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The Great Canon Á-? On Monday of the First Week - Page 1 of 20
On Monday of the First Week of Lent, during Great Compline, after Psalm 69, the Canon is sung.
The Eirmosi are sung twice, at the beginning and end of each Song. Before each Troparion we
make the sign of the Cross and bow three times.
Song 1.
Tone 6.
Eirmos:
He is my Helper and Protector, and has become
my salvation. This is my God and I will glorify Him. My
father's God and I will exalt Him. For gloriously has
He been glorified
. (Exodus 15:2,1; Psalm 117:14)
Refrain:
Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy on me
.
Troparia:
Where shall I begin to lament the deeds of my wretched life?
What first-fruit shall I offer, O Christ, for my present
lamentation? But in Thy compassion grant me release from
my falls.
Come, wretched soul, with your flesh, confess to the Creator
of all. In future refrain from your former brutishness, and
offer to God tears in repentance.
Having rivaled the first-created Adam by my transgression, I
realize that I am stripped naked of God and of the
everlasting kingdom and bliss through my sins.
(Genesis 3)
Alas, wretched soul! Why are you like the first Eve? For you
have wickedly looked and been bitterly wounded, and you
have touched the tree and rashly tasted the forbidden food.
The place of bodily Eve has been taken for me by the Eve of
my mind in the shape of a passionate thought in the flesh,
showing me sweet things, yet ever making me taste and
swallow bitter things.