Canon of Andrew of Crete synodal translation. The penitential canon of Andrew of Crete

Orthodox believers know Saint Andrew of Crete as a great ascetic of piety and man of prayer before God. With his life, the righteous man set an example of meekness, humility and virtue. The liturgical life of the Church even now preserves, perhaps, the main written work of the saint - the Great Penitential Canon.

First week of Lent

The Great Penitential Canon is an outstanding liturgical work, composed of 250 penitential troparions, reflecting prayer appeal sinned person to God with sincere repentance. The texts of the canon’s prayers contain biblical Old Testament prototypes that show the full depth of man’s possible sinfulness.

The reading of this canon is prescribed by the Church during the holy Great Lent. During the first week of Pentecost (the first four days), this canon is read by the priest during the evening service. The priest reads the canon in the center of the church at the beginning of Lenten Compline. Prostrations to the ground are placed between the troparia of the work.

The entire liturgical work of St. Andrew of Crete during the first week of Lent is divided into four parts.

Thursday of the fifth week of Lent

During the Lenten service, the penitential canon of St. Andrew of Crete is read out in full in the church on Thursday of the fifth week of Pentecost, when the Church honors the memory of the Holy Venerable Mary of Egypt. Taking into account the fact that the liturgical day begins on the evening before the event, the penitential canon is read at Matins on Thursday on Wednesday evening of the fifth week.

The service of this day received a special name - St. Mary’s Standing. When the Church honors the outstanding penitential deed of St. Mary of Egypt, the Great Canon of St. Andrew is perfectly suited for a person’s prayerful repentance of his sins.

SERMON

At Great Compline on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of the first week of Great Lent, it is sung and read in parts, and at Matins on Thursday of the fifth week of the same Lent in full force The Great Penitent, or as it is also called, the touching canon. It has been read during Lenten services in churches for almost 1200 years and is perceived by believers in the same way as when it was written by the venerable songwriter. “The mystagogue of repentance,” that is, the one who carefully teaches, reveals the secrets of repentance - this is what the Orthodox Church calls Saint Andrew, who compiled this canon.

The Great Canon consists of 250 troparia, and is called great not only because of its unusual a large number poems, but also by inner dignity, by the height of thoughts and the power of their expression. In it we contemplate the events described by the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments in spiritual light. In the troparia of the canon, the characters of sacred history either present us with high examples of holy life, or, with examples of their deep fall, encourage us to strict sobriety. The mind of a person listening to this canon sees in it the lofty spiritual truths realized in the lives of the Old Testament patriarchs, judges, kings and prophets, and is taught by them in the Gospel parables, and the heart, thirsting for salvation, is either struck by deep sorrow for sins, or delighted with persistent hope in God, always ready to accept the sinner.

You can't teach what you can't do yourself. Saint Andrew's repentance is deep and sincere. One thought runs through the entire canon, repeated in all his songs: “Man has sinned more than all others, only one has sinned against You, (Lord), but have mercy and be merciful to me, for You are Compassionate.” “Compassionate” means merciful and merciful, just like a Mother, who, as if with her whole womb, with her whole being, takes pity on the child and loves him with all her heart. How closer person to God, the more he sees his sins. The saint teaches us this in his canon Andrey Kritsky.

The entire Old Testament appears before us in the troparia of the canon, as a school of repentance. Showing the virtues and deeds of the saints, the saint does not forget about evil and cruel deeds, encouraging us to imitate the good and turn away from the evil. But in the Great Canon there are not only examples from Holy Scripture, there is also admonition to the soul, reasoning, and prayer. It’s as if an elder, filled with compassion and love, takes us by the hand and leads us into his cell to talk with us, tell us, share his experience, and, together with us, humbly and fervently pray.

Why does the Holy Church offer us these particular hymns in the first days of Great Lent? Because fasting is a time of repentance and purification, and the entire canon of St. Andrew is aimed at awakening the human soul from sinful sleep, revealing to it the destructiveness of the sinful state, inducing it to strict self-examination, self-condemnation and repentance, to aversion from sins and to improve your life.

The creator of this so beloved Orthodox people The Great Canon, the Venerable Andrew, Archbishop of Crete, was born in the city of Damascus around 660 into a family of pious Christians George and Gregory. From the evidence of early childhood The saint is known that until the age of seven he was considered dumb, because until that time he had not uttered a single word. When, upon reaching the age of seven, he received communion in the Church of the Divine Mysteries of the Body and Blood of Christ, his dumbness was resolved and he began to speak. After this miracle, the parents gave their child to comprehend the wisdom divine books. In the fourteenth year of his life, Saint Andrew was brought by his parents to Jerusalem to serve God in the monastery of the Brotherhood of the Holy Sepulchre. Upon his tonsure as a monk, Saint Andrew was appointed a notary, that is, secretary, of the Jerusalem Patriarchate, as a very reasonable person. He led a virtuous life, striving in chastity, abstinence and meekness, so that even the Patriarch of Jerusalem himself marveled at him. After 681, when meetings of the Sixth Ecumenical Council took place in Constantinople, Saint Andrew, who was then in the rank of archdeacon, together with two elder monks, was sent to the Byzantine capital on behalf of his patriarch to present to the emperor documents confirming full agreement with the decisions of the Council all the fullness of Jerusalem Orthodox Church, which was then under the Muslim yoke.

After the end of the Council, the elder monks returned back to Jerusalem, and Andrei, having become famous, for his book wisdom and deep knowledge of the dogmas of the Church, to the emperor and holy fathers, was left in Constantinople, forever receiving the nickname “Jerusalemita,” i.e. “Jerusalemite” .

In the capital of the Empire, he received obedience to head the Home for Orphans at the Great Church of Hagia Sophia and was enrolled in the clergy of the main temple of Byzantium.

For 20 years he served as a deacon and worked in the Orphanage, showing due care and concern. Here, in Constantinople, he began to compose his wondrous hymns, with which he richly adorned the liturgical heritage of the Holy Church.

After twenty years of diaconal service, Saint Andrew was ordained to the rank of bishop and appointed to the most distant see of the empire - the island of Crete, where for his diligent labors he was awarded the title of archbishop. Here he was a lamp to the world, enlightening the Church of Christ with inspired teaching and virtuous life. The holy shepherd of Crete built churches of God, as well as homes for orphans and the elderly. For his flock he was loving father, tirelessly preaching and, with his prayers, repelling all misfortunes and adversities, and for heretics he was an adamant accuser and a thunderstorm. Saint Andrew did not abandon the work of compiling church hymns.

Several times the saint, leaving Crete, visited Constantinople, where he saw the patriarch and the emperor, as well as people close to him. There he spoke out in defense of the holy icons when iconoclasm began in Byzantium. On his last visit to the capital, Saint Andrew, sensing the approach of his imminent death, said goodbye to his friends. On the way to Crete he became very ill. Serious illness forced him to stop on the island of Mytilene in the town of Eresso, where the saint died on July 4 around 740. On this same day, the Holy Church commemorates him to this day.

Saint Andrew of Crete was the first to write liturgical canons. His pen includes the canons for all the twelve holidays (except for the Entry into the Temple Holy Mother of God, because in his time this holiday was not celebrated separately). The Lenten service, in addition to the Great Canon, was also decorated with other creations of the holy hymnographer. The canons of the Week of Vai, the three canticles of all days of Holy Week, including Great Friday, have been preserved in the manuscripts. On Holy Saturday, the Four Songs of St. Andrew was performed, to which later the Four Songs and Canons of St. were added. Cosmas of Mayum, nun Cassia, Bishop Mark of Otranto. In terms of the number of original melodies, St. Andrew surpasses even such a great hymn writer as St. John of Damascus. When composing the Octoechos, Saint John introduced into it the irmos and melodies of Saint Andrew of Crete.

Rev. Andrew of Crete, Russian faith, 2017

About the canon of Andrei Kritsky

The Great Penitential Canon of Andrei Kritsky- the pearl of the Orthodox Divine Service of Great Lent. This canon is called Great because it contains many theological thoughts about repentance and many troparions - there are about 250 of them, while in ordinary canons there are usually about 40. The canon represents the soul-piercing heartfelt cry of a righteous man about his sins. The very beginning of the first song of the canon attunes the soul to sorrow and repentance, to “hurt the heart”: “Where will I begin to cry for my passionate life of affairs; I will make some beginning in Christ of this present mourning; but as you are merciful, give me tears of tenderness.” The creator of the canon mourns not only himself, but also all of humanity who have sinned. It recalls all the sins of mankind, all the falls - from Adam to the New Testament.

Old Testament examples in the canon constitute it most- eight songs. Saint Andrew not only remembers the sin of his forefathers, he experiences them as if he were his own: “I was jealous of the crime of the First-created Adam, who was naked from God, and the ever-present Kingdom and food, sin for my sake” (canto 1). The crimes of the forefathers become prototypes of the passions that torment a person: “To whom is the many-sinful soul likened? Only the first Cain, and Lamech thereof. Having stoned the body of villainy, and killed the mind with bestial aspirations” (song 2). Here Saint Andrew follows Saint Maximus the Confessor, for whom Cain is “ acquisition, law of the flesh", rising up against Abel, that is, against the mind, according to the symbolic interpretation, and killing him. If Saint Andrew recalls in the canon examples of Old Testament and New Testament righteousness, then, first of all, in order to reproach his soul for laziness and sinfulness and call it to imitate, for example: “Joseph of the righteous and chaste mind, imitate the cursed and unnecessary soul . And do not commit fornication in lawless pursuits, ever without law” (canto 5).

The canon is a broad historical panorama in which history is outlined human sin and human righteousness, the rejection of God and His acceptance. The content of the canon is deeply Christocentric; in each song there are heartfelt appeals to Christ, for example: “Let there be a font for me, the blood from Your ribs together and the drink, the flowing water of abandonment. Yes, I will cleanse myself by anointing myself. And I drink like a drink of the Word, life-giving of Your wonders” (song 4). The only way of purification is in Christ, through sobriety, asceticism, through action - to the vision of the Divine. The Great Canon of St. Andrew is, of course, based on a solid patristic foundation; it contains quotations from the saint Meliton of Sardis, saint Ephraim the Syrian, saints Gregory the Theologian And Gregory of Nyssa, saint Maximus the Confessor. And the merit of St. Andrew of Crete is that he was able to synthesize their experience and capture it in the canon. What is given to us in the Repentant Canon of St. Andrew of Crete is the biblical, ecclesiastical, truly universal experience of repentance, wounding of the heart, painful stripping away of the old, dead person and the endowment of the new Adam, in Christ Jesus our Lord, to whom be glory forever and ever, Amen!

Canon of Andrew of Crete during a service in the temple

During the service in the church, the canon is read on the Great Vespers of the first week of Lent: on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. On each of these days, part of the canon is read, and the entire canon is read on Wednesday evening in the fifth week of Lent. At this time, a service is performed in Old Believer churches. MARiino standing"and on each verse of the canon the worshipers place three prostrations(throwing) - in total there are 798 of them beyond the canon. Also, several troparions are added to the Great Canon in honor of the Venerable Mary of Egypt, who came from deep spiritual fall to high piety. The Great Canon ends with troparions in honor of its creator, the saint Andrey Kritsky.

Canon. Creation of the kir Andrei Kritskago, voice 6

Song 1. Irmos

Be a Helper and Protector for my salvation, I will glorify and glorify God, God is my Father, and I will exalt. It's great to be famous.

Be aware. When one person sings, then others bow, for the sake of decorum. Let's start with the verse Chorus: C lava to you our God, glory to you.

Solo. About where I will begin to cry about my passionate life of affairs; I will make some beginning in Christ of this present mourning; but as you are merciful, give me tears of tenderness.

Solo. Come, damned soul, with your flesh, confess to the Creator of all and remain the rest of your former speechlessness, and bring tears to God in repentance.

Solo. The first-created Adam was jealous of the crime, he became naked from God, and the everlasting Kingdom and food, sin for my sake.

Solo. In Eva, the place of the senses, the mental one was Eva: in the flesh I have passionate thoughts, showing sweet ones, and I taste the ever-bitter fall.

Solo. Adam was rightly expelled from Eden because he did not keep one commandment, Thy Savior. What will I do, always sweeping aside Your words?

Solo. Ain's murder passed away, by the will of the murderer. With the conscience of the soul, having quickened the flesh, and having fought against evil deeds.

Solo. But Jesus commanded me not to be like the truth; I did not bring You a pleasant gift, neither divine deeds, nor a pure sacrifice, nor an immaculate life.

Solo. I am Cain and we are the accursed soul, the creator of all, the deeds are defiled and the sacrifice is depraved, and life is not necessary, the offering of food together, and also the condemnation of the body.

Solo. The Creator created the earth in a living way, and put into me flesh and bones and breath and life. But about my Creator. And my Savior and Judge, the repentant, accept me.

Solo. You are a damned soul to me, like the first Eve; the sight of evil, and the mountaineer was wounded. And I will touch the tree, and taste boldness without verbal food.

Solo. And I confess to You, the Savior, the sins that I have committed, the wounds of my soul and body, even the murderous thoughts that I laid upon my name as a bandit.

Solo. And even the Savior of those who have sinned, but we know that You are a Lover of Mankind, You are more merciful, and You are warmly merciful. You see with tears, and against the flow, like the Father calling the prodigal.

Solo. O my youth, Christ, I transgressed Thy commandments, with all-passionate negligence, I passed away my life with despondency. I also call you Savior, please save me at last.

Solo. I have been 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 sin.

Solo. My Savior has exhausted my wealth with fornication; I am empty of the fruits of the pious. I call greedily, Father of generosity, beforehand You show mercy to me.

Solo. And I fell into the thieves through my thoughts, now I am all wounded by them and filled with wounds. But having presented yourself to Christ the Savior, healed me.

Solo. The priest foresaw me passing by, and the Levite saw me in the fierce, despising the naked. But like Jesus who shone from Mary, You showed mercy to me.

Solo. And you who are more venerable than God, who take away the sins of all, take away from me the heavy burden of sin. And as you are Merciful, give me tears of tenderness.

Solo. Do not disdain me, Savior, and do not reject the falling Ty. Take away from me the heavy burden of sin, and as you are Merciful, give me tears of tenderness.

Solo. I bow down to you, God, cleanse me from my sins. Take away from me the heavy burden of sin, and as you are Merciful, give me tears of tenderness.

Solo. At the time of repentance, I come to You, my co-creator, take away from me the burden of heavy sin, and as you are gracious, give me tears of tenderness.

Solo. In the voluntary and involuntary Savior of my sins, revealed and hidden, known and unknown, having forgiven everything, as God, cleanse and save me.

Solo. Come, my soul, the very hour and day when God will come, and weep and weep and find yourself pure in the hour of trial.

Solo. The fire of Gehenna, and the worm of the mountain, and the gnashing of teeth terrifies me, but weaken me and have mercy and honor me as your chosen ones in Christ.

Whenever Mary’s verse arrives. And let us say the chorus to that verse: Reverend Mother Mary, pray to God for us. Give me luminous grace, from the Divine providence, to avoid the passions of darkness, and to sing diligently of your life, red Mary of the story.

Song of Mary. Having bowed to Christ’s Divine Law, proceed to this, abandoning unclean lustful desires, and correcting all virtues to Mary.

Glory . Transubstantial Trinity, who is worshiped in Unity, take away from me the heavy burden of sin, and as you are merciful, give me tears of tenderness.

And now. Theotokos. B Ogoroditsa Nadezhda and Representative of all who sing Thee, take away from me the heavy sinful burden, and as the Pure Lady, repentant, accept me.

Let us cover every song with irmos.

Song 2. Irmos

Into heaven I will speak and sing of Christ, who came in the flesh from the Virgin.

Solo. Instill in heaven and earth the voices of those repenting to God and praising Him.

Solo. In my heart, God is generous with His merciful eye, and accept my warm confession.

Solo. Since man has sinned more than all others, only one has sinned against You. but be generous as God is to His creation.

Solo. The merciful Lord will help me through the storm of evil, but stretch out your hand to Peter and me.

Solo. Like a harlot, I offer you generously, cleanse me with your Savior mercy.

Solo. About the filth of my flesh, I wear a robe, and scales in the image of the Savior and in the likeness.

Solo. About gloomy ones spiritual beauty with passionate sweets, and created the whole mind.

Solo. Now the Creator from the beginning has torn my first garment to the south, and from there I lie naked.

Solo. Oh, I have faded into a torn robe to the south of the source of my serpent’s advice, and I am ashamed.

Solo. I looked at the beauty of the garden and was seduced by my mind. I also lie naked and am ashamed.

Solo. I have destroyed my primordial kindness and my splendor, and now I lie naked and am ashamed.

Solo. To Ovahu on my ridge all the leaders of passion, overcoming me with their iniquity.

Solo. It was sin that stripped off my skin garments, revealing my first richly woven garments.

Solo. Oh, I am covered with a garment of cold, like fig leaves, to expose my self-willed passions.

Solo. About acting in a shameful robe, and coldly bloodied, with the flow of a passionate and lustful belly.

Solo. I fell into passionate destruction, and into material aphids, and from then until now my enemies have been annoying me.

Solo. He prefers a life of love and covetousness to intemperance over the Savior, now I am burdened with a heavy burden.

Solo. Those who are beautiful in their carnal form have evil thoughts, wear different attire, and I am condemned.

Solo. He diligently took care of the outer, and took care of the beautification alone, despising the beautiful canopy of the inner.

Solo. Having depicted my passionate ugliness, with lustful aspirations, I destroyed my intelligent beauty.

Solo. I robbed the first image of the kindness of the Savior with passions, like sometimes a drachma, seeking the treasure.

Solo. From those who have sinned, like a harlot, I cry out to You, the only one who has sinned is You, as myrrh, accept my tears and Savior.

Solo. They crawled like David fornicating, and became defiled. But the Savior washed me with tears.

Solo. For cleansing, like a publican, I cry to You, Savior, cleanse me. No one is from those who are from Adam, for I have sinned against You.

Solo. No tears, no repentance, no emotion, Imam. But I myself am the Savior, as God grants.

Solo. Do not close Thy door to me then, Lord, Lord, but open this to me who repent.

Solo. More than you love humanity and want everyone to be saved, you call me and accept me as a blessing to those who repent.

Theotokos. Into the sigh of my soul, and before my eyes receive a drop of the Savior, and save me.

In, irmos. Go and see that I am God, who rained down manna and poured out water from ancient times in the wilderness by His people, my only right hand, and my strength.

Solo. Go see that I am God. Inspire my soul to cry out to the Lord, and remain from the former sin, and fear as the tormentor, and as the Judge and God.

Solo. To whom is the sinful soul likened; only the first Cain, and Lamech thereof. Having stoned the body of villainy, and killed the mind with bestial aspirations.

Solo. In all things that came before the law concerning the Soul. Seth was not like Enos, nor Enoch, nor Noah. But the poverty of the righteous has appeared.

Solo. You opened up the abyss of the wrath of your God on my soul, and you drowned all the flesh, like the earth and deeds and life, and you remained except the saved ark.

Solo. I killed a snake with a speech in my wound, and a young man in a scab, Lamech cried out and sobbed. You no longer tremble for my soul, and do not be afraid, having defiled your flesh and mind.

Solo. About how jealous Lamech, the first murderer was. I kill my soul like a husband, my mind like a youth, and kill my brother like Cain, with wordless aspirations.

Solo. You have managed to create from the crowds, O soul, and establish a stronghold with your lusts, if the creator had not withheld your advice and cast down your tricks to the earth.

Solo. Those who have been wounded are wounded, these are the arrows of the enemy, who have wounded the soul and body with me, these are the ulcers and scabs and putrefactions, and the darkness that is crying out, and the wounds of self-willed passions.

Solo. O rain, Lord, from the Lord you burned the fire of Gehenna, in which you wanted your soul to be burned.

Solo. Understand and see that I am God, tormenting hearts, testing thoughts, exposing deeds, and punishing sins, and judging the orphan and the humble and the poor.

Glory. B the original Uncreated Trinity, and the Indivisible Unity, accept me who repents, save me who sins. I am your creation, do not despise, but have mercy and deliver from the fiery condemnation.

Theotokos. O pure Lady Theotokos, hope for those who come running to you, and refuge in the storm, implore your Merciful and Creator Son to have mercy on me too, through your prayers.

We cover this second song with another irmos. IN come see.

Song 3 Irmos

Establish my thoughts on the immovable stone of Christ, Thy commandments.

Solo. O fire from the Lord, the Lord once rained on the soul, and burned the land of Sodom of old.

Solo. Save your soul on the mountain, like Lot, and take it to Zoar.

Solo. Avoid the burning of your soul, avoid the burning of Sodom. Flee the destruction of the Divine flame.

Solo. And they confess to the Savior those who have sinned against You, but weaken me, for you are Merciful.

Solo. Since I have sinned alone, who have sinned more than all, Christ the Savior do not despise me.

Solo. You are the good Shepherd, seek me the lamb, and do not despise the lost one.

Solo. You are sweet Jesus, You are my Creator. In You Christ I will be justified.

Trinity Most Holy Trinity our God, glory to Thee. ABOUT Trinity Unity God, save those who have sinned and bring them from corruption.

Theotokos. Rejoice, God-pleasant womb. Rejoice at the throne of the Lord. Rejoice, Mother of our life.

In, irmos. Lord, harden the stones of Your commandments, my struggling heart, for You alone are holy and righteous.

Solo. And the source of the belly of money-grubbers, You are the destroyer of death. And I cry to You from my heart before the end, cleanse those who have sinned and save me.

Solo. And under Noah the Savior, unhonored imitations were imitated. They inherited condemnation in the flood of immersion.

Solo. From those who have sinned, Lord, cleanse me from those who have sinned. There is no one who has sinned in man, but he has not exceeded his sins.

Solo. This about the soul, imitating the scolder’s Father, did not cover the shame of the sincere One, returning to sleep in vain.

Solo. The blessing of Simovo was not inherited by my passionate soul, nor by the extensive retention like Afet, so you did not accept the abandonment of sins on earth.

Solo. O land of Kharan, depart from sin, my soul. Come into the ever-wearing land, O animal of incorruption, even as Abraham inherits.

Solo. And my soul of old heard Abraham, having left the earth, the fatherland and being a stranger, imitate this will.

Solo. At the Moorish oak, having established the Patriarch Angels, he inherited the promise of catching in old age.

Solo. And my accursed soul, understanding the new sacrifice, secretly burnt offering to the Lord, imitate his will.

Solo. And you heard, my soul was sober. Expelled like a slave from birth. Be careful not to suffer, be kind.

Solo. Have mercy, Lord, have mercy on me when I cry to You, when you come with your angels, reward everyone according to their deeds.

Solo. And the Garyan of ancient times, the soul of the Egyptian, became like you, enslaved by will, and giving birth to the new Izmail, contempt.

Solo. And you meant the ladder to the soul, revealed from earth to heaven, because the mash of the sunrise is firm and pious.

Solo. With the priest of God and the King alone, who was in the likeness of Christ, having withdrawn from life in the world, he became like him.

Solo. Do not wake up the pillar of the soul, returning to sleep. Let the parable of Sodom frighten you. Save yourself in the mountain at Zoar.

Solo. I have a lot of skin on fire, run away from my sin. Flee Sodom and Gomor. Run in the flames of every wordless desire.

Maria. I am obsessed with the storm and the anxiety of my mother’s sin. But save me now, and lead me to the haven of divine repentance.

Maria. Now the Venerable One has brought the servile prayer to the Most Merciful Mother of God, saying, open the Divine entrances for me.

Glory. The Trinity is simple, uncreated, beginningless nature, hedgehog in three sung compositions, save us, who worship your power with faith.

Theotokos. And from a lifeless father, in the summer of the Mother of God, you did not give birth to a son. Strange miracle. Having been a milking virgin.

We cover this song, the 3rd, with another irmos. U Lord firmament.

Sedalen. Voice, 8. Similar. IN resurrected from the dead. With the God-visionary branch, Apostles of Savior, enlighten us in the darkness of life, so that as in the day, we now walk gracefully, with the light of abstinence, escaping the passions of the night. And we will see the bright passion of Christ rejoicing.

Slava, others, sedal. Voice, too. Similar P divine sacrament. And the postal twelve, God’s chosen one, now bring prayers to Christ, the fasting season goes to all who perform prayers in tenderness, who diligently practice virtues. Let us first see Christ God’s glorious resurrection, bringing glory and praise.

And now. Theotokos. N the incomprehensible God the Son and the words, indescribably more than the mind that was born to you, pray to the Mother of God from the Apostles for the purest peace of the universe. And by sin, give us forgiveness before the end. And grant your servants the gift of extreme goodness to the kingdom of heaven.

Song 4 Irmos

When the prophet heard Thy coming, O Lord, and feared, for Thou wouldst be born of a Virgin, and appear as a man, and said, Hearing Thy hearing, and fearing, glory to Thy power.

Solo. Do not despise the work of your hands, do not forsake your creation, O righteous judge. Even though there is only one who has sinned as a man, more than any other person, He is more loving of mankind, but imash as the Lord has the power to forgive the sins of all.

Solo. The end of the soul is approaching, both carelessly and unpreparedly are approaching, time is shortening, arise, there is a Judge at the door. Like the canopy, like the flower, the time of life flows, why are we tossing around in vain?

Solo. Think about my soul, think about your deeds, and bring it before this face, and shed drops of your tears. express your deeds and thoughts with boldness to Christ, and you will be justified.

Solo. There was no sin in life, neither deed nor malice, even those who sinned with the Savior, in mind and in word and will, and in sentence and in character and in deed, like no one else has ever sinned.

Solo. This is where I was condemned, and this is where I fell from grace, out of my own conscience. There is no need for anything in the world. Spare and deliver me, Judge and Deliverer and Leader, and save me Thy servant.

Solo. The ladder of the south is a great ancient figure in the patriarchy, there is a parable about my soul's careful ascent, reasonable ascension. If you wish, be renewed in action and in mind and in vision.

Solo. He endured the heat of the day for the sake of the patriarch, and suffered the filth of the night, creating provisions for every day, feeding and toiling and working, and counting two wives.

Solo. For every woman, understand, action and reason in vision. I am doing such a deed as I have many children. Rachel is wise, for she is laborious. For apart from labor, neither the deed nor the vision of the soul will be corrected.

Solo. Take care of my soul, be courageous like the great patriarchs of old, and accomplish your deeds with reason. May your mind be in vain of God, and may you reach the darkness that never goes away in vision, and may you become a great merchant.

Solo. Having given birth to ten great patriarchs among the patriarchs, secretly establish for you a ladder that is effective for my soul to ascend. Children are like foundations, degrees are like ascension, having been laid down in wisdom.

Solo. And you imitated the hated soul, you gave birth to the first kindness, and the Father’s blessings fell away, and the cursed one crawled forward, in deed and in mind. Also now repent.

Solo. His house Esau was called extreme for the sake of misogyny and ridicule. It is not through abstinence that we ever liquefy, and through sweets we defile. I am going to talk about the destruction of the sinful soul.

Solo. And the one who heard on the rot that my soul was justified, was not jealous of that courage; you did not acquire strength; you understood the proposals in all of them; But you appeared impatient.

Solo. And first on the throne, now naked and festering. Like many children and glorious, childless and homeless in vain. The plate is full of rot, and the beads of worms are worthless.

Solo. With the royal dignity and crown, and scarlet robes, a man of many names and righteous, abounding in wealth and flocks, suddenly he became poor in wealth, and was deprived of the glory of a king.

Solo. And even more righteous and blameless than anyone else, and unfazed by the snare of the flatterer and the snare, even the sin-loving being of the damned soul, what have you done, even though the unknown will find temptation to attack.

Solo. The body is defiled, the spirit is scorched, I am all putrid. But as a physician, Christ, through my repentance heal both, wash and cleanse, show my purest Savior more than snow.

Solo. You have given Your body and blood, we crucify everyone, to the Word. My body, renew me. Blood, may you wash me. You gave up the spirit, so that you would bring me to Christ your parent.

Solo. We have clothed salvation in the midst of the earth. Generous, let us be saved. By will they will be crucified on the tree, We go closed and opened. The creation above and below, and all the nations that have escaped, worship.

Solo. May there be for me a font, blood even from Your ribs, together with drink, the flowing water of abandonment. Yes, I will cleanse myself by anointing myself. And I drink like a drink of the Word, life-giving of Your miracles.

Solo. The cup of the Church of wealth, Thy life-giving ribs, flow from them purely for us, drops of abandonment and reason, in the image of the ancient, new and old testaments of our Savior.

Solo. Nag am the palace, naked am I the marriage and the supper. The light has gone out, as if without oil. Shut the hall, I'm sleeping. The supper was quickly eaten away, and I was bound with a curse and diarrhea, and I was exhausted.

Solo. At the moment my stomach is small and full of illnesses and deceit, but accept me into repentance and call me to reason, so that I will not find food for strangers, the Savior Himself will spare me.

Solo. I am lofty in mind, bold in heart, but in vain and in vain, lest I be condemned with the Pharisee. Moreover, grant me the publican’s humility to the One Generous One, O righteous judge, and consider me with this.

Solo. Having blasphemed the vessel of my flesh from those who have sinned, I am generous to you. But accept me into repentance and call me to reason, so that I will not acquire food for someone else. Savior, be kind to me.

Solo. From the very temple there was passion, harming my soul generously. But accept me into repentance, and call me to reason, so that I will not find myself worthless to a stranger, the Savior Himself, show mercy to me.

Solo. I disobeyed Your voice, I disobeyed Your Lawgiver Scripture. But accept me into repentance and call me to reason, so that I will not find food for strangers. Savior, be kind to me.

Maria. Blessed life in the body is passing through, You have received the great grace of the Reverend God, faithfully interceding for those who honor you. We also pray to you, deliver us from all misfortunes with your prayers.

Maria. Having descended into the great placeless depths, she was not possessed by speed, but flowed with a better thought, to the perfect manifestation of glorious virtue, the angel surprised Mary’s nature.

Glory. Undivided by the Being, Unfused by the Face of the theologian Thee, the Triple One Divinity, as one royal and co-throne. I cry out to You a great song, like those on high, so hymned.

Theotokos. And you give birth and you are virgin, and you are both of the nature of a Virgin. Being born renews the laws of nature. The womb gives birth without birth. Wherever God wills, natures will run to order: He does whatever He wills.

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And from the morning night, I pray for humane enlightenment. And instruct us in Thy commandments, and teach us, O Saviour, to do Thy will.

Solo. In the night my life passed away forever, for the darkness was fast and the darkness was deep for me, the night of sin. But like the day of the son of the Savior, show me.

Solo. I am like the accursed one, who has committed lawless and lawless counsel against the Most High God, desecrating my bed, like his father’s.

Solo. And I confess to You, Christ the King, that I have sinned, just as the brethren of old sold Joseph, pure and chaste fruit.

Solo. O that kinsman, a righteous soul, is bound to sell himself into sweet work, in the image of the Lord. You sold yourself to your soul, with your evil ones.

Solo. And Osipha’s righteous and chaste mind, imitate the cursed and unnecessary soul. And do not commit adultery in lawless aspirations, ever lawless.

Solo. And sometimes Joseph, Lord Lord, was thrown into the darkness, but in the image of Your burial and resurrection. What will I bring you when I bring this?

Solo. Moses heard that you carry the ark of your soul on the waters and waves of the river, as if in the devil of old, a hill that fled persecution, the council of the Pharaohs.

Solo. And I also heard women who sometimes kill babies of the male sex in the soul, chastity is a matter. You, like the great Moses, listen to wisdom.

Solo. I to Moses the great Egyptian, having wounded the mind, the accursed one, did not kill thou, O soul; and how you entered, they say, into the desert of passions through repentance.

Solo. The great Moses moved into the desert; come and be jealous of his life. Yes, and the hedgehog in the bush of the Epiphany, the soul was honored to see.

Solo. Imagine the rod of Moses striking the soul into the sea, and thickening the depths, in the image of the Divine Cross, so that you too can create great things.

Solo. And the aron offered to God is immaculate, not flattering. But Ophnius and Phinehas, like you, offer a soul that is alien to God, your life is defiled.

Solo. I am of a heavy disposition to the skin of Annius and Omri, the Pharaoh of the city was Master of soul and body and immersed in mind, but help me.

Solo. The damned minds mix with the scarlet. Wash me, Master, in the bath of my tears, I pray to Thee, making my flesh white as snow.

Solo. And I will also test the deeds of Christ, every person who has sinned in vain, as if he sinned in the knowledge of his mind, and not in ignorance.

Solo. Lord, have mercy on your creation, and weaken those who have sinned. For You Yourself are the only One who is pure by nature, and there is no one else for You except filth.

Solo. For my sake, God, you became like me. You showed miracles, healing lepers and healing the weak. You made the current more bleeding, Savior, with the touch of the robe.

Solo. And imitating the soul that humbles you, come and fall at the feet of Jesus, that He may correct you, and walk rightly in the way of the Lord.

Solo. And you, O Lord, are a deep well, springing up water from the most pure veins, and like the Samaritan woman, I thirst for no one: for you flow out streams of life.

Solo. May my tears be with me, Master Lord, may I wash this and the apple of my heart, and see You intelligently in the Eternal Light.

Maria. And rich in considerable desire, having desired to worship the animal tree, you were granted the desire. Make me worthy, too, to receive the highest glory.

Maria. Having left the river of Jordan, you will find peace, having avoided the painless pleasures of your flesh. Even us, too, through your prayers, reverend one.

Glory. We glorify the One God to You Trinity. Holy, Holy, Holy are you, Father and Son and Soul, Simply a Being, ever worshiped by the One.

Theotokos. And you clothed yourself in my humility, the imperishable, husbandless Mother of the Virgin, God who created the eyelids and united human nature to Herself.

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I cried with all my heart to the generous God, and heard me from the underworld, and raised my belly from aphids.

Solo. From the sight of the Savior before my eyes, and from the depths of sighing, I offer, purely, I cry to my heart, God of those who have sinned, cleanse me.

Solo. In the waves of the Savior of my sins, as if returning to the Black Sea, they suddenly cover me, like the Egyptians sometimes do the Tristats.

Solo. My young soul became furious and became like Ephraim. Like a chamois from a snare, rid yourself of life, exalted in action, mind and vision.

Solo. You have sought the soul of your Lord, like Dathan and Aviron. But have mercy on the calls from the underworld, so that the earthly abyss will not cover you.

Solo. Let the hand of Moses assure our souls how God can whiten and cleanse the life of a leper. And don’t despair yourself, even if you are a leper.

Solo. It is unreasonable for you to have acquired the will of your soul, like Israel of old. You preferred divine manna to wordless, lustful, tender-heartedness.

Solo. From the wine of meat and kotla, the Egyptian meat, more than Heavenly, you willed my soul, like the foolish people of old in the desert.

Solo. To the sweets of your soul you preferred Canaanite thoughts, rather than the veins of stone, from which the river flows from the wisdom of wisdom, shedding currents of theology.

Solo. I struck Moses, Your servant, with a rod, a stone, symbolizing Your life-giving side. From them we will draw all the drink of life of the Savior.

Solo. And try your soul and see, like Jesus Navvin, the promises of the land as it is, and dwell in it with goodness.

Solo. As Jesus, Amalek, carnal passions, and the Gibeonites’ flattering thoughts remain and conquer, ever victorious.

Solo. P reid is a temporary current nature, like the ancient ark. And of this land, be in possession of the promise to the soul, God commands.

Solo. I saved the skin of Peter crying out, save me before the Savior from the beasts, and deliver me, stretch out your hand, and lift me up from the depths of sin.

Solo. We are at peace with you, Lord Christ. But from the insurmountable depths of sin, I was desperate to deliver me first.

Solo. And I am the Savior, who destroyed the royal drachma. But the lamp of the Forerunner burned to Your Word, seek and find your image.

Solo. Let us not hear from you, Lord, we send you away from you, neither go into the damned fire, but the good voice of the righteous.

Maria. Yes, you extinguish the flame with passion, you shed drops of tears, Mary’s soul is inflamed. Give this gift to your servant, too.

Maria. Blessedness Heavenly acquisitions, the mother's extreme life on earth. Also, those who sing to you, pray to get rid of the passionate.

Glory. The Trinity is Simple and Indivisible, the Persons are divided: and the Unit is united by nature, the Father and the Son, and the Divine Spirit.

Theotokos. At Thy tomb give birth to us God, imagined for us. As the Creator of all, pray to the Mother of God that we may be justified by Your prayers.

Kontakion, tone 6. D O my ear, my soul, rise up and write, the end is approaching, and you want to say a word; Arise, then, that Christ God, who is everywhere and fulfills all things, may have mercy on you.

Ikos. Christ’s healing is open to sight, and from this I exude health to Adam. The devil suffered and was wounded, and as if he accepted troubles, he wept. And cry out to your friend, “What will I do to the Son of Mary, the Bethlehemite, who is everywhere and does everything, kills me.”

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With the sinner and the lawless, who was not justified before You, neither observant nor did he do as we are commanded. But do not betray us to the end, Fatherly God.

Solo. From those who have sinned and rejected Your commandments, as if they had committed iniquity, they have applied scabs to the sores. But have mercy on me, just as David sings through Your mercy.

Solo. With the sincerest heart of mine, I confess to You, my Judge. See my humility, see my sorrow, attend to my judgment now, and have mercy on me, O God of the Fathers.

Solo. From the village, sometimes, just as if you had destroyed your father, the soul of a donkey will not begin to gain the kingdom, to glorification. But beware that you yourself do not sin, preferring your bestial lusts to the Kingdom of Christ.

Solo. Yes, sometimes the Father of God, even if my soul had sinned: I was shot by an arrow of fornication, but by a spear I was captured by the speed of murder through languor. But you yourself are ill with the most serious deeds, with self-indulgent aspirations.

Solo. From the beginning, David sometimes leads to lawlessness and lawlessness. By murder he mixed fornication, showing repentance purely as abiy. But you have done the most evil thing to your soul by not repenting to God.

Solo. Yes, sometimes imagine, writing down the singing as an image. The same act denounces the self-deed, call and have mercy on me. For you alone are the sinners of all, God: cleanse me Yourself.

Solo. As if he were carrying the sheep on a chariot, and turning into a youth, he touched Ozan and was tempted by God’s wrath. But having fled that boldness, honor the Divine more honestly.

Solo. Thou heardest Avesoloma how the nature of the east was raised. You have taken away his evil deeds and desecrated the bed of your father David. But you became like him with a passionate and unnatural desire.

Solo. You have subjugated your idle dignity to your body. Because Ahithophel had found an enemy in her soul, she listened to his advice. But this scattering is Christ Himself, so that you may be saved in every way.

Solo. With the wonderful Olomon, filled with grace and wisdom, sometimes having done this evil thing before God, depart from Him. To whom you too, by your cursed life, have become like your soul.

Solo. With my voluptuous desire, having become defiled, alas for me. He who is a keeper of wisdom, a keeper of harlots, is strange from God. You too have become like him in your mind about your soul, with your sensuality and defilements.

Solo. Roboam imitated you, not listening to the advice of your father, coupled with the evil of the servant Jeroboam, the ancient apostate soul. But run their likenesses. And call to God, save me who have sinned.

Solo. Manasieva collected sins by will, placing them as abominations of passion, and multiplying indignation in the soul. But you are jealous of repentance, gain warm tenderness.

Solo. And hava imitated my soul with defilements, alas for me, it became a dwelling place for carnal defilements, and the vessel was defiled by passion. But breathe from your depths. And tell God your sins.

Solo. Heaven was opened to your soul, and the feast of God came upon you, like Elijah the Tezbite. And like Ahab, you sometimes disbelieved in words. But be like the Sarephites, and feed the soul of the prophet.

Solo. I fall to Ti and bring to Ti, like my tears are my verbs. Sinners, just as the harlot sinned. Lawless, like no one else on earth. But the Lord have mercy on His creation, and call me.

Solo. I have destroyed Your image, and I have transgressed Your commandment. All kindness has been darkened, and the light of the Savior has been extinguished by passions. But having shown mercy, let me go, as David sings joy.

Solo. O brothers, repent, reveal your deed: say to God, who knows everything, You weigh my innermost being, the only Savior. But have mercy on me, just as David sings through Your mercy.

Maria. Having cried out to the Most Pure Mother of God, first of all out of zeal, having resolved the passions that offend you, you have shamed your enemy. But now give help from sadness, and to me, your servant.

Maria. For whom you loved, for whom you desired, for whose sake you exhausted your body, pray to Christ for His servants, that He may be merciful and give us all peace to those who fear Him.

Glory. The Trinity is Simple and Indivisible, Pre-Essential to the Holy Unity, Light and Light, and the Holy Three, and the One Holy Trinity is sung to God. But sing and praise the Belly and Belly of the soul of all God.

Theotokos. Let us bless You and worship You, the Mother of God, for from the Inseparable Trinity you gave birth to the One Christ God. And You have opened it to us who are on Heavenly earth.

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Even so, the hosts of Heaven glorify and tremble with cherubs and seraphim. Every breath, and every creature, sing and bless, and exalt Him forever.

Solo. Having sinned, the Savior have mercy, raise my mind to repentance. Accept the repentant, show mercy to the crying. Save me those who have sinned, have mercy on me who have sinned.

Solo. Elijah was carried on a chariot, having ascended on a chariot with virtues, as if he were carried into heaven above, sometimes from those on earth. Think about this for my soul.

Solo. The fox sometimes accepts to beat Iliina; he receives pure grace from the Lord. You did not partake of that grace for my soul, through intemperance.

Solo. From time to time, the righteous person established good morals for the soul. You will not bring either stranger or traveler into the house. Moreover, you will be thrown out of the palace, weeping outside.

Solo. And the stream of the Order is first, the mercy of Elijah a hundred here and here. You, my soul, did not partake of grace, not through abstinence.

Solo. You have become like Geziev, a cursed soul with a bad disposition. Put his love of money aside for his old age. Flee hellfire, having retreated from your evil ones.

Solo. You were jealous of Josiah’s soul, and you had this leprosy within you. You think inappropriately and act lawlessly. Leave those who are imash and believers to repentance.

Solo. The souls of the Inevites heard you repenting to God in sackcloth and ashes. You were not jealous of this, but you appeared more flattering than all those who had sinned before the law, and according to the law.

Solo. And in the ditch of filth, you heard Jeremiah’s soul, the city of Zion, crying out with sobs and asking for tears: become like this lamentable life, and be saved.

Solo. And she fled to Tarshish, having foreseen the conversion of the Ninevites, understanding that she was a prophet of God's mercy. Moreover, if you are jealous of prophecy, do not lie.

Solo. Daniel in the ditch heard how you shut your mouth with a beast about your soul. You saw how the children like Azariah extinguished the flames of the burning furnace with faith.

Solo. In this Testament, bring all your soul to the likeness, imitate the righteous, God-loving deeds, and avoid the sins of the evil ones.

Solo. In justice, Savior, have mercy, and deliver me from fire and punishment, which I want to righteously endure in judgment. Weaken me before the end, with virtue and repentance.

Solo. I cry out to the robber, remember me. Like Peter I cry to the mountaineer, weaken my Savior. I call like a publican, I cry like a harlot, accept my weeping, like sometimes the Canaanites.

Solo. Heal the sins of the Savior, the souls cursed by me, the One Physician, apply plasters, and oil and wine, works of repentance, tenderness and tears.

Solo. X Ananaan and I have become like you, have mercy on me, crying out, Son of David, I touch the sparkle of your garments, as if it were bleeding. I cry like Martha and Mary over Lazarus.

Solo. With a useful glass of the Savior, as I pour out myrrh on Your head. I call You like a harlot, mercifully asking, I offer a prayer, and I ask you to accept your abandonment.

Solo. And no one else is like those who have sinned. But in both ways, accept me, O merciful Savior, repenting with fear and calling out to love, those who have sinned to You alone, have mercy on me, O Merciful One.

Solo. Spare the Savior your creation, and seek as a Shepherd the lost. Prevent the lost one, take him away from the wolf. Make me a sheep in the abode of Your sheep.

Solo. And when the Judge sits as the Merciful, and shows His terrible glory to the Savior. Oh cue fear then; burning furnaces, and to all who fear Thy fickle judgment.

Solo. In every breath, when you call, to judge Christ together, then there was great fear, great need. To all who are afraid of Thy constant judgment.

Solo. The Judge of all is my God and Lord, may I then hear Your sweet voice. And I see Your great light, I will see Your dwellings and Your glory, rejoicing forever.

Maria. Having enlightened Mother like the never-ending light, freed you from the darkness of passions. Having also entered into spiritual grace, enlighten Mary and those like you who praise you.

Maria. Zosima was truly horrified when he saw the divine mother in you. Seeing the angel in the flesh, and being filled with horror, chanting Christ forever.

Let us bless the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit of the Lord. B the original Father, and the Son without beginning, who was born of the Father, and the Comforter of the Good Soul of the Right, who proceeded from the Father, the Holy Trinity in one, have mercy on me.

Theotokos. I came from the conversion of the scarlet, the most pure, the intelligent scarlet of Emmanuel, whose flesh was consumed inwardly in the womb. Moreover, we truly honor you as the Mother of God.

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Conception is without seed, Birth is unspeakable, Birth is imperishable to the husbandless mother. God's birth renews nature. In the same way, in all our clans, as the Blessed Mother of God, we orthodoxly magnify You.

Solo. My body has become sore, my body is sick. The spirit is sick, the word is weak. Life is dead, the end is at the door. The same, my damned soul, what will you do when the Judge comes to test you.

Solo. Moses brought worldly existence to your soul, and from this all the sacred Scriptures that tell you, the righteous. And the unrighteous. You were the second to be likened to your soul, and not the first to sin against God.

Solo. The Law, being weak, celebrates the Gospel, but all the Scriptures from you have been neglected. The prophets are exhausted, and all the righteous word. The scabs of your soul have multiplied; I am no longer a physician to heal you.

Solo. Newly brought parables from the Scriptures, leading you to tenderness. Be jealous of the righteous, but turn away from the sinners. And beg Christ, with prayers and fasting and purity and fasting.

Solo. Christ became man and called robbers and harlots to repentance. Repent, soul, the door of the Kingdom has already opened, and the Pharisees and tax collectors and harlots anticipate it with repentance.

Solo. Christ became man, having united with me in the flesh, and all that is of nature is fulfilled by will except sin. Your likeness is about your soul and image, representing Your Majesty.

Solo. X Christ saved the Magi, called the shepherds, showed the child many martyrs. The elders are glorified, and the old widows. You were not jealous of them in your soul, through deeds and humiliation. But woe to you if you ever want to sue.

Solo. After the Lord fasted forty days in the desert, after the hunger, showing humanity. Do not be discouraged in your soul, even if an enemy comes near you, but with prayers and fasting, let it be repelled from your leg.

Solo. Christ was tempted, and the devil tempted Him, showing him the stones so that there would be loaves. He brought him up to the mountain to see the kingdoms of the world in an hour of time. Fear the soul of catching. Soberly pray to God every hour.

Solo. Desert-loving dove, cry out the voice of one crying. Christ's lamp, preaching repentance. Herod committed lawlessness with Herodias. Guard my soul, and do not pollute it with lawless snares. But kiss repentance.

Solo. The grace of the Forerunner moved into the desert, all of Judea and Samaria heard the flow, and confessed my sins, my soul being baptized. You have never been jealous.

Solo. Marriage is therefore honest and the bed is undefiled: Christ first bless both of them, having eaten in the flesh and entered into marriage, turning water into wine, and showing the first miracle, so that you may change about my soul.

Solo. Christ will take hold of the weakened one and lift him up on the bed. And the young man was raised dead, the widow's son. And the youth of the centurion and the Samaritan woman appeared. I have already painted the service in my soul before.

Solo. Heal the one who is bleeding, with the touch of the edge of the robe, the Lord. Cleanse the lepers. Correct the blind and lame by enlightening them. Heal the deaf and dumb and the poor below with a word, so that you may be saved, a damned soul.

Solo. Healing food, preaching Christ to the poor, and healing the harmful with words. You talk with publicans, you talk with sinners. And Airov's daughter, before dead soul return with the touch of your hand.

Solo. The publican escaped, and the harlot remained chaste; and the Pharisee boasted and was condemned. Oh, cleanse me, and have mercy on me. This majestic cry, God, I thank Thee, and other crazy verbs.

Solo. Acchaeus was a publican, but he was saved, and Simon the Pharisee was relieved. And the harlot accepted permission from the one who has power to leave the sins that the soul longed to accept.

Solo. My passionate soul was not jealous of the harlot. Having already accepted the glass of peace, with tears of anointing the nose of the Savior, wiping off his hair, tearing apart the handwriting of the ancient sins.

Solo. Glad that Christ gave the Gospel, you made my soul aware of how cursed we were; Fear the parable, lest you become like them, whom the Lord likened to the Sodomites, and even condemned them to hell.

Solo. Let me not be bitter about my soul, having come out of hope, having heard the Canaanite faith, and for the sake of it I was healed by the word of God. Son of David, save me too, cry out from the depths of my heart, as she sometimes does.

Solo. Save me from mercy, Son of David, have mercy on those who are possessed by healing words. The voice is merciful, like the thief and I from the Izor: Amen I say to you, you will be with Me in Paradise when I come in My glory.

Solo. The robber blasphemed Thee, the robber theologized Thee. Both hung on the cross with You. But O Most Merciful One, with the faithful thief who knew You God, open the door of Thy heavenly Kingdom to me.

Solo. The tormented creature is crucified. You see. Mountains and stones, I fall apart with fear. And the earth shook, and hell lay bare. And the light of the water is darker, in vain Thy Jesus was nailed to the flesh.

Solo. The fruits are worthy of repentance, do not get them from me. For my strength within me is failing. Grant me a contrite heart and spiritual poverty. May I make a shining sacrifice as a sacrifice pleasing to the One Savior.

Solo. With my judgment and my leader, although the angels may again come, judge the whole world. With your merciful eye, then seeing me have mercy, and show mercy to the Savior, who has sinned more than any other human nature.

Andrey. Chorus: Saint Andrew of Christ, pray to God for us. Chorus: Reverend Father Andrew, pray to God for us. And more honest ones, and blessed father, shepherd of Crete, do not stop praying for those who sing to you. May we get rid of all the anger and sorrow and aphids, and sins and troubles, who by faith honor your memory (twice).

Maria. You astonished everyone with your strange life, an angel of rank, and a man of councils, having lived not materially, and having passed on nature. Even though it was not material that Mary entered the Jordan, you passed away.

Maria. Pray to the Creator for those who praise you, reverend mother, to get rid of the bitterness and sorrows around those who rise up. Let us get rid of misfortunes: and let us continually glorify the Lord who glorified you.

Glory. The Trinity, Consubstantial with the Tripartite Unity, We glorify Thee, glorifying the Father, magnifying the Son, and worshiping the Spirit, the one Nature, truly God. Life and the living Kingdom are endless.

Theotokos. You gave birth to One God, and You alone remained a virgin. About a strange birth: about a strange conception. Conception is seedless and Birth is above nature. But O pure Bride of God, keep the flock of your Son, which is a treasure.

Canon of Andrew of Crete in the first week of Lent. Video

The Penitential Canon of Andrew of Crete at the Great Vechernitsa on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of the first week of Lent. Read by Archbishop of Don and Caucasus (Eremeev). Rostov-on-Don, 2017.

The Great Canon of Andrew of Crete. Monday

The Great Canon of Andrew of Crete. Tuesday

The Great Canon of Andrew of Crete. Wednesday

Canon of Andrew of Crete on Mary's standing. Video

The Great Penitential Canon of Andrew of Crete on Mary, standing with prostrations to the ground and an excerpt from the life of the Venerable Mary. The canon is read by the priest. Life - Chairman of the Rostov Community (elder, 87 years old). Old Believer Intercession Cathedral of Rostov-on-Don. Wednesday evening of the fifth Sunday of Lent, 2017.

In the first week of Orthodox churches The Great Penitential of St. Andrew of Crete is read during the service.

It is divided into four parts and is read during the first four days of Lent. Reading the canon at the beginning of Lent helps a Christian to prayerfully tune in to the upcoming feat of fasting.
One of the main spiritual tasks of the Great

Fasting is to help a person think about his life, see his shortcomings and God's help fix them. Without this, a person cannot fully taste the great joy of Easter - the holiday that crowns Great Lent.

The feat of fasting begins with a person crying about his imperfections, about his sins, and ends with triumph and rejoicing in the Risen Lord Jesus Christ.

It is known about the author of the Great Penitential Canon - St. Andrew of Crete - that he came from Damascus, was born in the middle of the seventh century into a family of pious parents and was mute for the first seven years of his life.
But one day a miracle happened: the Lord opened the mouth of the future preacher of repentance.

Body and Blood of Christ, he spoke.

After miraculous healing Saint Andrew decided to devote his life to God. At the age of fourteen he left the world and retired to a monastery. After many years of monastic feat, the monk was elevated to the see of the island of Crete, where he ended his holy life.

Among the theological heritage of St. Andrew of Crete is the Great Penitential Canon, the pearl of church hymnography.

Penitential canon Andrew of Crete describes famous Old Testament events and images - paradise, the fall of Adam and Eve, patriarch Noah and the flood, the Promised Land - and connects them with a feeling of deep repentance for the sins committed.

The saint gives personal meaning to long-standing events of Sacred history; they are shown as a symbolic reflection of those states of mind that every person has.

The narration is told in the first person. The works of God in the past are works concerning us and our salvation; the tragedy of sin and betrayal of the first people to God is our universal tragedy. Human life is revealed as part of a great struggle between God and the forces of darkness, and the place of this struggle becomes the human heart.

One by one, the sins of people are revealed as a consequence of the loss of spiritual union with God, the tragic separation that took place in the fall of the forefathers: “I committed the crime of the primordial Adam; I know that I am cut off from God and His eternal Kingdom and sweetness because of my sins...”

By disobeying his Creator, man lost many divine gifts: “I desecrated the clothing of my flesh, I desecrated what was, O Savior, in the image and likeness. I darkened my spiritual beauty with the pleasures of passions...”

The feeling of one’s defenselessness against the forces of darkness, one’s dependence on sin and at the same time trust in God is very important and healing for a person.
This necessary condition for the return of the lost paradise, this is the first step from which a person’s difficult ascent to holiness and perfection begins - that saving state of “spiritual poverty” that Christ spoke about in the Sermon on the Mount.

A person’s experience of the events of Old Testament history as events of his life is not a poetic metaphor. In order to fully realize his current sinful state, a person must see the origins of his existence.

That is why, in his Repentant Canon, St. Andrew returns to the beginning of existence and the Fall. The one who prays seems to be immersed in the primordial world, where everything speaks about God, everything reflects His Divine glory. His former blissful state is revealed to a person, what he should have become and what he became. Repentance is difficult in the world we live in. Modern world the opposite of the primordial one. He lost the knowledge of God and acquired false ideas about the meaning human existence

. This world is trying with all its might to drown out conscience and repentant feelings in people.

The evil world assures a person damaged by sin that he is healthy, while the spiritually suffering one needs immediate and effective treatment. This cure is repentance.

The Holy Fathers called repentance a “spiritual bath,” for in it a person is washed from the darkness of sins and restored to his former radiant appearance.

Having walked the path of Great Lent and cleansed himself of sinful filth, a person with a pure heart meets the bright Resurrection of Christ and, together with Christ, partakes of eternal blissful life. The penitential canon can be described as a repentant cry, revealing to us all the immensity, the entire abyss of sin, shaking the soul with despair, repentance and hope. With the exceptional art of St. Andrey interweaves great biblical images - Adam and Eve, paradise and the fall, patriarch Noah and the Flood, David, Promised Land

The penitential canon is again and again about the spiritual history of the world, which at the same time is the history of my soul. The words of the Canon call me to account, for they speak of events and deeds of the past, the meaning and power of which are eternal, since each human soul- the one and only - goes through the same test path, faces the same choice, meets the same highest and

the most important reality. The examples from the Holy Scriptures are not simply “allegories”, as many people think, who therefore think that the Great Canon is overloaded with names and incidents that do not apply to them. Such people ask why talk about Cain and Abel, Solomon and David, when it would be easier to say: “I have sinned”? They do not understand that the very concept of the word sin in the biblical and Christian tradition has a depth and richness that “ modern man“Simply cannot understand, and that therefore his confession of his sins is deeply different from true Christian repentance. Indeed, the culture in which we live and which forms our modern views, in essence, simply excludes the concept of sin. Because sin is, first of all, a person’s fall from an immeasurable spiritual height, his abandonment of his “high calling.” But what significance can this have for a culture that does not know and denies this “spiritual height”, this “calling” and evaluates a person not “from above”, but “from below” - for a culture that, if it does not openly deny God, then in fact, everything, from top to bottom, is materialistic and therefore considers a person’s life only from the point of view of material well-being, without recognizing his high, transcendental calling? In it, sin is seen primarily as a natural “weakness,” deriving fundamentally from social disorder and therefore correctable by better social and economic organization. Therefore, modern man, even if he confesses his sins, no longer repents of them. Depending on his understanding of his “religious duties,” he either formally lists his sins and violations of ritual rules, or speaks with his confessor about his “problems,” expecting from religion a kind of therapy, a treatment that will return him happiness and calmness. In neither case do we see repentance, shock of a person who, having seen himself as an image of ineffable glory, realizes that he has betrayed this “image”, tarnished and rejected it with his life; there is no repentance as sadness for sin, coming from the very depths of human consciousness, as a desire to return, as giving oneself to God's mercy and love. This is why it is not enough to simply say, “I have sinned.” These words acquire their true meaning and effectiveness only when sin is perceived and experienced in all its depth and sorrow.

The meaning and purpose of the Great Canon is precisely to reveal sin to us and thereby lead us to repentance. But he reveals sin to us not by definitions and enumerations, but by some deep contemplation biblical history, which truly is a story of sin, repentance and forgiveness. This contemplation introduces us to a completely different spiritual culture, calls us to accept a completely different understanding of man, his life, his goals, his spiritual “motivations.” The Canon restores in us that spiritual worldview within which repentance becomes possible again.