Master Lord Jesus Christ, our God, the Source of life and immortality, all creatures, visible and invisible, to the Creator, the beginningless Father, co-existent with the Son and co-meaning, much for the sake of goodness in the last days, clothed yourself in flesh, and crucified, and buried for us, ungrateful and malicious, and with your blood renewing the corrupted Our nature is sin, O Immortal King Himself, accept my sinful repentance, and incline Your ear to me, and hear my words. For I have sinned, Lord, I have sinned in heaven and before You, and I am not worthy to look upon the height of Your glory: for I have angered Your goodness, having transgressed Your commandments, and not having obeyed Your commands. But You, Lord, are gentle, long-suffering and abundantly merciful, and did not let me perish with my iniquities, waiting for my conversion in every possible way. For Thou art, O Lover of mankind, Thy prophet: for by will I do not desire the death of a sinner, but rather that he should turn and live.
You do not want, Master, to destroy your creation by hand, and you are pleased with the destruction of mankind, but you want to save everyone, and come to the understanding of the truth. Moreover, I am, even though I am unworthy of heaven and earth, and have sowed temporary lives, having subjected myself to sin, and enslaved myself with sweets, and desecrated Your image; but Thy creation and creation have been, I do not despair of my salvation, the accursed one, but daring and coming to Your immeasurable compassion. Accept me too, O Lord who loves mankind, as a harlot, as a thief, as a publican and as a prodigal, and take away my heavy burden of sins, take away sin He heals the world and the infirmities of men, calls the toiling and burdened to Himself and gives them rest, not coming to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
And cleanse me from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, and teach me to perform holiness in Thy passion: for with the clear knowledge of my conscience, Thy holy things are part of Having received, I am united to Your holy Body and Blood, and I have You living and abiding in me, with the Father and Your Holy Spirit. Hey, Lord Jesus Christ, my God, and may the communion of your most pure and life-giving Mysteries not be a judgment upon me; let me be weak in soul and body, for that is unworthy therefore receive communion, but grant me, even until my final breath, to uncondemnably receive part of Your holy things, in communion with the Holy Spirit, in the path of the eternal life, and in a favorable answer at Thy Last Judgment: for I, and I, with all Thy chosen ones, will share in Thy incorruptible blessings, which Thou hast prepared for those who love Thee, O Lord, Herewith art thou glorified forever. Amen.
Prayer 2 of St. John Chrysostom
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 did not fail to listen and shine from the sinners in the house of Simon the leper, so deign to come 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
Prayer 3, Saint Simeon Metaphrastus
O Lord alone, pure and incorruptible, for the ineffable mercy of our love for mankind, we have received all the mixture, from pure and virgin blood, more than the nature that gave birth to Thee, the Divine Spirit by the invasion and favor of the ever-present Father, Christ Jesus, the wisdom of God, and peace, and power; By your perception of life-giving and saving suffering perceived, cross, nails, spear, death, put to death my soul-destroying bodily passions. By Your burial, O captive kingdom of hell, bury my good thoughts, evil counsels, and destroy the wicked spirits. By Thy three-day and life-giving resurrection of the fallen forefather, raise up me by the sin that has crawled, offering me images of repentance. Through Your glorious ascension, the carnal perception of God, and through the graying of the Father’s gums, grant me, through the communion of Your holy Mysteries, to receive a portion of those saved.
Through the revelation of Your Comforter Spirit, the holy vessels of Your disciples have been made, friend and show me that coming. Although you come again to judge the universal truth, deign me also to place You on the clouds, my Judge and Creator, with all Your saints: may I endlessly glorify and glorify You, with Your beginningless Father, and Your Most Holy and Good and Life-giving Spirit, now and ever, and unto the ages of ages. Amen.
Prayer 4, St. John of Damascus
Master Lord Jesus Christ, our God, who alone has the power to forgive man’s sins, for he is good and the Lover of mankind, despise all sins in knowledge and in ignorance, and Grant me to uncondemnably partake of Your Divine, and glorious, and most pure, and life-giving Mysteries, not into burden, nor into torment, nor into the addition of sins, but for cleansing, and sanctification, and the betrothal of the future life and the kingdom, for the wall and help, and for the objection of those who oppose, for the destruction of many of my sins. For You are the God of mercy, and generosity, and love for mankind, and to You we ascribe glory, with the Father and the Holy Spirit, now and ever, and to the ages of ages. Amen.
Prayer 5, St. Basil the Great