Fifth Sunday of the Great Fast 2014

Brief is my lifetime and full of pain and wickedness, but accept me in penitence and recall me to awareness of You. May I never be the possession or food of the enemy. O Savior, have compassion on me.
The opulent and righteous man, arrayed in royal dignity, crown and purple, abounding in wealth and cattle, was suddenly shorn of his riches, glory and kingdom and became a beggar.
If he who was righteous and blameless beyond all did not escape the snares and nets of the deceiver, what will you do, my soul, who are sin-loving and wretched, if something unexpected happens to you?
Boastful I am, and hard-hearted, all in vain and for nothing. Condemn me not with the Pharisee, but rather grant me the humility of the Publican, O only merciful and just Judge, and number me with him.
I have sinned,I know, O merciful Lord, and outraged the vessel of my flesh, but accept me in penitence and recall me to awareness of You. May I never be the possession or food of the enemy. O Savior, have compassion on me.
I am become my own idol, and have injured my soul with passions, O merciful Lord, but accept me in penitence and recall me to awareness of You. May I never be the possession or food of the enemy. O Savior, have compassion on me.
I have not listened to Your voice,I have disobeyed Your Scripture, O Lawgiver, but accept me in penitence and recall me to awareness of You. May I never be the possession or food of the enemy. O Savior, have compassion on me.
Holy Mother Mary, pray to God for us.
(To St Mary of Egypt): Though dragged down to the depth of great offenses, you were not held there. But with better thought you returned by action to consummate virtue beyond all expectation, to the amazement of angel kind, O Mary.
St. Andrew of Crete

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