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Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Beautiful imagery in prayer

"O great and most high God, worshiped in Holy Trinity;
pre-eternal Nature and super-essential Grandeur;
inscrutable Power and ineffable Authority;
Source of wisdom and truly unsearchable Sea of goodness;
thou, O Master who lovest mankind, art God who wrougth wonders before the ages.

"No mind can comprehend thee, and no word is able to explain.

"We pray thee now, look down upon us they humble and unworthy servants.
And grant to our mind the spirit of wisdom and understanding,
and to our tongue utterance worthy of reaching the hearing of thy goodness and of obtaining the mercy of thy grace;
for man's power both to will and to act cometh from thee and from they vivyfying gift."

-from theEastern Orthodox Order of Lesser Blessing of the Water

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