The Great Canon Á-? On Monday of the First Week - Page 3 of 20
Song 2.
Eirmos:
Attend, O heaven, and I will speak, and will sing
of Christ who came to dwell among us in flesh which
He took from the Virgin
.
Refrain:
Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy on me.
Troparia:
Attend, O heaven, and I will speak; O earth, give ear to a
voice repenting to God and singing praises to Him.
Attend to me, O God my Savior, with Thy merciful eye, and
accept my fervent confession.
(Proverbs 15:3; Psalm 33:15)
I have sinned above all men, I alone have sinned against
Thee. But as God have compassion, O Savior, on Thy
creature.
(1 Tim. 1:15)
Having formed by my pleasure-loving desires the deformity
of my passions, I have marred the beauty of my mind.
A storm of passions besets me, O compassionate Lord. But
stretch out Thy hand to me too, as to Peter.
(Matthew 14:31)
I have stained the coat of my flesh, and soiled what is in Thy
image and likeness, O Savior.
I have darkened the beauty of my soul with passionate
pleasures, and my whole mind I have reduced wholly to
mud.
I have torn my first garment which the Creator wove for me
in the beginning, and therefore I am lying naked.
(Genesis 3:21)