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The Great Canon Á-? On Wednesday of the First Week - Page 1 of 20
On Wednesday 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:
From my youth, O Christ, I have rejected Thy
commandments. I have passed my whole life without caring
or thinking as a slave of my passions. Therefore, O Savior, I
cry to Thee: At least in the end save me.
In old age even, O Savior, do not cast me out empty to hell
as I lie prostrate before Thy gates. But before my end in Thy
love for men grant me release from my falls.
I have squandered in profligacy my substance, O Savior,
and I am barren of virtues and piety; but famished I cry: O
Father of mercies, forestall and have compassion on me.
(Luke
15:13, 17)
I am the one by my thoughts who fell among robbers, and
now I am all wounded by them, full of sores. But stand by
me, O Christ my Savior, and heal me.
(Luke 10:30)