Гимн 35. Просительная и вместе благодарственная молитва (св. Отца) к Богу за излитые на него (благодеяния) 292 .

Give me, Lord, understanding, give me knowledge, teach me, Lord, to keep Your commandments. Although I sinned as a man, and even more than a man, as You know, You, according to Your characteristic compassion, O my God, had mercy on me, a beggar and orphan in the world, and did, O Master, what only You know. Separating me and taking me, O Compassionate One, from my father and brothers, relatives and friends, from the land of origin and my parental home, as if from dark Egypt and the depths of hell (for so You gave me Your evil servant to think about them and speak with understanding), and holding Your terrible hand, You led me to the one whom You were pleased to become my father (on earth), and threw me at his feet and embraces. And he led me to Your Father, my Christ, and through the Spirit to You, O Trinity - my God! When I, weeping, like the prodigal (son), fell (to You), the Word - as You Yourself know, since You taught me - then You (also) did not consider me unworthy to call You Your son. O unworthy and unclean lips! O language, poor in words, which finds it difficult to glorify You and thank You and tell about Your good deeds that You have done for me, an orphan and a stranger, a stranger on earth! for Thine are the strangers of the world. But what is Yours and Yours, neither the eyes can see, nor the tongue can express, nor the world can contain. That is why, Master, the world hates us, persecutes us, slanderes us, envyes us, rages, kills, and is capable of doing anything against us when it comes across such people. But we, by Thy good pleasure, Thy humble servants, are strong in weakness, rich in poverty, and rejoice in all sorrow, being outside the world. We are with You, Master, but our bodies are held by the world. So, he is deceived - the blind man, holding back only clay, since he will not gain that either, for at the last trumpet (I Cor. 15:52) You will make him spiritual, as you promised, and then he, alone with his like-minded and blind lovers of peace, will acquire his own evil. In l. paragraph 38 chapter; in P. r. This hymn has not survived, but in the table of contents it is listed as the 50th word. You might be interested in: