CANON IN PREPARATION FOR HOLY COMMUNION
ODE 1 (Tone 2)
Irmos: Come, O People, let us sing a hymn to Christ God, Who divided the sea and guided the people Whom He led out of the bondage of Egypt, for He has glorified Himself.
Create in me a clean heart, O God, and put a new and right spirit within me.
May Thy Holy Body and Precious Blood, O Lord, be my Bread of everlasting life, healing me of various afflictions.
Cast me not away from Thy presence, and take not Thy Holy Spirit from me.
Make me worthy to partake of Thy most pure Body and Divine Blood, O Christ, for I am unworthy and accursed, defiled by unseemly deeds.
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.
You are the good soil, blessed Bride of God, which bore the ear of grain, the Savior of the world, which sprang from your untilled field. Grant that I may be saved by eating it.