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The hope of pardon is in atonement Decoration of our prayer, Jesus, strengthen our prayer, may it ascend with You to Your Father and receive what we ask for! In Your mercy You protect us before Your Father, because You are the Chosen Sacrifice offered for the world. For Adam, who ate the fruit, You embraced the pillar in the judgment seat. For the children of Adam, who sinned against You, the crucifiers pierced You with nails. You took upon Yourself the common debt of all in order to pay it to Your Father; pay, O Innocent Lord, those sins that our freedom owes! With Your precious blood You redeemed us from the legal oath; deliver those redeemed by Your blood from the severity of justice! Let the debts of slaves not prevail over the bounty of the merciful Lord, because no matter how great our iniquities, Your mercy is even greater. It is true that we have many, many debts, but You have many bounties. And if truth itself weighs, then our debts will always be less than Your bounties. Who will undertake to weigh Your mercies and compare our iniquities with them? Mountains have weight, but Your bounties have no weight! Your bounties are more precious than life, because life has a measure, and Your bounties are immeasurable. And may Your bounties be our stronghold! Arise, you who have grown old in sins, and approach the Savior with hope Arise, soul, aged in sins, and be renewed by repentance! From contrition and tears, dissolve medicine for yourself and heal the ulcers of the fallen image in you. Call out from your heart and reveal your iniquities, because the All-Good One will spare you, the fallen one. You loved deceptive and transitory beauty, but you destroyed your beauty, daughter of light. The church of your body is distorted by the negligence to which you have enslaved. Woe to you, poor thing! How long will it take you to deal with the transitory? Tremble and be horrified by the fire that you have kindled for yourself with your untruths! The ugly sins that you have committed from your youth until now have exceeded your head. They plunged you into despair, and therefore you neglect repentance. Remember that you were captivated by lust, remember that lust killed your mother. How long-suffering the Good One is towards you, and yet you are wallowing in the sea of ​​sin! Are you not afraid of the day on which your plagues and your secrets will be revealed? Who will protect you where everyone will be concerned about the Judgment about himself? Your passions have made you an idol, destroyed you and abandoned you. O Great Hope, who appeared to us at the end of times, have mercy on the soul that has departed from You! I am Your sheep, but for a long time I wandered away from You, serving the evil one. Come, Lord, seek me! Seek Your wealth, because I have wasted Your wealth in vanity! You bore Your cross for sinners, and I am one of them, do not turn away from me! We are your property, but the evil one has stolen us. Rebuke him and take away from him what he has captured. Have mercy on me, O Lover of Mankind, because I have no other hope but You! Praise be to Your bounties, O all-merciful Son of God, for You are patient with sinners! Thanks to You from the lost, whom You gathered and brought to repentance! Against an evil and persistent enemy How great is the grace of God! How great is God's love for mankind! How He desires and encourages all people to be saved! Have mercy, O Lord, on me, Thy indecent servant; have mercy, O blessed Christ the Savior, Thy creation! If You, Lord, do not bring me, poor man, to reason and do not give me heartfelt enlightenment, then due to my great negligence I will not be able to see my destruction and corruption. Since I am oppressed by an merciless enemy who oppresses me, I continually cry out with tears night and day to Your goodness to deliver me from his snares, because every hour he renews his machinations against me, every hour he disturbs my soul with lustful thoughts and desires for pleasure. Thy power, O Christ, which forbade the waves of the sea, let it also forbid him, so that he may have no effect on me, Thy indecent servant. Send, O Master, Your grace soon, so that He may wean away from Your servant the great serpent with all his nasty and evil thoughts, because the wounds inflicted on the heart by his arrows have become rotten strings, and in my foolishness I am hiding them with all my measures. The Good Physician cries out to me, does not demand payment, does not shed blood, but my laziness does not allow me to go to Him. He Himself comes to heal me, but He always finds me tasting something that prevents His medicine from exerting its healing power over me. O Lord, give me reason and sober me up, heal me - and I will be healed! To the Mother of God about the granting of repentance I beg You, Mother of the Never-Evening Light, listen to what I tell before You! I am mired in the mud, cursed, covered with filth, completely darkened. And I have defiled the earth with the multitude of my sins, my Lady, therefore, sighing, she now cries out against me to the Incorruptible Judge, calling the sky with the stars and the sun as witnesses. And the storm of my thoughts is already plunging me into despair. I, the prodigal, have placed all my trust in You, Mother of God. You alone, who carried the womb of the Savior of the world, resolve my insoluble bonds, You, who have blackened me and become darkness, whiten with tears of repentance, You, who gave birth to my life, resurrect me, killed by great carelessness and alienated from God and from the Angels, bring me to them, Mother of God! Truly a terrible miracle! How did the Lord tolerate my sins? How did he not immediately bring me, poor thing alive, to the bottom of hell? How did he not send from above an invisible rod or sword to strike me? Without a doubt, You, Lady, through Your intercessions gave me life, seeking my repentance, which You Yourself offered, and grant to me, Your servant, for You are my wall, harbor and fence! Our Lord Jesus, the Most Worshipful King, who through His suffering conquered the tormentor - death, the Son of God, who promised us new life and the Heavenly Kingdom, remove from us everything harmful, may Your grace dwell in us, so that on the day of Your appearance we may, by Your good pleasure, go out into the meeting, see You and present ourselves to You with joy! Blot out our sins with Your forgiveness, so that we may praise Your name for Your goodness. Grant us all, O Lord, by Thy grace to glorify Thy Divinity and worship Him. The eyes that have seen Your glory here, let them see Your great mercy there. Let the ears that have heard the voice of Your words hear only voices of joy. The lips that glorified You in the churches are worthy to sing Your praise there too. The tongue that cried out here: “Holy, holy, holy,” and there the mood for Thy praise. May the hands that held Your Body and Your Blood receive forgiveness of debts from You. Let the feet that entered the holy church walk there in the land of life. To our cathedral (brotherhood), which worships Your Divinity, send the fullness of Your saving gifts. May Your lofty love abide with us and make us worthy to bring You due praise. Open Thy door to our prayer, and may our service be pleasing to Thee. Turn to us, O Good One, according to Your compassions and drive away from us everything harmful, so that we may silently praise You, Lord, and Your Father and the Holy Spirit! Grant, Lord, repentance and firmness to the end! Do not reject my prayer, Good Lord! Unworthy lips cry out to You, unclean hearts and souls defiled by sins. Hear me, O Lord, according to Your goodness! Establish my heart in Your fear. Place my feet on the stone of repentance. May Your goodness, Lord, overcome my sinfulness. May the light of Your grace overcome the darkness that is within me. You, Lord, who opened the eyes of the blind, open the darkened eyes of my heart. You, who cleansed the lepers with your word, cleanse the filthiness of my soul. May Your grace, Lord, be a fire within me, consuming my unclean thoughts. You alone are good, You are the Light that exceeds all light, You are the Joy that exceeds all joy, You are the Peace that exceeds all peace, You are the true Life, You are the Salvation that endures forever. To You, the only Good One, I fall in prayer, worthy of all punishment, deserving of all torment. I beg you, the Redeemer, so that the enemy does not completely take possession of me. But You, Lord, Good and Merciful, raise up my members, weakened by sin, revive my soul, deadened by iniquity, enlighten my heart, darkened by evil lust, deliver me from every evil deed, put Your perfect love in me, Lord Jesus Christ, Savior of the world, and write the name of Your servant in the Book of Life, giving me the end good, so that, having won victory over the devil, I will unashamedly bow before the Throne of Your Kingdom with all the righteous! Woe to you, soul, that you remain insensitive in real life, every day indulging in self-indulgence and pleasures and living dissolutely. In the next century you will cry like a rich man, tormented in the flames of eternal fire. Woe to you, soul, that you cannot bear any sorrow caused to you by your brother, not even an offensive word, but you immediately enter into contradiction and resistance and for this you lose the crown of patience and meekness and will be forever condemned with those who are malicious. Woe to you, soul, because you hate and revile your brother or tolerate others doing the same - for this you will be punished with the murderers, for he who hates his brother is a murderer (1 John 3:15). Woe to you, soul, that you neglect God’s commandments and assume that salvation is in the name of a Christian alone, for on the terrible day you will hear the Lord say: Not everyone who says to Me: Lord, Lord! will enter the Kingdom (Matthew 7:21). Woe to you, soul, that you love human glory, and honors, and fine clothes, and the acquisition of material things - therefore on the day of Judgment you will be an abomination before God, rejected from His presence and numbered among the arrogant demons. Woe to you, soul, that you sin every day, and put off repentance from day to day: death will overtake you, like a thief in the night, suddenly, and, bound, you will be led into fiery hell, uselessly shedding tears and blaming your foolishness. Woe to you, soul, that you do not tremble, thinking how on the terrible day of Judgment, when the heavenly powers will move from fear, you will appear to the face of God, wearing a shameful and defiled robe. You might be interested in: