O Lord! Grant us to see our sins,
so that our mind, wholly drawn to attention to our own transgressions, may
cease to see the transgressions of our neighbors—and thus may see all our
neighbors as good.
Grant us to behold, in the light
of Thy Grace, the many and various ailments living within us, which destroy the
spiritual movements in the heart and introduce into it movements of blood and
of the flesh, hostile to the Kingdom of God. Grant us the great gift of
repentance, preceded and brought forth by the great gift of seeing our own
sins.
Preserve us by these great gifts
from the abysses of self-deception, which is revealed in the soul from its
unnoticed and unrecognized sinfulness, and is born from the activity of lust
and vainglory that it neither notices nor understands.
Keep us by these great gifts on
our path toward Thee, and grant us to reach Thee, Who callest those sinners who
acknowledge themselves, and rejectest those who consider themselves righteous; that
we may glorify Thee eternally in eternal blessedness, the One True God, Redeemer
of the captives, Savior of the perishing. Amen.
Source: О тайных недугах души, by Archimandrite Lazar
(Abashidze).
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