Sanctify, O Lord, our souls, and bodies, and spirits, and touch our understandings, and search our consciences, and cast out from us every evil imagination, every impure feeling, every base desire, every unbecoming thought, all envy, and vanity, and hypocrisy, all lying, all deceit, every worldly affection, all covetousness, all vainglory, all indifference, all vice, all passion, all anger, all malice, all blasphemy, every motion of the flesh and spirit that is not in accordance with Your holy will. And count us worthy, loving Lord, with boldness, without condemnation, in a pure heart, with a contrite spirit, with unashamed face, with sanctified lips, to dare to call upon You, the holy God, Father in heaven, and to say:
Our Father, which art in heaven, …and lead us not into temptation, Lord, Lord of hosts, who knows our frailty, but deliver us from the evil one and his works, and from all his malice and craftiness, for the sake of Your holy name, which has been placed upon our humility. For Thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, now and forever. Amen.
(ANF 7.547)
The Liturgy of St. James
