The Great Canon Á-? On Thursday of the Fifth Week of Lent - Page 8 of 59
10.
All the demon-chiefs of the passions have plowed on my
back, and long has their tyranny over me lasted.
(Psalm 128:3)
11.
I have lost my first-created beauty and comeliness; and
now I lie naked, and I am ashamed.
12.
Sin which stripped me of my former God-woven clothing
has also sewn on me coats of skin.
(Genesis 3:21)
13. .
I am wrapped in a garment of shame as with fig leaves, in
reproof of my selfish passions.
14.
I am clad in a coat that is spotted and shamefully
bloodstained by the flow of my passionate and pleasure-
loving life.
15.
I have stained the coat of my flesh, and soiled what is in
Thy image and likeness, O Savior.
16.
I fell under the burden of passions and corruption of
matter, and from then until now I am oppressed by the
enemy.
17.
Having preferred a possessive and pleasure-loving life to
spiritual poverty, O Savior, I am now harnessed with a heavy
yoke.
(Matthew 5:3)
18.
I have adorned the idol of my flesh with the many-colored
clothing of shameful thoughts, and I am condemned.
(I John 5:21)
19.
I have been anxiously concerned only about outward
adornment, and have neglected the inner temple made in
the image of God.
(I Peter 3:3-4)
20.
Having formed by my pleasure-loving desires the deformity
of my passions, I have marred the beauty of my mind.