A Morning prayer of St. Paiosios the Great

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Don't be anxious for your life, what you will eat, nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothing. Consider the ravens: they don't sow, they don't reap, they have no warehouse or barn, and God feeds them. How much more valuable are you than birds! Which of you by being anxious can add a cubit to his height? If then you aren't able to do even the least things, why are you anxious about the rest? Consider the lilies, how they grow. They don't toil, neither do they spin; yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. But if this is how God clothes the grass in the field, which today exists, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, O you of little faith? Don't seek what you will eat or what you will drink; neither be anxious. For the nations of the world seek after all of these things, but your Father knows that you need these things. But seek God's Kingdom, and all these things will be added to you.

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	A Morning prayer of St. Paiosios the Great

O Lord Jesus Christ my God, give me a good, sinless, and spotless day.
O Lord, forsake me not.
O Lord, do not stand afar off from me
O Lord, stretch out to me a helping hand.
O Lord, support me with the fear of Thee.
O Lord, plant this fear and the love for Thee in my heart.
O Lord, teach me to do Thy will.
O Lord, grant mourning and humility to my heart.
O Lord, give me unceasing tears, compunction, and remembrance of death.
O Lord, free me from every temptation of soul and body.
O Lord, expel from me every unclean thought, and every shameful and improper imagination.
O Lord, wipe out of me the negligence, the indolence, the sorrow, the forgetfulness, the insensitivity, the hardness, and the captivity of my mind.
O Lord, have mercy on me, as Thou knowest and as Thou dost wish, and forgive all my transgressions.
And grant that my pitiful soul may depart from my wretched body in quietude, in good repentance, in unhesitating confession, and in pure and spotless faith.
Amen.

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