From unclean lips, from a vile heart, from an unclean tongue, from a soul defiled, accept prayer, my Christ, and do not despise my words, below images, below lack of understanding. Let me boldly say what I want, my Christ, and teach me what it is right for me to do and say.
Having sinned more than the harlot, even though I knew where you were, having bought the ointment, I came boldly to anoint Your nose, my God, my Master and Christ. Even though you did not reject the one who came from your heart, abhor me below, the Word: Give yours to my nose, and hold and kiss, and with streams of tears, as if they are so valuable with peace, boldly anoint this. Wash me with my tears, cleanse me with them, the Word. Forgive my sins and grant me forgiveness.
Weigh many evils, weigh my scabs and see my wounds, but also weigh my faith, see my will, and hear my groaning. It is not hidden to You, my God, my Creator, my Savior, below is a drop of tears, below the drop is a certain part. Thy eyes have seen my undone work, and in Thy book the essence of what has not yet been done is written to You.
See my humility, see my labor, and forgive me all my sins, O God of all: let a pure heart, a reverent thought, and a contrite soul, Thy undefiled I will partake of the Most Holy Mysteries, in which everyone who eats and drinks with a pure heart is revived and adored; For you have said, my Lord: whoever eats My Flesh and drinks My Blood, he abides in Me, and in Him I am. Truly is the word of all my Lord and God: partake of the divine and adoring graces, not because I am one, but with You, my Christ, the Trisunlar Light, enlightening the world. May I not abide alone except You, the Giver of Life, my breath, my belly, my joy, the salvation of the world.
For this reason, I come to You, as I have seen, with tears, and with a contrite soul, I ask you to accept the deliverance of my sins, and to partake of Your life-giving and immaculate Sacraments without condemnation, may you abide, as you did, with me, the three-repentant: may I not find Thy grace, may the deceiver delight me more flatteringly, and deceivingly lead away those who idolize Your words. For this reason I fall down to You and cry out to You warmly: just as You received the prodigal and the harlot who came, so receive the meat of the prodigal and the filthy, Generous.
With a contrite soul, now coming to You, O Savior, as another, like I, do not sin against You, below the deeds I committed. But we know this again, because it is not the greatness of sins, nor the multitude of sins that exceeds my God’s long-suffering, and extreme love for mankind; but with the mercy of warmly repentant compassion, and cleanses, and brightens, and creates light, the participants, the commoners of Your Divinity, do unenviously, and strange things both with Angels and with humans We think and talk to them many times, as if we were Your true friend. This is the boldness they create for me, this is the one who trusts me, my Christ.
And daring in Thy rich kindness to us, rejoicing and trembling together, the grass partakes of the fire, and, strangely, we water it without burning, just as the bush of old not burning.
Now with a grateful thought, with a grateful heart, with grateful hands, my soul and my body, I worship and magnify and praise Thee, my God, for blessed is the being, now and forever.