Prayer to the Most Holy Theotokos

Prayer to the Most Holy Theotokos, with it, as the Nets say, Gregory of Thessalonica Palamas, as in this life one sees Virgin Lady Theotokos, who gave birth to God the Word in the flesh, we know that there is nothing more beautiful than worthy of me, so all-prodigal, a pure image of You, pure, of You, Ever-Virgin, of You, who has a pure and undefiled body and soul, to see with defiled eyes and to embrace or pray with unclean and unclean lips. It is right for me, the prodigal, to hate and abhor Your purity. Moreover, before God existed, He gave birth to man, so that He may call sinners to repentance, boldly, and I come to You, praying with tears. Accept my present confession of many and serious sins and offer to Your only begotten Son and God, making a prayer, that He may be merciful to my more wretched and humble soul, for for the sake of my many iniquities I am forbidden to look to Him and ask for forgiveness. For this sake, I offer you a prayer book and intercessor, as if I have tasted many and great gifts from God who created me and have appeared without memory of all, accursed and ungrateful, attached to senseless cattle and becoming like them, poor in virtues, rich in passions, cold in execution, deprived of divine boldness, condemned by God, weeping from angels, mocked by We are hated by demons and by humans, we are convicted by conscience, we are ashamed of my evil deeds, and before death we are dead, and before judgment we are self-condemned, and before endless torment we are self-martyrned out of despair. In the same way, I resort to Your intercession, the only one, Lady Theotokos, with a multitude of talents, having squandered my father’s property in fornication with harlots, having committed fornication more than a harlot, being more lawless than Manasseh, being more merciless than the rich man, a throaty, celestial slave, a companion of evil thoughts, shameful and foul words. treasure keeper, alien to all good deeds. Have mercy on my humility, have mercy on my weakness; You have great boldness towards the One born from You, no one can do it like You, the Mother of God. You can do everything, for you are superior to all creatures, and it is impossible for You to eat anything unless you desire it. Do not despise my tears, do not be disgusted by my sighing, do not reject my illness from the heart, do not disgrace my hope in You, but through Your Mother’s prayers of Your Good Son and God, forcing unnecessary compassion, grant me, Your cursed and unworthy servant, my first and primordial perception of kindness and passions put aside ugliness, be freed from sin, become enslaved to truth, put off the filth of carnal pleasures and put on the sanctity of spiritual purity, mortify the world and live a life of virtue. Travel with me on a journey, float in the sea, strengthen me to watch, console me in sorrow, pacify the faint-hearted, grant me healing to the sick, deliver me to the offended, reveal me to the slandered, innocent, soon to save me in need of death, show me to the invisible enemy at every hour of fear, yes They will all take away the one who unjustly tormented him, whose slave I am. To her, O Most Blessed Lady Theotokos, hear my accursed prayer and do not disgrace me because of my aspirations, which according to God is the hope of all the ends of the earth. Quench the zeal of my flesh, calm the most severe storm in my soul, tame the bitter rage, destroy the arrogance and pride of vain opinions from my mind, destroy the nightly dreams of crafty spirits and the daytime dreams of unclean thoughts from my heart, enlighten my tongue to speak useful words, teach my eyes to see the right, virtues of righteousness, make my mother-in-law in a blessed way without creeping. Prepare to sanctify my hands of God’s commandments, so that I may worthily ascend to the Most High. Purify my mouth, as I boldly call on the Father, the terrible God and the all-holy. Open my ears, so that I can hear sensually and mentally the words that are sweeter than honey and the honeycomb of the Holy Scriptures, and I live according to this, we are strengthened by You. Give me the time of repentance, the thought of conversion, free me from the vain death, change me, condemned by my conscience. And finally, appear to me at the separation of my soul from my damned body, alleviating the unbearable need, alleviating the unspeakable illness, inconsolable comforting the cramped conditions, delivering the dark demonic vision of me, taking away the bitterest answer of the publicans of the air and the principles of the dark, and tearing apart the manuscripts of many of my sins, appropriating me to God, and at the right hand of His blessed standing at the Last Judgment, grant me the eternal and incorruptible blessings of a participant. I bring this confession to You, my Lady Theotokos, the light of my darkened eyes, the consolation of my soul, according to God, my hope and intercession, accept with good will, and cleanse me from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, and grant me in this present age to uncondemnably partake of the all-holy and most pure body and blood of Your Son and God, in in the future there will be a heavenly supper, the sweets of heaven, where everyone will have a dwelling place for those who rejoice. Having received these good ones, unworthy, I will glorify forever and ever the most honorable and magnificent name of Your Son and God, who accepts everyone from all repentant souls, for Your sake, who was the intercessor and guarantor of all sinners. For your sake, all-singing and all-blessing Lady, all human nature is saved, praising and blessing the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, the All-Holy Trinity and the Consubstantial One, always, now and ever, and unto the ages of ages. Amen. 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