And if it be the Great Fast, we make three great reverences to the earth, reciting the prescribed prayer.
O Lord and Master of my life, grant not unto me a spirit of slothfulness, of discouragement, of lust of power, of vain babbling.
Reverence.
But vouchsafe unto thy servant the spirit of continence, of meekness, of patience, and of love.
Reverence.
Yea, O Lord and King, grant that I may perceive my own transgressions, and judge not my brother. For blessed art thou unto ages of ages. Amen.
Reverence. Then twelve lesser reverences, saying at each: O God, cleanse thou me, a sinner. Then the whole prayer is repeated, with one great reverence in conclusion.
From Isabel Florence Hapgood, Service Book of the Holy Orthodox-Catholic Apostolic Church, Houghton Mifflin, 1906, at the First Hour, p. 41. The book itself — public domain.
Lord and Master of my life, give me not the spirit of indolence, despair, ambition and vain speaking.
But rather the spirit of chastity, humble-mindedness, patience and love do thou grant unto me, thy servant.
Yea, O Lord King, let me see my own faults, and let me not judge my brother; for thou art blessed to ages of ages. Amen.
From G. V. Shann, Euchology: A Manual of Prayers of the Holy Orthodox Church, Kidderminster, 1891, at the Little Daily Vespers, p. 59. The book itself — public domain.
Both books translate the Slavonic text, which the Russian tradition uses; the Greek differs, naming idleness and meddling where the Slavonic names despondency and negligence. The two English versions below are forty years apart and render the same four faults quite differently — “lust of power” against “ambition”, “slothfulness” against “indolence”. Neither is wrong. It is worth seeing, because any single English wording of this prayer is one translator's choice.
Where these come from. Every prayer here is transcribed from a printed book that is out of copyright, and each one says which book and where in it. That is not fussiness. An English translation of an Orthodox prayer is a copyrighted work in its own right, separately from the Greek or Slavonic behind it, and in 2012 a monastery took a bishop to federal court for putting its translations on a website — and won. So these come from Hapgood's Service Book of 1906 and Shann's Euchology of 1891 and Book of Needs of 1894, which anyone may reprint. More on the sources and what is missing.