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You can submit your intercessory prayer request to St. Ephrem or St Mary using the following request form.

During the period Great Lent, the prayer written by St. Ephrem the Syrian is said frequently. It is a prayer on which everyone should carefully meditate.

The prayer is punctuated with prostrations. Lenten Prayer of St. Ephraim. O Lord and Master of my life, take from me the spirit of sloth, despair, lust of power ...

Dear Parishioners,. Please accept this offering of an explanation of the Lenten Prayer of St. Ephraim the Syrian in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Therefore, the prayer asks in the second line for a restoration to Christian wholeness and integrity, foreshadowing the petition of the third line that the ...

O Lord, Master of my life, grant that I may not be infected with the spirit of slothfulness and inquisitiveness, with the spirit of ambition and vain talking.

O Lord and Master of my life! Take from me the spirit of sloth, faint-heartedness, lust of power, and idle talk. But give rather the spirit of chastity, Не найдено: request | Нужно включить: request

We invite you to send us the names of those for whom you are requesting prayers. You may do so either by filling in the web form below and submitting it.

The Prayer of St. Ephrem (the Syrian) is recited during the Liturgy of Presanctified Gifts and in Vesper Services during Lent (The Great Fast).