Молитва 10-я, ко Пресвятой Богородице
A Plea for Inner Purity
The petitioner asks the Mother of God to cleanse the heart and mind of sinful thoughts and passions.
Most holy Lady, my Mother of God, through your holy and all-powerful prayers, drive away from me—your lowly and wretched servant—despondency, forgetfulness, foolishness, negligence, and every impure, evil, and blasphemous thought from my wretched heart and darkened mind; and quench the flame of my passions, for I am poor and wretched. And deliver me from the many fierce memories and intentions that assail me, and free me from every evil deed.1
The Glorification of the Mother of God
The prayer concludes by acknowledging the eternal blessedness and glory of the Theotokos.
For you are blessed by every generation, and your most honorable name is glorified forever and ever. Amen.
Read the original Latin
Пресвята́я Влады́чице моя́ Богоро́дице, святы́ми Твои́ми и всеси́льными мольба́ми отжени́ от мене́, смире́ннаго и окая́ннаго раба́ Твоего́, уны́ние, забве́ние, неразу́мие, нераде́ние, и вся скве́рная, лука́вая и ху́льная помышле́ния от окая́ннаго моего́ се́рдца и от помраче́ннаго ума́ моего́; и погаси́ пла́мень страсте́й мои́х, я́ко нищ есмь и окая́нен. И изба́ви мя от мно́гих и лю́тых воспомина́ний и предприя́тий, и от всех де́йств злых свободи́ мя. Яко благослове́нна еси́ от всех родо́в, и сла́вится пречестно́е и́мя Твое́ во ве́ки веко́в. Ами́нь.
Notes
- 1 ↩Rendered contextually as hostile memories and intentions; the Church Slavonic terms can also denote recollections and undertakings.
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