(Read orally after prayer for eating)
I also pray to You, Lord, deliver me from satiety and lust and grant me in spiritual peace to reverently accept Your generous gifts, so that by eating them, I will receive strengthening of my strength spiritual and physical to serve You, Lord, for the short remainder of my life on earth.
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Lord, our sweetest Heart, which never perishes, but remains in eternal life! Cleanse Your servant from the filth of gluttony, all flesh created and alien to Your Spirit, and grant him to know the sweetness of Your life-giving spiritual broth, which is also Flesh and Blood Thy and holy, living and active word!
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Oh, servant of Christ, holy man of God Alexie! Look mercifully upon us, servant of God (names), and stretch out your honest hand in prayer to the Lord God, and ask us from Him forgiveness of our sins, voluntary and involuntary, peaceful and Christian life and a good answer at the Last Judgment of Christ. To her, saint of God, do not disgrace our trust, which we place in you, according to God and the Mother of God; but be our helper and protector for salvation; and through your prayers, having received grace and mercy from the Lord, let us glorify the love of mankind of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit and your holy intercession, now and ever and unto the ages of ages.
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Oh, great and wonderful servant of Christ, Holy Hierarch Father Ignatius! Mercifully accept our prayers, offered to you with love and gratitude! Hear us, orphan and helpless (names), who come to you with faith and love and your warm representation for us before the Throne of the Lord of Glory of those who ask. We know how much the prayer of the righteous can do, propitiating the Lord. From the years of infancy you have passionately loved the Lord and having desired to serve Him alone, you have imputed all the beauty of this world for nothing. You have denied yourself and taken up your cross; you have followed Christ. You chose the narrow and sorrowful path of monastic life by your own will, and on this path you acquired great virtues. With your writings, you filled the hearts of people with the deepest reverence and humility before the Almighty Creator; you filled the sinners who fell with your wise words in the consciousness of their insignificance and their own You instructed them to resort to God in repentance and humility, encouraging them with trust in His mercy. You rejected none of those who came to you, but you were a loving father to all and a good shepherd. And now do not leave us, who fervently pray to you and ask for your help and intercession. Ask our humane-loving Lord for mental and physical health, confirm our faith, strengthen our strength, which is exhausted in the temptations and sorrows of this age, warm with fire prayers that have cooled our hearts, help us, who have been cleansed by repentance, to receive the Christian end of this life and enter into the palace of the Savior, adorned with all the chosen ones, and there together with you worship the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit forever and ever. Amen.
* Symphony based on the works of the holy righteous John of Kronstadt.
See Gluttony