Let us Pray

A Prayer By Mor Ephraim (3)

To You I beseech, O Christ, the Savior of the world, that You may look upon me with the eye of Your mercy, and deliver me from the multitude of my transgressions.  I have been ungrateful to You for all Your loving kindness towards me from my youth up.  I was illiterate with no understanding and You did fill me with knowledge and wisdom.  Your goodness poured upon me and thus You satisfied my hunger, quenched  my thirst, and illuminated my mind. I ask You to keep a portion of all this for me on the dreadful day of Judgement. Yes, O my Lord, have pity on me in that awesome hour and make me a partner to that thief who inherited the Paradise by a mere word from You.  Bring my tears before You and use them to cleans my iniquities and let the enemy of my Soul be put to shame at the sight of me in the Garden of life . O Jesus, the Holy from Whom all Saints derive their name, I am bold to speak Your name with my unclean lips calling for help and taking refuge in You from the tyranny of Satan. Therefore,  be compassionate, O God, and rescue me from the horrible pit, the dwelling place of dissemblers.  Make me worthy to receive the share of Your Saints who rejoice at the sight of Your beauty,  O glory of the Saints and their ultimate goal, so that I may aromatize my tongue by singing glory and thanksgiving to You, Who save all those who call upon You with pure hearts, and crowns them with the crown of light.  Amen.

The source:

The Spiritual Treasure on Canonical Prayer, By: Mor Ignatius Ephrem Barsoum