Prayers to the Most Holy Theotokos for Every Day of the Week by Schema-hieromonk St. Nilus of Sora Skete (†1870)
Sunday
All-merciful Virgin Theotokos, Mother of compassions and love for mankind, my most beloved hope and aspiration!
(so she is more beloved of a Hope than Jesus Christ himself? According to his, she is more beloved than Christ)
0 Mother of the most sweet and most desired Savior, Who exceedeth every love, Jesus Christ, the Lover of mankind and my God, the Light of my darkened soul! I, the exceeding sinful and hopeless one, fall down before thee,
(so you fall down to mary and not Christ? and you say you do not hold Mary up as a God, here you are worshiping her!)
to thee I make my prayer, 0 well-spring of compassion, Virgin Mary, who didst bear the Abyss of compassion and Depth of mercies and love for mankind: Have mercy on me, have mercy on me, I painfully cry to thee; have mercy on me who am all in wounds,
(Mary can not save you, nor can she have mercy on you. How can one who needed to be saved herself have mercy on anyone? You better beg Christ to have mercy on you. )
who have fallen among brutish thieves and who am, alas!, stripped naked of the garment in which the Father clothed me. Wherefore I lie stripped of every good deed, my wounds stinking and festering before my madness. My Mistress, Theotokos, look down on me, I humbly pray thee, with thy merciful eye and despise me not, who am all in darkness, all in filth, all immersed in the mire of passions, terribly fallen and unable to stand. Do thou take pity on me and grant me a helping hand, lift me up out of sinful depths, 0 my Joy! Deliver me from them that surround me; make thy face to shine upon thy servant; save the perishing, cleanse the filthy, raise up the terrible fallen: for thou canst do all things, as thou art the Mother of God Almighty.
So mary is God? She can do all things? Since when did she become omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent? When did she become equal with God? when did she even become higher than an angel? who is unable to do all things. And you people say you do not worship mary or hold her up as a God!!!
Pour forth on me the oil of thy compassion and grant me to overflow the wine of compunction, for I have acquired thee as truly the only hope in my life;
So mary is the ONLY hope in your life? Wow. I bet Christ. the only real true hope in your life likes hearing this.. And you think he is going to save you??
turn thou not away from me who flee to thee, but behold my grief, 0 Virgin, and the longing of my soul and accept this prayer and save me, 0 thou the Mediatress of my salvation. Amen.
If anyone needed proof that you hold Mary higher than or even equal to God. here we have it. Your praying to mary to save you. Wow!! Your going to get a suprise one day, when you find out truth. When you should have been begging Christ to save you, you instead went to someone who can no more save you than your parents.