Prayer for the Beginning of Instruction

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"O Lord our God and Creator, Who honored us men with Your image; Who has taught Your elect, so that those who take heed to Your teachings are astonished; Who reveals wisdom to infants; Who instructed Solomon and all them that have sought Your wisdom: open the hearts, minds, and lips of these Your servants, that they may receive the power of Your law, and, with success, come to know the useful teachings which shall be taught them, to the glory of Thy most holy Name, to the profit and building up of Thy Holy Church, to their salvation that they may understand Your good and perfect Will. Deliver them from every snare of the Enemy, preserve them in the Orthodox Faith, and in all godliness and purity all the days of their life, that they may advance in understanding, and in the fulfilling of Your commandments, that being thus prepared, they may glorify Your most-holy name, and become heirs of Your Kingdom which has no end. For You are God, mighty in mercy, and gracious in strength, and unto You is due all glory, honor and worship: to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, always, now and ever, and unto ages of ages. Amen."