Syriac Prayer (Pt 7)

Syriac Prayer (Pt 7) February 11, 2007

Create eyes in me, and so may I see with Your eyes,
for I cannot see with my own eyes.

May my mind travel inwards
towards the hiddenness of Your sacrifice,
just as You have travelled out into the open
and been cojoined to Your Mysteries.

At this moment
may I be totally forgetful of myself,
and remain utterly unmindful
of my own person.

May every bodily image
be wiped away from my mind’s Eye,
and may You alone
be depicted before the Eye of my mind.

And now, when Your Spirit descends from heaven
upon your Mysteries,
may I ascend in spirit from earth to heaven.

— Prayers of Joseph the Visionary in “The Syriac Fathers On Prayer And The Spiritual Life,” translated from the original Syriac-Aramaic by Sebastian Brock, Cistercian Publications.

Taken from a Mysticism e-list.


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