Кафисма 2

Let us confess to You, O Lady, with all my heart and tell people all Your wonders, Your praise and glory; According to the Lord God, glory befits You and may the heartfelt voice of praise rise up to You; For sinners who repent from God and in God find salvation through You; They will sigh humbly, and You, compassionate Mother, heal the contrition of their hearts, in peace and silence after the labors of their journey, with Your comforting intercession, they will rest in the Lord. I trust in the Lady Most Pure Virgin Mary for the sake of Her bounty and mercy: Her eyes look upon the poor and Her hand is extended to orphans and widows; seek You from your youth and Her intercession to His throne will glorify you before the face of God, will take away many of our sins, She always brings us mercy and heavenly consolation. Oh, Ever-Blessed One, stretch out Your strong right hand to us, we kiss it with reverence, and do not turn Your face away from us. Most Holy Virgin, Mother of Christ our God, I humbly pray to you: heal my souls of fierce passion and grant forgiveness to my many sins, even those I committed foolishly. I have desecrated my soul and body, wretched one, alas for me, what will I do in the hour when the threatening angels will separate my soul from my passionate body? Then be my Helper and warmest Representative, for I am a solid and invincible wall for You, Your servant. Save me, Most Merciful Mother, source of goodness and abyss of generosity; how red are Your ways and how peaceful are Your paths! In You shines the heavenly goodness of purity, the light of truth, and lordship, and truth; Thou art clothed more than the sunshine with robes gilded, speckled, and adorned with the beauty of Thy purest virtues; twelve bright heavenly stars make up the crown on Your head: glory to You, zealous Intercessor of all faithful Christians. How long, O Lady, will you forget me and deliver me on the day of my sorrow? How long will my spiritual enemy ascend against me? By Your strength and power, crush him, become to me, the weakest, the Lady, a pillar of the fortress and a weapon that crushes the enemy; I will magnify You, the Gracious One, with my heart and lips I will glorify You as an invincible Governor. The madman, the hellish enemy in his heart, speaks: I will marry and seize the faithful of Christ, and my hand will kill them. Arise, O Lady, precede him, stop him and overthrow all his evil advice. Who will stand against your power? Who will contradict your authority? Who will stop your motherly love for the faithful? Hell trembles at Thy most holy name, the dead rise at Thy power; from a single wave of Yours countless bloodthirsty armies perish; Oh, Ever-Virgin Mother of God! You contained and carried the inconceivable almighty God in your womb. Rejoice, most spacious courtyard and most luminous chamber, Mary, Mother of Christ our God: save Thy singers, for in the stormy ocean of sowing life we ​​always resort to Thee. Madam, who dwells in the dwelling of God, or who will dwell in the holy mountain of Zion, where the light of the face of God is present? He is a lover of God, who, according to God, places all his hope in You alone; he is a lover of God, who always carries Your sweetest name in his mind; he is a lover of God, who sings of Thy miracles and mercies; that lover of God who imitates Your humility, meekness and chastity; she will dwell in the blessed dwelling of God, who, O Most Blessed Ever-Virgin Mary, magnifies the Lord with her soul and rejoices in spirit in the one God her Savior. Let us flow, sinners, let us flow along the paths of the Mother of God, we hold on to Her feet tightly and will not retreat from Her with prayers, kneeling before the holy image of Her face, raising our minds to the prototype, until we find Her mercy in time of need to help us to inherit the heavenly promise. Save me, Lady, as the inexhaustible current of God’s grace has been poured out on You, pour out a drop of it on me too; For Thy virgin womb, Thy purest womb, gave birth to the Most High God, the beloved Son of the Holy Spirit; Bless your most pure breasts, with them you nourished the Savior Jesus Christ. Confess Her praises, chaste virgins, if only you have found Her natural grace and mercy, give glory to Her name and praise Her conception and birth forever and ever. Hear, O Lady, my truth and take away my sorrow from me. Let us confess to You in a voice of joy and shouting, when Your mercy is poured out on me; become like Her in love for God, and you, holy virgins of God, glorify Her in the voice of your lips and hearts; Her grace was received by the virgin martyrs and others, captivated by the love of the sweetest Jesus, receiving from Him the incorruptible crowns of paradise. Glory to You, Lady, to the virgins who love You, an inalienable treasure. Rejoice, Mother Mary, Bringing Star, from Her the Sun of Truth, Christ our God, has arisen, and by His Grace the blindness has received the sight. Pray for us, Your sinful servants, and with Your many powerful prayers help us to see You, the exalted Lady of the Angels, and be worthy to glorify You with them in the mountainous Zion forever and ever, Amen. According to the 2nd kathisma troparia, ch. 2 We ask You, Mother of God, with faith, that we may be delivered from many troubles and sins, for otherwise, Most Pure One, there are no imams of consolation, unless You are the one who gives salvation to all. The One God who gave birth without corruption, We fall down to You, Ever-Virgin, crying out with fear and love: deliver us from fierce passions and ailments. Whenever the soul is about to be separated from the body, then stand before me, O God-pleased One, and destroy the counsels of the enemies who seek to devour me, so that, having freed the princes of darkness through You, I may be honored with Your prayers for some of the chosen ones. Most Pure Lady Theotokos! We know that I am defiled and unclean, and unworthy, and full of every sin. For this reason, as if I am guilty, with much shame and with tears I cry out to Thee, my Lady Theotokos: have mercy on me and help me, and comfort me, Thy unworthy servant (name of the rivers). Mother of all joy, do not cease to pray to Your Son and our God, as my sinful and damned soul has descended into the depths of evil. But I, a sinner and unclean one, thinking about my past and present sins, decided: there is no evil that I, the accursed one, have committed. For this reason I am horrified and afraid of Your Son and my God and His righteous judgment. With the same contrite heart and with tears I cry out to You: have mercy. My Lady Theotokos, have mercy on me, who with my autocratic mind has transgressed the justification and command of Your Son and my God. Do not leave me to perish in my sinful filth and customs, but send Thy rich mercies upon me. For Thou art the Mother of mercy and mercy, do not despise me who is perishing, but turn me and pluck me from the mire of sin, just as Thy Son of old plucked out the harlot, the prodigal son and the publican. Grant me a source of tears and wash away the filth of my sins. Do not reject me, do not disdain me, the foul one, but with the waters of Your bounty, quench my soul, burnt out by adversity, deliver me from the flames of demonic possession and snatch me from their barking, so that I see You driving away dark-faced demons from me during my departure, betraying me with the good and light-faced face of the saints Angelov. For you are, Mother of God, salvation for sinners, intercession and conversion for desperate ones, joy for sad ones. You have given Your Son, our God, the Intercessor to us who call upon You with all our hearts. Save me, Most Holy Theotokos, an unworthy servant, for the sake of the mercy of Your Son and our God, amen.