Prayer to San Basilio to be recited today to ask for a grace

Mystical column of the Holy Church, glorious St. Basil, animated by living faith and ardent zeal, you not only left the world to sanctify yourself, but you were inspired by God to trace the rules of evangelical perfection, to lead men to holiness.

With your wisdom you defended the dogmas of faith, with your charity you endeavored to raise every fate of neighbor's misery. Science made you famous to the pagans themselves, contemplation elevated you to familiarity with God, and piety made you a living rule of all ascetics, an admirable specimen of the sacred pontiffs, and an inviting model of fortress to all the champions of Christ.

O great Saint, impetrate my living faith to work according to the Gospel: detachment from the world to aim for heavenly things, perfect charity to love God above all things in my neighbor and especially obtain a ray of your wisdom to direct all actions to God, our ultimate goal, and thus reach one day eternal bliss in Heaven.