The great penitential canon of Andrew of Crete. Mozhaisk Deanery

Song 1, voice 6

Irmos: Helper and Protector is my salvation, this is my God, and I will glorify Him, God of my Father, and I will exalt Him, gloriously be glorified.

Singing: Have mercy on me, God, have mercy on me.

Where will I start the placards of my accursed life of deeds? Am I going to lay the foundation for Christ, the present weeping? But as graceful, give me forgiveness of sins.

Come to the accursed soul, with your flesh, confess to the Creator of all, and stay the rest of the primordial silence, and bring tears to God in repentance.

Being jealous of the primordial Adam of crime, knowing myself naked from God and the everlasting Kingdom and sweetness, sin for my sake.

Alas, to my accursed soul, that you have become like the first Eve? I saw that you were evil, and you were bitten by the highlander, and you touched the tree, and you tasted the impudently wordless food.

Instead of Eve, a sensual, mental I was Eve, a passionate thought in the flesh, show sweet, and always taste bitter drinks.

Worthily was expelled from Eden, as if they did not preserve Thy one, Savior, the commandment of Adam; But what about the hardship, rejecting the always animal Thy words?

Glory to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit,

Trinitarian: the Most Holy Trinity, worshiped in the Unity, lift the burden from me from the grievous sinfulness, and as it is benevolent, give me tears of tenderness.

And now and forever and forever and ever, amen.,

Theotokos: to the Theotokos, Hope and Intercession of those who sing to You, take the burden from me, a heavy sinful, and like the Pure Lady, repenting, accept me.

Song 2

Irmos: Take in heaven, and I will cry, and I will sing of Christ, from the Virgin who came in flesh.

Throw in heaven and cry out, inspire the earth with a voice that repents to God and praises Him.

Look at me, God, my Savior, with Your merciful eye, and accept my warm confession.

Those who have sinned more than all others, who have sinned Thee alone; but bless as God, Savior Thy creation.

Imagining my passions as ugliness, lustful aspirations, ruining the mind of beauty.

The storm will take hold of the wicked, God is more blessed; but as for Peter, and stretch out your hand.

Those who defile my flesh are robe, and the hedgehog is turned in the image of the Savior, and in the likeness.

Darkening the spiritual beauty of the passions with sweets, and in every possible way made the whole mind dust.

Now tear my first clothes, from the very beginning, from the very beginning, and from there I lie naked.

I put on a torn robe, with advice from many serpents, and I am ashamed.

The tears of the harlot Generous, and I offer, cleanse me to the Savior with Thy goodness.

Looking at the beauty of the garden, and deceived by the mind; and from there I lie naked, and I am ashamed.

Delasha is on my back with all the chiefs of passions, continuing their iniquity on me.

Trinity: One Thou in three Persons, I sing God of all, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

And now,

Theotokos: Most Pure Theotokos Virgin, one all-singing, pray diligently, in the hedgehog we will be saved.

Song 3

Irmos: On the immovable Christ, the stone of Thy commandments, confirm my thoughts.

Fire from the Lord, sometimes the Lord having rained, the land of Sodom first fell.

Save yourself on the mountain, like that Lot, and drive away to Sigor.

Run the fires, about the soul, run the burning of Sodom, run the decay of the Divine flame.

Those who have sinned You are one, who have sinned more than all, Christ our Savior, but do not despise me.

Thou art the Good Shepherd, seek me a lamb, and let me not despise the erring one.

Thou art sweet Jesus, Thou art my Creator, in Thy Savior I will be justified.

I confess to Thee Savior, who have sinned, have sinned Ty, but weaken, leave it, as it is good.

Trinity: About Trinity, One, God, save us from delusion, and temptations, and circumstances.

Theotokos: Rejoice, Godly womb, rejoice, the throne of the Lord, rejoice Mother of our life.

Song 4

Irmos: Hearing the prophet Thy coming, Lord, and fear, as if you wanted to be born of the Virgin, and appear as a man, and say: I heard Thy hearing, and were afraid, glory to Thy power, O Lord.

Do not despise Thy works, and do not leave Thy creatures to Justice. Even if there is one sin that is like a man, more than any person who is more loving for mankind: but if you are the Lord of all power, forsake sins.

The end of the soul is approaching, it is approaching, and it’s not radish, nor is it ready, time is shortening, rise up, there is a Judge near the doors. Like a sleepyhead, like a color, the time of life is flowing, why are we crumpled in vain?

Rise up about my soul, your deeds have done even more, think, and bring this before your face, and let out the drops of your tears; reckon with the boldness of the deed and the thought of Christ, and be justified.

Do not be in the life of sin, neither deed, nor malice, even as the Savior have not sinned, in mind and word, and by will, and by proposal, and thought, and by deed, having sinned, as in no one else when.

From here I was condemned, from here I was cursed from my conscience, who is nothing in the world that is most needed; Judge, my Deliverer, and Vedche, spare and deliver, and save me Thy servant.

The ladder, even in the form of the ancient great in the patriarch, is an indication to my soul, an active ascent, a rational ascent; If you want your deed, and live with reason and sight, you will be renewed.

The heat of the day endured deprivation for the sake of the patriarch, and the nasty one carried it, creating supplies for every day, grateful, work hard, work, and combine two for his wife.

My wives are two minds, the act and the mind are in sight: Leah for the deed, like many children, Rachel is mind, like a hard one, for apart from work, neither the action nor the sight of the soul will be corrected.

Trinity: The indivisible being, the non-confluent Persons, I theologian Thee, the Trinity One Deity, like the One King and the Divine Throne, the cry of Ty is a great song, in the highest one is triumphantly hymnal.

Theotokos: And razhdayesh, and virginity, and abide by nature, the Virgin, Born renews the laws of nature, the womb gives birth to a non-fervent. God wants, wherever he wants, nature is defeated: he creates more and more wants.

Song 5

Irmos: Matins from the night, Human-loving, I pray enlightenment, and instruct me on Your commands, and teach me to the Savior, to do Your will.

In the night, my life is everlasting, the darkness is faster and deep for me, the burden of sin, but like the day of my son, Savior, show me.

Reuben, imitating the accursed I, is doing a lawless and criminal counsel against God the Most High, desecrating my bed, like his father.

I confess to You Christ the King: they have sinned, have sinned, as if the brothers sold out before Joseph, purity of fruit and chastity.

From kinsmen, a righteous soul was bound, sold into a sweet work, into the image of the Lord; But you were sold with your whole soul by your wicked ones.

Imitate Joseph's righteous and chaste mind, accursed, and inexperienced soul, and do not be defiled by wordless aspirations that are always lawless.

Even in the pit, sometimes Joseph, O Lord, Lord, but in the image of Your burial and Your uprising, but what will You do when I will bring the titmouse?

Trinity: We glorify Thy Trinity, One God: Holy, Holy, Holy art the Father, Son, and Soul, Simple Being, always worshiped by the One.

Theotokos: From You put on my confusion, incorruptible, manless Mother Devo, God who created the ages, and unite human nature for Yourself.

Song 6

Irmos: I cried out with all my heart to the generous God, and when you heard me from the hell of the underworld, lift up my belly from aphids.

Tears to my Savior, my eyes, and from the depths of sighing purely I bring, crying to my heart: God, who have sinned Ty, cleanse me.

Thou soul has turned away from thy Lord, like Dathan and Abiron, but have mercy, call out from hell the underworld, so that the earthly abyss will not cover you.

Like a young woman with a fierce soul, you have become like Ephraim, like a chamois from snares, keep your life, stuck with your mind, and your eyesight.

May the hand of Moses assure our souls how God can whiten and cleanse the life of a leper, and do not despair of yourself, even if you are a leper.

Trinity: Trinity is Simple, Inseparable, Separate Personally, and the One is united by nature, the Father speaks, and the Son, and the Divine Spirit.

Theotokos: Thy womb of God, give birth to us, imagined by us, Him, like the Creator of all, pray, the Mother of God, that we may be justified by Thy prayers.

Lord, have mercy (three times).

Glory to the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit. And now, and ever, and forever and ever. Amen.

Kontakion, voice 6:

My soul, my soul, rise up, why write off? The end is approaching, and imashi be confused, rise up, may Christ God spare you, who is everywhere and fulfill everything.

Canto 7

Irmos: Sinning, unrighteous, unrighteous before Thee, below the observance, below the creator, as you commanded us; but do not betray us to the end, Fathers God.

Those who have sinned, transgressed, and rejected Thy commandment, as though they were produced in sin; and apply the scabs to the ulcers; but have mercy on me, for you are gracious, Fathers God.

The secret of my heart is confessions to Thee of my Judge, see my humility, see my sorrow, and look at my judgment now, and have mercy on me, as you are gracious, Fathers God.

Saul sometimes, as if destroy your father, soul, donkeys, suddenly gain the kingdom for service; but be careful, do not forget to yourself, you have chosen your bestial lusts more than the Kingdom of Christ.

David is sometimes the Godfather, even if he sinned especially, my soul, he was shot with an arrow after adultery, but with a spear he was captivated by languor of murder; but you yourself are ailing by the hardest things, by your self-willed aspirations.

Combine, sometimes, David's iniquity for lawlessness, dissolving fornication for murder, repentance is a pure demonstration of abie; but you yourself have done the most deceitful soul, not repenting to God.

Sometimes, imagine David, having written off as if a song on the icon, by which he denounces the deed, the hedgehog, the call: have mercy on me, for you, the only one who sinned all God, cleanse me yourself.

Trinity: Trinity Simple, Inseparable, Consubstantial, and Essence is One, Light and Light, and Holy Three, and God Trinity is sung in One Holy; but sing, glorify Belly and Belly, soul, all God.

Theotokos: We sing Thee, bless Thee, we worship Theotokos, as the Indivisible Trinity gave birth to the One Christ of God, and She Herself opened Thou to us in heaven on earth.

Canto 8

Irmos: His heavenly armies glorify, and cherubim and seraphim tremble, every breath and creature, sing, bless, and exalt forever.

Having sinned Savior, have mercy, raise my mind to conversion, accept me repenting, harbor crying: those who have sinned, save those who sinned, have mercy on me.

The charioteer Elijah, with the chariot of virtues entered, as if into heaven, sometimes exceeding the earthly ones; this ubo, my soul think of the sunrise.

Elisha sometimes received the mantle of Eliin, he received a special grace from God; But you about my soul, sowing did not partake of grace, for intemperance.

The stream of Jordan is the first of the mercy of Elijah, Elisseus a hundred here and there; But you about my soul, sowing did not partake of grace, for intemperance.

Somanitida sometimes, establish a righteous one about a soul, with a good disposition; You did not bring you into the house, neither strange nor a traveler. The same palace, wear out sobbing.

Gieziev imitated you, the accursed mind is always bad; put off your love of money until old age; Flee the Gehena fire, retreating your wicked.

Trinitarian: Father without beginning, Son of Beginning, Good Comforter, Right Soul, Word of God to the Parent, Father without beginning to the Word, Living Soul and Stand, Trinity One, have mercy on me.

Theotokos: As if from the hardening of the worm, the Most Pure, intelligent purple of Emmanuilev, inwardly in Thy womb, the flesh was exhausted; the same we truly venerate the Mother of God Thee.

Canto 9

Irmos: The seedless conception of Christmas is unspeakable, the Mother of the unmarried is incorruptible Fruit, God's birth renews natures; the same, all of you give birth to the Mother of God as Orthodox we magnify.

The mind is sluggish, the body is deceived, the spirit is sick, the word is exhausted, life is dead, the end is at the door. The same, my accursed soul, what have you done, when the Judge comes to test yours?

Moses brought the world of life to your soul, and from this all the Covenant Scripture, which tells you the righteous and unrighteous; from them, the second, about the soul, imitated you, and not the first, having sinned against God.

The law is exhausted, celebrates the Gospel, but the Scripture is all neglected in you, the prophets are exhausted, and all the righteous word; scabs yours, about soul, multiplying, I do not exist for a doctor who heals thee.

I am bringing forth new instructions from the Scriptures that lead the soul to tenderness; Be jealous of the righteous, turn away from sinners, and propitiate Christ with prayers and fasting, and purity, and fasting.

Christ became human, calling robbers and harlots to repentance; repent of your soul, the door of the Kingdom has already been opened, and the publicans and adulterers who repentant anticipate the Pharisee.

Christ became human, having joined the flesh, and all the tree is the essence of nature, by wanting to fulfill, sin except, likeness to you, about the soul, and an image showing His descent.

Christ will save the Magi, the shepherds of the convocation, the child of many display martyrs, glorify the elders, and the old widows, you are not jealous of their soul, neither deed, nor life, but woe to you, always be judged.

After fasting the Lord for fourty days in the wilderness, follow the hunger, showing the human; soul, let not be lazy, if the enemy is attached to you, let it be reflected from your feet by prayer and fasting.

Trinity: let us glorify the Father, we exalt the Son, we faithfully worship the Divine Spirit, the Trinity Inseparable, the One in essence, like the Light, and the Light, and the Belly, and the Belly, life-giving, and enlightening the ends.

Theotokos: Preserve Thy City, Most Pure Mother of God, in You, reign faithfully, in You it is affirmed, and by You overcome, overcomes all temptation, and captivates warriors, and obedience passes.

Reverend Father Andrew, pray to God for us.

Andrew, the honest and most blessed Father, to the Shepherd of Crete, do not cease praying for those who sing thee, let us get rid of all anger and sorrow, and corruption, and immeasurable sins, honoring your memory faithfully.

Irmos The Helper and Protector is my salvation, this is my God, and I will glorify Him, the God of my Father, and I will exalt Him: gloriously be glorified.

Where will I start the placards of my accursed life of deeds? Can I begin, Christ, the present weeping? but as gracious, grant me forgiveness of sins.

Come, accursed soul, with your flesh, Confess to the Creator of all, and stay the rest of the previous silence, and bring tears to God in repentance.

Being jealous of the primordial Adam of crime, knowing myself naked from God and the everlasting Kingdom and sweetness, sin for my sake.

Alas, to me, cursed soul, that you became like the first Eve? I saw that you were evil, and you were bitten by the mountaineer, and you touched the tree, and you tasted insolently wordless food.

Instead of Eve, sensual mental mi was Eve, in the flesh a passionate thought, show sweet and always taste bitter drinks.

Worthy from Eden was expelled byst, as if they did not preserve Thy one, Savior, the commandment Adam: why should I suffer, sweeping aside Thy animal words?

Cain's murder passed by, by the will of the murderer of the soul's conscience, revived the flesh and fought on nude with my crafty deeds.

Abel, Jesus, who did not become like the truth, did not bring you a pleasant gift when, neither divine deeds, nor pure sacrifices, nor immaculate lives.

Yako Cain and we, a cursed soul, are all bad deeds to the Baker, and a vicious sacrifice, and an obscene life brought together: the same and condemned.

Shaving the Creator alive, gave me flesh, and bones, and breath, and life; but, O my Creator, my Deliverer and Judge, who repents, receive me.

I notify Ty, Savior, sins, even more so, and the soul and body of my ulcers, even inside the murderous thoughts I have put on me.

Even those who have sinned, Savior, but we, as you are a Man-lover, punish mercifully and mercifully with warmth: tearing eyes and pouring in, like a father, calling for the prodigal.

Defeated me, Savior, before Thy gates, don’t take me away to hell for old age, but before the end, like a Man-lover, give me forgiveness of sins.

I am thinking of my thieves, who have fallen into robbers, all of them are now vulnerable and full of wounds, but, having presented myself, Christ the Savior, heal.

The priest, foreseeing me, past the ide, and the Levite, seeing in the fierce naga, despise, but, shining from Mary, Jesus, You, having presented yourself, harbor me.

Lamb of God, take away the sins of all, take a burden from me heavy sinful and, as gracious, give me tears of tenderness.

Time for repentance, Ty is coming, my Creator: take a burden from me a heavy sinful and, as gracious, give me tears of tenderness.

Do not despise me, Savior, do not take me away from Your face, take a burden from me, a heavy sinful and, as gracious, give me forgiveness from the falls.

Free, Savior, and my involuntary sins, revealed and hidden and known and unknown, having forgiven everything, like God, cleanse and save me.

From youth, Christ, Thy commandments of transgression, all-passionate negligence, despondency hate life. I also call Ti, Spas: save me at the end.

My wealth, Savior, exhausted in fornication, I am empty of the pious fruits, I am greedy to call: Father of bounty, having foreseen, Thou hast bounty me.

I fall to You, Jesus, who have sinned Ty, cleanse me, take the burden from me from a heavy sinful and, as gracious, give me tears of tenderness.

Do not come with me to court, bearing my deeds, seeking words and correcting aspirations. But in Thy bounties, despising my fierce one, save me, Omnipotent.

Another canon of the Venerable Mother Mary of Egypt, voice 6:

Thou shalt give me radiant grace from the Divine Providence from above to avoid the passions of defilement and petty diligently for your life, Mary, red correction.

Reverend Mother Mary, pray to God for us.

Leaning into the Divine Law of Christ, Thou didst proceed to this, abandoning uncontrollable aspirations for sweets, and all virtue, as one, corrected Thou.

With your prayers, Andrei, save us the dishonest passions and the Kingdom of Christ now, the commoners of the faith and love singing thee, gloriously, show us, we pray.

Glory: The Most Substantial Trinity, worshiped in the Unity, take a burden from me a grievous sinful and, as gracious, give me tears of tenderness.

And now: To the Theotokos, Hope and Intercession of those who sing to You, take the burden from me, a heavy sinful and, as the Pure Lady, repenting, accept me.

Song 2

Irmos: Look, Heaven, and I will cry, and I will sing of Christ, of the Virgin who came in flesh.

Vonmi, Heaven, and I will speak, to the earth, instill a voice that repents to God and praises Him.

Look at me, God, my Savior, with Your merciful eye and accept my warm confession.

Those who have sinned more than all others, who have sinned Thee alone; but bless, as God, Savior, Thy creation.

The storm will take hold of the wicked, God is more blessed; But as for Peter and me, stretch out your hand.

The tears of a harlot, Generous, and I offer, cleanse me, Savior, with Thy goodness.

Darkening the spiritual beauty of passions with sweets, and in every possible way have made the whole mind dust.

Now tear my first clothes, from the beginning, from the beginning, and from there I lie naked.

I put on a torn robe, with advice from many serpents, and I am ashamed.

Looking at the beauty of the garden and deceived by the mind: and from there I lie naked and disgraced.

Delasha is on my back with all the chiefs of passions, continuing their iniquity on me.

I have destroyed my primordial kindness and beauty, and now I lie naked and ashamed.

Sewing leather vestments is a sin for me, exposing me the first god-woven garments.

I am covered with the garment of a cold, like fig leaves, in denunciation of my autocratic passions.

Put on a shameless robe and a bloody cold current of a passionate and voluptuous belly.

Those who defile my flesh are robe and calcined in the image of the Savior, and in the likeness.

I sank into passionate destruction and material aphids, and from now on the enemy annoys me.

A loving and beloved life, intemperance, the Savior, he prefers now, I am a heavy burden.

I adorn the fleshly image of evil thoughts with various imposition and I am condemned.

Outside, diligently decorating the one was bored, the inner contempt of the God-like tabernacle.

Imagining my passions as ugliness, lustful aspirations ruining the mind of beauty.

The cellar of the first image is kindness, Savior, passions, yuzhe, like sometimes a drachma, having sought, find it.

Those who have sinned, like a harlot, cry to Ty: One who has sinned Thee; like myrrh, accept, Savior, and my tears.

I crawled, like David, fornication and defiled, but washed me, Savior, with tears.

Cleanse, like a tax collector, cry to Ty, Savior, cleanse me: no one else is from Adam, as I have sinned You.

No tears, below the Imam's repentance, below the affection. This is my own, Savior, like God, grant.

Then do not shut your door to me, Lord, Lord, but open this one to me, who repents of Thee.

Human-loving, although everyone be saved, You call on me and accept, as if you are good, repenting.

Inspire the sighs of my soul and accept the drops with my eyes, Savior, and save me.

Most Pure Mother of God Virgin, One All-Singing, pray diligently, in a hedgehog to be saved to us.

Different. Irmos: You see, you see, as I am God, rain-fed manna and water from the stone, pouring water from the stone in ancient times in the desert by My people, by one right hand and by My strength.

You see, you see, as I am God, inspire, in my soul, the Lord is crying, and leave the old sin, and fear, as unwashed and as Judge and God.

To whom have you become like, sinful soul? only to the first Cain and Lamech onom, who stone the body of villainy and killed the mind with wordless aspirations.

Everything before the law had passed, about the soul, Seth did not become like you, neither Enos imitated you, nor Enoch in transposition, nor Noah, but you appeared to be the wretchedness of the righteous life.

Alone, you opened the abyss of the wrath of Your God, my soul, and you drowned all, like the earth, flesh, and deeds, and life, and you stayed outside the saving ark.

Husband killed, speaks, in an ulcer for me and a youth in a scab, Lamech weeping crying; You do not tremble, O my soul, having defiled the flesh and defiled the mind.

About how jealous to Lamech, the first murderer, soul, like a husband, mind, like a young man, like my brother, having killed the body, like Cain the murderer, with compulsive aspirations.

Thou hast managed to create a pillar, about the soul, and set up an affirmation with your lusts, if not the Creator kept your advice and cast your tricks to the ground.

Wounded, uranich, behold the arrows of the enemy, wounded my soul and body; all the scabs, festering, defilements cry, the wounds of my unauthorized passions.

May the Lord wait from the Lord, sometimes fire for angering iniquity, has burned up the Sodomites; You burned the fire of hell, in the same image, about the soul, you conspired.

Understand and see, as I am God, test hearts and torture thoughts, convict deeds, and burn away sins, and judge sira, and humility, and poverty.

Reverend Mother Mary, pray to God for us.

Thou hast stretched out thy hand to the generous God, Mary, immersed in the abyss of evil, and like Peter the benevolent hand of the Divine stretch your appeal in every possible way.

Reverend Mother Mary, pray to God for us.

With all zeal and love you flowed to Christ, turning away the first path of sin, and feeding in the impenetrable deserts, and doing the Divine commandments purely.

Reverend Father Andrew, pray to God for us.

We see, we see philanthropy, about the soul, God and the Lord; For this, for the sake of the end, let us fall cryingly with tears: Andrew with prayers, Savior, have mercy on us.

Glory: Beginningless, Uncreated Trinity, Inseparable to the One, who repent, accept me, save me from sinning, Thy am a creature, do not despise, but spare and deliver me from fiery condemnation.

And now: Most Pure Lady, Mother of God, Hope for those who come to You and haven for those who are in the storm, Gracious and Creator and Thy Son, propitiate me also with Thy prayers.

Song 2

Irmos: On the immovable, Christ, the stone of Thy commandments, establish my thoughts.

Fire from the Lord, sometimes the Lord having rained, the land of Sodom first fell.

Save yourself on the mountain, soul, like this Lot, and drive away to Sigor.

Run the fires, about the soul, run the burning of Sodom, run the decay of the Divine flame.

I confess to You, Savior, who have sinned, who have sinned Ty, but weaken, leave it, as it is good.

Those who have sinned You are one, who have sinned more than all, Christ our Savior, but do not despise me.

Thou art the good Shepherd, seek me, the lamb, and do not despise the erring one.

Thou art sweet Jesus, Thou art my Creator, in You, Savior, I will be justified.

About Trinity One God, save us from delusion, and temptations, and circumstances.

Most Holy Theotokos, save us.

Rejoice, Godly womb, rejoice, the throne of the Lord, rejoice, Mother of our Life.

Different. Irmos

The source of the belly is acquired by Thee, the death of the Overthrower, and I cry out from my heart before the end: those who have sinned, cleanse, save me.

Under Noah, the Savior, who wandered imitations, they inherited condemnation in the flood of immersion.

Those who have sinned, Lord, who have sinned You, cleanse me: there is no one who has sinned in men, who has not surpassed in sin.

Hama onago, imitating the soul of the parricide, did not cover the sincere shame, returning in vain in vain.

She did not inherit the blessing of Shem, you accursed soul, nor a vast obsession, like Japheth, you had on the land of abandonment.

Get out of the land of Harran from sin, my soul, come into the land, which is carving out the incorruption of the animal, the hedgehog inherited from Abraham.

Thou hast heard Abraham, my soul, anciently leaving the land of the fatherland and a former stranger, imitate this will.

At the oak of Mamre, having established the patriarch, angels inherited the promises of catching by old age.

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

Ismaila heard you, be sober, my soul, banished, like a slave's offspring, see, but not something like that, being hurt, tender-hearted.

Ancient agar, soul, the Egyptians became like you, enslaved by willfulness and gave birth to a new Ismail, contempt.

To Jacob, thou didst understand the ladder, my soul, which appeared from earth to Heaven: why didn’t you have a firm rise, piety.

The priest of God and the king is secluded, Christ's likeness in the world of living, imitate in men.

Do not wake up the slain pillar, for the soul, returning back, may the image of Sodom frighten you, woe to Sigor, save yourself.

Ignition, like Lot, run, my soul, of sin, run Sodom and Gomorrah, run the flame of every wordless desire.

Have mercy, Lord, have mercy on me, cry to Ty, when you come with Your angels to repay everyone according to the property of deeds.

Prayers, Lord, do not reject those who sing to You, but harbor, Human-loving, and grant by faith those who ask for abandonment.

Reverend Mother Mary, pray to God for us.

We contain the storm and anxiety of sins, but now save me, mother, and build me up to the abode of Divine repentance.

Reverend Mother Mary, pray to God for us.

Servant prayer and now, saint, bring to the more blessed prayers of the Mother of God, open up the Divine entrances.

Reverend Father Andrew, pray to God for us.

With your prayers, grant me the forgiveness of debts, O Andrew, the chairman of Crete, of repentance, for you are an incredible mystery.

Glory: Trinity Simple, Uncreated, Originless Nature, in the Trinity sung by the Hypostases, save us, worshiping Thy power by faith.

And now: From the Father the flightless Son in the summer, to the Mother of God, thou artlessly gave birth, a strange miracle, when the Virgin was milked.

Irmos Confirm, O Lord, on the stone of Thy commandments my heart that has moved, that God alone is Holy.

Sedalen Voice 8:

Divine luminaries, Spasov's apostles, enlighten us in the darkness of life, as if in our days we walk gracefully, running away with the light of abstinence from the passions of the night, and we will see the bright passions of Christ, rejoicing.

Glory, another sedal, the same voice:

Apostolic Twelve, God's Chosen, bring the prayer to Christ now, a lenten path for all to pass away, to those who perform prayers in emotion, who diligently do virtues, as if we will see Christ God in advance of the glorious Resurrection, bringing glory and praise.

And now, the Theotokos:

The incomprehensible God, the Son and the Word, unspeakably more mind-bred from Thee, pray to the Mother of God, from the Apostles, the world of the universe is pure tribute and sins to give us forgiveness before the end, and the Kingdom of Heavenly extreme for the sake of goodness to grant Thy servants.

Also triple-song, voice 8:

Song 4

Irmos: Hearing, O Lord, Thy Sacrament, understanding Thy deeds and glorifying Thy Divinity.

By abstinence, the enlightenment of Christ's apostles, abstinence, the time for us divine intercession calm down.

Holy Apostles, pray to God for us.

The twelve-stringed organ is a song of salvation, the Divine face of the disciples, a crafty revolting voice.

Holy Apostles, pray to God for us.

Through spiritual dressing, all sunflower seeds are filled with dryness, the land has driven away polytheism, all-bliss.

Most Holy Theotokos, save us.

Having resigned, save me, having lived with wisdom, giving birth to the Ascended humble nature, the All-Pure Virgin.

Different. Irmos, the voice is the same: Hearing, Lord, Thy sight of the sacrament, understanding Thy deeds and glorify Thy Divinity.

Holy Apostles, pray to God for us.

Apostolic all-honorable exultation, the Creator of all praying, ask for mercy, praising thee.

Holy Apostles, pray to God for us.

As a doer being, Christ's apostles, who cultivated in the whole world by the Divine word, bear fruit to Him always.

Holy Apostles, pray to God for us.

The grapes are faster than Christ's truly beloved, the wine is the spiritual source of the world, apostles.

Holy Trinity, our God, glory to Thee.

Primordial, Consistent, Omnipotent Holy Trinity, Father, Holy Word and Soul, God, Light and Belly, save your flock.

Most Holy Theotokos, save us.

Rejoice, fiery throne, rejoice, illuminating lamp, rejoice, city of consecration, ark of Life, holy hay of saints.

Great Canon Irmos: Hearing the prophet your coming, Lord, and being afraid, as if you wanted to be born of the Virgin and appear as a man, and say: I heard your hearing and were afraid, glory to your strength, Lord.

Do not despise Thy works, and do not leave Thy creation, to Justice. If only those who have sinned, like a man, more than any man, is more Human-loving; but Imashi, like the Lord of all, has the power to forgive sins.

The end is approaching, to the soul, it is approaching, and it’s not happy, nor is it ready, the time is shortening: rise up, there is a Judge near the doors. Like a sleepyhead, like a color, the time of life is flowing: why are we crumpled in vain?

Rise up, my soul, your deeds, you have done even more, think, and bring this before your face, and let out the drops of your tears; rtsy with the boldness of the deed and the thought of Christ and be justified.

Do not be in the life of sin, neither deed, nor malice, even as I, Savior, who have not sinned, by the mind, and by the word, and by the will, and by the proposal, and by the thought, and by the deed, having sinned, as in no one else when.

From here I was condemned, from here and I was prepended, accursed, from my conscience, which is nothing in the world that is most needed: Judge, my Deliverer and Vedche, spare, and deliver, and save me, Thy servant.

The ladder, still in the form of an ancient great in the patriarch, is an indication, to my soul, of an active ascent, of a rational ascent: if you want to live by deed, and by reason and vision, you will be renewed.

The heat of the day endured deprivation for the sake of the patriarch and the scum of the night carried, for every day, making supplies, grazing, work hard, work, and combine two for his wife.

My wives are two minds, deed and reason are in sight, Leah is deed, like many children, Rachel is mind, like a hard one; for apart from labors, neither deed, nor sight, soul, will be corrected.

Behold, O my soul, make money, as the great old in the patriarch, and acquire a deed with reason, but be mind, forget God, and reach the everlasting darkness in vision, and be a great merchant.

Having created two ten great patriarchs in the patriarch, secretly affirm to you the ladder of active, my soul, ascent: children, as foundations, degrees, as ascents, having wisely planted.

Esau imitated the hated soul, you gave the first kindness to your charmer, and you fell away from your fatherly prayer, and you crawled twice, accursed, by deed and reason: so also now repent.

Esau will be called Edom, extreme for the sake of misogynistic confusion: by intemperance we always kindle and desecrate with sweets, we are called Edom, it is said to kindle the soul of any sinful person.

Hearing Job for pus, about my soul, justified, you were not jealous of that courage, you did not have a firm offer in everyone, even if you were, and you were tempted by the image, but you were impatient.

He who was the first on the throne, now naked on the pus, is pus, many in children and glorious, childless and homeless in vain: the ward is cleaned of the pestilence and the beads of the scabs.

He was clothed with royal dignity, a crown and a purple robe, a man of many names and righteous, boiling wealth and flocks, suddenly wealth, glory of the kingdom, becoming impoverished, deprived.

As long as he is righteous and blameless more than all, and not avoiding the catch of the flattering one and the net; But you are sin-loving in essence, cursed to your soul, what you have done, if something else happens to you from the unknown?

The body is defiled, the spirit is cursed, all frail, but like a doctor, Christ, heal your wallpaper with my repentance, washed, cleanse, show, My Savior, purer than snow.

Thy body and blood, crucified about all, Thou hast laid down, to the Word: body, renew me, blood, and wash me. Thou hast delivered up the Spirit, and bring me to Christ, Thy Parent.

Thou hast made salvation in the midst of the earth, Generous, let us be saved. By will, thou art crucified on a tree, We are going shut, having opened, the heavenly and dolny creature, the tongues of all salvation worship You.

Let there be my font, blood from Thy ribs, together and drink, which drained the water of abandonment, and I cleanse myself both, anointing and drinking, like anointing and drinking, to the Word, Thy belly words.

Naked am the palace, naked am I and marriage, bush and suppers, the lamp is extinguished, like a bezelless one, I am sleeping in the palace, I have eaten the supper, but I am tied by hand and leg, I am overthrown.

The chalice is the Church of the tie, Thy ribs are life-giving, from which the currents of abandonment and reason, in the image of the ancient and the new, two together covenants, our Savior, are added to us.

The time of my life is small and full of sickness and deceit, but in repentance, accept me and call me into your mind, so I will not acquire anything, not a stranger, Savior, You Himself harbor me.

Now I am highly vocal, but cruel in heart, in vain and in vain, so do not condemn me with the Pharisee. Moreover, the publican's humility is given to me, to the One Generous, to Justice, and for this they numbered me.

Those who have sinned, vexing the vessel of my flesh, we are, Generous, but in repentance receive me and call into my mind, so I will not acquire anything alien to a stranger, Savior, harbor me Himself.

Self-blowing passions, harming my soul, Generous, but accept me in repentance and call upon me in my mind, so I will not acquire anything alien to a stranger, Savior, Harbor me Himself.

I did not obey Your voice, I did not listen to Your Scripture, the Lawgiver, but accept me in repentance and call into my mind, so that I will not acquire anything alien to a foreigner, Savior, harbor me Himself.

Holy Trinity, our God, glory to Thee.

Reverend Mother Mary, pray to God for us.

The incorporeal dwelling in the flesh is transient, grace, saint, truly accepted the great God, truly honor you, intercede. We also pray that you, from all misfortunes and save us with your prayers.

Reverend Mother Mary, pray to God for us.

Having descended into the depths of great absences, Thou was not possessed, but Thou didst drift with the best thought to the extreme deeds of virtue, gloriously, angelic nature, Mary, astonishing.

Reverend Father Andrew, pray to God for us.

Andrei, fatherly praise, do not cease with your prayers, praying, standing in front of the Most Divine Trinity, as if we will get rid of torment, the love of the representative of the Divine, all-blessed, inviting fertilizer to Crete.

Glory: Inseparable Being, Unspecified Faces I theologian Thee, Trinity One Deity, like the One-Royal and Accompanying Throne, crying Ty a great song, in the highest, triumphantly hymnal.

And now: And razdayesh, and virgin, and abide both by nature, Virgo, Born renews the laws of nature, the womb gives birth to a non-fervent. God where he wants, the nature is defeated: he creates more, the tree wants.

Song 5

Irmos: Matins from the night, Human-loving, enlighten, I pray, and instruct me on Your commands, and teach me, Savior, to do Your will.

In the night, my life is everlasting, the darkness is faster, and the darkness is deep for me, the burden of sin, but like the day of my son, Savior, show me.

Reuben imitating, accursed by the lawless and law-breaking advice against God the Most High, desecrating my bed, like his father.

I confess to You, Christ the King: those who have sinned, who have sinned, as if the brethren had sold before Joseph, purity of fruit and chastity.

From relatives a righteous soul was bound, sold into a sweet work in the image of the Lord; But all of you, soul, you were sold by your wicked.

Imitate Joseph's righteous and chaste mind, accursed and unsophisticated soul, and do not be defiled by wordless aspirations, always lawless.

Even in the pit, sometimes Joseph, O Lord, Lord, but in the image of Your burial and Your uprising: But what will You do when I will bring the tit?

Moiseov heard the Ark, to our souls, by the waters, by the waves of the river, as if in the devil of old running deeds, the bitter advice of the Pharaoh.

If women have heard you, sometimes killing an ageless masculine, cursed soul, chastity act, now, like the great Moses, si wisdom.

Like Moses the great Egyptian, mind, wounded, cursed, did not kill you, soul; and how did you enter, verbs, into the desert of passions through repentance?

The great Moses moved into the wilderness; come ubo, imitate that life, and in the bush of the Epiphany, soul, in vision you will be.

Imagine the rod of Moses, to the soul, striking the sea and thickening the depth into the image of the Divine Cross: you can also do the great.

Aaron bring fire to God, blameless, unflattering; but Ophni and Phinehas, as if you, to my soul, bring something more alien to God, a defiled life.

Like a heavy temper, bitter Pharaoh, Master, Janni and Jambri, soul and body, and immersed in mind, but help me.

Kalu will be admixed, accursed, mind, washed me, Master, washed my tears, I pray to Thee, my flesh clothes whitened like snow.

If I test my deeds, Savior, I see every person who has transcended sins for myself, as if you think with your mind, sinning not with ignorance.

Spare, spare, O Lord, Thy creature, who have sinned, weaken them, as by nature the pure One Himself is One, and then is there no one else for You except filth.

For the sake of God, you imagined yourself in me, showed you miracles, healing a leper and tightening the weakened one, you set the bleeding current, Savior, with the touch of the robe.

Imitate the bleeding, cursed soul, pets, hold back Christ's sweets, so save your wounds and hear from Him: save your faith.

Imitate the decaying bottom, about soul, come, fall at the feet of Jesus, so he will correct thee, and so walk the right path of the Lord.

If you are a deep treasure, O Lord, pour water from Thy purest life, yes, like a Samaritan woman, no one else, drink, I thirst: you exude life in streams.

Siloam may my tears be mine, O Lord, may I wash the apple of my heart and see Thee intelligently, eternal Light.

Reverend Mother Mary, pray to God for us.

With an incomparable desire, the all-rich, having longed to worship the animal, you were honored with desire, grant me and me to gain the higher glory.

Reverend Mother Mary, pray to God for us.

Having passed the jets of the Jordan, you have found painless peace, having escaped the flesh of the sweetness, so even us by your prayers, saint.

As if she were the most fair shepherds, Andrei the Wise, the chosen one is, I pray with great love and fear, with your prayers, to improve salvation and eternal life.

Glory: Ty, Trinity, we glorify, the One God: Holy, Holy, Holy art, Father, Son and Soul, Simple Being, always worshiped by the One.

And now: From You put on my confusion, imperishable, manless Mother Devo, God who created the eyelids, and unite human nature to Yourself.

Song 6

Irmos

Tears, Savior, my eyes and from the depths of sighing I bring purely, crying to my heart: God, who have sinned Ty, cleanse me.

Thou, soul, have turned away from thy Lord, like Dathan and Abiron, but have mercy, call out from hell, the underworld, so that the earthly abyss will not cover you.

Like a young woman, a soul, furious, you have become like Ephraim, like a chamois from the snares save your life, stuck with your mind and vision.

Let the hand of Moses assure us, soul, how God can whiten and cleanse the life of a leper, and do not despair of yourself, even if you are a leper.

Waves, Savior, my sins, as if Chermnem returning to the sea, covering me suddenly, as sometimes the Egyptians are three hundred and fifty.

You had an unreasonable, soul, will, as before Israel: Divine boonies foresaw you a wordlessly compulsive passions enrichment.

Babies, to the soul, you preferred Canaanite thoughts over veins to stone, out of worthless wisdom a river, like a bowl, sheds currents of theology.

Pork meat and cauldrons and Egyptian food, more than Heavenly, you have judged, my soul, as anciently foolish people in the desert.

Like strike Moses, Thy servant, with a rod of stone, figuratively giving life to Thy ribs, from which we will draw all the drink of life, Savior.

Try, soul, and see, like Joshua, the promises of the earth as it is, and dwell in it with good law.

Get up and fight, like Jesus Amalek, carnal passions, and the Gibeonites, flattering thoughts, always conquering.

Pass over to time the current nature, as before the ark, and these lands awake in the obsession of the promise, the soul, God commands.

As if you saved Peter, crying out, save me, Savior, save me from the beast, stretch out Your hand, and raise from the depths of sin.

You have a quiet haven, Master, Lord Christ, but beforehand, deliver me from the deep depths of sin and despair.

I am, Savior, you have ruined the ancient royal drachma; but I burned the lamp, Thy Forerunner, the Word, seek and find Thy image.

Reverend Mother Mary, pray to God for us.

Yes, extinguish the flame of the passions, thou didst shed tears of tears, Mary, whose soul was inflamed, grant them the same grace to me, your slave.

Reverend Mother Mary, pray to God for us.

Heavenly dispassion you have acquired the most extreme life on earth, mother. So much the same for you who sing, get rid of passions with your prayers.

Rev. Father Andrew, pray to God for us.

I know that the Cretan pastor and chairman and the universe of the prayer book, I flow, Andrew, and cry out: change me, father, from the depths of sin.

Glory: Trinity is Simple, Inseparable, separate to the Person and the One is united by nature, the Father speaks, and the Son, and the Divine Spirit.

And now: Thy womb of God, give birth to us, is imagined by us: Himself, like the Creator of all, pray to the Mother of God, that we may be justified by Thy prayers.

Irmos: I cried out with all my heart to the bounteous God, and when you heard me from the hell of the underworld, and lift up my belly from aphids.

Kontakion, voice 6:

My soul, my soul, rise up, why write off? the end is approaching, and imashi will be confused: rise up, may Christ God spare you, who is everywhere and fulfill everything.

Ikos:

Seeing Christ's medicine is open and from this Adam flowing health, suffering, the devil hit and, as if in distress, cry and cry to your friend: that I will create the Son of Mary, the Bethlehemian is killing me, Who is everywhere and fulfill everything.

Also blessed, voice 6:

In Thy Kingdom, remember us, Lord.

Thou art the robber, Christ, the inhabitant of Paradise, crying out to Thee on the cross: Remember me; grant him repentance and me, unworthy.

Blessed are the poor in spirit, for those are the Kingdom of Heaven.

Manoah, having heard in ancient times, my soul, God in a manifestation and out of barrenness, then having received the fruit of the promise, imitate that piety.

The blessedness of crying, for they will be comforted.

Having become jealous of laziness, Sampson's head was shaved off, soul, of your deeds, having betrayed a chaste and blissful life by a foreigner with love.

The blessedness of crotzia, for they will inherit the earth.

First conquering foreigners with a donkey's jaw, now captivity to passionate affection is found; but avoid, my soul, imitation, deeds and weaknesses.

The blesses of hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be satisfied.

Barak and Jephthah were generals, judges of Israel's preferences were, with them the courageous Devorrah; those with valor, soul, hardened, strengthened.

Blessedness of mercy, as there will be mercy.

Thou art Jailino's courage, my soul, Sisera of old pierced and made salvation with a sharp tree, hear that a cross will be formed for you.

Blessed are those who are pure in heart, for they will see God.

Eat, soul, a meritorious sacrifice, deed, like a daughter, offer from Jephthah the purest one and kill, like a sacrifice, the fleshly passion of your Lord.

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called the sons of God.

Think of Gideon's fleece, my soul, lift up the dew from heaven and creep, like a dog, and drink the water that flows from the law, written expulsion.

Be blessed to drive out the truth for the sake of those who are the Kingdom of Heaven.

Elijah the priest condemnation, my soul, you perceived, by deprivation of the mind, having acquired passions for yourself, as he is a child, to do lawless.

Blessed naturally, when they revile you and wear out and rekut every evil verb against you lying, for my sake.

In the judges, the Levite, by negligence, stripped his wife with two ten tribes, my soul, so that he exposes the wickedness of Benjamin from the defilement.

Rejoice and be merry, for your wages are many in Heaven.

Loving Anna praying, verbally, dvizash to praise, but her voice is not heard, but she is also barren, she is worthy of a son of prayer.

Remember us, Lord, when you come to Thy Kingdom.

Annino's offspring, the great Samuel, who was also brought up by Armathem in the house of the Lord, will be hidden in the judges; Be jealous of this, my soul, and judge first of all your works.

Remember us, Master, when you come to Thy Kingdom.

David was elected to the kingdom, royally anointed with the horn of the Divine peace; you, my soul, if you want the Highest Kingdom, anoint yourself with tears with the world.

Remember us, Holy One, when you come to Thy Kingdom.

Have mercy on Thy creature, Merciful, grasp the hand of Thy creation and spare all that have sinned, and, less than all, Thy contemptuous commands.

Glory: Without beginning and birth and origin, I bow to the Father who was born, I glorify the Son who was born, I sing to the Holy Spirit who has interrogated the Father and the Son.

And now: We worship Thy natural Christmas, according to the nature of Thy Child's glory, we do not divide, the Mother of God: Who is One Face, the nature is confessed with arrogance.

Canto 7

Irmos: Sinning, unrighteous, unrighteous before Thee, below the observance, below the creator, as you commanded us; but do not betray us to the end, Fathers God.

Those who have sinned, transgressed and rejected Thy commandment, as if they were produced in sin, and applied scabs to sores; but have mercy on me, for you are gracious, Fathers God.

The secret of my heart is confessions to You, my Judge, see my humility, see my sorrow, and look at my judgment now, and have mercy on me, as you are blessed, Fathers God.

Saul sometimes, as if destroy your father, soul, donkeys, suddenly gain the kingdom for service; but be careful, do not forget to yourself, you have chosen your bestial lusts more than the Kingdom of Christ.

David is sometimes the Godfather, even if he sinned especially, my soul, he was shot with an arrow after adultery, but with a spear he was captivated by languor of murder; but you yourself are ailing by the hardest things, by your self-willed aspirations.

Combine, sometimes, David's iniquity for lawlessness, dissolving fornication for murder, repentance is a pure demonstration of abie; but you yourself, the most crafty of your soul, have done art, not repenting to God.

Sometimes, imagine David, having written off as if a song on the icon, by which he denounces the deed, the hedgehog, the call: have mercy on me, for you, the only one who sinned all God, cleanse me yourself.

The kivot is as if worn on a chariot, Zanny, when I turn to a calf, I will touch a toe, God’s temptation with anger; but having escaped that boldness, to your soul, honor the Divine more honestly.

Thou hast heard Absalom, what is the nature of the East, Thou hast cognized this evil deed, in the image of defiling the bed of David's father; but you imitated that passionate and voluptuous aspiration.

Thou hast conquered thy idle dignity to thy body, having found another enemy, Akhitofel, to the soul, Thou hast descended this with advice; but this is scattered by Christ Himself, that you will be saved in every way.

Wonderful Solomon and full of the grace of wisdom, having sometimes done this wicked thing before God, depart from Him; To him, by your accursed life, to your soul, you have become like you.

Sweeten the lure of your passions, defiled, alas for me, a seeker of wisdom, a destroyer of prodigal wives, and is strange from God; You imitated him with your mind, soul, and bad lusts.

You were jealous of Rehoboam, who did not listen to the advice of the father, worst enemy To Jeroboam, the former apostate, soul, but run from imitation and call to God: those who have sinned, harbor me.

You were jealous of the Ahaavs for filth, my soul, alas for me, was abode of fleshly filth and the vessel was shamed by the passions, but from your depths sigh and speak your sins to God.

Elijah sometimes hit two and fifty Jezebel, when you destroy the cold prophets in the conviction of Achaab, but run imitating two, soul, and be strong.

Conclude heaven for you, soul, and the smoothness of God comprehends thee, when Elijah the Thesbite, like Ahaav, do not submit with words sometimes, but become like Saraffia, nourish the prophesied soul.

Manassieva collected your sins by deliberation, staged, like abominations, passions, and multiplying, soul, indignation, but you are jealous of repentance warmly, acquire tenderness.

I fall to Ti and bring you, like tears, my verbs: sinned, as if a harlot did not sin, and iniquities, as there is no one else on earth. But grasp, Master, Thy creation and call upon me.

Thy image buried and Thy commandment corrupted, all kindness darkened, and passions extinguished, Savior, light. But, having gorged, reward me, as David sings, joy.

Turn, repent, open the hidden one, say to God, all leading: You weigh my secret, only Savior. But have mercy on me, as David sings, according to your mercy.

Disappeared my days, like a sleeping sleepy; the same, like Hezekiah, I will get down on my couches, kiss my belly in the summer. But cue Isaiah will appear to you, soul, if not all God?

Reverend Mother Mary, pray to God for us.

Having cried out to the Most Pure Mother of God, you first rejected the fury of passions that need to be cold, and you put the enemy to shame. But give now help from grief to me, your servant.

Reverend Mother Mary, pray to God for us.

You have loved Him, You have longed for Him, You have exhausted Him for the sake of the flesh, saint, pray now to Christ for your servants: as if you were merciful to all of us, you will give a peaceful state to those who worship Him.

Reverend Father Andrew, pray to God for us.

Confirm me on the stone of faith with your prayers, Father, protecting me with Divine fear, and repentance, Andrew, give me, pray to you, and deliver me from the network of enemies looking for me.

Glory: Trinity Simple, Inseparable, Consubstantial and Essence One, Light and Light, and Holy Three, and One Holy Trinity is sung; but sing, glorify Belly and Belly, soul, all God.

And now: We sing to Ty, bless Thee, worship Ty, the Mother of God, as if the Inseparable Trinity gave birth to the One Christ God and She Herself opened Thou to us, who are on earth, Heavenly.

Threesome, voice 8:

Canto 8

Irmos: The beginningless King of glory, Heavenly powers tremble for him, sing, priests, people, exalt forever.

Holy Apostles, pray to God for us.

Like the coal of an immaterial fire, burn my material passions, the desire for Divine love that now lingers in me, apostles.

Holy Apostles, pray to God for us.

Let us honor the trumpets of the good-hearted Word; in the image of the fall of the wall, enemies are unconfirmed, and the divine intelligence is taken away.

Holy Apostles, pray to God for us.

Crush the idols of my passionate soul, those like the temples and pillars of the crushing enemy, the apostles of the Lord, the temple of consecration.

Most Holy Theotokos, save us.

Thou hast contained the Incompatible nature, thou hast carried the Wearer, the whole, thou hast milked, the Pure, nourishing creature of Christ the Life-Giver.

Another tri-song. Irmos: The beginningless King:

Holy Apostles, pray to God for us.

The Spirit began by cunning to create the whole Church, Christ's apostles, in her bless Christ forever.

Holy Apostles, pray to God for us.

Having trumpeted all the idolatrous flattery of the apostles, exalting Christ forever.

Holy Apostles, pray to God for us.

Apostles, good transgression, desecration of the world and Heavenly life, who ever praises you, save you from troubles.

Holy Trinity, our God, glory to Thee.

Three-solar All-Illuminated Godhead, One-Orthodox and One-Throne to Nature, Father to the All-Father, Son and Divine Soul, I sing Thee for ever.

Most Holy Theotokos, save us.

Like an honest and superior throne, let us sing to the Mother of God incessantly, people, One Mother and Virgin after birth.

Great Canon Irmos

Having sinned, Savior, have mercy, raise my mind to conversion, accept the repentant me, gratuitously crying: those who have sinned, save, wicked ones, have mercy on me.

The charioteer Elijah entered the chariot of virtues, as if into heaven, sometimes exceeding earthly ones; this thing, my soul, think of the sunrise.

The Jordanian stream is the first to the mercy of Elijah Elissei a hundred here and there; But you, my soul, sowing did not partake of grace for intemperance.

Elisha sometimes received the mantle of Eliin, he received a special grace from God; But you, my soul, sowing did not partake of grace for intemperance.

Somanitida sometimes establish a righteous one, about a soul, with a good disposition; You did not bring you into the house, neither a strange nor a traveler. The same palace you wore out, sobbing.

Gieziev imitated art, accursed, always bad mind, soul, its love of money put aside until old age; Flee the Gehena fire, retreating your wicked.

Thou art Uzziah, soul, being jealous, you have acquired this leprosy in yourself especially: you have no place for thinking, but you are lawless; Leave, even the Imash, and the flock to repentance.

Ninevites, souls, you heard repenting to God, with sackcloth and ashes, you did not imitate these, but you were the wicked one of all, who sinned before the law and according to the law.

In the moat of blata you heard Jeremiah, in soul, the city of Zion crying with crying sobs and seeking tears; imitate this deplorable life and be saved.

Jonah flee to Tarshish, understanding the conversion of the Ninevites, mind bo, like a prophet, God's blessing: the same jealous of your prophecy, do not lie.

Daniel in the moat you heard how to block your mouth, about the soul, beasts; Thou didst take away, what kind of youths, those of Azariah, extinguishing the burning flame with faith.

All of the Old Testament bring you, soul, to likeness; imitate the righteous God-loving deeds, avoid the packs of evil sins.

Savior Justice, have mercy and deliver me fire and rebuke, the hedgehog imam righteously endure at the judgment; weaken us before the end, by virtue and repentance.

Like a robber, cry Ty: remember me; like Peter, I cry to the mountaineer: weaken me, Savior; I call, like a tax collector, I will dismount, like a harlot; accept my sobs, as sometimes Hananein.

Putrefaction, Savior, heal my humble soul, the One Doctor, put a plaster on me, and oil, and wine, works of repentance, tenderness with tears.

Canaanite and I imitating, have mercy on me, cry, Son of David; I touch the edge of the robe, as if bleeding, crying, like Martha and Mary over Lazarus.

I call Ty, like a harlot, seeking mercy, I bring a prayer and ask for abandonment to accept the tearful Savior.

If there is no one else, as if I have sinned You, but both accept and Me, blessed Savior, repenting with fear and love, calling: those who sinned You, the One, have mercy on me, Merciful.

Spare, Savior, Thy creation and seek, like the Shepherd, perished, anticipate the deluded one, capture from the wolf, create me a sheep on the flock of Thy sheep.

When, Judge, sit down, as if blessed, and show Thy terrible glory, Savior, about what fear then, a burning chamber, to all who fear Thy intolerable judgment.

Reverend Mother Mary, pray to God for us.

Having enlightened the light of the imminent Mati, from the darkening of the passions, allow it. Also, having entered into spiritual grace, enlighten Mary, who praises you faithfully.

Reverend Mother Mary, pray to God for us.

Seeing a new miracle, the divine in you is truly horrified, mother, Zosima: the angel is in vain in the flesh and is all filled with horror, singing Christ forever.

Reverend Father Andrew, pray to God for us.

Like boldness in the Lord, Andrew of Crete, honest praise, I pray, praying permission from the bonds of iniquity to now find me with your prayers, as repentance is a teacher and saints glory.

Let us bless the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit of the Lord.

The Father is without beginning, the Son is without beginning, the Good Comforter, the Right Soul, the Word of God to the Parent, the Father is without the beginning to the Word, the Living Soul and Stand, Trinity One, have mercy on me.

And now and ever and ever.

As if from the hardening of the worm, the Most Pure, intelligent purple of Emmanuilev, inside in Your womb, the flesh was exhausted. The same, the Mother of God is truly thee we revere.

We praise, bless, worship the Lord, singing and exalting for all ages.

Irmos: His Heavenly armies praise and tremble with cherubs and seraphims, every breath and creature, sing, bless and exalt for all eternity.

We sing the Honest:

Threesome, voice 8:

Canto 9

Irmos: Verily, we confess Theotokos to Thee, saved by Thee, Virgin, pure, with incorporeal faces of Thee, gloriously.

Holy Apostles, pray to God for us.

The apostles appeared to the sources of the water of salvation, irrigate my soul with sinful thirst.

Holy Apostles, pray to God for us.

Floating in the abyss of death and in immersion, which was already Your right hand, like Peter, Lord, save me.

Holy Apostles, pray to God for us.

Like salt, delicious creatures of teachings, dry up the rottenness of my mind and remove darkness from ignorance.

Most Holy Theotokos, save us.

Joy as if giving birth, give me a cry, and I can find Divine consolation, Lady, in the days to come, I can.

Different. Irmos: Cha, Heaven and Earth Intercessor:

Holy Apostles, pray to God for us.

Ty, blessed apostolic meeting, we magnify with songs: the universe is more bright, shining, the charm drives away.

Holy Apostles, pray to God for us.

With the blessed cut of your verbal fish, you have caught this, always bring food to Christ, apostles of blessedness.

Holy Apostles, pray to God for us.

To God with your petition, remember us, apostles, to get rid of every temptation, we pray, who praises you with love.

Holy Trinity, our God, glory to Thee.

Thee, the Tri-hypostatic Unit, Father, Son with Spirit, of the One God is Consubstantial I sing, the Trinity of the One-Power Beginningless.

Most Holy Theotokos, save us.

Thee, the Childbearing and the Virgin, we all give birth to blessing, as if by Thee you will get rid of the oath: you have given birth to joy for us, the Lord.

Great Canon Irmos: Semenless conception Christmas is unspeakable, Mother without man is incorruptible Fruit, God's birth renews natures. We all give birth to Thee, like the Mother of God, we magnify in the Orthodox way.

The mind is sluggish, the body is deceived, the spirit is sick, the word is exhausted, life is dead, the end is at the door. The same, my accursed soul, what have you done, when the Judge comes to test yours?

Moses' soul, bring the world of the world and from that all the covenant Scripture, which will tell you the righteous and the unrighteous; from them, the second, about the soul, imitated you, and not the first, having sinned against God.

The law is exhausted, celebrates the Gospel, but the Scripture is all neglected in you, the prophets are exhausted, and all the righteous word; scabs yours, about soul, multiplying, I do not exist for a doctor who heals thee.

I bring forth the new Scriptures instructions, introducing thee, to the soul, to tenderness: be jealous of the righteous, turn away from sinners and propitiate Christ with prayers, and fasting, and purity, and fasting.

Christ became human, calling robbers and harlots to repentance; soul, repent, the door of the Kingdom has already been opened, and the Pharisees, the publicans, and the adulterers who repent are anticipating it.

Christ became human, having partaken of the flesh, and all the tree is the essence of nature by wanting to fulfill sin except, likeness to you, about the soul, and an image showing His condescension.

Christ will save the Magi, the shepherds of the convocation, the child of many showing martyrs, glorify the elders and the old widows, you are not jealous of them, soul, neither by deed, nor by life, but woe to you, always be judged.

After fasting the Lord for fourty days in the wilderness, follow the hunger, showing the human; soul, let not be lazy, if the enemy is attached to you, let it be reflected from your feet by prayer and fasting.

Christ is tempted, the devil is tempted, showing the stone, so there will be bread, erect on the mountain, see the whole kingdom of the world in a moment; fear, for your soul, catching, be sober, pray to God every hour.

Desert turtledove, the voice of a crying cry, Christ's lamp, preach repentance, Herod is lawless with Herodias. Behold, my soul, do not get stuck in a lawless net, but kiss your repentance.

The grace of the Forerunner entered the wilderness, and all of Judea and Samaria, having heard their cursing and confessing their sins, baptized zealously: you did not imitate them, the soul.

The marriage is honest and the bed is not shameful, bless the wallpaper for Christ first, poisonous flesh, and in Cana, on the brother, making water into wine, and showing the first miracle, but you have changed, about the soul.

Christ will tighten the weakened one, take a bed, and raise the dead man, a widow's birth, and a hundred-year-old boy, and the Samaritans will appear, in a duos service to you, soul, pre-painting.

Heal the bleeding one with the touch of the edge of the vestment, the Lord, cleanse the leper, enlighten the blind and lame, correct, but heal the deaf and dumb and those who are worthless below with a word: yes, you will be saved, cursed soul.

Healing ailments to the poor preaching Christ the Word, harmful healing, with the tax collectors, talking to the sinners, returning the dead soul to Jair's daughter by touching the hand.

The publican was saved, and the harlot who was celibate, and the Pharisee, boasting, was condemned. Ov ubo: cleanse me; ova: have mercy on me; this same exalted cry: God, I thank Thee, and other crazy verbs.

Zacchaeus is a tax collector, but he was saved, and the Pharisee Simon was pleased, and the harlot received leave permission from the Fortress to leave sins, even to the soul, begging to be imitated.

You were not jealous of the harlot, about my accursed soul, you even accepted the world of alavastras, with tears mazasha nose Spasov, cut off the hair, the ancient sins of the handwriting that tears her apart.

Grada, imzhe Christ gave the gospel, my soul, you knew how to curse you were. Fear the instructions, so do not be like they, having likened them to the same Sodomites, even condemn them to hell.

Yes, not bitter, O my soul, appearing as despair, hearing the Canaanite faith, and even being healed by the word of God; Son of David, save me and cry from the depths of your heart, as it is to Christ.

Have mercy, save me, Son of David, have mercy, raging with the word that heals, but a blessed voice, like a robber, I will answer: Amen, I say to you, you will be with Me in Paradise, when I come in My glory.

The theologian is the robber Ty, the theologian is Ty: both are hanging on the cross. But, O Favorableness, as if Thy faithful robber, who cognized Thy God, and for me open the door of Thy glorious Kingdom.

The creature shuddered, they saw you crucified, the mountains and stones disintegrated with fear, and the earth shook, and hell was laid bare, and the light darkened in the day, in vain for You, Jesus, nailed to the Cross.

Do not consume fruits worthy of repentance from me, for my strength in me is depleted; Give me a heart that is ever contrite, but spiritual poverty: yes, I will bring you a pleasant sacrifice, the only Savior.

My judge and my Vedche, even though the angels will come to judge the world to the whole world, seeing me with your merciful eye, spare me and harbor me, Jesus, who sinned more than any human nature.

Reverend Mother Mary, pray to God for us.

You have surprised everyone with your strange life, angels of ranks and cathedrals of men, having lived in an immaterial way and passed nature; Imzhe, like immaterial feet, when you entered, Mary, Jordan, you passed away.

Reverend Mother Mary, pray to God for us.

Reconcile the Creator about those who praise you, Venerable Mother, get rid of anger and sorrows around the attackers: let us get rid of adversity, let us magnify the unceasing glorification of the Lord.

Reverend Father Andrew, pray to God for us.

Andrew the honest and most blessed Father, the Shepherd of Crete, do not stop praying for those who sing thee: let us get rid of all anger, and sorrow, and corruption, and immeasurable sins, honoring your memory faithfully.

Glory: Consubstantial Trinity, Tri-hypostatic Unity, We praise Thee, glorifying the Father, glorifying the Son and worshiping the Spirit, Truly One Nature, God, Life and the endless living Kingdom.

And now: Preserve your city, the Most Pure Mother of God, in you more truly reign, in you it is confirmed, and by you overcome, overcomes all temptation, and captivates the warriors, and obedience passes.

Both faces also sing together Irmos:

The seedless conception of Christmas is unspeakable, the Mother of the unmarried is incorruptible Fruit, God's birth renews natures. We all give birth to Thee, like the Mother of God, we magnify in the Orthodox way.

The services of Great Lent, as well as the services of the preparatory weeks for it, depict the state of the soul, repenting and crying over its sins. This corresponds to the outward image of the celebration of Lenten services: on the weekdays of Great Lent, excluding Saturdays and Sundays, the Church does not perform the full liturgy, this most solemn and festive Christian service. Instead of a full liturgy on Wednesdays and Fridays, the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts is served. The composition of other Church services changes over time. On weekdays, singing almost ceases, reading from the Old Testament scriptures, especially the Psalter, is preferred, the prayer of Saint Ephraim the Syrian with great (earthly) bows is introduced into all church services, and the third, sixth and ninth hours are combined with Vespers to indicate the time to which it should extend daytime fasting.

The first week of Great Lent is distinguished by its special severity, for it is proper to have zeal for piety at the beginning of the struggle. Accordingly, the Church celebrates divine services in the first week longer than on the following days. From Monday to Thursday, at Great Compline, the canon of repentance of Saint Andrew of Crete is read. This canon is called Great both by the multitude of thoughts and memories it contains, and by the number of troparia it contains. For reading in the first week of fasting, the canon is divided into four parts, according to the number of days. It can be described as a repentant cry, revealing to us all the immensity, the whole abyss of sin, shaking the soul with despair, repentance and hope.

Bishop Vissarion (Nechaev)

With the great art of St. Andrew weaves great images - Adam and Eve, paradise and the fall, the patriarch Noah and the flood, David, the Promised Land and above all Christ and the Church - with confession of sins and repentance. The events of Sacred history are revealed as events of life, the works of God in the past as matters concerning me and my salvation, the tragedy of sin and betrayal as my personal tragedy. My life is shown to me as part of that great, all-encompassing struggle between God and the powers of darkness that rebel against Him. The canon begins with a deep, personal cry: How do I begin to mourn my life’s cursed deeds? What beginning will I, Christ, begin this mourning?

One by one my sins are revealed in deep connection them with the continuing tragedy of man's relationship to God, the story of the first fall into sin is my personal story: it was I who committed the crime of the primordial Adam; I know that I am alienated from God and His eternal Kingdom and sweetness because of my sins ... I have lost divine gifts. I have defiled the clothes of my flesh, defiled what was, the Savior, in the image and after the likeness. I have overshadowed the beauty of the soul with the delights of the passions. Today I tore my first clothes, which the Creator wove for me in the beginning, and therefore I am naked ...

So, over the course of four evenings, the nine songs of the Canon speak over and over again about the spiritual history of the world, which is at the same time the history of my soul. The words of the Canon call me to answer, for they speak about the events and deeds of the past, the meaning and power of which are eternal, since every human soul - the one and only - passes the same path of trials, faces the same choice, meets the same highest and most important reality. The meaning and purpose of the Great Canon is precisely to reveal sin to us and thereby lead us to repentance.

But he shows us sin not by definitions and enumerations, but by a kind of deep contemplation biblical history which is truly a story of sin, repentance and forgiveness. The canon restores in us that spiritual attitude, within which repentance becomes possible again. When we hear, for example: I did not become like Jesus, the Abelian truth, I never brought You a pleasant gift, no divine deeds, no sacrifice of pure, no sinless life ... - we understand that the story of the first sacrifice, so briefly mentioned in the Bible, reveals us something basic in our own life, the main thing in the person himself. We understand that sin, first of all, is the rejection of life as an offering and a gift, as a sacrifice to God. Or, in other words, the rejection of life for God and in God's way. And thanks to this revelation, it becomes possible to utter words that are infinitely distant from the modern experience of life, but which sound the deepest truth: From the dust having created life, You have put in my flesh and bones, and breath, and life: but, O my Creator, my Deliverer and Judge, accept me, the repentant.

That is why the lean path begins with a return to the starting point, to the creation of the world, the fall, redemption, to the world where everything speaks about God, everything reflects God's glory where everything that happens, all events are directly related to God, where a person finds real dimensions of his life, and, having found them, repents.

Prayers at the beginning of Great Lent

On Monday or Tuesday of the first week after Matins or Hours, the priest in the epitrachilus reads to the parishioners "Prayers at the beginning of the Lent of the Holy Forty Days", laid down in the Trebnik.

Features of the Saturday service

On the Saturday of the first week, the Church commemorates wonderful help, revealed by the great martyr Theodore Tiron (+ c. 306) to the Christians of Constantinople in 362, during the reign of the Emperor Julian the Apostate (+ 363), when in the first week of Great Lent the saint, appearing to the archbishop of Constantinople, ordered the use of colivo (boiled blood grain) instead of the defiled secret idol sacrifices at food markets. The consecration of the Koliva (aka Cutius) is performed on the Friday of the first week at the Presanctified Liturgy, according to the prayer behind the ambon and the singing of prayer to the Great Martyr Theodore.

In many temples on Fridays or Sundays (in our temple on Sundays) a touching liturgical ceremony called passion (from Lat. passio - suffering) will be performed. It was introduced into church use under the Metropolitan of Kiev Peter Mogila (XVII century). It is performed at Compline (on Friday) or at Vespers (on Sunday) in the first, second (often from the second), third and fourth weeks of fasting and consists of reading the Gospel about the Passion of Christ, singing the hymns of Holy Week - “For you, clothed with light, like a garment "," Come, we will please Joseph of ever-memorable memory "and others - and teachings. Passions are not mentioned in the Church charter. The Chin Passion was first placed at the end of the Colored Triodi, published in 1702 by Archimandrite Kiev Pechersk Lavra Joasaph Kronovsky. At the end of the description of the rank it is said: "All these are remembered by advice, and not by command, even all under the judgment of the Holy Orthodox Church are given."

The first Week (Sunday) of Great Lent is also called the Week, or celebration, of Orthodoxy. A memory is made on this day celebrations of Orthodoxy, established in Byzantium in the first half of the 9th century to commemorate the final victory of the Orthodox Church over all the heretical teachings that angered the Church, especially over the last of them - the iconoclastic one, condemned by the Seventh Ecumenical Council in 787. On this week, a special service is performed, called the rite of Orthodoxy. This rite was compiled by Methodius, Patriarch of Constantinople (842 - 846). The victory of Orthodoxy was originally celebrated in the first week of Great Lent, and, thus, the basis of the celebration on this day of the triumph of Orthodoxy is historical.

The Rite of Orthodoxy consists mainly of prayer singing and is performed in cathedrals after reading the hours before the liturgy or after the liturgy in the middle of the church, in front of the icons of the Savior and the Mother of God.

Metropolitan Athanasius of Limassol

“Fasting is alienation from evil. In other words, you need to become alien to the vices that surround us. How important it is for a person to fast with his tongue, so that he stops talking, judging, gossiping, commenting, refraining from condemnation.

That is, fasting is a period of an all-embracing struggle, the mobilization of all the mental and physical forces of a person with the help of church services, daily prayers, confession, study of the word of God, efforts in spiritual exploit and everything that helps a person and tunes in to spiritual life.

The Church Fathers said that indeed, when a person fasts, his bodily composition also changes and he is cleansed both mentally and bodily. Cleans up. Therefore, the saints have always been in fasting and abstinence, and this really brought them spiritual and physical purity. Not only mental, because soul and body go together. They sin together and they are cleansed together too. Therefore, all virtues and exploits affect the entire human being.

The period of Lent is one tenth of the year. According to the law of Moses, tithe was always dedicated to God: a tenth of the property, money was dedicated to God. In the same way, we devote one tenth of the year to God. How many weeks are in Lent, six, seven? Seven together with Holy Week. We have a fast five days a week, there is no fast on Saturday and Sunday, wine and oil are allowed, this is 5 × 7 = 35 + Great Saturday = 36 and the night from Saturday to Sunday, when it would rather not be necessary to fast, but people are fasting, - so it turns out 36 and a half. There are 365 days in a year? And this is one tenth. With mathematical precision. We dedicate this time to God. "

A few words to those who are fasting

Fasting is not an end in itself, but a means leading us to humility and repentance and, accordingly, to God. If a person has made fasting an end in itself and thinks that by this deed he will be saved, and therefore is strict and wants to observe everything exactly, then this is a painful condition. If he does this because his conscience is easily bruised and because he does not want to act against it and violate the law of God, then this is healthy person, he just has a sensitive conscience - a conscience that is easily hurt.

They ask what to do if health does not allow fasting? The answer is simple: if they do not fast, then they do what they can. God wants from man what he can do. A person should know that his powers have a limit. He must humbly invoke the power of God and pray to God to help him, but he must have the intention to strive, and he strives to the extent that he is strong enough. He must humbly accept his weakness, and when he receives the blessing of his spiritual father on how and how he should fast, be more indulgent towards himself, but not despair, since he will not be saved by fasting, as we have already said. Fasting is a means of getting somewhere. If through humility you come to repentance and achieve a connection with God, then you should not lose hope. "

At Great Compline Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday the first week is sung and read in parts, and on Thursday morning of the fifth week of the same fast in full complement The great penitent, or as it is also called, the touching canon. It has been read by the great Lent in churches for almost 1200 years and is perceived by believers in the same way as when it was written by the reverend songwriter. “The mystagogue of repentance,” that is, the one who carefully teaches, reveals the secrets of repentance — that is how the Orthodox Church calls Saint Andrew, who compiled this canon.

Saint Andrew of Crete

The Great Canon consists of 250 troparia, and is called great not only for its unusual a large number verses, 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 a spiritual light. In the troparions of the canon, the characters of sacred history sometimes present us with lofty examples of holy life, then, with examples of their deep fall, they urge us to strict sobriety. The mind of a person listening to this canon sees in him high spiritual truths, realized in life. Old Testament patriarchs, judges, kings and prophets, is taught by them in the Gospel parables, and the heart, thirsting for salvation, is struck with deep sorrow for sins, then it delights in steadfast trust in God, who is always ready to accept a sinner.

You can’t teach what you don’t know how to do. The repentance of Saint Andrew is deep and sincere. One thought runs through the entire canon, which is repeated in all his songs: "Man has sinned more than anyone else, one has sinned You, (Lord), but have mercy and be merciful to me, for You are benevolent." “Benevolent” means merciful and merciful in the same way as the Mother, who, as it were, with her whole womb, with all her being, takes pity on the child and loves him with all her heart. How closer man to God, the more he sees his sins. Saint Andrew of Crete teaches us this in his canon.

The entire Old Testament appears before us in the troparions 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 the Great Canon contains not only examples from Holy Scripture, there is also an admonition to the soul, reasoning, prayers. It is as if the elder, filled with compassion and love, takes us by the hand and leads us into his cell in order to talk with us, tell us, share his experience, and, together with us, humbly and fervently pray.

Why does the Holy Church in the first days of Great Lent offer us these particular hymns? Because fasting is a time of repentance and cleansing, and the canon of St. Andrew is all directed towards awakening the human soul from sinful sleep, to reveal to it the perniciousness of a sinful state, to encourage it to strict self-examination, self-condemnation and repentance, to aversion from sins and to the correction of life.

If we come to the church in the evening on one of the first four days of Great Lent, many will be struck by an unusual picture: it is dark in the church, people are standing with burning candles, the stern and solemn voice of a priest sounds ... This is the Great Canon of Penitence of St. Andrew of Crete.

At the very beginning of Great Lent, as the initial tone that defines the entire Lenten melody, the Holy Church offers us the Great Canon of Penitence of St. Andrew of Crete. It is divided into four parts and is read at Great Compline, in the evening, during the first four days of Lent. It can be described as crying of repentance., revealing to us all the immensity, the whole abyss of sin, shaking the soul with despair, repentance and hope.

The reading of the Great Canon of Penitence during the first week of Great Lent in our church takes place on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday at 17:00

In many parishes, it is customary not only to listen to the text of the canon, but to follow the reading on paper in order to better understand.

For those who are going to go to the Canon after work and do not have a printed text with them, we have prepared a Russian-Slavic parallel text that can be easily print on a printer.

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The creator of this so beloved Orthodox people Great Canon, the Monk Andrew, Archbishop of Crete was born in the city of Damascus in about 660 into a family of pious Christians George and Gregory.

Venerable Andrew of Crete

From the testimonies of the early childhood of the saint, it is known that until the age of seven he was considered dumb, since 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 of the divine books. At 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 Sepulcher. After taking monastic vows, Saint Andrew was appointed a notary, that is, a secretary, of the Jerusalem Patriarchate, as a very intelligent man. He led a virtuous life, striving in chastity, self-control and meekness, so that even the Jerusalem patriarch himself marveled at him. After 681, when the sessions of the Sixth Ecumenical Council were taking place in Constantinople, Saint Andrew, then an archdeacon, together with two elders-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. the fullness of the Jerusalem Orthodox Church, which was then under the Muslim yoke.

After the end of the Council, the elders-monks returned back to Jerusalem, and Andrew, having become famous for his book wisdom and deep knowledge of the dogmas of the Church, to the emperor and the holy fathers, was left in Constantinople, receiving forever the nickname “Jerusalemite”, that is, “Jerusalemite” ...

In the capital of the Empire, he received the obedience to lead the House for Orphans at the Great Church of Hagia Sophia with admission to the clergy of the main temple of Byzantium.

For 20 years he served as a deacon and worked in the Orphans' Home, showing due diligence and care. 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 deacon service, Saint Andrew was ordained to the episcopal rank 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 divinely inspired teaching and a virtuous life. The Holy Shepherd of Crete built the temples of God, as well as homes for orphans and the elderly. For his flock, he was a loving father, tirelessly preaching and, with his prayers, reflecting all adversity and adversity, and for heretics he was an adamant denouncer and a thunderstorm. Saint Andrew did not abandon his work on composing church hymns.

Several times the saint, leaving Crete, visited Constantinople, where he saw the patriarch and emperor, as well as people close to him. There he also 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 imminent death, bade farewell to his friends. On the way to Crete, he became very ill. A serious illness forced him to stay on the island of Mytilene in the town of Eresso, where the saint died on July 4, around 740. On the same day, the Holy Church continues to commemorate him.

Saint Andrew of Crete was the first to write the liturgical canons. He penned the canons for all twelve feasts (except for the Entry into the Temple of the Most Holy Theotokos, since this feast was not separately celebrated in his time). The Lenten service, in addition to the Great Canon, was decorated with other creations of the holy hymnist. The manuscripts preserve the canons of the Week of Vai, the triodes of all the days of Holy Week, including Great Friday. On Great Saturday, the four-song of St.Andrew was performed, to which they later added their four-song and the canons of St. Cosma Mayumsky, nun Cassia, Bishop Mark of Otrantsky. In terms of the number of original melodies-melodies, Saint Andrew surpasses even such a great hymnist as the Monk John of Damascus. In composing the Octoechos, Saint John introduced the irmosi and melodies of Saint Andrew of Crete into it.

The canon of Andrew of Crete is written in the first person, which gives believers an idea of ​​the events described through the prism of feelings and impressions. It belongs to church hymnography and is considered an amazing work, glorifying the events of the Old and New Testaments.

According to the church charter, the entire text of the canon is read in the first week: one part per service (on days of the week), since it is extremely difficult to withstand the reading of the full work at once. In the fifth week, the canon is read again, but already in in full for one service, because it is believed that by this time the souls of the parishioners have grown strong enough, and they are ready for this test and repentance.

Nowadays, it is easy to find a canon in Russian, for example, to purchase it in a church shop of any Orthodox church, which will allow you to read it at home, for example, if there is no opportunity to visit a church.

Its useful to note: readings of this text are allowed at any time of the year, not only during the period of Lent. After all, repentance and a petition for mercy are needs that follow every believer all year round.

Saint Andrew of Crete - a short life

Born into a Christian family in Damascus, Andrew was mute until the age of seven.

One day his family went to communion in the church and there, after receiving the Holy Sacrament of Christ, Andrew miraculously found his voice and began to speak. It was then that the boy chose the church path and began to study theology and Holy Scripture.

Already at the age of fourteen, Andrei was tonsured a monk in the monastery of Sava the Sanctified, he observed a strict routine and led a calm, chaste lifestyle.

Years later, Saint Andrew was called to serve as archdeacon at the Church of Saint Sophia in Constantinople, then he was already famous as a theologian and hymnist. Moreover, he also wrote music for church prayers.

The saint died on the island of Militina, and his relics were taken to Constantinople.

Prayer to Andrew of Crete

In the Orthodox Church there is a Saint named Andrew of Crete, the Monk Martyr, whose day of remembrance is celebrated on October 30.

This Holy Monk Martyr should not be confused with Bishop and Saint Andrew of Crete, the author of the Great Penitential Canon.

Prayers to St. Andrew of Crete, as well as the troparion, which is recited on the saint's commemoration day - July 17.

Akathist to Andrew of Crete

Saint Andrew of Crete is the author of the Great Penitential Canon, read during Great Lent, the Paschal Canon, read during Bright Easter Week, and the Canon to the Holy Martyrs to 1400 infants killed during the time and by order of King Herod.

His Eminence Metropolitan John of St. Petersburg (Snychev) compiled on the basis of the Penitential Canon of St. Andrew of Crete - a penitential Akathist.

The text is not used for worship and is intended for prayers at home. This akathist helps to put thoughts, prayer requests, images in order. This is no longer a song of praise - the original purpose of the akathist, but repentance through prayer.

Conclusion

Great post is important time in the life of all Orthodox Christians, this is the period when you need to ask for help and mercy from above, when you should forgive your loved ones and ask for forgiveness yourself.

Saint Andrew created a work that concentrated everything the right words and the feelings experienced by believers at the moment of repentance. This is the great word through which a person touches Divine grace.