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Metropolitan Anthony Khrapovitsky
(spiritual father of St. John Maximovitch)
The ascetics advise us unfailingly, morning and evening, to collect our
thoughts, to recall our own principal passion, our main hindrance to
salvation, to hate in the soul and, after putting oneself into such a
disposition, to say the following three times, consciously and without
hurrying: 'Vouchsaef, O Lord, to keep me this day (or night) without
sin'. And on this day and during this night God will unfailingly protect
you, if you said the prayer sincerely and without wavering."
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