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Give me to drink, O Lord, from Your fountain. Enrich my spirit with Your grace. Dress me in armor that will guard my soul within me. As the Good One, abundantly supply me with all saving means, give me medicine that would restore my health. May I be cleansed from my defilements by You, may I pay off my debts by Your treasures. Possessing everything, O Lord, You loved poverty; You clothed Your strength with suffering. The Perfect One came to increase, the Lawgiver came to fulfill the law. The Mighty One came, bearing the root of Jesse on His shoulder; He came put into His bow like a chosen arrow (Is. 49:2). He promises the palace to those who love Him, and threatens Gehenna to those who hate Him. Thy processions are filled with peace; in Thy humility is Thy glory, O Lord. Your faith, the Leader who descended from the heights, brings with it bliss. Your suffering is for us a source of blessings, Your Cross is for us a victorious crown, Your love is the fullness of beauty. Your light is the garment of glory; whoever is clothed with it is righteous. The pure are worthy of Thy covenant, the victorious are strengthened in Thy battle, the courageous readily enter into the struggle, the called righteous enter into the wedding supper. The time of struggle is short, but gives eternal victorious triumph. Your goodness is a mirror; blessed is he who looks into it. His bliss is indescribable; only one who has tasted it can speak about it. Purely blessed is he who constantly has Your goodness in his thoughts. She brings all blessings to the humble. Through her, a person acquires knowledge of the Father, through her he is clothed in the image of the Son. Your right hand weaves a crown, and everyone who wins victory is crowned with it. Your truth determines the measure. Whoever lent receives a rich profit from it. For the wicked, its righteous measure is painful, because it is stingy for them and denies them promises; the measure of their sins, all their uncleanness, returns to them. Who can measure Your greatness? Who will comprehend Your Divinity? A vessel full of knowledge, in all its fullness, is empty before You. The limit of a mortal's wisdom is his death. And the Angel is nothing more than a living instrument of serving You. What does a creature mean before its Creator? Is it possible that a creature could explore the Creator? Foolish is he who dreams that he has comprehended You. The more puffed up he is in his thoughts, the deeper his height falls. His own nature convicts him with its testimony. The Lawgiver placed a sign on it, put illnesses into it, as well as hunger and thirst, gave it many opponents and made them His witnesses, so that man would not dare to rise above and equal himself with the Creator. Our lips are not sufficient to utter You, O Lord. Our mind is a mirror for You. Meaningless words puff up us, and in reckless error we set ourselves up for glory. But the prudent man acts wisely and only dares to undertake life-saving research. He wisely remains silent in order to express his reverence, enters into research and teaches so that they listen to this for the benefit. Here is our grave awaiting us, Lord. Our end is before us daily. The fear of death makes us tremble, but does not make us repentant. Our heritage will be dust in the bowels of the earth, and a heap of old cloth will accompany us to Sheol. The coffin, looking at everyone, loudly calls out to him: “And you will soon be in me.” Praise be to You from my misery! The praises of my sinfulness are weak. The fruit of praise that a righteous man bears is as great as the tree itself. Pure and glorious are the praises offered by those on high. But the praises offered by the lazy are poor and weak. Praise be to You, debt resolver! May your praises from sinners continually increase! By Thy goodness weigh my offering. Weigh it, Lord, and make it full, even though it does not deserve it. And from us may something be added to Your greatness; from Thy may ours also be made great; May my praise also be magnified by You, meager as it may be. You make my repentance worthy, no matter how unclean it is. May our hardness of heart be overcome and conquered, may Your mercy prevail and reign! In your name, Jesus, may I also be glorified. In the name of Your Parent may I find refuge for myself. Son and Fruit from eternity, abiding without beginning in His root, Son, who in time received the beginning from the house of David, true Son, Son of the eternally True, blessed is Your first birth, blessed is Your second birth! I am small before Your greatness; I am unable to express Your glory to You. What spirit is able to search You? Both he himself and his research are contained in You. In Your treasury is found all wisdom, in the bosom of Your knowledge is all true knowledge. Truth shines like the sun, and deception disappears like a shadow. Ten threats (threats) of grief have Your mouth spoken, and ten blessings have Your tongue spoken. Without forcing anyone, You offered them so that everyone could choose from them according to their will. Some choose grief for themselves and accept it as their deeds, others gain victory and acquire blessings that make them blessed. Easily brought grief is inquisitive inquiry; easily acquired bliss is faith. The wisdom of the wise is to acquire life in the Kingdom of Heaven as an inheritance, to prepare for themselves a blessed end. Look to Joseph, who proved his wisdom by deeds. See how he stole his treasure from the flames. Solomon also showed himself to be wise in the book of his Proverbs, but his wisdom was turned into nothing by crazy wives. If those who had knowledge lost their minds, then where can we find wise teachers? The teaching of Jesus is pure, but those who call themselves experts try to disturb its source. Jesus is the great sea of ​​knowledge; teachers must be traders (barter); and those who were inherited, as active workers, acquired their inheritance through Jesus. Your birth is indescribable, cannot be expressed by any language, it is inconceivable for the heavenly Angels, beyond all wisdom, indecipherable in time and calculation, indescribable, inconceivable. Let the foolish not dare to enter into research about Your birth, wholly hidden from everyone. We should be amazed and amazed, O Lord, that You are both God and Man. May amazement and amazement be inseparable in us. Let the voice of endless praise be heard! May the visible light of Your humanity shine upon us, O Lord, and may the hidden light of Your Greatness also shine. Let one light be combined with another light, and let the Sun of Truth shine upon us! The dead heard You, and became a transformation for us. You listened to the blind man, and he became an example for us. The dead heard You and conquered death. You listened to the blind man, and he conquered the darkness. Just as the dead heard You, so all the dead will hear Your voice at the resurrection. You listened to the blind, and listen to everyone who lives, just as you listened to him. Hear me too, Lord, like Bartimaeus. We hear You like Lazarus. Thy will, O Lord, is like unto Thee. Your will, despite all changes, remains one. She desired and adorned every creature. No man can judge Your will. Thy will is the will of Thy Father. Both we and our good are pleasing to Your will. And may our will be favorable to You. May it be Your will, O Lord, to mercifully acquire us for Yourself. And let the seven senses (feelings) and all the members submit to the spirit, the ruler of thoughts, and let the spirit with all of them please You. May Your greatness, Lord, adorn my feelings, like a farmer, may their spirit increase, and may the spirit bring You the firstfruits from its plantings. May our freedom bring you, Lord, pure intention from the heart. May our congregation bring you a pure confession from the lips. May our prayer wash away our uncleanness, Lord. May Your flock bring praise to You, O Lord. Let our entire monastery sing and praise you, exclaiming: “Hosanna!” You might be interested in: