The Prayer of Saint Ephraim
The Lenten prayer of St Ephraim the Syrian, said with prostrations at the weekday services of Great Lent.
From J. N. W. B. Robertson's Divine Liturgies (1894), public domain — https://archive.org/details/divineliturgies00churgoog
The Prayer of Saint Ephraim
O Lord and Master of my life, a spirit of idleness, of meddling, of ambition, and of vainspeaking, give thou me not.
But a spirit of soberness, of humblemindedness, of patience, and of love, do thou bestow upon me, thy servant.
Yea, O Lord, King, grant unto me that I may see mine own stumblings, and not condemn my brother: for blessed art thou unto the ages of the ages. Amen.
