathers and mothers produce such plants with self-control and godliness, and may young men and virgins be counted worthy of such a way of life and grow together in such virtue with one another. The holy children are perfected on the seventeenth of December.
Greek
Γένοιτο δὲ τῇ τοῦ Χριστοῦ χάριτι, καὶ πρεσβείᾳ τῶν ἀρτίως μνημονευθέντων καλλινίκων μαρτύρων, θάλλειν καὶ προκόπτειν τὴν τοῦ Χριστοῦ
Ἐκκλησίαν εὐθηνοῦσαν ἐν καρπῷ δικαιοσύνης· ὅπως οἱ πατέρες καὶ αἱ μητέρες τοιαῦτα βλαστάνοντες φυτεύματα μετὰ σωφροσύνης καὶ εὐσεβείας, οἱ νεανίσκοι καὶ παρθένοι τοιαύτης πολιτείας ἀξιῶνται, τοιαύτης ἀρετῆς συναυξάνωσι. Τελειοῦνται δὲ οἱ ἅγιοι παῖδες μηνὶ δεκεμβρίῳ ιζʹ.