992. I thank You, Lord, for you grant me new life every time I perform the Divine Liturgy with tears of repentance and gratitude and partake of Your most pure and life-giving Mysteries. To Your Holy Mysteries I owe hitherto the continuation of my existence, the integrity of my ways and good glory among Your people. May Thy great name be hallowed more and more in me and in all Thy people, and upon them Thy holy name is called, and throughout Thy whole world; May Your Kingdom come, the kingdom of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit, into all our hearts, as You have said: I will dwell in them and walk in them, and will be a Father to them, and they will be My sons and daughters (2 Cor. 6:16, 18 (Lev. 26:12; Jer. 3:19)), and may Your holy, wise, all-good will be done, all-perfect, all-blessed, as in heaven and on earth in all Your people, and in me, a sinner, for our own will is erroneous, short-sighted, sinful, disastrous, unloving, evil, envious, proud, lazy, luxurious, money-loving, stingy.
1003. What a wealth of light, air, water, earth, fire the Lord has - these five elements of matter from which our body is composed and with which it lives! What a wealth of products of earth and water, and all of this is primarily used by man, the king of creation! Thanks to You, our Creator! Glory to Thee, our Provider and Redeemer, who created us in His image and likeness and deigned to take upon Himself our nature!
1010. Lord! allow me to extend to You prayers for the whole world and for all the fulfillment of the Church always with all-encompassing love, unfeignedly, for I, by Thy grace, am a prayer book for everyone and for my sins. Grant me, O Lord God the Father, to contemplate Your ineffable love for the world, which has given us Your beloved, only-begotten Son. Grant me, God, Son of God, to contemplate Your exhaustion in the world and on our cross for the sake of salvation; grant me, God, Holy Soul, to contemplate Your grace, abundantly poured out and poured out upon the world for the sake of the merits of the Lord Jesus Christ, which so often fulfills my accursed heart; Holy Trinity, grant me to glorify You unceasingly with my heart and lips, and even more so with my deeds.
1025. ...Glory to Thee, all-good, wise and all-powerful Artist!
1026. Oh, my invisible Benefactor, by whom I constantly live! You, who listen to me, fulfill the good desires of my heart, save me from my sins, from the villainy of invisible enemies, You, who improve my destiny, my enlightenment, my help, my glory, my strength, my confirmation, when will I see You? When will I see my Benefactor and Creator face to face?
1027. What do I need? I don’t need anything on earth except the bare necessities. What do I need? I need the Lord, I need His grace, His Kingdom is in me. On earth, the place of my wandering, my temporary training, there is nothing that is mine, everything is God’s and everything is temporary, assigned to my temporary services; My excesses are the property of those who have no neighbors. What do I need? I need true, Christian, tenacious, active love, I need a loving, pitying heart for my neighbors, I need joy about their contentment and well-being, sorrow about their sorrows and illnesses, about their sins, weaknesses, disorders, shortcomings, misfortunes, poverty; they need warm, sincere sympathy in all circumstances of their lives, joy with those who rejoice and weeping with those who cry. Give full room to pride, selfishness, try to live only for yourself and attract everything only to yourself: wealth, sweets, and the glory of this world, and not live, but die, not rejoice, but suffer, carrying the poison of self-love within yourself, for self-love is the poison constantly poured into our hearts by Belial.
Oh, let me exclaim with the psalmist: what do we have in heaven, and what do we desire from You on earth? My heart and my flesh are gone, O God of my heart, and my portion God forever (Ps. 73:25, 26). Lord, witness of my heart, the movement of it and these lines! Give me this that I ask of You! From me this is impossible, but all things are possible with You (Mark 10:27). Give me true life, dispel the darkness of passions, enliven their power with Your power!
1033. Lord! We bring the saints to You in prayer for us, these spiritual incense, this myrrh of Your aromas! Accept their prayers, fragrant with love and purity, for us and deliver us from the stench of sin, for our hearts are unclean and our lips are unclean, and we are unworthy of the sweetest conversation with You. Everything in us is earthly, corruptible, nasty, evil, and they, Your saints, are the purest myrrh, - especially Your Most Pure Mother, Your animated, luminous chamber, the purest of the luminaries of the sun, the most fragrant of all aromas, for heaven and earth are full of the fragrance of Her holiness, Her divine virtues.
1038. ...Lord, have mercy on us, have mercy on humanity!
1041. Oh, how bitter were my sins for You, Christ my Savior, my God, when You were strangled, beaten, spat on, Your head was pierced with thorns and nailed to the cross - when You hung on the cross in unspeakable torment for my sake, delivering me from the bitterest, indescribable torments of hell! But I should remember this self-exhaustion of Yours, this torment of Yours more often, so as not to commit sins and diligently perform every virtue, to love You with all my heart, to fulfill Your saving commandments! Meanwhile, I often forget this terrible sacrifice made for me by the Son of the Heavenly Father, the only begotten, co-originating, co-essential. Grant me, O Lord, a pure heart and unchanging repentance for salvation, grant me the rest of my life to please You!
1044. Lord! I thank You with all my heart, for You have saved me countless times from dishonor, violence, the cruelty of passions and extinguished the arrows of the evil one that kindled in me and protected my soul with peace and cooled me with the dew of Your grace. Glory to You, Most Merciful and All-Powerful, for until now by Your grace I remain safe and sound, despite the countless treacheries of invisible and all-evil enemies over me, seeking to devour me. We know, Lord, that you have delivered me from all their snares and slander and saved me, in the image of destinies, into Your Heavenly Kingdom, and not only me, but also all those who live piously and are slandered from the spirits of evil: for it is Yours to have mercy and save those who want and even those who do not want to be saved. Either I want, it is said, or I don’t want, save me (the prayer of eternity of St. John of Damascus)!
1052. ...Lord and Master of my life, grant the spirit of love to me, Thy servant!
1087. ...Glory to Thee, Holy and Consubstantial, and Life-Giving, and Indivisible Trinity (look at the great eternity)! Holy Trinity! teach me to despise everything earthly, teach me to place peace, contentment, bliss in You alone! And so as not to make me proud, because of the gracious attention of the Most Holy Trinity to me and the salvation She gives me, let me remember that She graciously listens to every worm, every chick. I also remember that some Christians, who have created many powers in the name of God, will one day hear from the Lord the words: Depart from Me, I know you not (Matthew 7:23; 25:12), for your unevangelical life. Holy Trinity! save me from pride and teach me humility! You kindly and quickly listen to me and save me; I can be proud of this mercy. To turn your endless goodness and mercy into an excuse for self-praise, supposedly I myself was worthy of such attention, as having done some good! Cover me, most merciful Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Soul, with Your shelter from all sin.