The Evening Prayer to the Theotokos: 'It Is Truly Meet' and a Supplication for Mercy

The post presents the text of a prayer to the Theotokos used in the Orthodox evening prayer rule. It begins with the hymn "It is truly meet" (Достојно је), which honors the Virgin Mary as more honorable than the cherubim and more glorious than the seraphim, the Mother of God who gave birth to God the Word without corruption. The hymn confesses that she is truly the Theotokos because she bore God the Word incarnate.

The text continues with a personal supplication addressing the Theotokos as the blessed Mother of the King, the all-pure and blessed Theotokos Mary. It asks her to pour out the mercy of her Son and our God upon the speaker's sinful soul, and through her prayers to guide the speaker to good works. The petition asks that the remaining time of life be spent without blemish and that the speaker find paradise through her, addressing her as the Virgin Theotokos, the only pure and blessed one.

The post identifies this combination as part of the evening prayer rule read before sleep. The text is given in Serbian Cyrillic.