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O Lord, Who does not desire the death of a sinner but that he should repent and live, Who came down to earth to restore life to those lying dead through sin and to make them worthy of seeing You, the true Light, as far as is possible for man, send me a man who knows You, so that in serving him and subjecting myself to him with all my strength, as if to You, and in doing Your will in his, I may please You, the only true God, and so that even I, a sinner, may be made worthy of Your Kingdom.

Amen.

“AS OUR BODY, WHETHER ILL OR NOT, IS UNABLE TO MOVE OR EVEN LIVE AT ALL WITHOUT A SOUL, SO OUR SOUL, TOO, WHETHER IT SINS OR NOT, IS DEAD WITHOUT THE HOLY SPIRIT AND CAN IN NO WAY LIVE EVERYLASTINGLY.”

…Symeon the New Theologian, On the Mystical Life: The Ethical Discourses : On Virtue and Christian Life Vol. 2, 949–1022 A.D.