Returning once again to our regularly scheduled broadcast, let us once again remember Egypt during w

Returning once again to our regularly scheduled broadcast, let us once again remember Egypt during what must be a terrifying Holy Week.  Saint Mary of Egypt is the patroness of penitents, which should be all of us this week.  Let us ask her intercession for Egypt and for ourselves.Prayer of St. Mary of Egypt while standing in front of the icon of the Theotokos at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in JerusalemO Lady, Mother of God, who gave birth in the flesh to God the Word, I know, O how well I know, that it is no honour or praise to thee when one so impure and depraved as I look up to thy icon, O ever-virgin, who didst keep thy body and soul in purity. Rightly do I inspire hatred and disgust before thy virginal purity. But I have heard that God Who was born of thee became man on purpose to call sinners to repentance. Then help me, for I have no other help. Order the entrance of the church to be opened to me. Allow me to see the venerable Tree on which He Who was born of thee suffered in the flesh and on which He shed His holy Blood for the redemption of sinners an for me, unworthy as I am. Be my faithful witness before thy son that I will never again defile my body by the impurity of fornication, but as soon as I have seen the Tree of the Cross I will renounce the world and its temptations and will go wherever thou wilt lead me.Saint Mary of Egypt, pray for your homeland, pray for us, and pray for all penitents during this Holy Week. -- source link

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