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St. Ephrem / St. Ephraem / St. Ephrem of Edessa / St. Ephrem Syrus /St. Ephrem / Ephraim the Syrian
St. Ephrem / St. Ephraem / St. Ephrem of Edessa / St. Ephrem Syrus /St. Ephrem / Ephraim the Syrian wrote the Prayer of St Ephrem. This prayer is the standard Great Lent prayer.
Feast Day
January 28
Kontakion, Troparion, Exapostilarion, and Vespers Sticheron or Doxastikon
Troparion (TONE 8)
Your abundant tears made the wilderness sprout and bloom, and your
suffering made your labors fruitful a hundredfold: you became a shining
torch over the world. O Holy Father Ephrem, pray to Christ God that he
may save our souls!
Kontakion (TONE 2)
O Holy Ephrem, you constant meditation on the Final Judgement made you
shed abundant tears of sorrow, making of your labors examples that we
could follow and emulate, and awaking the slothful to repentance. You are
indeed a father of high renown.
Prayer
O Lord, Master of my life, grant that I may not be infected with the
spirit of slothfulness and acquisitiveness, with the spirit of ambition
and vain talking.
(Great Prostration or Great Metany, which is kneeling and touching the forehead to the floor, then standing and making the Sign of the Cross.)
Grant instead to me your servant the spirit of purity and humility, the
spirit of patience and neighborly love.
(Great Prostration or Great Metany, which is kneeling and touching the forehead to the floor, then standing and making the Sign of the Cross.)
O Lord and King, bestow upon me the grace of being aware of my own sins
and of not thinking evil of those of my brothers and sisters.
(Great Prostration or Great Metany, which is kneeling and touching the forehead to the floor, then standing and making the Sign of the Cross.)
For You are blessed unto ages of ages. Amen.
O God, be gracious to me a sinner, and have mercy on me.
(12 times, with each time making
a small prostration or small Metany, bowing very low, touching the floor with the fingertips of the right hand, then standing and making the Sign of the Cross.)
Yes, O Lord and King, bestow upon me the grace of being aware of my own
sins and of not thinking evil of those of my brothers and sisters.
(Great Prostration or Great Metany, which is kneeling and touching the forehead to the floor, then standing and making the Sign of the Cross.)
For You are blessed unto ages of ages. Amen.
Great Prostration or Great Metany, kneeling and touching the forehead to the floor, then standing and making the Sign of the Cross.
When we pray "O God, be gracious to me a sinner, and have mercy on me" 12 times, we make Small Prostration or Small Metany, bowing very low, touching the floor with the fingertips of the right hand, then standing and making the Sign of the Cross.
The Prayer of St Ephrem is one of the main components of Lenten services in the Byzantine Church. It signifies our awareness of our sins and of temptations, it proclaims our faith in the all-merciful God, and it asks for the gifts and graces we need to lead a holy life. During Lent, it is a good practice to recite the prayer of St Ephrem when you get up in the morning and before you go to bed at night.
Both privately and publicly, the Prayer of St Ephrem the Syrian is the characteristic prayer of Great Lent. It reminds us that God is the Master of our lives, and asks God to free us from the sins of everyday life, like pride and gossip and laziness and greed. In it we ask God to give us humility and love of our neighbor, awareness of our own sins, and disinterest in the sins of others. We then pray "O God, be gracious to me a sinner, and have mercy on me" twelve times.
More information
St. Ephraem Catholic Encyclopedia
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