believers confess their sins, ask for forgiveness and grace-filled heavenly help against the machinations of the enemy.
Most pure, undefiled, without beginning, invisible, incomprehensible, unsearchable, unfailing, invincible, innumerable, gentle Lord, who alone has immortality, in the living unapproachable light: having created heaven and earth, and the sea, and everything created on them, ask first, give petitions to everyone, We pray to You, and we ask You, Lord, Lover of Mankind, Father of the Lord and God and our Savior Jesus Christ, for us for the sake of men, and for our salvation, who came down from heaven, and was incarnated by the Holy Spirit and the Ever-Virgin Mary, and the Most Glorious Mother of God: Who first taught words, and then showed deeds, when he endured the saving passion, gave us a signature as a humble, and sinful, and unworthy slave To Yours, bring prayers to You, on our knees and knees, about our sins and about human ignorance.
Most merciful and most loving of mankind, hear us, even more often on this fiftieth day, after the Ascension of our Lord Jesus Christ into heaven, and when God and the Father sat at Your right hand, He sent down the Holy Spirit upon His holy disciples and apostles, Who also sat upon one of theirs, and all was fulfilled. His inexhaustible grace, and speaking in tongues of Your greatness, and prophesying. Now, as we pray to You, hear us, and remember us, the humble and condemned, and return the captivity of our souls, having Your mercy prayed for us. Receive us who fall to You and cry out: we have sinned, we have been committed to You from the womb, from the womb of our mother, You are our God. But as if our days had disappeared in the vanity, we were exposed to Your help, deprived of any answer, but boldly in Your bounty, we call: do not remember the sins of our youth and ignorance, and cleanse us from our secrets, and do not reject us in our old age, when our strength becomes impoverished: do not leave us, before we even return to the earth, grant us the honor to return to You, and grant us favor and grace.
Measure our iniquities with Your bounties, set the abyss of Your bounty against the multitude of our sins. Look down from Thy holy height, O Lord, upon Thy people who are coming, and upon those who expect rich mercies from Thee. Visit us with Your goodness, deliver us from the violence of the devil: confirm our life with Your holy and sacred laws. Assign a faithful guardian angel to Your people, gather everyone into Your Kingdom. Grant forgiveness to those who trust in You: forgive them and our sins. Cleanse us through the action of Your Holy Spirit: destroy the machinations of the enemy even against us.
Most pure, undefiled, without beginning, invisible, incomprehensible, unsearchable, unfailing, invincible, innumerable, gentle Lord, who alone has immortality, in the living unapproachable light: having created heaven and earth, and the sea, and everything created on them, ask first, give petitions to everyone, We pray to You, and we ask You, Lord, Lover of Mankind, Father of the Lord and God and our Savior Jesus Christ, for us for the sake of men, and for our salvation, who came down from heaven, and was incarnated by the Holy Spirit and the Ever-Virgin Mary, and the Most Glorious Mother of God: Who first taught words, and then showed deeds, when he endured the saving passion, gave us a signature as a humble, and sinful, and unworthy slave To Yours, bring prayers to You, on our knees and knees, about our sins and about human ignorance.
Most merciful and most loving of mankind, hear us, even more often on this fiftieth day, after the Ascension of our Lord Jesus Christ into heaven, and when God and the Father sat at Your right hand, He sent down the Holy Spirit upon His holy disciples and apostles, Who also sat upon one of theirs, and all was fulfilled. His inexhaustible grace, and speaking in tongues of Your greatness, and prophesying. Now, as we pray to You, hear us, and remember us, the humble and condemned, and return the captivity of our souls, having Your mercy prayed for us. Receive us who fall to You and cry out: we have sinned, we have been committed to You from the womb, from the womb of our mother, You are our God. But as if our days had disappeared in the vanity, we were exposed to Your help, deprived of any answer, but boldly in Your bounty, we call: do not remember the sins of our youth and ignorance, and cleanse us from our secrets, and do not reject us in our old age, when our strength becomes impoverished: do not leave us, before we even return to the earth, grant us the honor to return to You, and grant us favor and grace.
Measure our iniquities with Your bounties, set the abyss of Your bounty against the multitude of our sins. Look down from Thy holy height, O Lord, upon Thy people who are coming, and upon those who expect rich mercies from Thee. Visit us with Your goodness, deliver us from the violence of the devil: confirm our life with Your holy and sacred laws. Assign a faithful guardian angel to Your people, gather everyone into Your Kingdom. Grant forgiveness to those who trust in You: forgive them and our sins. Cleanse us through the action of Your Holy Spirit: destroy the machinations of the enemy even against us.
Ἐπισυνάπτει καὶ ταύτην τὴν Εὐχὴν
Εὐλογητὸς εἶ, Κύριε, Δέσποτα παντοκράτορ, ὁ φωτίσας τὴν ἡμέραν τῷ φωτὶ τῷ ἡλιακῷ, καὶ τὴν νύκτα φαιδρύνας ταῖς αὐγαῖς τοῦ πυρός, ὁ τὸ μῆκος τῆς ἡμέρας διελθεῖν ἡμᾶς καταξιώσας, καὶ προσεγγίσαι ταῖς ἀρχαῖς τῆς νυκτός ἐπάκουσον τῆς δεήσεως ἡμῶν, καὶ παντὸς τοῦ λαοῦ σου, καὶ πᾶσιν ἡμῖν συγχωρήσας τὰ ἑκούσια καὶ τὰ ἀκούσια ἁμαρτήματα, πρόσδεξαι τὰς ἑσπερινας ἡμῶν ἱκεσίας, καὶ κατάπεμψον τὸ πλῆθος τοῦ ἐλέους σου καὶ τῶν οἰκτιρμῶν σου ἐπὶ τὴν κληρονομίαν σου. Τείχισον ἡμᾶς ἁγίοις Ἀγγέλοις σου, ὅπλισον ἡμᾶς ὅπλοις δικαιοσύνοις σου, περιχαράκωσον ἡμᾶς τῇ ἀληθείᾳ σου, φρούρησον ἡμᾶς τῇ δυνάμει σου, ῥῦσαι ἡμᾶς ἐκ πάσης περιστάσεως, καὶ πάσης ἐπιβουλῆς τοῦ ἀντικειμένου. All rights reserved. νυκτί, τελείαν, ἁγίαν, εἰρηνικήν, ἀναμάρτητον, ἀσκανδάλιστον, ἀφάνταστον, καὶ πάσας τὰς ἡμέρας τῆς ζωῆς ἡμῶν πρεσβείαις τῆς ἁγίάς Θεοτόκου, καὶ πάντων τῶν Ἁγίων τῶν ἀπ’ αἰῶνός σοι εὐαρεστησάντων.
He also adds this prayer:
Blessed are you, Lord, Master Almighty, who enlightened the day with the light of the sun, and illuminated the night with fiery dawns, making us worthy of the length of the day, and drawing near with the firstfruits of the night: hear our prayers, and all Your people, and forgive us all our voluntary and involuntary sins. Accept our evening prayers, and send down a multitude of Thy mercy and Thy bounty upon Thy property. Shade us with Thy holy angels, arm us with the weapons of Thy righteousness, protect us with Thy truth, protect us with Thy power, deliver us from every situation, every slander that lies against us. Grant us the present evening, with the coming night, perfect, holy, peaceful, sinless, without temptation, dreamless, and all the days of our life: through the prayers of the Holy Mother of God, and all the saints from the ages who have pleased You.
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