Worship of our Lord Jesus Christ
Поклонение Господу нашему Иисусу Христу
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“Come, let us worship” (three times).
Son of God! I bow before Your birth from a Father without a mother and your ineffable care for us.
I bow to Thy, O Lord, lover of mankind, for the sake of our salvation through secret condescension, incarnation in the virgin’s womb by the action of the Holy Spirit, birth and placement in a beastly manger.
I worship and glorify Your fleshly circumcision, the humble baptism of a slave, the radiant transfiguration on Tabor, the glorious march with victory to Jerusalem for free suffering, and all your labors on earth that you undertook for us, in which You were from youth fasting, laboring, walking and getting tired, teaching and preaching, healing and resurrecting: remembering all this, I glorify, I magnify, I honor, I kiss with love and for all this I thank You, my most merciful Creator.
I worship, Son of God, Your Last Supper, at which You gave Yourself to the believers, so that by partaking of Your body and blood, I might have You for eternal life. I also magnify Your deep humility, manifested in washing the disciples’ feet, and I pray to You, my Lord: humble my soaring pride and teach me humility.
I worship Your most pure, most holy and life-giving body, broken in the form of bread for the remission of sins.
I worship Your most pure, most holy and life-giving blood, shed in the guise of wine for the remission of sins.
I bow to Your suffering, Christ! (three times).
I bow to Your kneeling in the garden, where, praying, You shed bloody sweat so that the cup of suffering would pass from You; I pray to You, my Lord: teach me to always pray fervently and give me the cup of salvation to drink, so that I may thank You forever.
I bow to You, my Lord and God, remembering Your free suffering: the flattering kiss of Judas, the innocent taking by the lawless, the binding and countless abuses, blows, spitting, strangling, molestation, beatings, torment, humiliation, all Your torment that You endured for the sake of me, accursed and ungrateful, and the merciless outpouring of blood. I compile all these torments in my mind and heart, I kiss them with love, I melt them with pity, and for all this I extol and thank You, my beloved Lord, who loved me so much that He did not spare His soul to lay down for me.
I bow to Your innocent, my Judge, condemnation to death, the painful carrying of a heavy cross, the stretching of Your most pure body on the cross, nailing and crucifixion on Golgotha in the midst of two thieves. I pray to You, my Lord, do not judge me according to my deeds, grant me to wear my cross without laziness, nail my flesh with Your fear, crucify me to the world with passions and lusts and grant me so that my heart will know nothing else all the days of my life except You, the crucified Jesus.
I bow to Your most pure and holy head, pricked for my sake, accursed with a sharp crown of thorns, and I pray to You, my Lord, to eradicate from my head the evil, the nasty, the prodigal, the blasphemous and the vain.
I bow to Your most holy ears, filled with evil blasphemy for the sake of me, accursed and ungrateful, and I pray to You, my Lord: let me not hear anything unhelpful and make me obedient to Your command.
I bow to Your most pure eyes, flooded with tears and blood for the sake of me, accursed and ungrateful, and I pray to You, my Lord: “Look upon me and have mercy on me; turn away my eyes from seeing vanity” (Ps. 119:37).
I bow to Your most holy face, which shone like the sun on Tabor, and is now darkened by spitting and stress, and I pray to You, my Lord: “Shine Your face upon Your servant” (Ps. 119:135).
I bow to Your most holy lips and tongue, scorched with thirst, which has tasted this with gall, and I pray to You, my Lord: bridle my evil tongue and “set a guard with my mouth” (Ps. 141:3).
I bow to Your most pure, most holy and life-giving wound on Your right hand and I pray to You, my Lord: grant me to stand at Your right hand.
I bow to Your most pure, holy and life-giving wound on Your neck hand and I pray to You, my Lord: deliver me from this fate.
I bow to Your most pure, most holy and life-giving wound on Your right leg and I pray to You, my Lord: guide me on the right path of repentance.
I bow to your most pure, most holy and life-giving wound on your left leg and pray to You, my Lord: “Forbid my feet from every evil way” (Ps. 119:101).
I bow to Your most pure, most holy and life-giving wound in Your most pure ribs and in Your perforated heart, from where blood and water flowed for our redemption, and I pray to You, my Lord: crush my petrification, strike my cruel heart, erase it with Your fear, wound it with Your love, so that I may love You, my Lord, with all my heart, with all my soul, with all my thought, with all my strength and with all my thoughts, and so that fountains of tears flow from my contrite heart, washing away my sinful defilement.
I bow to Your entire holy body, wounded from head to toe for the sake of me, accursed and ungrateful and without integrity, and I pray to You, my Lord: heal me, all wounded by sins.
I bow to the nakedness of Your most pure body and pray to You, my Lord: cover the shameful nakedness of my accursed soul.
I bow to Your most holy soul, betrayed into the hands of God the Father, and I pray to You, my Lord: accept my soul into Your holy hands at the hour of death and save it from the airy spirits of malice.
I bow down to the removal from the cross and the placing in the grave of Your most pure body and I pray to You, my Lord: grant me that I may live in peace as if I were dead and buried.
Glory to Your sufferings, Lord! (three times).
I bow, glorify and magnify Your descent into hell, the captivity of hell, the trampling of death and the three-day resurrection from the grave, and I pray to You, my Lord: take my soul, captive to sins, into captivity with Your love, resurrect the dead and deliver from hell.
Glory, Lord, to Your cross and resurrection!
I bow to Your ascension in flesh to heaven, where, sitting at the right hand of God the Father, you see my misfortune and weakness, hear my sinful prayer, penetrate into my thoughts from afar and know the conversion. I pray to You, my Lord: lift my mind from earthly addiction to heavenly desires, strengthen my weakness, replenish my insufficiency and poverty, correct my prayer and lead me to a good end and a saving refuge, so that I may appear before You unashamed and uncondemned when You come to judge the living and the dead. God! “Do not enter into judgment with Your servant, for no one living will be justified before You” (Ps. 143:2).
Falling prostrate to the ground, say the following: “Truly it is worthy to worship You, my Lord Jesus Christ, the God glorified and worshiped by all saints, “in whose name every knee bows, those in heaven, on earth, and under the earth” (Phil. 2:10). And I, unworthy, shamelessly approach and pray: save me, my Savior, according to Your goodness, and not according to my works. You know how to save me; save me as you want, as you can and as you know. I trust in You, my Lord, and I submit myself to Your holy will. If you want me to be in the light, if you want me to be in darkness, be blessed again. the door of Your mercy: blessed be you, O Lord, who has closed me in righteousness. If You do not destroy me with my iniquities: glory to Your immeasurable mercy. If You destroy me with my iniquities: glory to Your righteous judgment;