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Prayer-Book (Euchologion)
St Sarapion of Thmuis, tr. Wordsworth, 1899
Chapter 26
[Prayers of confession to prepare the people for offering.]
26. Prayer of bending the knee.1
Father of the only-begotten, good and compassionate, pitiful and lover of men and lover of souls, benefactor of all who turn themselves to thee, receive this supplication, and give us knowledge and faith and piety and holiness. Bring to nought every passion, every lust (ἡδονήν), every sin from (among) this people. Make them all to become clean. Give indulgence to the faults of all. For to thee the uncreated father through the only-begotten do we bend the knee. Give to us a holy understanding and perfect assistance; give to us to seek and to love thee; give to us to search and to seek out thy divine oracles; O Master give to us (thy) hand2 and raise us up. Raise us up, O God of compassions, cause us to look up. Uncover our eyes, grant us freedom of speech, suffer us not to be ashamed, nor to be abashed, nor to accuse (καταγινώσκειν) ourselves. Blot out the bond that is against us (Coloss. ii. 14). Write our names in the book of life (cp. Philip. iv. 3). Number us together with thy holy prophets and apostles, through thy only-begotten Jesus Christ, through whom to thee (is) the glory and the strength both now and to all the ages of the ages. Amen.
Notes
- See Int. § 5, pp. 36 and 38 foll.
- In Coptic this would simply mean “help us”; but “raise us up” implies a more exact use of the metaphor.