A prayer for every teacher (Oikos from the Menaion for June 29, Saints Peter and Paul):
Make my tongue to speak plainly, O my Savior; enlarge my mouth and fill it, and give my heart compunction that I may be the first to follow what I say and to do what I teach; for everyone that doeth and teacheth, it saith, the same is great.* For if I speak without doing, I am reckoned as sounding brass. Wherefore grant me to say what is needful and to do what is expedient, O Thou Who alone knowest the secrets of our hearts.
*Matthew 5:19
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