Jesus my LORD, who became man and graced us with the beauty of your life and with the example of faith, purity, and love; help me, I pray, to love you with all my mind, heart and soul, and to live according to your teachings. Strengthen me when temptations strike, that I may remain pure in thought and steadfast in virtue, doing only things that are pleasing to you. Guide me into your will, and not my own, as I look to the future. Grant me faith, courage and love, that I may serve you in holiness all the days of my life, through the prayers of the Theotokos and of all the saints. Amen.
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Source: Prayer Book: In Accordance with the Tradition of the Eastern Orthodox Church, Revised 2nd ed., St. Arseny of Konevets, Victoria, BC, Canada, 2011, 53.
