A PRAYER FROM ST. EPHRAIM THE SYRIAN

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The Prayer of St. Ephrem the Syrian

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O Lord and Master of my life, give me not a spirit of sloth, vain curiosity, lust for power, and idle talk.

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But give to me Thy servant a spirit of soberness, humility, patience, and love.

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O Lord and King, grant me to see my own faults and not to condemn my brother:

For blessed art Thou to the ages of ages.

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 Amen
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Ephrem [or Ephraim] the Syrian (Aramaic / Syriac: ܐܦܪܝܡ ܣܘܪܝܝܐ, Mor/Mar Afrêm Sûryāyâ; Greek: Ἐφραίμ ὁ Σῦρος; Latin: Ephraem Syrus; ca. 306 – 373) was a Syriac and a prolific Syriac-language hymnographer and theologian of the 4th century. He is venerated by Christians throughout the world, and especially in the Syriac Orthodox Church, as a saint.

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Ephrem wrote a wide variety of hymns, poems, and sermons in verse, as well as prose biblical exegesis. These were works of practical theology for the edification of the church in troubled times. So popular were his works, that, for centuries after his death, Christian authors wrote hundreds of pseudepigraphous works in his name. Ephrem's works witness to an early form of Christianity in which western ideas take little part. He has been called the most significant of all of the fathers of the Syriac-speaking church tradition.

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From Wikipedia
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