Occasionally a prayer is read that speaks directly to you. If you'll indulge me, here is such a prayer I heard last Sunday:
Blessed are You, Lord, highly exalted and glorified and good. In Your divine providence You set the length of the year, and have anchored us in these days of inner peace. To Your servants give the good fruit of righteousness in all their works. Give them might and power for the destruction of sin, and for the renewal of soul and mind, that during the forty days of fast, we might overcome the crafty contrivances of the intruder, for You are our God.
Through prayer and fasting You have made men equal to angels, and the fasting Moses You entrusted with the tablets of the Law written by Your divine hand. Now, O Lord, return us to the safe harbor of the honorable passion of Your Christ, that with the wood of the Cross as our weapon, we may be victors over sin and worthy of Your joyful third-day Resurrection.
Through the prayers and supplications of the all-holy and pure God-bearer and ever-virgin Mary and of all Your saints, now and ever, and unto ages of ages.
Through prayer and fasting You have made men equal to angels, and the fasting Moses You entrusted with the tablets of the Law written by Your divine hand. Now, O Lord, return us to the safe harbor of the honorable passion of Your Christ, that with the wood of the Cross as our weapon, we may be victors over sin and worthy of Your joyful third-day Resurrection.
Through the prayers and supplications of the all-holy and pure God-bearer and ever-virgin Mary and of all Your saints, now and ever, and unto ages of ages.
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I LOVE this! How does one go about getting the ambon prayers? I sit in the pew sometimes and wish I had a voice recorder in my pocket! :-)
ReplyDeleteI love it when people find old posts. It makes me feel like old posts don't die, but just sit in repository. In answer to your question, there are a few publishers of ambon (amvon) prayer books.
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