We know, Lord, that I am unworthy to partake of Your most pure Body and Your honorable Blood, and I am guilty, and I judge myself to eat and drink, without discussing the Body and Blood of Christ and You. My God, but in Thy bounty I boldly come to Thee, who said: Eat My flesh, and drink My blood, abides in Me, and I am in him. Be merciful, O Lord, and do not expose me as a sinner, but deal with me according to Your mercy; and may this holy light be unto me for healing, and purification, and enlightenment, and preservation, and salvation, and for the sanctification of soul and body; to drive away every dream, and evil deed, and the work of the devil, acting mentally in my lands, into boldness and love, even towards You; for the correction of life and affirmation, for the restoration of virtue and perfection; in fulfillment of the commandments, in communion with the Holy Spirit, in the direction of the eternal life, in response to Thy Last Judgment: not into judgment or condemnation.
Prayer 6, Saint Simeon the New Theologian
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 he did not reject you who came from your heart, abhor me below, the Word: Thy give 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.
Prayer 7, St. John Chrysostom
God, weaken, forgive, forgive me my sins, if you have sinned, whether in word, whether in deed, whether in thought, willfully or unwillingly, by reason or foolishness, all Forgive me, as I am good and a lover of mankind, and through the prayers of Your Most Pure Mother, Your wise servants and holy powers, and all the saints from the ages who have pleased You, without condemnation deign to accept Your holy and most pure Body and honorable Blood for the healing of soul and body, and for the cleansing of my evil thoughts. For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory, with the Father and the Holy Spirit, now and forever, and to the ages of ages. Amen.
His same, 8th
I am not pleased, Master Lord, may you come under the roof of my soul; but even though You, as the Lover of Mankind, want to live in me, I dare to approach; You command that I open the doors that You alone created, and come in with love for mankind, as you do, come into and enlighten my darkened thoughts. I believe that you did this: you did not drive away the harlot who came to You with tears; below the publican you rejected you, having repented; below the thief, having known Thy Kingdom, Thou didst drive away; Below the persecutor, you left the repentant, who was born: but from repentance you who came to you, in the person of your friends, you made all your friends, the only blessed son is always, now and forever eyelids. Amen.
His same, 9th
Lord Jesus Christ my God, weaken, forgive, cleanse and forgive me, a sinner, and an unworthy, and unworthy servant of Thy, my trespasses, and transgressions, and my fall from grace, O Lord Ti. from my youth, even to this day and hour, I have sinned: both in reason and in foolishness, and in words or deeds, or thoughts and thoughts, and undertakings, and all my feelings.
And through the prayers of thee, the Most Pure and Ever-Virgin Mary, Thy Mother, without seed, who gave birth to the only unshameful hope and intercession and salvation of my life, grant me uncondemned to partake of Your most pure, immortal, life-giving and terrible Mysteries, for the remission of sins and eternal life: for sanctification, and enlightenment, strength, healing, and health of the soul and body, and for the consumption and complete destruction of my evil thoughts, and thoughts, and enterprises, and nightly dreams, dark and crafty spirits; For Yours is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, and the honor, and the worship, with the Father and Your Holy Spirit, now and forever, and to the ages of ages. Amen.
Prayer 10, St. John of Damascus
I stand before the doors of Your church, and I do not retreat from evil thoughts; but You, Christ God, justified the publican, and had mercy on the Canaanites, and opened the doors of paradise to the thief, open for me the womb of Your love for mankind and receive me coming and touching You, like a harlot and one who has a problem with blood, have touched the hem of Your robe and received healing, and have held Your most pure souls and received the remission of sins. But I, the accursed one, dare to perceive Your entire Body, so that I will not be scorched; but accept me as they do, and enlighten my spiritual feelings, burning away my sinful guilt, with the prayers of the seedless One who gave birth to You, and the Heavenly powers; for blessed art thou unto the ages of ages. Amen.
Prayer of St. John Chrysostom