Canon of St. Andrew: I have stained the coat of my flesh, and soiled what is in Thy image and likeness . . .

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I have stained the coat of my flesh, and soiled what is in Thy image and likeness, O Savior.

I have darkened the beauty of my soul with passionate pleasures, and my whole mind I have reduced wholly to mud.

+ The Great Canon of St. Andrew of Crete, Mon 2.5-6
Text of the Canon

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