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| Posted 3/20/2002 8:13 AM (GMT -6) |   | Hear the Kontakion for the Great Canon of St. Andrew of Crete - Tone 6
(embedded below), and think of both the diciples in Gethsemane, and you and I today.
Arise my soul!
Why are you sleeping?
The end is at hand and destruction hangs over you.
Come again to your senses that you may be spared by Christ our God!
For He is everywhere and fills all things!
The Text of
The Canon of St. Andrew of Crete
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The following is a compilation of the text of the Canon of St. Andrew of Crete. Normally this Canon is found in a liturgical setting as the Great Compline of Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday of Pure Week... the First week of Great Lent, and on Thursday of the Fifth Week of Great Lent. As presented here, it is intended as a meditation on the state of man... and may prove to be useful in examining our own souls. Any errors are the compilers alone.
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Ode One - Pure Monday
A helper and a protector has become salvation for me. He is my God and I will glorify Him; He is the God of my fathers and I will exalt Him; for gloriously has He been glorified.
How shall I begin to lament the deeds of my wretched life? What can I offer as first-fruits of my repentance? In Your compassion, O Christ, forgive my sins.
Come, my wretched soul, and confess your sins in the flesh to the Creator of all. From this moment forsake your former foolishness, and offer to God tears of repentance.
For failing to observe just one of Your commandments, O Savior, Adam was justly exiled from Eden. What then shall I suffer for continually ignoring Your words of life?
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit.
O Trinity above all essence and worshiped as one God, take from me the heavy burden of sin, and grant me tears of repentance, in Your compassion.
Now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.
O Theotokos, hope and protection of those who sing of you, take from me the heavy burden of sin, and as our pure Lady, accept me as I repent.
Have mercy on me, O God! Have mercy on me!
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Ode Two - Pure Monday
Listen, O heaven, and I will speak: I will sing of Christ, Who from a Virgin came to us in the flesh.
More than all I have sinned; I alone have sinned against You, O God my Savior, but have compassion on me, Your creature.
O compassionate One, as You saved Peter when he was about to sink, so reach out now to me, for a storm of evil surges around me.
With passions have I darkened the beauty of my soul and permitted my whole inward being to become a mire.
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit.
O God of all, I sing of You as One yet three in Persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
Now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.
O Most Holy Theotokos, Virgin alone praised everywhere, pray fervently that we may be saved.
Have mercy on me, O God! Have mercy on me!
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Ode Three - Pure Monday
Strengthen my wavering heart, O Lord, on the rock of Yur commandments, for You alone are holy and You alone are Lord.
O Savior, I have defiled the garment of my flesh and polluted that which You fashioned within me according to Your own image and likeness.
As the good Shepherd search for me, Your lamb who has gone astray, and do not forsake me.
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit.
O God - Trinity yet One - save us from delusions, temptations and misfortune.
Now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.
Hail, O womb which received God! Hail, O throne of the Lord! Hail, O Mother of our Life!
Have mercy on me, O God! Have mercy on me!
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Ode Four - Pure Monday
When the Prophet heard of Your wish, O Lord, to be born of a Virgin and appear to us, he prayed: "I have heard of Your coming and am filled with awe." Glory, O Lord, to Your power.
The end is approaching, O my soul, it is approaching! So why do you not care or prepare yourself for it? Arise! The time is short. The Judge already stands at the door. Life is vanishing like a dream, so why do you continue living in vanity?
Arise, O my soul, and reveal the evil things you have done. Ponder them well and allow your tears to flow. Then confess your deeds and thoughts openly to Christ, and He will make you righteous.
Dispair condemns me in the tribunal of my own conscience, where judgment is harsher than by any law on earth. O my Judge, Who created and redeemed me, spare, deliver and save me, Your servant.
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit.
I confess You as One God in Trinity, a single essence unconfused in persons, co-enthroned and co-ruling. And I sing to You: "Holy! Holy! Holy!" Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
Now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.
As a Virgin you gave birth and a Virgin you remained by nature, your womb giving birth painlessly for He Who was born of you renewed the laws of nature, since when God wills, its order of nature is overthrown.
Have mercy on me, O God! Have mercy on me!
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Ode Five - Pure Monday
Keeping vigil, I pray to You, my Savior, for You are the lover of mankind. Enlighten me and guide me in Your ways, and teach me to do Your will.
In the darkness of night has my whole life passed, amidst shadowy delusions I cannot escape. But, O Savior, make me now a child of the day.
My soul is in despair, for like Reuben who defiled his father's bed, I have disobeyed the will of God my Father by defiling His image within me.
Joseph's being placed in a pit formed an image of Your Burial and Resurrection, O Lord and Master. Will I ever be able to endure such things for Your sake?
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit.
We glorify You, O Trinity, one in essence, and we praise and adore You forever, singing: "Holy! Holy! Holy!", Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
Now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.
God, the Creator of all things, became incarnate through you, O pure Virgin mother, uniting our human nature to Himself.
Have mercy on me, O God! Have mercy on me!
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Ode Six - Pure Monday
From the depths of hell, I cried with my whole heart to the merciful God and He heard me, and He raised my life from corruption!
I offer You, O Savior, sincere tears and the deepest groanings of my soul, crying from the heart: "O God, I have sinned against You. Be merciful to me!"
When Dathan and Abiram defied Moses and turned from the Lord, the earth opened to swallow them. Now you, my soul, having turned from the Lord as well, must cry with your whole heart from the depths of hell to be spared, lest you share their lot.
Be assured, O my soul, that as God was able to turn Moses' hand white with disease and cleanse it once again, so can He also cleanse and purify a diseased life. Therefore, do not dispair of yourself, even though infected with many sins.
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit.
"I AM the Trinity, simple and undivided in essence yet divided in Persons. I AM also the Unity, united in nature," says God, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
Now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.
Your womb, O Theotokos, held God Who for our sakes took human form. Implore Him, the Creator of all, that through your prayers we may be justified.
Have mercy on me, O God! Have mercy on me!
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Kontakion for the Great Canon of St. Andrew of Crete - Tone 6
Arise my soul!
Why are you sleeping?
The end is at hand and destruction hangs over you.
Come again to your senses that you may be spared by Christ our God!
For He is everywhere and fills all things!
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Ode Seven - Pure Monday
We have sinned, transgressed and done wrongly against You, O Lord, whe have neither remembered nor kept Your commandments. Yet do not forget us utterly, O God of our fathers!
I have sinned, I have erred, I have rejected Your commandments. I have increased in sin and added to the wounds of my soul. But in Your compassion, be merciful to me, O God of our fathers!
I have confessed to You, my Judge, the secrets of my heart. Se my humility, my distress, and give me now Your judgment, in Your compassion being merciful to me, O God of our Fathers.
David, though once compounding his sin, by first murdering a man and then stealing his wife, was quick to repent of both. You, however, O my soul, have done worse things than he, yet never repented of them before the Lord.
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit.
Simple and undivided, One in essence and nature, Light and Lights, One Holy and three Holies, God is praised as Trinity. So sing praises to Him, O my soul, and glorify the Life and Lives, the God of all.
Now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen
We praise you, we bless and venerate you, O Mother of God, for from the undivided Trinity you brought forth the only Son and God, and restored to us on earth the heavenly realms.
Have mercy on me, O God! Have mercy on me!
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Ode Eight - Pure Monday
Let every breath praise the Lord! The hosts of heaven glorify Him! The Cherubim and the Seraphim tremble before Him! Let all creation sing and exalt Him throughout all ages!
O Savior, I have sinned! Now convert my soul and receive me in repentance as I cry: "Against You only have I sinned and lived lawlessly. Have mercy on me!"
Elisha inherited a double portion of the prophetic spirit when Elijah's mantle fell from heaven upon him. But how can you, O my soul, hope to share in such graces, not yet having learned to control your love of worldly pleasure?
The wealthy woman of Shunem showed her good will by entertaining the righteous Elisha, but you, my soul, receive neither strangers nor travelers, and will find yourself an alien, cast out of the bridal chamber of Christ.
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit.
O Eternal Father, co-eternal Son, and gracious Comforter, the Spirit of Truth; O Father of the Divine Word, Word of the Eternal Father, living and life-creating Spirit, Trinity in Unity, have mercy on us.
Now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.
O pure Virgin, the flesh of Emmanuel was formed within your womb as a robe of royal crimson is spun from scarlet silk. We proclaim you to be truly mother of our God.
Have mercy on me, O God! Have mercy on me!
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Ode Nine - Pure Monday
All nature has been renewed, O Virgin, by the birth of God in the flesh! For in you was He ineffably conceived without seed or corruption! Therefore all generations rightly magnify you, as both mother and bride of God!
My inward being is wounded, my body is weak, my spirit is ill, and the Word is powerless. Life is giving way to death and the end is near. What shall I do when the Judge comes and I must stand before Him?
Christ became a man and called both robbers and prostitutes to repentance. Return, therefore, O my soul, to Him! For the doors of the Kingdom now stand open, and the pharisees, tax-collectors, and adulterers who have changed their ways are entering it ahead of you.
After He had fasted fourty days in the wilderness, hunger revealed the Lord's human nature. Therefore, O my soul, do not despair if the enemy attacks you, for it is only by prayer and fasting that he shall be defeated.
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit.
We glorify the Father, we exalt the Son, and we worship the Holy Spirit, the indivisible Trinity, Who exists as One, the Light and Lights, the Life and Lives, Who grants light and life to the ends of the world.
Now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.
O purest Mother of God, preserve your people, for through you are we kept faithful, strengthened and made able to overcome every temptation, trial and tribulation.
Holy Father Andrew, pray to God for us.
O honorable Andrew, thrice-blessed father and pastor of Crete, never cease praying to God for those who sing your praises, that He may deliver from anger, sorrow, corruption, and countless sins, all of us who faithfully honor your memory.
All nature has been renewed, O Virgin, by the birth of God in the flesh! For in you was He ineffably conceived without seed or corruption! Therefore all generations rightly magnify you, as both mother and bride of God!
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