Canons for Holy Communion
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ODE 5
Eirmos: O Thou Who art the Light of those lying in darkness, and the salvation of the
desparing, O Christ my Saviour, I rise early to pray to Thee, O King of Peace.
Enlighten me with Thy radiance, for I know none other God beside Thee.
O sweetest Jesus, save us.
Thou art the light of my mind, O my Jesus; Thou art the salvation of my despairing
soul, O Saviour. O my Jesus, do Thou deliver me from torment and Gehenna, as I cry:
Save me, the wretched one, O Christ my Jesus.
O sweetest Jesus, save us.
Utterly cast down to shameful passions, O my Jesus, I now cry: Stretch down to me a
helping hand, O my Jesus, and pluck me out as I cry: Save me, the wretched one, O
Christ my Jesus.
O sweetest Jesus, save us.
Carving about a mind defiled, I call to Thee, O Jesus: Cleanse me from the dirt of sin,
and redeem me who slipped down to the depths of evil through ignorance, and save me,
O Saviour my Jesus, I pray.
O most holy Theotokos, save us.
O Maiden Mother of God, who gavest birth to Jesus, implore Him to save all Orthodox
monastics and laity, and to deliver from Gehenna those who cry: Beside thee we know
no certain protection.
To the Theotokos:
O most holy Theotokos, save us.
Fill my heart with gladness, O pure one, by giving me thine incorruptible joy, O thou
who didst bear the Cause of gladness.