St. Ephrem The Syrian

I’ve seen a lot of posts on Facebook celebrating the Feast of St. Thomas Aquinas (including some memes I created a few years ago!), but today is also the feast day of St. Ephrem The Syrian, the only Deacon Doctor of the Church:

Ephrem

Here’s the prayer we pray particularly often during Lent (“The Great Fast”) in the Eastern Church:

O Lord and Master of my life, take from me the spirit of sloth, despair, lust of power, and idle talk.

 

But give rather the spirit of chastity, humility, patience, and love to Thy servant.

 

Yea, O Lord and King, grant me to see my own transgressions, and not to judge my brother, for blessed art Thou, unto ages of ages. Amen.

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