{"id":1833,"date":"2016-03-11T18:34:37","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T23:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=1833"},"modified":"2016-03-11T18:34:37","modified_gmt":"2016-03-11T23:34:37","slug":"great-canon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=1833","title":{"rendered":"Great Canon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ode 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A Helper and a Protector has become salvation to me.<br \/>\nThis is my God, Whom I will glorify.<br \/>\nGod of my fathers<br \/>\nI will exalt Him for in glory was He glorified.<br \/>\nHave mercy on me, O God, have mercy on me.<\/p>\n<p>How shall I begin to mourn the deeds of my wretched life? What can I offer as first fruits of repentance? In Your compassion, O Christ, forgive my sins.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>My transgressions rival those of first created Adam, and because of my sins I find myself naked of God and of His everlasting kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>Alas, my wretched soul, why are you so like Eve\/ You see evil and are grievously wounded by it; you touch the tree and tasted heedlessly of its deceiving fruit.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of the person Eve, I have within my inward being an &#8220;Eve&#8221; of passionate thoughts which though seemingly sweet never lose their bitter taste.<\/p>\n<p>For failing to observe just one of Your commandments, O Savour, Adam was justly exiled from Eden. What then shall I suffer for continually ignoring Your words of life?<\/p>\n<p>Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit.<\/p>\n<p>O Trinity above all essence and worshiped as One God, take from me the heavy burden of sin, and since You are compassionate grant me tears of repentance.<\/p>\n<p>Now and ever, and unto ages of ages. Amen.<\/p>\n<p>O Theotokos, Hope and Protection of those who sing to you, take from me the heavy burden of sin and as one pure Lady accept me as I repent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ode 1 A Helper and a Protector has become salvation to me. This is my God, Whom I will glorify. God of my fathers I will exalt Him for in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orthodox-daily-devotional","has_no_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1834,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833\/revisions\/1834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}