"From my youth, O Saviour, I have rejected Thy commandments.
Ruled by the passions, I have passed my
whole life in heedlessness and sloth.
Therefore I cry to Thee, O Saviour, even now at the end: Save me."
Ἐκ νεότητος Σωτὴρ, τὰς ἐντολάς σου ἐπαρωσάμην, ὅλον ἐμπαθῶς,
ἀμελῶν ῥᾳθυμῶν, παρῆλθον τὸν βίον· διὸ
κράζω σοι Σωτήρ· Κᾂν ἐν τῷ τέλει σῶσόν
με.
St. Andrew of
Crete, The Great Canon, Tone six, Canticle one, Mattins, Thursday in the Fifth
Week of Lent; The Lenten Triodion, trans. Mother Mary and Kallistos Ware (South
Canaan, PA: St. Tikhon’s Seminary Press,
2002), 380. Greek: Triōdion katanyktikon, periechon hapasantēn anēkousan autō akolouthian tēs Hagias kai Megalēs Tessarakostēs. Apo tēs Kyriakēs tou telōnou kai tou Pharisaiou, mechri tou Hagiou kai Megalou Savvatou . . . , 4th ed.(Venice: Ek tou Hellēnikou typ. ho Phoinix, 1876), 259 (the translators of The Lenton Triodion give their own original at the top of p. 66). The wonderful phrase "doxological contrition" I have taken from a 7 September 2019 Thomistic Institute lecture by Fr. Khaled Anatolios entitled "Salvation: a view from the Byzantine liturgy," which also put me onto this passage.
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