We must most earnestly pray to the life-giving Holy Spirit, the Comforter, the Helmsman of the Holy Church of Christ, that he may breathe the spirit of love into the hearts of all Christians and illuminate everyone with His light, to the knowledge of the truth of God and Christ, to mutual unity, to the rejection of all heresies and schisms, to the ruin of all social parties opposing each other. All-good, all-powerful, all-wise, all-righteous Holy Soul, do this in the name of Christ! Oh, how close the Holy Spirit is always to us, how He always does us good, cleanses our sins, sanctifies, enlightens, pacifies, resolves, frees the soul from the bonds of sin and spiritual darkness, revives our souls, deadened by sin, strengthens, encourages, consoles, brings us to tenderness and tears, prays, intercedes with us with unutterable sighs! (Rom.8:26). Glory and thanksgiving to You, Holy Father, who forever wear out the Holy Spirit, and thereby give life to the world, which is perishing in evil, in the name of Your Son, our Savior, who served us with such exhaustion, patience and longsuffering!
...Glory to Thee, All-Holy Soul, Source of our life, equal to the Father and the Word!
...Teach, Lord, help, Lord, strengthen, Lord! We are weak, we are poor.
...Glory to Thee, Holy Soul, Life-giving Comforter, acting continually and everywhere in the Church of Christ. Convert, O Lord, with the same fate, the lost peoples: Jewish, Mohammedan, pagan and, in Christianity itself, heretical and schismatic peoples and tribes; expose and eradicate vices, instruct and enlighten in piety; Convict Orthodox Christians of wickedness and corruption and guide everyone on the path of salvation; admonish and guide youth, observe adolescence, grow up in infancy and guide guardian angels, instruct husbands and elders, enlighten and strengthen everyone and everything with your all-good power, strengthen with wisdom and omnipotence, and instruct in all virtue, dispelling, like darkness, sinful passions for the sake of Christ, our Lord, with the good will of the Father. Amen.
...Confirm, God! Enlighten us, God!
...Glory to the Orthodox Church! Glory to Christ God - the most holy Head, the only Head of the Church of God on earth! Glory to God in the Trinity that we have not fallen into blasphemy against God, have not recognized and will not forever recognize a sinful man as the head of the Holy Church!
The Most Holy Theotokos is my unshameful, firm consolation; She is full of goodness, holiness, mercy, compassion. What I do not have, is in Her in abundance; I do not have purity, holiness, sincere goodness and mercy, but She has all this with all abundance, and She can, with Her prayers and intercession, ask for everything from Her Son and God. And therefore I pray to Her: show the depths of Your love for mankind, the depth of your compassion and uncountable kindness and generosity on me, the accursed; satisfy the pasture of sin, give up chastity and keep my soul and my body undefiled - wake up, wake up!
What a wonderful power is repentance! Unfeigned, comprehensive repentance constantly bows to the mercy of God, who is angry with our sins and all sorts of untruths, and miraculously changes the state of our soul, taking away from it sorrow, oppression, confusion, impenetrable darkness, establishing in the soul peace, tranquility, rightness of spirit, boldness, light, strength, cheerfulness, renewal. Glory to God, who has deigned so well! And this grace of repentance is given to all believers, without distinction, throughout their lives.
My God, what immense love, what kindness! What a complete gift! He gave Himself to me as food and drink with all eternal and endless blessings! He gave himself entirely to the insignificant worm - man. God! That you exist, because you remember me, and visit me, and dwell in me!
...If I bring songs equal to the sand of the sea to You, Holy King, I will do nothing worthy of what You have given me! Glory to the Lord Jesus Christ and His Life-Giving Mysteries!…
Lord, this begins the week of my service, unworthy of You, the King without beginning and before the ages, of serving, of standing before Your terrible and life-giving throne, and of interceding for myself and for Your people, so that you may cleanse the sins of all; a week of service to the most heavenly, Most Pure, all-redeeming Divine and terrible Mysteries, the service of truth, the service of incorruptibility and immortality, renewal and deification, the highest, Divine service, of which there is nothing holier and higher in the world. Help me in this ministry every day without ceasing, may the grace of Your Holy Spirit protect me from all sin, keeping me with the saints!
Grant me, Lord, for this service a pure, courageous and vigorous, firm heart, a good-voiced organ of the tongue, a magnificent, calm, firm appearance; grant that we stand before Thy throne with extreme fear, love and thanksgiving, with a burning spirit. Let us pray for ourselves and for all people sincerely; to praise and thank You on behalf of everyone with a fiery heart and lips; Perform, use and teach the Holy Mysteries with fear and great love. So grant me, Lord, to serve You by the strength of my turn all the days of my life. Amen.
Glory to the wondrous power of Your Cross, Lord! ...
... Wonderful are Your works, O Lord, for the salvation of the human race! Wonderful wisdom, truth, mercy, power, deliverance and salvation! Save us all, O Holy Trinity!
I thank my Lord Jesus Christ, who has made me worthy to celebrate the all-joyful and all-saving day of Holy Easter this year! Grant me to pass through the entire Bright Week and all the days of my life without sin and in holiness!
How sublime is the liturgy of John Chrysostom and Basil the Great! What a heavenly spirit! What a broad love for God and people! What a heavenly heart! Give me, Lord, the heavenly spirit, a pure, loving heart, not bound by any worldly lusts and passions: for none of those bound by worldly lusts and pleasures can come, or draw near, or serve You, the King of glory (Prayer of the priest during the Cherubic song)! The priest must be like an eagle, pompous, strong, and bastromoved. Grant, Lord! The whole earth, with all its treasures, beauties, sweets, is nothing before such a sacrament as the Most Pure Body and Blood of the Lord, like the sacred rite of the liturgy!
...Glory to Your mercy, Lord!
Why does the priest raise his hands before the throne during mass, before the great entrance? As a reminder and depiction of the prayer of the God-man in the Garden of Gethsemane just before His betrayal by Judas and in the depiction of the Calvary crucifixion. Great, wondrous, and effective was this prayer; it was spoken for the whole world; the Calvary sacrifice is immeasurably great and redemptive. For the sake of this prayer and this sacrifice on the cross, have mercy on me too, Heavenly Father, Only Begotten Son and Holy Soul! Amen.
...Glory be forever to the Holy Trinity from all of us people, so blessed by the Lord!
...Glory to God, who has granted us communion with Himself in prayer, praise and thanksgiving to Him!
...Glory to Your Cross, glory to Your power, given to him for victory over the enemies of our salvation: for it is fair that that very tree, or the image of that Cross, on which You were crucified by will and suffered torment and unrighteous execution, should become the surest instrument of our victory over the devil, who dreamed of completely killing You, of defeating You, Lord, with infinite goodness and truth. May we depict His Cross with faith in the Lord!
... Glory to Thee, Mary, Most Pure Bride of God!