Canon of St. Andrei Kritsky on WEDNESDAY + audio
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On Wednesday of the 1st week of Great Lent, the Great Canon of St. Andrew of Crete continues to be read in churches. Not everyone has the fortunate opportunity to visit the temple of God on this holy evening. And those who visited the temple often have a desire to prolong the wonderful fast chants.
below published (from the Moscow Sretensky Monastery) with the reading of the Great Penitential Canon, which was read on Wednesday of the first week of Great Lent, will fill our mind with a prayerful mood.
Archimandrite Tikhon (Shevkunov) reads the canon . Two choirs sing: the choir of the Sretensky Monastery and the choir of the Sretensky Theological Seminary.
Canon of St. Andrei Kritsky on THURSDAY
Text of the Great Canon of Repentance, read on WEDNESDAY
Canto 1
Irmos: This is my God, Helper and Protector, and I will glorify Him, God of my Father, and I will exalt Him: gloriously have I been glorified.
Chorus: Have mercy on me, God, have mercy on me.
From my youth, O Christ, I transgressed Thy commandments, was passionately negligent, and passed away my life with despondency. I also call You, Savior: save me in the end.
Have mercy on me, God, have mercy on me.
I am cast down, O Savior, before Thy gates; in my old age, do not cast me aside into hell, but before the end, as a Lover of Mankind, grant me remission of my sins.
Have mercy on me, God, have mercy on me.
My wealth, O Savior, having been exhausted in fornication, I am empty of the fruits of the pious, but I am greedy, calling: Father of generosity, having given me beforehand, Thou art generous to me.
Have mercy on me, God, have mercy on me.
I have fallen into the thieves of my thoughts; now I am all wounded by them and filled with wounds, but having presented myself to you, Christ the Savior healed me.
Have mercy on me, God, have mercy on me.
The priest, foreseeing me, passed by, and the Levite, seeing me in the cruel nakedness, despised me, but Jesus, who appeared from Mary, appeared and showed mercy to me.
Chorus: Reverend Mother Mary, pray to God for us.
Grant me luminous grace from the Divine providence from above to avoid the passions of darkness and to diligently sing Thy, Mary, red life correction.
Glory: Presence of the Trinity, worshiped in Unity, take away from me the heavy burden of sin and, as you are gracious, give me tears of tenderness.
And now: Mother of God, Hope and Intercession of You who sing, take away from me the heavy sinful burden, and, like the Pure Lady, repentant, accept me.
Song 2
Irmos: Look, O Heaven, and I will speak and sing of Christ, who came in the flesh from the Virgin.
Have mercy on me, God, have mercy on me.
Like David, I crawled about fornication and became defiled, but I was also washed, O Savior, with tears.
Have mercy on me, God, have mercy on me.
No tears, below repentance imam, below tenderness. This is my self, Savior, as God, grant.
Have mercy on me, God, have mercy on me.
I have destroyed my pristine goodness and splendor and now I lie naked and ashamed.
Have mercy on me, God, have mercy on me.
Do not close Your door to me then, O Lord, Lord, but open this door to me who repents to You.
Have mercy on me, God, have mercy on me.
Inspire the sighing of my soul and receive the drops before my eyes, O Savior, and save me.
Have mercy on me, God, have mercy on me.
Lover of humanity, if you want everyone to be saved, call me and accept me as a good one who repents.
Chorus: Most Holy Theotokos, save us.
Most Pure Virgin Mary, One All-Singing One, pray diligently that we may be saved.
Another irmos: You see, you see, for I am God, who rained down manna and poured out water from stones of old in the desert by My people, by My one right hand and by My strength.
Have mercy on me, God, have mercy on me.
You see, you see, for I am God, inspire my soul to cry out to the Lord, and flee from former sin, and fear as the unwashed and as the Judge and God.
Have mercy on me, God, have mercy on me.
You see, you see, for I am God, inspire my soul to cry out to the Lord, and flee from former sin, and fear as the unwashed and as the Judge and God.
Have mercy on me, God, have mercy on me.
Having transgressed everything before the law, about the soul, you did not resemble Seth, nor did you imitate Enos, nor did you imitate Enoch, nor Noah, but you appeared in the wretchedness of the righteous life.
Have mercy on me, God, have mercy on me.
You alone opened the abyss of the wrath of Thy God, my soul, and you drowned all, like the earth, flesh, deeds, and life, and you remained outside the ark of salvation.
Chorus: Reverend Mother Mary, pray to God for us.
With all your zeal and love you flowed to Christ, turning away the first path of sin, feeding in impenetrable deserts, and fulfilling His Divine commandments purely.
Glory: Beginningless, Uncreated Trinity, Indivisible Unity, accept me when I repent, save me when I have sinned, I am your creation, do not despise me, but have mercy and deliver me from my fiery condemnation.
And now: Most Pure Lady, Mother of God, the Hope of those who flow to You and the refuge of those in the storm, the Merciful and Creator and Your Son, propitiate me with Your prayers.
Song 3
Irmos: Establish, O Lord, my heart, which has moved upon the rock of Your commandments, for You alone are Holy and Lord.
Have mercy on me, God, have mercy on me.
You did not inherit the blessing of Simova, you damned soul, nor did you have a vast possession, like Japheth, you had abandonment on earth.
Have mercy on me, God, have mercy on me.
From the land of Harran, come from sin, my soul, come to the land that wears out the ever-animal incorruptibility that Abraham inherited.
Have mercy on me, God, have mercy on me.
You heard Abraham, my soul, having long ago left the land of your fatherland and being a stranger, imitate this will.
Have mercy on me, God, have mercy on me.
At the oak of Mamre, the angels established the patriarch, inheriting the promises of catching in old age.
Have mercy on me, God, have mercy on me.
Isaac, my accursed soul, understanding the new sacrifice, secretly burnt offering to the Lord, imitate his will.
Have mercy on me, God, have mercy on me.
You heard Ismaila, sober up, my soul, expelled, like the birth of a slave, see, but it’s not like you suffered, you are kind-hearted.
Chorus: Reverend Mother Mary, pray to God for us.
I am contained by the storm and anxiety of sins, but now save me, mother, and lead me to the haven of Divine repentance.
Reverend Mother Mary, pray to God for us.
Slave prayer and now, venerable one, having brought the Mother of God with your prayers to the Mother of God, open for me the Divine entrances.
Glory: To the Trinity, Simple, Uncreated, Originless Nature, sung in the Trinity by the Hypostasis, save us, who worship Thy power by faith.
And now: From the flightless Father, in summer, to the Mother of God, you gave birth to the Mother of God, a strange miracle, the Virgin remained milking.
Song 4
Irmos: The prophet heard Thy coming, O Lord, and feared, for Thou wouldst be born of a virgin and appear as a man, and said: I heard Thy hearing and feared, glory to Thy power, O Lord.
Have mercy on me, God, have mercy on me.
The body has become defiled, the spirit has become scalded, it has become all raw, but like a doctor, Christ, heal both of them with my repentance, wash them, cleanse them, show them, my Savior, purer than snow.
Have mercy on me, God, have mercy on me.
Thou hast laid Thy body and blood, crucified for all, unto the Word: O body, that thou mayest renew me; blood, that thou mayest wash me. Thou hast given up the spirit, that thou mayest bring me, O Christ, Thy Parent.
Have mercy on me, God, have mercy on me.
Thou hast made salvation in the midst of the earth, O Generous One, that we may be saved. By your will You were crucified on the tree, We are moving, closed and opened, the creatures above and below, all the pagans, saved, worship You.
Have mercy on me, God, have mercy on me.
Let the blood from Your side be a font for me, together with the drink that has flowed from the water of abandonment, so that I may be cleansed by both, anointing and drinking, like anointing and drinking, the Word, life-giving of Your words.
Have mercy on me, God, have mercy on me.
The cup of the Church is a treasure, Thy life-giving ribs, from which flow for us the currents of abandonment and reason into the image of the ancient and the new, two covenants together, our Savior.
Have mercy on me, God, have mercy on me.
Naked am I of the palace, naked am I of the marriage, naked of the feast and of the supper; The lamp is extinguished, like an oilless mansion, the palace is enclosed in my sleep, the supper is consumed, I am bound hand and foot, I am cast out.
Glory: Undivided in Being, Unfused in the Person of the theologian Thee, the Trinity One Divinity, as the One-King and Co-Altar, I cry out to Thee a great song, in the highest, hymn-worthy.
And now: And you give birth, and you are virgin, and you are both by the nature of a Virgin, When you are born, you renew the laws of nature, but the womb that does not give birth gives birth.
Where God wants, the order of nature is overcome: He does whatever He wants. Song 5
Irmos: From the morning night, O Lover of mankind, enlighten me, I pray, and guide me in Thy commandments, and teach me, O Savior, to do Thy will.
Have mercy on me, God, have mercy on me.
Like a heavy disposition, the bitter Pharaoh was, Master, Ianni and Jambri, soul and body, and immersed in mind, but help me.
Have mercy on me, God, have mercy on me.
Mixed with feces, the accursed one, washed me with my mind, Master, in the bath of my tears, I pray to Thee, making my flesh white as snow.
Have mercy on me, God, have mercy on me.
If I test my deeds, O Savior, I see every person who has exceeded his own sins, as if he is wise with reason, who have sinned not through ignorance.
Have mercy on me, God, have mercy on me.
Have mercy, have mercy, O Lord, Thy creation, weaken those who have sinned, for by His pure nature He Himself is One, and is there no one else for You but defilement.
Have mercy on me, God, have mercy on me.
For my sake, this God, you imagined yourself in me, you showed miracles, healing lepers and tightening the weak, stopping the bleeding current, O Savior, with the touch of your vestments.
Chorus: Reverend Mother Mary, pray to God for us.
Having passed through the streams of the Jordan, you found painless peace, having escaped the pleasures of the flesh, even if you healed us with your prayers, venerable one.
Glory: To Thee, Trinity, we glorify the One God: Holy, Holy, Holy art thou, Father, Son and Soul, Simple Being, ever worshiped Unity.
And now: From You put on my mixture, incorruptible, husbandless Mother Virgin, God, who created the eyelids, and united to Yourself human nature.
Song 6
Irmos: I cried out with all my heart to the generous God, and heard me from the underworld, and raised my belly from aphids.
Have mercy on me, God, have mercy on me.
Arise and overcome, like Jesus Amalek, carnal passions, and the Gibeonites, flattering thoughts, ever victorious.
Have mercy on me, God, have mercy on me.
Pass over, the flowing nature of time, as before the ark, and wake up these lands in the possession of the promise, the soul, God commands.
Have mercy on me, God, have mercy on me.
For Thou didst save Peter by crying out, save, having preceded me, Savior, deliver from the beast, stretch out Thy hand, and bring him up from the depths of sin.
Have mercy on me, God, have mercy on me.
We are your comforting refuge, Master, Master Christ, but first deliver me from the unquenchable depths of sin and despair.
Glory: The Trinity is Simple, Indivisible, separate and Personal, and the Unity is united by nature, the Father speaks, and the Son, and the Divine Spirit.
And now: Thy Womb of God give birth to us, imagined for us: Him, as the Creator of all, pray to the Mother of God, that through Thy prayers we may be justified.
Lord have mercy (three times).
Glory, and now:
Kontakion, tone 6:
My soul, my soul, arise, what are you writing off?
The end is approaching, and you will be embarrassed: rise up, so that Christ God, who is everywhere and fulfills everything, will have mercy on you. Song 7
Irmos: We have sinned, we have sinned, we have acted untruthfully before You, we have been inferior to observance, inferior to those who have done what You commanded us; but do not betray us to the end, Fathers God.
Have mercy on me, God, have mercy on me.
Manasseh collected sins by will, setting them up as abominations of passion and multiplying indignation in the soul, but zealous for repentance with warmth, gaining tenderness.
Have mercy on me, God, have mercy on me.
You were jealous of Achaab's filth, my soul, alas for me, you were the abode of carnal filth and the vessel of shameful passions, but from your depths sigh and tell God your sins.
Have mercy on me, God, have mercy on me.
May heaven enclose you, my soul, and the famine of God come upon you, when Elijah the Tishbite, like Achaab, sometimes did not submit to words, but became like Saraffia, nourish the prophesied soul.
Have mercy on me, God, have mercy on me.
Elijah sometimes fell to two fifty Jezebels, when the cold prophets were destroyed, in reproof of Ahaav, but follow the example of the two, soul, and be strengthened.
Glory: To the Trinity, Simple, Indivisible, Consubstantial and One Nature, Light and Light, and Holy Three, and One Holy, God the Trinity is sung; but sing, glorify the Belly and Belly, the soul, all of God.
And now: We sing to Thee, we bless Thee, we worship Thee, the Mother of God, for Thou hast given birth to the Indivisible Trinity of the One Christ God, and Thou hast Herself opened the Heavenly One to us who are on earth.
Song 8
Irmos: Whom the armies of Heaven praise, and tremble with cherubim and seraphim, every breath and creature, sing, bless and exalt to all ages.
Have mercy on me, God, have mercy on me.
Justice of the Savior, have mercy and deliver me from the fire and rebuke that the Imam righteously endure at the trial; weaken me before the end with virtue and repentance.
Have mercy on me, God, have mercy on me.
Like a robber, I cry to You: remember me; Like Peter, I cry to the mountaineer: weaken me, Savior; I call like a publican, I cry like a harlot; accept my weeping, as sometimes the Canaanites do.
Have mercy on me, God, have mercy on me.
Festering, Savior, heal my humble soul, O One Physician, apply a plaster to me, and oil, and wine, works of repentance, tenderness with tears.
Have mercy on me, God, have mercy on me.
Imitating the Canaanite, have mercy on me, I cry, Son of David; I touch the edge of the robe, as if it were bleeding, I cry, like Martha and Mary over Lazarus.
Glory: Father without beginning, Son without beginning, Good Comforter, Righteous Soul, Word of God to the Parent, Father without beginning to the Word, Living Soul and Creator, Trinity Unity, have mercy on me.
And now: As from the turning of the scarlet, the most pure, intelligent scarlet of Immanuel, the flesh was consumed within in Thy womb.
Moreover, we truly honor Theotokos. Song 9
Irmos: Unspeakable Christmas of the seedless conception, Incorruptible Fruit to the husbandless Mother, God's Birth renews natures. In the same way, we all give birth to You, like the Blessed Mother of God.
Have mercy on me, God, have mercy on me.
Healing ailments, preaching Christ's Word to the poor, healing evildoers, eating with publicans, talking with sinners, returning the soul of Jairus's daughter to her death with the touch of her hand.
Have mercy on me, God, have mercy on me.
The publican was saved, and the harlot was chaste, and the Pharisee, boasting, was condemned. Ovbo: cleanse me; ova: have mercy on me; this majestic cry: God, I thank Thee, and other crazy verbs.
Have mercy on me, God, have mercy on me.
Zacchaeus was a tax collector, but he was saved, and Simon, a Pharisee, was blessed, and the harlot, who took leave, received permission from the One who had the strength to leave sins, even in his soul, trying to imitate.
Have mercy on me, God, have mercy on me.
You were not jealous of the harlot, O my accursed soul, even though you accepted the world of alabaster, with tears you smeared the nose of Savior, and cut off your hair, the handwriting of the ancient sins that tore her apart.
Have mercy on me, God, have mercy on me.
The cities to which Christ gave the gospel, my soul, knew what the curse was. Fear the instructions, lest you become like them, whom the Lord likened to Sodomites, even condemn them to hell.
Have mercy on me, God, have mercy on me.
May my soul not be bitter, having appeared in despair, the Canaanites having heard faith, even though they were healed by the word of God; Son of David, save me too, cry from the depths of your heart, as she did to Christ.
Glory: We will glorify the Father, we will exalt the Son, we will faithfully worship the Divine Spirit, the Indivisible Trinity, the Unity in essence, as Light and Light, and Life and Life, life-giving and illuminating of ends.
And now: Preserve Your City, Most Pure Mother of God, for in You this reigns faithfully, in You it is established, and through You it conquers, it conquers every temptation, and captivates warriors, and obedience passes.
Chorus: Reverend Father Andrew, pray to God for us.
Honest Andrew and most blessed Father, Shepherd of Crete, do not stop praying for those who sing your praises: may we be delivered from all anger and sorrow, corruption, and immeasurable sins, who faithfully honor your memory.
Great Canon of St. Andrei Kritsky, read on THURSDAY
Song 1
Irmos: Helper and protector be my salvation, This is my God, and I will glorify Him, God of my father, and exalt Him: gloriously thou art glorified.
[The Helper and Protector has appeared to me for salvation, He is my God, and I will glorify Him, the God of my father, and will exalt Him, for He has been solemnly glorified. – Translation by N.I. Cedar] (Exodus 15:1–2)
Chorus: Have mercy on me, God, have mercy on me.
From my youth, Christ, I transgressed Your commandments, I was passionately negligent, I passed away my life with despondency. Moreover, I call You, Savior: save me in the end.
[From my youth, Christ, I neglected Your commandments, I spent my whole life in passions, carelessness and negligence. Therefore, I appeal to You, Savior: save me even at my death.]
I am cast down, O Savior, before Thy gates; in my old age, do not cast me into hell, but before the end, as a Lover of mankind, grant me remission of my sins.
[Prostrated before Thy gates, Savior, although in old age, do not cast me down as intemperate, but before death, as a Lover of mankind, grant me remission of sins.]
My wealth, O Savior, having been exhausted in fornication, I am empty of the fruits of piety, but I call greedy: Father of generosity, you have given me bounty beforehand.
[Having squandered my wealth in debauchery, O Savior, I am alien to the fruits of piety, but, feeling hungry, I cry: Merciful Father, hasten and have mercy on me.] (Luke 15:11-32)
I have fallen into the thieves through my thoughts, I am all wounded by them now, and I am filled with wounds, but having presented myself to me, Christ the Savior healed me.
[According to my thoughts, I am a man caught by robbers; Now I am all wounded by them, covered with sores, but You Yourself, Christ the Savior, come and heal me.] (Luke 10:30)
The priest, having foreseen me passing by, and the Levite, seeing me in the fierce, despised the naked, but from Mary you rose up to Jesus, having appeared, show mercy to me.
[The priest, noticing me, passed by, and the Levite, seeing me naked in trouble, despised me; but You, who have shone forth from Mary Jesus, come and have mercy on me.] (Luke 10:31–32)
Chorus: Reverend Mother Mary, pray to God for us.
Grant me luminous grace from the Divine providence from above, to avoid the passions of darkness, and to sing diligently, your life, Mary, red correction.
[Give me, Mary, the luminous grace sent down to you from above by Divine Providence - to avoid the darkness of passions and diligently sing of the wonderful deeds of your life.]
Glory, Trinity: Pre-existent Trinity, worshiped in Unity, take away from me the heavy sinful burden, and as you are gracious, give me tears of compunction.
[Most-essential Trinity, Whom we worship as One Being, remove from me the heavy burden of sin and, as the Merciful One, grant me tears of tenderness.]
And now, Mother of God: Mother of God, Hope and Representation of You who sing, take away from me the heavy sinful burden, and like the Pure Lady, repentantly accept me.
[Mother of God, Hope and Help to all who praise You, remove from me the heavy burden of sin and, like the Immaculate Lady, accept me repentant.]
Song 7
Irmos: A sinner, a transgressor, an untruthful person before You, a lower observant, a lower co-creator, as You commanded us; but do not betray us to the end, Father God.
[We have sinned, we have lived lawlessly, we have acted unjustly before You, we have not kept, we have not fulfilled what You commanded us; but do not forsake us to the end, O God of the fathers.] (Dan.9:5–6)
Manasseh collected your sins by will, setting them up as abominations of passion, and multiplying the soul’s indignation, but being jealous of repentance warmly, you gained tenderness.
[You, soul, voluntarily accommodated the crimes of Manasseh, placing passions instead of idols and multiplying abominations; but diligently imitate his repentance with a feeling of tenderness.] (2 Kings 21:1-2)
You were jealous of the filthiness of Achaab, my soul, alas for me, you were the abode of carnal filth, and the vessel was disgraced by passions, but from your depths sigh, and expressed your sins to God.
[You imitated Ahab in abominations, my soul; alas, you have become a dwelling place of carnal impurities and a shameful vessel of passions; but sigh from your depths and tell God your sins.] (1 Kings 16:30)
Heaven is closed to you, O soul, and the hunger of God comprehends you, when Elijah the Tishbite, like Ahaab, sometimes did not submit to words, but became like Saraphia, and nourished the prophetic soul.
[Heaven is closed for you, soul, and famine from God is sent to you, as it once was to Ahab because he did not listen to the words of Elijah the Thesthite; but imitate the widow of Sarepta, nourish the soul of the prophet.] (Z Kings 17:1, 8–9)
Elijah sometimes fell to two fifty Jezebels, when the cold prophets were destroyed, in reproof of Ahaab, but follow the imitation of the two, soul, and be strengthened.
[Elijah once burned twice fifty of Jezebel’s servants when he destroyed her vile prophets in denunciation of Ahab; but you, O soul, avoid imitating both of them and be strong in self-control.] (2 Kings 1:10-15)
Glory, Trinity: Trinity Simple, Indivisible, Consubstantial, and One Nature, Light and Light, and Holy Three: and One Holy Trinity is sung. But sing, glorify the Belly and the Bellys, soul, all of God.
[Trinity Simple, Indivisible, Consubstantial, and one Divinity, Lights and Light, Three Holy Ones and One Holy Person, God the Trinity, sung in chants; sing also, O soul, glorify Life and Lives - the God of all.]
And now, Mother of God: We sing to Thee, we bless Thee, we worship Thee, the Mother of God, as the indivisible Trinity, who gave birth to the one Christ God, and who You Herself opened to us who are on heavenly earth.
[We praise You, bless You, worship You, Mother of God, for You gave birth to One of the Indivisible Trinity, Christ God, and You Yourself opened the heavenly abodes for us living on earth.]
Song 5
Irmos: From the morning night, O Lover of mankind, enlighten, I pray, and guide me in Thy commandments, and teach me, O Savior, to do Thy will.
[From the waking night, enlighten me, I pray, O Lover of Mankind, guide me in Your commandments and teach me, O Savior, to do Your will.] (Ps. 62:2; 119:35)
As he was of a hard disposition, the bitter Pharaoh was, O Lord, Janni and Jambre, soul and body, and immersed in mind, but help me.
[Due to my stubbornness, I have become like a cruel-tempered Pharaoh, Master, in soul and body I am Jannes and Jamres, and in my mind I am mired, but help me.] (Ex. 7:11. 2 Tim. 3:8)
Feces mixed with feces, accursed one, wash me with your mind, Master, in the bath of my tears, I pray to Thee, making my flesh’s clothes white as snow.
[I, unfortunate one, have polluted my mind, but wash me, O Master, in the font of my tears I pray to You, and make the garment of my flesh white as snow.]
If I test my deeds, O Savior, I see that every person has exceeded his own sins, because it is through reason that he sins, not through ignorance.
[When I examine my deeds, Savior, I see that I have surpassed all people in sins, for I sinned with rational consciousness, and not out of ignorance.]
Have mercy, have mercy, Lord, Thy creation, who have sinned, weaken me, for by nature He Himself is pure, and is there no one for You except filth.
[Have mercy, O Lord, have mercy, Thy creation: I have sinned, forgive me, for You alone are pure by nature, and no one except You is a stranger to uncleanness.]
For my sake, God, you imagined yourself in me, you showed miracles, healing lepers, and tightening the weakened man, you stopped the bleeding current, O Savior, with the touch of your robe.
[For my sake, being God, You took on my image, Savior, and, performing miracles, healed lepers, strengthened the paralytic, stopped the bleeding of bleeding clothes with the touch.] (Matt. 9:20. Mark 5:25-27. Luke. 8:43–44)
Chorus: Reverend Mother Mary, pray to God for us.
Having passed the streams of the Jordan, you have found painless peace, having escaped the sweetness of the flesh, even from us through your prayers, Reverend.
[You crossed the Jordan stream and acquired painless peace, leaving behind carnal pleasure, from which deliver us with your prayers, venerable one.]
Glory, Trinity: We glorify You, Trinity, One God, Holy, Holy, Holy, Father, Son, and Soul, simple Being, ever worshiped by the One.
[We glorify You, Most Holy Trinity, for the One God: Holy, Holy, Holy Father, Son and Spirit, Simple Being, Ever Worshiped Unit.]
And now, the Mother of God: From You, put on my mixture, the incorruptible, husbandless Mother of the Virgin, God who created the eyelids, and unite to Yourself human nature.
[In You, Imperishable, Virgin Mother, who did not know a husband, God, who created the world, clothed himself in my composition and united human nature with Himself.]
Song 2
Irmos: Look up, heaven, and I will shout and sing to Christ, who came in the flesh from the Virgin.
[Listen, O heaven, I will proclaim and glorify Christ, who came in the flesh from the Virgin.]
Like David, I crawled fornically and became defiled, but wash me too, O Savior, with tears.
[From intemperance, like David, I fell and became defiled, but wash me, O Savior, with your tears.] (2 Samuel 11:4)
No tears, below repentance imam, below tenderness, I am the Savior, as God grants.
[I have no tears, no repentance, no tenderness; You Yourself, Savior, as God, grant me this.]
I destroyed my pristine kindness and beauty, and now I lie naked and ashamed.
[I have destroyed my pristine beauty and goodness and now I lie naked and ashamed.]
Do not shut Your door to me then, Lord, Lord, but open this door to me who repents.
[Do not now shut Your door against me, O Lord, Lord, but open it for me, who repents to You.] (Matthew 7:21–23; 25:11)
Inspire my soul to sigh, and receive the drops with my eyes, O Savior, and save me.
[Listen, O Savior, to the groaning of my soul, accept the tears of my eyes and save me.]
Lover of mankind, although everyone may be saved, you call on me and accept me as the Good of the repentant.
[Lover of humanity, who desires the salvation of all, call me and accept me as a good one who repents.] (1 Tim. 2:4)
Chorus: Most Holy Theotokos, save us.
Theotokos: Most Pure Virgin Mary, One All-Singing One, pray diligently that we may be saved.
[Most Pure Virgin Mary, You alone, glorified by all, fervently pray for our salvation.]
Another irmos: You see, you see, for I am God, who rained manna and brought forth water from stones of old in the desert by My people, by My one right hand and by My strength.
[See, see that I am God, who in ancient times sent down manna and brought out water from the stone to My people in the wilderness - by My omnipotence alone.] (Ex. 16:14; 17:6)
You see, you see, for I am God, inspire, my soul, to cry unto the Lord, and depart from the former sin, and fear as the unwashed, and as the Judge and God.
[See, see that I am God. Listen, my soul, to the cry of the Lord, forsake your former sin and fear yourself as the righteous Judge and God.]
To whom have you become likened, O many-sinful soul, only to the first Cain and Lamech, who stoned the body of villainy and killed the mind with wordless aspirations.
[To whom have you become like, O sinful soul, if not the first Cain and that Lamech, having cruelly petrified the body with atrocities and killed the mind with reckless aspirations.] (Gen. 4: 1–26)
All that was done before the law, regarding the soul, you did not imitate Seth, nor did you imitate Enos, nor did you imitate Enoch, nor Noah, but you appeared to the wretchedness of the righteous life.
[Keeping in mind all those who lived before the law, O soul, you were not like Seth, you did not imitate either Enos, or Enoch through spiritual transmigration, or Noah, but you turned out to be alien to the life of the righteous.] (Gen. 5:1-32)
You alone opened the abysses of the wrath of your God, my soul, and you drowned all flesh, like the earth, both deeds and life, and you remained outside the ark of salvation.
[You alone, my soul, opened the abyss of the wrath of your God and drowned, like the earth, all flesh, and works, and life, and remained outside the saving ark.] (Gen. 7: 1–24)
Chorus: Reverend Mother Mary, pray to God for us.
With all your zeal and love you flowed to Christ, turning away the first sin, and feeding in impassable deserts, and fulfilling the Divine commandments more purely.
[Having left your former path of sin, you have resorted to Christ with all your zeal and love, living in impenetrable deserts and fulfilling His Divine commandments in purity.]
Glory, Trinity: Beginningless, Uncreated Trinity, Indivisible Unity, receiving me in repentance, having sinned, save me, Thy creation, do not despise, but have mercy and spare me the fiery condemnation.
[Beginningless Uncreated Trinity, Indivisible Unity, accept me the repentant, save the sinner, I am Your creation, do not despise, but have mercy and deliver me from condemnation to fire.]
And now, Mother of God: Most Pure Lady, Mother of God, the Hope of those who flow to You, and the refuge of those in the storm, the Merciful and Creator and Your Son, propitiate me also with Your prayers.
[Most Pure Lady, Mother of God, Hope of those who resort to You and refuge for those caught in the storm, with Your prayers incline the Merciful Creator and Your Son to me.]
Song 3
Irmos: Establish, O Lord, my moving heart on the rock of Your commandments, for You and the Lord alone are Holy.
[Solidate, O Lord, my wavering heart on the rock of Your commandments, for You alone are Holy and Lord.]
You, O wretched soul, did not inherit the blessing of Shem, nor did you inherit extensive possession, just as Japheth had your abandonment on earth.
[You, unfortunate soul, did not inherit Shem’s blessing, and you did not, like Japheth, receive extensive dominion on earth—the remission of sins.]
From the land of Harran, come from sin, my soul, come to the land that wears out the ever-living incorruptibility that Abraham inherited.
[Get away, my soul, from the land of Haran - from sin; go to the land of ever-living incorruption, which Abraham inherited.] (Gen. 12:1-7)
You heard Abraham, my soul, having long ago left the land of your fatherland, and having been a stranger, imitate this will.
[You heard, my soul, how in ancient times Abraham left his father’s land and became a wanderer; imitate his determination.] (Gen. 12:1–7)
At the oak of Mamre, the Patriarch of Angels established, inheriting the promise of catching in old age.
[Having treated the Angels under the Moorish oak tree, the patriarch in his old age received what was promised as spoil.] (Gen. 18:1)
Isaac, my damned soul, understanding the new sacrifice, secretly burnt offering to the Lord, imitate his will.
[Knowing, my poor soul, how Isaac was mysteriously offered as a new burnt offering to the Lord, imitate his determination.] (Gen. 22:2)
Ismaila heard you, sober up, my soul, expelled, like the birth of a slave, see, but it’s not like you suffered kindly.
[You have heard, my soul, that Ishmael was cast out as being born of a slave; watch, lest you suffer something like this for lust.] (Gen. 21:10-11)
Chorus: Reverend Mother Mary, pray to God for us.
I am contained by the storm and anxiety of sins, but save me, mother, now, and lead me to the haven of Divine repentance.
[I am surrounded, mother, by a storm and strong excitement of sins, but you yourself now save me and lead me to the haven of Divine repentance.]
Chorus: Reverend Mother Mary, pray to God for us.
Slave prayer even now, O Reverend, having brought it to the Mother of God with your prayers, open the Divine entrances with me.
[And now, venerable one, having brought your fervent prayer to the Mother of God, propitiated by your prayers, open the Divine entrances for me as well.]
Glory, Trinity: Trinity Simple, Uncreated, Beginning Nature, in the Trinity sung by the Hypostases, saved by faith who worship Your power.
[Trinity Uncompounded, Uncreated, Being Without Beginning, glorified in the Trinity of Persons, save us, who with faith worship Your power.]
And now, the Mother of God: From the Flightless Father, in the summer of the Mother of God you unskillfully gave birth to a strange miracle, the Virgin remained milking.
[You, Mother of God, without having experienced a husband, in time gave birth to a Son from the Father outside of time and - a wondrous miracle: feeding on milk, you remained a Virgin.]
Song 8
Irmos: Whom the armies of Heaven praise, and the Cherubim and Seraphim tremble, every breath and creature, sing, bless and exalt to all ages.
[Whom the armies of heaven glorify and before whom Cherubim and Seraphim tremble, Him, all beings and creatures, sing, bless and extol in all ages.]
Justice Savior, have mercy and deliver me from fire and punishment, even though the imam righteously endured at the trial, weaken me before the end with virtue and repentance.
[Just Savior, have mercy and deliver me from the fire and punishment that I must rightly undergo at trial; forgive me before my death, giving me virtue and repentance.]
Like a robber I cry to You: remember me. Like Peter, I cry to the mountaineer: weaken me, Savior. I call like a publican, I cry like a harlot; Accept my weeping, as sometimes the Canaanites do.
[Like a thief I cry to You: remember me; like Peter, I cry bitterly, Savior; like a publican, I cry out: be merciful to me; I shed tears like a harlot; accept my mourning, as you once did from the Canaanite woman.] (Luke 7:37–38; 18:13; 23:42; 22:62. Matt. 15:22)
Festering, Savior, heal my humble soul, O alone Physician, apply a plaster to me, and oil and wine, works of repentance, tenderness with tears.
[One Physician – Savior, heal the rottenness of my humble soul; apply to me a plaster, oil and wine - works of repentance, tenderness with tears.]
Canaanite and I imitate, have mercy on me, I cry, Son of David; I touch the edge of the robe, as if it were bleeding, I cry, like Martha and Mary over Lazarus.
[Imitating the Canaanite woman, I also cry out to the Son of David: have mercy on me; I touch His garment as if it were bleeding, I weep like Martha and Mary over Lazarus.] (Matt. 9:20; Matt. 15:22. John 11:33)
Glory, Trinity: Father without beginning, Son without origin, Good Comforter, Righteous Soul, Word of God to the Parent, Father without beginning to the Word, Living and Creator Soul, Trinity Unity, have mercy th me.
[Beginless Father, Co-originating Son, Good Comforter, Right Spirit, Parent of the Word of God, Beginningless Word of the Father, Life-Giving and Creating Spirit, One Trinity, have mercy on me.]
And now, the Mother of God: As from the turning of the scarlet, the most pure, intelligent scarlet of Emmanuel, the flesh was consumed within in Your womb, and therefore we truly honor Theotokos.
[Mental purple - the flesh of Emmanuel was woven inside Your womb, Most Pure, as if from a purple substance; therefore we honor You, the True Mother of God.]
Song 4
Irmos: The prophet heard Your coming, O Lord, and feared, because you wanted to be born of a virgin and appear as a man, and said: I heard Your hearing and feared, glory to Your power, Ho Godspeed.
[The prophet heard about Your coming, O Lord, and was afraid that You would be born of a Virgin and appear to people, and said: I heard the news about You and was afraid; glory to your power, O Lord.]
The body is defiled, the spirit is scalded, it is all cut off, but like a doctor, Christ, with my repentance, heal both, wash, cleanse, show, my Savior, purer than snow.
[My body is desecrated, my spirit is dirty, I am all covered with scabs, but You, Christ, as a doctor, heal both with my repentance, wash, cleanse, make me purer than snow, my Savior.]
Thy body and blood, Who was crucified, didst thou lay down for all, O the Word: O body, that thou mayest renew me; blood, may you wash me; You have given up your spirit, so that you may bring me, O Christ, to Your Parent.
[You offered Your body and Blood, the Word, for all at the crucifixion; Body - to recreate me, Blood - to wash me, and You, Christ, gave the Spirit to lead me to Your Father.]
Thou hast wrought salvation in the midst of the earth, O Generous One, that we may be saved. By will you were crucified on the Tree. We go, the closed one has opened, O creature on high and below, the nations of all salvation worship You.
[In the middle of the earth You have arranged salvation, O Merciful One, so that we may be saved; You voluntarily crucified yourself on the tree; Let's go, the shutter opened; You are worshiped by those in heaven and on earth and all the nations you have saved.] (Ps. 73:12)
May there be a font for me, the blood from Your side, together with the drink that has flowed forth the water of remission, so that I may be cleansed by both, anointing and drinking, like anointing and drink, the Word, Your life-giving words.
[Let the Blood from Your side be a wash for me and a drink together, exuding the remission of sins, so that I may be cleansed with both by the Word, anointed and drunk with Your life-giving words, like ointment and drink.] (John 19:34)
The cup of the Church of the Covetous, Thy life-giving ribs, from below flow forth for us currents of abandonment and reason, in the image of the two ancient and new ones together, O our Savior.
[The Church acquired for itself the Cup in Your life-giving side, from which flowed to us a double stream of remission of sins and understanding, our Savior, in the image of both Testaments, Old and New.]
Naked am I of the palace, naked am I of the marriage, of the feast and of the supper, the lamp is extinguished, like an oilless one, I am shut in the palace to sleep, I am devoured of the supper: I am bound hand and foot, I am cast out. cm.
[I am deprived of the bridal chamber, deprived of both marriage and supper; the lamp, as if without oil, went out; the palace was closed while I slept, the supper was over, and I, bound hand and foot, was cast out.] (Matt. 25:1–13. Luke 12:35–37; 13:24–27; 14:7– 24)
Glory, Trinity: Indivisible being, unfused Person, I theology thee, the One Trinity Deity, as the One-King and Co-Altar, I cry out to Thee a great song, in the highest the most hymnable.
[Undivided in essence, unmerged in Persons, I theologically confess You, Trinity One Deity, Co-Royal and Co-Throne; I proclaim to You a great song, sung three times in the heavenly mansions.] (Is. 6:1-3)
And now, the Mother of God: And you give birth, and you are virgins, and you remain in both the nature of the Virgin, When you are born, you renew the laws of nature, but the womb gives birth without giving birth. Whatever God wants, the order of nature is overcome, and He creates whatever He wants.
[And You give birth and remain a Virgin, in both cases preserving virginity by nature. He who is born of You renews the laws of nature, and gives birth to the virgin womb; when God wants, the order of nature is disrupted, for He creates what He wants.]
Song 6
Irmos: I cried out with all my heart to the generous God, and heard me from hell, and raised my life from aphids.
[With all my heart I cried out to the merciful God, and He heard me from the underworld and called my life from destruction.]
Arise and overcome, like Jesus, Amalek, carnal passions, and the Gibeonites, flattering thoughts ever victorious.
[Arise and conquer the passions of the flesh, like Jesus Amalek, always conquering the Gibeonites - seductive thoughts.] (Ex. 17:8. Josh. 8:21)
Pass away, the present time, as the ark was before, and be in possession of the promise, O soul, God commands.
[Soul, God commands: cross over, as the ark of Jordan once did, the time flowing in its essence and become the owner of the promised land.] (Joshua 3:14–17)
As you saved Peter by crying out, save, having preceded me, O Savior, deliver me from the beast, stretch out your hand, and bring me up from the depths of sin.
[Just as You saved Peter, who cried out, hasten, O Savior, to save me too, deliver me from the monster, stretch out Your hand, and bring me out of the depths of sin.] (Matthew 14:31)
We are your comforting refuge, Master, Master Christ, but from the unquenchable depths of sin and despair, deliver me beforehand.
[I see a quiet refuge in You, Master, Master Christ, hasten to deliver me from the impenetrable depths of sin and despair.]
Glory, Trinity: The Trinity is simple, indivisible, separate and personal, and the Unit is united by Nature, the Father speaks, and the Son, and the Divine Spirit.
[I am a Trinity, Incomposite, Indivisible, separate in persons, and Unity, united in essence; Father, Son and Divine Spirit testify.]
And now, the Mother of God: Thy womb of God gave birth to us, imagined after us, Him, as the Creator of all, pray, Mother of God, that through Thy prayers we may be justified.
[Thy womb gave birth to us God, who took our image; Pray to Him, as the Creator of the whole world, Mother of God, so that through Your prayers we may be justified.]
Lord, have mercy (three times). Glory, and now:
Kontakion, tone 6:
My soul, my soul, arise, why are you sleeping? The end is approaching, and Imashi will be embarrassed. Rise up, may Christ God, who is everywhere and fulfills all things, have mercy on you.
[My soul, my soul, arise, why are you sleeping? The end is approaching and you will be confused; Awake, so that Christ God, Omnipresent and filling everything, will have mercy on you.]
