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Моли́тва 2-я, свт. Иоа́нна Златоустого (†407)

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Lord my God, we know that I am not worthy, I am pleased below, and you will bring my soul under the roof of the church of my soul, for all is empty and fallen, and there is no place in me She is worthy even of bowing her head: but just as from on high you humbled yourself for our sake, humble yourself now to my humility; and as you received in the den and in the wordless manger of those who reclined, let us also take in the wordless manger my soul, and bring it into my defiled body.

And just as you were not deigned to enter and shine a light from the sinners in the house of Simon the leper, so deign to enter into the house of my humble soul, lepers and sinners; and even though you did not reject a harlot and a sinner like me, who came and touched You, you were also compassionate about me, a sinner, who came and touched You; And just as you did not abhor the foul and unclean lips that kissed You, below mine, abhor the foul and unclean lips, below my vile and unclean walls, and my foul and unclean tongue.

But may the coal of Your Most Holy Body and Your honest Blood be for the sanctification and enlightenment and health of my humble soul and body, for the alleviation of the burdens of my many sins, in keeping from all the devil's actions, in driving away and forbidding my evil and evil custom, in mortifying passions, in supplying Your commandments, in the application of the Divine Your grace, and Your Kingdom's appropriation.

I do not come to You despisingly, O Christ God, but because I am bold in Your ineffable goodness, and let me not withdraw from Your fellowship, I will be hunted down by the mental wolf. Moreover, I pray to You: for you alone are Holy, Master, sanctify my soul and body, mind and heart, wombs and wombs, and renew me in all things, and instill fear Thine is in my lands, and Thy sanctification is inseparable from me; and be my helper and intercessor, nourishing my life in the world, making me worthy and at Your right hand to stand with Your saints, through the prayers and supplications of Your Most Pure One Mother, Your immaterial servants and most pure powers, and all the saints who have pleased You from time immemorial. Amen

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