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To: Salvation; Mad Dawg; big'ol_freeper; Judith Anne

Prayer of +Ephraim the Syrian prayed by the community at church in the evening throughout Great and Holy Lent

Κύριε καὶ Δέσποτα τῆς ζωῆς μου, πνεῦμα ἀργίας, περιεργίας, φιλαρχίας, καὶ ἀργολογίας μή μοι δῷς.

Πνεῦμα δὲ σωφροσύνης, ταπεινοφροσύνης, ὑπομονῆς, καὶ ἀγάπης χάρισαί μοι τῷ σῷ δούλῳ.

Ναί, Κύριε Βασιλεῦ, δώρησαι μοι τοῦ ὁρᾶν τὰ ἐμὰ πταίσματα, καὶ μὴ κατακρίνειν τὸν ἀδελφόν μου, ὅτι εὐλογητὸς εἶ, εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας τῶν αἰώνων. Ἀμήν.

This is:

O Lord and Master of my life, give me not the spirit of sloth, idle curiosity, lust for power and idle talk. [Full prostration]

But grant unto me, Thy servant, a spirit of chastity, humility, patience and love.[Full prostration]

Yea, O Lord and King, grant me to see mine own faults and not to judge my brother. For blessed art Thou unto the ages of ages. Amen.[Full prostration]

1,279 posted on 03/05/2011 5:16:49 PM PST by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated)

To: Kolokotronis

That is a beautiful prayer.

Sorry I can’t do the full prostration, though. I’d never be able to get up off the floor.

1,280 posted on 03/05/2011 5:42:20 PM PST by Palladin (Obama, go back to Hawaii! Better yet, go back to Kenya!!)

To: Kolokotronis

That is a wonderful prayer, full of the humility of Christ. Well worth devoting oneself to.

1,281 posted on 03/05/2011 6:01:02 PM PST by big'ol_freeper ("[T]here is nothing so aggravating [in life] as being condescended to by an idiot" ~ Ann Coulter)

To: Kolokotronis

σωφροσύνης is (of) chastity? I would have guessed "temperance"or moderation.

I love learning when I'm wrong.

1,282 posted on 03/05/2011 9:13:33 PM PST by Mad Dawg (Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.)

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