The Service of The Supplicatory Canon to ST. SILOUAN THE ATHONITE
This text is based on a translation of the Service of our Holy and God-bearing Father Silouan of Athos, the 1995 edition from the Sacred Monastery of Simonos Petras on Mt. Athos. The translation was made by Mrs. Theoduli Karambatakis and Fr. Seraphim Bell.
Through the prayers of our holy Father, Silouan, Lord Jesus Christ our God, have mercy on us and save us.
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To our Lord Jesus Christ. Tone 2 Song 1.
Eirmos: In the deep of old the infinite Power overwhelmed Pharaoh’s whole army. But the Incarnate Word annihilated pernicious sin. Exceedingly glorious is the Lord, for gloriously has He been glorified.
Sweetest Jesus, save us.
Troparia:
Sweetest Jesus Christ, longsuffering Jesus, heal the wounds of my soul, Jesus, and make sweet my heart, O Most Merciful One, I ask Thee, Jesus my Savior, that being saved by Thee, I may glorify Thee.
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DAILY COMPLINE In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Glory to You, our God. Glory to You.
O Heavenly King, the Comforter, the Spirit of Truth: You are everywhere filling all things; Treasury of blessings and Giver of Life: come and abide in us, and cleanse us from every impurity, and save our souls, O Good One!
Holy God! Holy Mighty! Holy Immortal!
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Akathist to the Holy Theotokos of Iveron: ΑΚΑΤΗΙSΤ ΗΥΜΝ CHANTED BEFORE THE MIRACULOUS IVERON ICON OF THE ALL-HOLY THEOTOKOS, KNOWN AS “THE KEEPER OF THE PORTAL”
Kontakion I
To the champion leader, our Mistress, the Theotokos, do we, thy servants, offer hymns of praise, as ones who have acquired a mighty shield, an insuperable rampart and an ever-vigilannt guardian through the arrival of thy precious image. As thou art possessed of invincible might, protect and defend us, O Mistress, from all enemies, visible and invisible, and deliver us from all harm of body and soul, that we may cry out to thee: Rejoice, O good gate-keeper, who openest the portal of paradise unto the faithful!
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Akathist to St. Demetrios the Great Martyr and Myrrh-streamer written by the former bishop of Thessaloniki, St. Athanasios Patelarios, of Crete Kontakion in the Plagal of the Fourth Tone O faithful, let us praise with hymns and divine praises the Myrrhstreamer, who deposed the cruelty of the tyrant, and conquered the audacity of Lyaios, and preached Christ as God clearly, and let us cry out to him: Rejoice, O Martyr Demetrios.
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St. Mark the Ascetic On Those who Think that They are Made Righteous by Works Two Hundred and Twenty Six Texts In the texts which follow, the beliefs of those in error will be refuted by those whose faith is well founded and who know the truth. Wishing to show that to fulfill every commandment is a duty, whereas sonship is a gift given to men through His own Blood, the Lord said: ‘When you have done all that is commanded you, say: “We are useless servants: we have only done what was our duty” ' (Luke 17:10).
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By the grace of God I am a Christian man, by my actions a great sinner, and by calling a homeless wanderer of the humblest birth who roams from place to place. My worldly goods are a knapsack with some dried bread in it on my back, and in my breast pocket a Bible. And that is all. On the twenty-fourth Sunday after Pentecost I went to church to say my prayers there during the liturgy.
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