English Corner

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Lord Jesus Christ our God; let Your holy Body be my eternal life; Your precious Blood, my remission of sins. Let this eucharist be my joy, health and gladness. Make me, a sinner, worthy to stand at the right hand of Your glory at Your awesome Second Coming, through the prayers of Your most pure Mother and of all the saints.


A Prayer by St. Simeon Metaphrastes

Freely You have given me Your Body for my food. You are a fire consuming the unworthy; do not consume me, my Creator, but instead enter into my members, my veins, my heart. Consume the thorns of my transgressions. Cleanse my soul and sanctify my reasonings. Make firm my knees and body. Illumine my five senses. Nail me to the fear of You. Always protect, guard and keep me from soul-destroying words and deeds. Cleanse me, purify me and adorn me. Give me understanding and illumination. Show me to be a temple of Your One Spirit and not the home of many sins. May every evil thing, every carnal passion, flee from me as from a fire as I become Your tabernacle through communion.
I offer You as intercessors all the saints: the leaders of the bodiless hosts, Your Forerunner, the wise apostles and Your pure and blameless Mother. Accept their prayers in Your love, my Christ, and make me, Your servant, a child of light. For You are the only Sanctification and Light of our souls, Good One, and to You, our Master and God, we ascribe glory day by day.

[tabitha]

A Prayer of St. Basil the Great

Master, Christ our God, King of the Ages, Maker of all things, I thank You for all the good things You have given me, especially for the communion with Your most pure and life-creating Mysteries. I pray You, gracious Lover of mankind: preserve me under Your protection, beneath the shadow of Your wings. Enable me, even to my last breath, to partake worthily and with a pure conscience of Your holy things, for the remission of sins and unto life eternal. For You are the Bread of Life, the Fountain of Holiness, the Giver of all Good; to You we ascribe glory, with the Father and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.

[tabitha]

Do not despair of whatever sins you may have committed since Baptism and find yourself in true repentance, but await God's mercy. However many and however great and burdensome your sins may be, with God there is greater mercy.
Just as His majesty is, so likewise is His mercy. Only guard yourself from sinning henceforth, and walk according to the aforementioned points.

Saint Tikhon of Zadonsk: Journey to Heaven