of my lusts and other transgressions:
the terrible carelessness and the overcaring,
the evil curiosity and the talkativeness,
the useless incontinence and the haughtiness,
the negligence, the drunkenness and the lack of mercy,
the bad desires, the terrible impurity,
the extravagance, the darkness,
the great insensitivity.
Take away the tendency to say jokes,
the enjoyment, the prodigality.
The laughter of immorality and every evil.
Give me, O maiden, fasting,
carefulness, vigilance and perfect obedience.
Give me carefulness in all
and acute discernment,
silence, order and holy patience.
Grant to me, O Lady, eagerness to work
and to attain my perfection,
and zeal for virtues and exercise.
Keep, O most-holy One,
my soul, my heart and my mind
in holiness and guard it in virginity.
St. Nektarios
