Overcome by love, He came into the world to seekHis creature who had wandered.Without beginning, and Ineffable,Son of God and our God,Wisely and with divine providence, as a God,He makes the search.He is made flesh from His mother whom He cleansed(as though swept clean) and sanctified;And He offers His body as a lamp to theContinue reading “Overcome by love”
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I wasted in iniquities the riches that Thou gavest me.
When I disobeyed in ignorance Thy fatherly glory,I wasted in iniquities the riches that Thou gavest me.Wherefore, I cry to Thee with the voice of the prodigal son, saying,I have sinned before Thee, O compassionate Father,Receive me repentant, and make me as one of Thy hired servants. Kontakion for Sunday of the Prodigal Son