Turn not Your face away from me, O Lord, may I not hear Your voice raised against me in anger, do not let me be cast into the fire, but may I enter into the joy of Your spotless bridle chamber, that I might be together with Your Saints.
-from the Matins Canon for the Sunday of the Last Judgment.
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I imagine the Gadarene whom Christ exorcised said something similar to the Lord -- he asked if he could follow Him -- but Jesus told him to go home instead.
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