Monday March 30, 2026 / March 17, 2026
Having mounted to virtue and cleansed thy mind,/ thou didst attain unto that which was thine ultimate desire;/ and having adorned the life with dispassion/ and taken up exemplary fasting with a pure conscience,/ remaining in prayer like one of the bodiless ones,/ thou didst shine upon the world like the sun,// O most blessed Alexis.
Having the house of thy parents as a foreign land,/ thou didst dwell therein in the guise of a pauper;/ and receiving after thy repose a crown of glory,/ thou wast revealed as wondrous on earth,// O Alexis, Man of God, thou joy of angels and men!
O holy hierarch Patrick, wonderÂworker equal to the apostles, enlightener of the Irish land: entreat the merciful God, that He grant our souls remission of transgressions!
Thou wast shown to be a true fisher of men, for, spreading out the nets of the good news of the Gospel, thou didst draw the heathen into the kingdom of Christ, enlightening with baptism them that languish in the darkness of idolatry, and making them children of the living God. Wherefore, we beseech thee, O holy hierarch Patrick our father: intercede in behalf of us that honor thy holy memory.