{"collection":"scripture-revelation","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_71513/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_71513","id":"gutenberg_71513","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71513","summary":null,"tags":["Category: Religion/Spirituality","Orthodox Eastern Church -- Liturgy -- Texts"],"text":"BOOK OF NEEDS.\n\n\n\n\n                              BOOK OF NEEDS\n                                  OF THE\n                           HOLY ORTHODOX CHURCH\n                                   WITH\n                               AN APPENDIX\n                        CONTAINING OFFICES FOR THE\n                           LAYING ON OF HANDS.\n\n                            DONE INTO ENGLISH\n                                    BY\n                               G. V. SHANN.\n\n                                 LONDON:\n                         DAVID NUTT, 270 STRAND.\n                                  1894.\n\n\n\n\n                                    TO\n                              HIS EXCELLENCY\n                           C.P. POBEDONOSTZEFF,\n                           CHIEF-PROCURATOR OF\n                      THE MOST HOLY GOVERNING SYNOD\n                                OF RUSSIA,\n                            THESE TRANSLATIONS\n                              ARE INSCRIBED.\n\n\n\n\nPREFACE.\n\n\nThe following pages contain a translation with some omissions, of the\nSlavonic service book entitled, _Tr\u00e9bnik_, or, _Book of Needs_, so\ncalled, because it contains the provision for that which is spiritually\nneeded by a Christian from the cradle to the grave.\n\nTo this is added, as an appendix, a translation of a portion\nof the service book entitled, _Chin\u00f3vnik archier\u00e9iskaho\nsvyashtshennoslouj\u00e9niya_, or, _Office book of the bishop\u2019s holy service_,\nnamely, that pertaining to the laying on of hands.[1]\n\nThe original used for the translation of the first named work is an\nedition published in Moscow in the year 1882, and that for the portion of\nthe second, one published in the same city in the year 1890.\n\nThe omissions, made under competent advice, in the translation of\n_Tr\u00e9bnik_ are as follows,\n\nI. The entire of the epistle and gospel lessons, these being indicated\nby their initial and concluding words only, with one exception, namely,\nin the office of the sanctification of water on the festival of the\nEpiphany, where the lessons from the prophecy being written at length\nthose of the epistle and gospel are made to correspond.\n\nII. Questions asked of penitents in the confessional, and instructions\nconcerning the imposition of penance, as explained in foot-notes at pages\n49 and 51.\n\nIII. Some prayers for various occasions which are not of general interest\n(chapters xxii, xxiii, xxx, xxxi, xxxii, xxxiv, xxxv, xxxvi, xxxvii,\nxxxviii, xxxix, xl, and xli).\n\nIV. Extracts from the Nomocanon (chap. xlii), many of which refer to\nobsolete heathen customs and habits, and all need the living voice of the\npastors of the church for their proper present application.\n\nV. The Kalendar and the Paschal Tables (chapters xliii and xliv), these\nhaving been given in the translator\u2019s former work, _Euchology_, published\nin Kidderminster in the year 1891.[2]\n\nIt should be understood that the originals are books for the use of\nthose who are conversant with the order of the church service, and that,\nfor that reason, many abbreviations appear in them, well known prayers,\nverses, etc, being indicated by initial words only, or by ecclesiastical\nterms. As these abbreviations have been imitated in the translations,\nsome notes are given, which, it is hoped, may remove most of the\nobscurities, which, to the general reader, might appear to pervade the\nwork.\n\n                                                              G. V. SHANN.\n\nOldswinford, Epiphany, 1894.\n\n\n\n\nNOTES.\n\n\n\n\nNOTE I. EXPLANATORY OF ECCLESIASTICAL TERMS.\n\n\n_A\u00ebr._ The external veil which is used to cover both chalice and paten.\n\n_Antidoron._ That which remains of a _Prosphora_ (loaf of oblation) after\nthe portion for consecration has been cut from it. This remainder is\ngiven to communicants (together with wine and warm water) immediately\nafter the holy sacrament, and is also distributed to those of the\ncongregation who are not communicants at the end of the Liturgy instead\nof the holy gifts themselves, and, for that reason, it is called\n_Antidoron_. In the primitive church its distribution was known under the\nterm _Agape_, _i.e._, Love-feast.\n\n_Axios._ Worthy. An exclamation, referring to the candidates, used at\nordinations.\n\n_Canon._ An ecclesiastical composition, commemorative of any given\nfestival or occasion, consisting of nine spiritual songs, according to\nthe number of the degrees of the incorporeal hosts, based upon these\nnine scriptural odes, or prayers, I. The song of Moses in Exodus (_chap.\nxv._ 1-19). II. The song of Moses in Deuteronomy (_chap. xxxii._ 1-43).\nThis song, being indicative of God\u2019s judgment against sinners, is sung\nonly in penitential seasons, hence a Canon usually lacks the second Ode,\nthe third following immediately on the first. III. The prayer of Anna (_1\nKings ii._ 1-10). IV. The prayer of Abbacum (_chap. iii._ 2 _ad fin._).\nV. The prayer of Esaias (_chap. xxvi._ 9-20). VI. The prayer of Jonas\n(_chap. ii._ 2-9). VII. The prayer of the Three Children (_Daniel iii_).\nVIII. The song of the same (_Benedicite_). IX. The song of Zacharias\n(_Benedictus_), preceded by that of the Virgin (_Magnificat_). Every\nOde in a Canon is preceded by a verse called _Irmos_, itself being the\nrhythmical model of the verses that follow, which are called _Troparia_,\nbecause they turn upon a model. The _Irmos_ however is frequently\nomitted, or is sung only before Odes iii, vi, and ix (as also after\nthese). See pages 210, 214, and 218. A refrain pervades all the Odes. See\npages 129, 183, and 209. The refrains for the Canons at pages 85 and 145\nare not expressed in the text, but these are respectively, \u201cHave mercy\nupon me, O God, have mercy upon me,\u201d and, \u201cRest, O Lord, thy sleeping\nservant\u2019s soul.\u201d The refrain is sung or said between every verse except\nthe last two, \u201cGlory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy\nGhost,\u201d being prefixed to the last but one, and \u201cBoth now and ever, and\nto ages of ages. Amen\u201d to the last, which last is always addressed to\nthe God-bearing Virgin. Sometimes, _e.g._, in penitential seasons, the\nverses of the Odes are sung together with those of their scriptural\nprototypes, and the rubric then indicates to how many of these verses,\ncounting backwards from the last, the ecclesiastically composed ones are\nto be subjoined. Thus at page 128 the Canon is directed to be sung to vi,\n_i.e._, six verses (counting backwards) of the scriptural prototype in\neach Ode; but in this case, if so sung, the refrain would be omitted. A\nCanon is moreover usually divided into three parts, the division taking\nplace after the third and sixth Odes, a verse called _Kathisma_, or one\ncalled _Hypaco\u00eb_, frequently occurring after Ode iii, and one called\n_Condakion_, followed by one or more called _Icos_ (_pl._ _Icosi_)\nafter Ode vi. Sometimes an epistle and gospel lection occurs after the\n_Condakion_ and _Icos_. See page 167. Finally, it is to be remarked that\nan _Ectenia_ (q. v.) usually follows Ode iii (before the _Kathisma_), Ode\nvi (before the _Condakion_ and _Icos_), and Ode ix.\n\n_Cherubic Hymn._ The song sung at the great Introit in the celebration\nof the Liturgy, when the prepared gifts are solemnly carried from the\n_Prothesis_ (table of oblations) through the church to the altar. The\nwords of the ancient song accompanying this rite are as follows,\n\nLet all mortal flesh be still, and let it stand in fear and awe, and\nthink of nothing earthly to itself, because the King of kings and Lord of\nlords approacheth to be slain, and given for the faithful\u2019s food.\n\n                  (_Here the procession takes place._)\n\nHim do precede th\u2019 angelic choirs, with all their principals and powers,\nthe cherubim of many eyes, and the six-winged seraphim, who shade their\nfaces and sing forth the song, Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.\n\nThese words however are now only sung on Holy Saturday, and, except on\nthat day, and on Holy Thursday, and at the Liturgy of the Presanctified,\nare substituted by the following, dating from the time of Justinian,\n\nWe, who the cherubim in mystery represent and sing the song thrice-holy\nto the quickening Trinity, should put away now every care of life,\n\n                          (_The procession._)\n\nThat we the King of all things may receive, who borne in is on spears by\nangel ranks unseen. Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.\n\nOn Holy Thursday the words are,\n\nOf thy mysterious supper, Son of God, me a communicant accept to-day; for\nI thy mystery to thy foes will not betray, nor give to thee a kiss as\nJudas did; but, as the thief, I will confess thee: Lord, in thy kingdom O\nremember me.\n\n                          (_The procession._)\n\nOf thy mysterious supper.... _the whole again, concluding with the thrice\nsung Alleluia_.\n\nAnd at the Liturgy of the Presanctified,\n\nNow serve the heavenly powers unseen with us; for, lo, the King of glory\ncometh in. Behold, the mystic sacrifice, that perfected hath been, is\nborne in on the spears.\n\n                          (_The procession._)\n\nLet us draw near with faith and love, that we of life immortal may\npartakers be. Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.\n\n_Condakion._ A short verse expressing the purport of any given festival\nor occasion. See Canon.\n\n_Dismissal._ The concluding words of an office. A full form of these is\ngiven at page 222, but in other places, when they are expressed at all,\nit is in a more or less fragmentary manner.\n\n_Ectenia._ A form of prayer consisting of a number of rogations with\nresponses. There is a great, and a little Ectenia, an Ectenia of earnest\nprayer, and one of supplication. The normal form of these is as follows,\n\n          _The great Ectenia, called also the Ectenia of peace._\n\nIn peace let us pray to the Lord. _Response._ Lord, have mercy, _and so\nafter the succeeding rogations_. For the peace that is from above, and\nfor the salvation of our souls, let us pray to the Lord. For the peace of\nthe whole world, the good estate of the holy churches of God, and for\nthe union of them all, let us pray to the Lord. For this holy temple,\nand for them that with faith, piety, and fear of God enter into it, let\nus pray to the Lord. For the most holy Governing Synod, and for our\nMetropolitan, _name_, for our Archbishop, or Bishop, _name_, _according\nto the eparchy_, for the honourable presbytery, the diaconate in Christ,\nand for all the clergy and the laity, let us pray to the Lord. _Here\nfollow rogations for the Emperor and the Imperial Family, mentioning them\nby name._ To aid them and to subdue under their feet every enemy and\nadversary, let us pray to the Lord. For this city (_if it is monastery_,\nFor this holy habitation), for every city and country, and for them that\nin faith dwell therein, let us pray to the Lord. For healthiness of\nweather, for plentifulness of the fruits of the earth, and for peaceful\ntimes, let us pray to the Lord. For them that voyage, that journey, that\nare sick, that are suffering, that are in bonds, and for their salvation,\nlet us pray to the Lord. _Here are inserted additional rogations for\nspecial circumstances._ For our deliverance from all affliction, passion,\nand want, let us pray to the Lord. Help us, save us, have mercy on us,\nand keep us, O God, by thy grace. Commemorating our most holy, most pure,\nmost blessed glorious Lady, the God-bearing Ever-virgin Mary, together\nwith all the Saints, let us commend ourselves, and one another, and all\nour life to Christ our God. _Response._ To thee, O Lord. _Exclamation by\nthe priest._ For to thee is due all glory, honour, and Worship, to the\nFather, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost, now and ever, and to ages\nof ages. _Response._ Amen.\n\n                          _The little Ectenia._\n\nAgain and again in peace let us pray to the Lord. Help us....\nCommemorating.... _as in the great Ectenia, with a varying exclamation_.\n\n                     _The Ectenia of earnest prayer._\n\nLet us all say with our whole soul, and with our whole mind let us say,\n_Response_. Lord, have mercy. O Lord almighty, O God of our fathers, we\npray thee, hear, and have mercy. _Response._ Lord, have mercy. Have mercy\nupon us, O God, according to thy great mercy, we pray thee, hear, and\nhave mercy. _Response._ Lord, have mercy, _three times; and so after the\nsucceeding rogations, the next being for the Emperor and the Imperial\nFamily, mentioning them by name. Then the Synod, the Metropolitan, and\nall sorts and conditions of men, and those especially for whom the\noccasion serves are mentioned, and the Ectenia is concluded by the priest\nwith the exclamation_, For thou art a merciful and man-loving God, and\nto thee we ascribe glory, to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy\nGhost, now and ever, and to ages of ages. _Response._ Amen.\n\n                      _The Ectenia of supplication._\n\nLet us fulfil our supplication to the Lord. _Response._ Lord, have mercy.\nHelp us, save us, have mercy on us, and keep us, O God, by thy grace.\n_Response._ Lord, have mercy. That the whole day may be perfect, holy,\npeaceful, and sinless, let us ask of the Lord. _Response._ Vouchsafe,\nO Lord, _and so successively_. An angel of peace, a faithful guide, a\nguardian of our souls and bodies, let us ask of the Lord. Pardon and\nforgiveness of our sins and iniquities, let us ask of the Lord. What is\ngood and profitable for our souls, and peace for the world, let us ask\nof the Lord. That the remaining time of our life may be accomplished in\npeace and repentance, let us ask of the Lord. A christian end of our\nlife, painless, unashamed, peaceful, and a good answer at the fearful\njudgment-seat of Christ, let us ask. Commemorating.... _as before\nwritten, with an exclamation, or_, Having prayed.... See page 69.\n\n_Epigonation._ A lozenge shaped ornament, worn by bishops and\narchimandrites, suspended from the girdle and resting upon the knee. It\nsignifies a spiritual sword, with which the wearers should defend those\ncommitted to their charge.\n\n_Epitrachelion._ The priest\u2019s stole.\n\n_Exapostilarion._ A verse said or sung before the psalms of praise\n(Psalms cxlviii, cxlix, and cl). Some derive the term from the verse\nbeing sung by one of the clergy who is sent out of his place in the choir\ninto the middle of the church to sing it; but others from it being a\nverse substituting a more ancient series of verses (Lucerns), in which\nthe Lord is prayed to send forth light unto us.\n\n_Hypaco\u00eb._ A term implying that the verse bearing its name should be\nlistened to with particular attention.\n\n_Icos._ A stanza. See Canon.\n\n_Idiomelon (pl. Idiomela)._ A verse that is of its own mode, _i.e._, one\nnot composed upon an _Irmos_, or model.\n\n_Irmos (pl. Irmi)._ See Canon.\n\n_Kathisma._ A verse during the singing of which it is permitted to sit.\n\n_Omophorion._ The bishop\u2019s pall.\n\n_Orarion._ The deacon\u2019s stole.\n\n_Phelonion._ A vestment or cope.\n\n_Prokimenon._ A verse, taken from the psalms, sung before the reading\nof an appointed epistle. With this is conjoined another verse, and the\nmode of saying and singing these is as follows. The reader says the\nprokimenon, and the choir repeats the same. Then the reader says the\nconjoined verse, and the choir again sings the prokimenon. Finally the\nreader says half the prokimenon, and the choir sings the remaining half.\n\n_Slouj\u00e9bnik._ The service book containing the prayers said by the priest\nand deacon at Vespers, Matins, and Liturgy.\n\n_Stasis._ A subdivision of the psalter. The whole psalter is divided into\ntwenty sections, and each of these is subdivided into three parts.[3]\n\n_Sticharion._ A tunicle.\n\n_Stichera._ Ecclesiastically composed verses, usually conjoined with\nverses selected from the psalms.\n\n_Theotokion._ A verse addressed to the God-bearing Virgin.\n\n_Tone._ The ecclesiastical tones are eight in number, and are based upon\nthe ancient classical modes, namely, the Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, and\nIonian for tones i to iv, and the minors of these for tones v to viii.\nThe Slavonic, Greek, and Gregorian tones correspond thus,\n\n    _Slavonic._  _Greek._  _Gregorian._\n         I.         I.           I.\n        II.        II.         III.\n       III.       III.           V.\n        IV.        IV.         VII.\n         V.      I minor.       II.\n        VI.     II minor.       IV.\n       VII.       Grave.        VI.\n      VIII.     IV minor.     VIII.\n\n_Trisagion._ The thrice-holy hymn, the words of which are as follow,\n\nHoly God, holy mighty one, holy immortal one, have mercy upon us, sung\nthree times.\n\nWhen sung in a more solemn manner at the Liturgy and other offices before\nthe reading of the epistle and gospel the mode is thus,\n\nHoly God, holy mighty one, holy immortal one, have mercy upon us. _Three\ntimes._\n\nGlory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost, both now and\never, and to ages of ages. Amen.\n\nHoly immortal one, have mercy upon us.\n\n                                (Dynamis.)\n\nHoly God, holy mighty one, holy immortal one, have mercy upon us.\n\nAt Easter, Pentecost, Christmas, and Epiphany, on the day before Palm\nSunday, on Holy Saturday, and at Baptisms, this hymn is superseded by the\nfollowing,\n\nAs many as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. Alleluia.\n_Three times._\n\nGlory to the Father.... _ending_, to ages of ages. Amen.\n\nHave put on Christ. Alleluia.\n\nAs many as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. Alleluia.\n\n                          See pages 35 and 167.\n\n_Troparion._ A verse that is composed (_lit._ turns) upon a model. See\nCanon. The term has also a wider signification, and is used to indicate\nthe principal commemorative verse for any festival or occasion, and as\nsuch is referred to in the text as \u201cthe troparion for the day.\u201d\n\n\n\n\nNOTE II. EXPLANATORY OF ABBREVIATIONS.\n\n\nThe abbreviations found in the text, and not explained in Note i, are,\n\nI. Blessed be our God....\n\nII. Blessed be the kingdom....\n\nIII. Trisagion. O most holy Trinity.... Our Father.... For thine is the\nkingdom....\n\nIV. _Glory. Both now._\n\nV. The more honourable than the cherubim....\n\nVI. Now dismiss thy servant, O Master.... Pages 11 and 126.\n\nVII. O come, let us worship.... _thrice_. Pages 46, 83, 123, and 128.\n\nVIII. It is very meet.... Pages 51, 92, and 136.\n\nIX. Alleluia, _thrice_. Pages 83 and 145.\n\nX. Have mercy upon me, O God.... Page 85.\n\nXI. Holy God.... Pages 138, 141, 164, 169, 220, and 224.\n\nXII. Having seen the resurrection of Christ, we adore.... Pages 166 and\n167.\n\nXIII. Blessed art thou, O Lord: O teach me thy statutes. The angelic\ncounsel was amazed.... Page 167.\n\nXIV. Glory to God in the highest.... Vouchsafe, O Lord.... Page 198.\n\nXV. It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord.... Page 207.\n\nXVI. _The irmi of the great canon_, A help and protection.... Page 208.\n\nXVII. Thou who man-lovingly in depth of wisdom.... We have thee as a\nfortress and a haven.... Page 209.\n\nXVIII. God is the Lord, and hath manifested himself unto us.... Page 225.\n\nXIX. Hear us, O God our Saviour, thou hope of all the ends of the\nearth.... Page 238.\n\nXX. Blessed be the name of the Lord.... Page 253.\n\nXXI. Forgive, remit.... Page 11 Appendix.\n\nXXII. And may the mercies.... Pages 11 and 12 Appendix.\n\nThese written at length are as follows, the first five being of frequent\noccurrence,\n\nI and II. The priest\u2019s initial blessing, Blessed be our God, always, now\nand ever, and to ages of ages. _Response._ Amen. And, Blessed be the\nkingdom of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, now and\never, and to ages of ages. _Response._ Amen.\n\nIII. Holy God, holy mighty one, holy immortal one, have mercy upon us,\n_three times_. Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy\nGhost, both now and ever, and to ages of ages. Amen. O most holy Trinity,\nhave mercy upon us: O Lord, cleanse our sins: O Master, forgive our\ntransgressions: visit us. O Holy One, and heal our infirmities, for\nthy name\u2019s sake. Lord, have mercy, _three times_. _Again_, Glory to the\nFather ... ages of ages. Amen. _The Lord\u2019s prayer, ending_, deliver us\nfrom evil. _Priest._ For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the\nglory, of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, now and\never, and to ages of ages. _Response._ Amen.\n\nIV. Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.\n\nBoth now and ever, and to ages of ages. Amen.\n\nV. The more honourable than the cherubim, and incomparably more glorious\nthan the seraphim, who didst bear without corruption God the Word, thee,\nverily the God-bearing one, we magnify.\n\nVI. _Nunc Dimittis._\n\nVII. O come, let us worship God our King.\n\nO come, let us worship, and fall down before Christ God, our King.\n\nO come, let us worship, and fall down before Christ himself, our King and\nGod.\n\nVIII. It is very meet to bless thee, the God-bearing one, the ever\nblessed, the entirely spotless, and the Mother of our God. The more\nhonourable than the cherubim, and incomparably more glorious than the\nseraphim, who didst bear without corruption God the Word, thee, verily\nthe God-bearing one, we magnify.\n\nIX. Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia, glory to thee, our God. _Three times._\n\nX. Psalm 50.\n\nXI. See Trisagion. Note i.\n\nXII. Having seen the resurrection of Christ, we adore the holy Lord\nJesus, who alone is without sin. Thy cross, O Christ, we worship, and\nsing and glorify thy holy resurrection; for thou art our God, we know\nnone other beside thee, we call upon thy name. O come, all ye faithful,\nlet us adore Christ\u2019s holy resurrection; for by the cross great joy\nis come into all the world. Ever blessing the Lord, we sing his\nresurrection; for, enduring crucifixion, death by death he overthrew.\n\nXIII. Blessed art thou, O Lord: O teach me thy statutes.\n\nThe angelic counsel was amaz\u2019d, seeing thee number\u2019d with the dead, thee,\nSaviour, who hast overthrown the might of death, hast raised Adam with\nthyself, and freed all from hades.\n\nBlessed art thou, O Lord....\n\nWhy, O disciples, do ye mix the myrrh with pitying tears? exclaim\u2019d the\nangel standing nigh the grave to them that bore the myrrh. See ye the\ngrave, and understand; for risen from the grave the Saviour is.\n\nBlessed art thou, O Lord....\n\nThey that bore myrrh made haste at early morn lamenting to thy grave, but\nan angel stood before them, and he said, The time for lamentation is\ngone by, weep not, but tell the resurrection the apostles.\n\nBlessed art thou, O Lord....\n\nThe ointment-bearing women as they came with myrrh unto thy grave, O\nSaviour, wail\u2019d; but an angel spake with them, and said, Why reckon ye\nthe living with the dead? for he is risen from the grave as God.\n\nGlory to the Father....\n\nLet us adore the Father, and his Son, also the Holy Ghost, the Holy\nTrinity in substance one, exclaiming with the seraphim, Thou holy, holy,\nholy art, O Lord.\n\nBoth now and ever....\n\nThou, Virgin, who didst bear the Giver of life, hast Adam ransomed from\nsin, and Eve hast given joy instead of grief; for he that was made\nflesh of thee, the God and man, hath them that fell from life restored\nthereunto.[4]\n\nXIV. Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, goodwill to men.\nWe hymn thee, we bless thee, we worship thee, we glorify thee, we give\nthanks to thee for thy great glory, O Lord, the heavenly King, O God, the\nFather almighty, O Lord, the only-begotten Son, Jesus Christ, and O Holy\nGhost. O Lord God, O Lamb of God, O Son of the Father, thou that takest\naway the sins of the world, have mercy upon us; thou that takest away the\nsins of the world, accept our prayer. Thou that sittest on the right hand\nof the Father, have mercy upon us. For thou alone art holy, thou alone\nart Lord, O Jesus Christ, to the glory of God the Father. Amen. Every\nday will I bless thee, and I will praise thy name to ages, and to ages\nof ages. Lord, thou hast been our refuge in generation and generation. I\nhave said, O Lord, have mercy upon me, heal my soul, for I have sinned\nagainst thee. Lord, I have fled unto thee, teach me to do thy will, for\nthou art my God; for with thee is the fountain of life, in thy light\nshall we see light: O continue forth thy mercy to them that know thee.\n\nVouchsafe, O Lord, to keep us this day without sin. Blessed art thou,\nO Lord, O God of our fathers, and praised and glorified is thy name to\nages. Amen. O Lord, may thy mercy be upon us, like as we have put our\ntrust in thee. Blessed art thou, O Lord, O teach me by thy statutes.\nBlessed art thou, O Master, give me understanding by thy statutes.\nBlessed art thou, O Holy One, enlighten me in thy statutes. O Lord, thy\nmercy endureth for ever, despise not the work of thy hand. To thee is due\npraise, to thee is due a song, to thee is due glory, to the Father, and\nto the Son, and to the Holy Ghost, now and ever, and to ages of ages.\nAmen.[5]\n\nXV. It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord, and to sing unto thy\nname, O Most High, to proclaim thy mercy in the morning, and thy truth\nevery night.\n\nXVI. _The irmi of the great canon._\n\n1. A help and protection hath he become unto me unto salvation, he is my\nGod, and I will glorify him, my father\u2019s God, and I will exalt him; for\nhe is glorified in glorious wise.\n\n2. Give ear, O heaven, and I will speak, and I will sing Christ who hath\ncome in flesh from the Virgin.\n\nSee ye, see ye, that I am God, who of old rained manna, and caused water\nto spring from the rock in the wilderness for my people, by my sole right\nhand and by my strength.\n\n3. On thy commandments\u2019 unmov\u2019d rock, stablish thy church, O Christ.\n\nStablish my fainting heart, O Lord, on thy commandments\u2019 rock; for thou\nalone art holy and the Lord.\n\n4. The prophet heard of thine approach, O Lord, and fear\u2019d; for thou\ndidst purpose of the Virgin to be born, and to appear \u2019mongst men; and\nhe exclaim\u2019d, I heard the report of thee, and feared: glory to thy power,\nO Lord.\n\n5. Rising from the night betimes, O lover of mankind, I pray, Enlighten\nme, and lead me in thine ordinances, and teach me, Saviour, to perform\nthy will.\n\n6. I cried with my whole heart to the merciful God, and he heard me from\nthe lowest hades, and brought back my life from corruption.\n\n7. We have sinned, we have transgressed, we have been unrighteous before\nthee, we have neither loved nor wrought that which thou hast commanded\nus; still, cast us not away at the last, O God of our fathers.\n\n8. Him that heaven\u2019s hosts glorify, and at whose presence quake the\ncherubim and seraphim, let every spirit and creature sing, bless, and set\nup for evermore.\n\n9. From conception seedless unspeakable\u2019s the birth, of Mother\nhusbandless corruptless is the fruit; for God\u2019s nativity hath nature\nform\u2019d anew. Then we, all generations, right-believingly thee magnify as\nMother who was divinely wed.\n\nXVII. Thou who man-lovingly in depth of wisdom orderest all, and unto\nall dost grant that which of service is, O Maker sole; rest thou thy\nservants\u2019 souls, O Lord, for they have plac\u2019d their trust in thee,\n\nOur Maker, and our Author, and our God.\n\nWe have thee as a fortress and a haven, and am accepted mediatress with\nGod, whom thou didst bear, God-bearing one unwed, salvation thou of them\nthat faithful be.[6]\n\nXVIII. God is the Lord, and hath manifested himself unto us: blessed is\nhe that cometh in the name of the Lord.[7]\n\nXIX. Hear us, O God our Saviour, thou hope of all the ends of the earth,\nand of them that are far away upon the sea; and be merciful, be merciful,\nO Master, concerning our sins, and have mercy upon us. For a merciful and\nman-loving God thou art, and to thee we ascribe glory, to the Father, and\nto the Son, and to the Holy Ghost, now and ever, and to ages of ages.\n\nXX. Blessed be the name of the Lord, from henceforth, and to all ages.\n\nXXI. Forgive, remit, concede, O God, our sins, voluntary and involuntary,\nthose in word and in deed, those in knowledge and in ignorance, those in\nthe day and in the night, those in thought and in intention; concede them\nall to us, as being good and lover of mankind.\n\nXXII. And may the mercies of the great God and of our Saviour Jesus\nChrist be with all of you.[8]\n\n\n\n\nNOTE III. THE EASTER CANON, ETC. TO ELUCIDATE CHAPTER XVII.\n\n\n                          _Troparion. Tone v._\n\nChrist is risen from the dead, death by death down doth he tread, and on\nthem that dwell in graves he bestoweth life.\n\n_Verse._ Let God arise, and let his enemies be scattered, and let them\nthat hate him flee from before him.\n\n_Verse._ As smoke is driven away, so drive them away, as wax melteth at\nthe presence of fire,\n\n_Verse._ So let the sinners perish at the presence of God, but let the\nrighteous rejoice.\n\n_Verse._ This is the day which the Lord hath made, let us rejoice and be\nglad therein.\n\n_Verse._ Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.\n\n_Verse._ Both now and ever, and to ages of ages. Amen.\n\n_And to every verse the troparion_, Christ is risen ... _is added_.\n\n                      _The Canon in tone i. Ode i._\n\n_Irmos._ It is the day of resurrection! Ye folk, be we enlightened! It is\nthe Pascha, the Pascha of the Lord! For out of death to life, and unto\nheaven from earth Christ God hath led us forth, us, singing victory\u2019s\nsong.\n\n_Refrain._ Christ is risen from the dead! _This is said before every\nTroparion in all the Odes unless otherwise indicated._\n\n_Troparion._ Let us the senses cleanse, and we shall see, in light\naccessless of the resurrection shining Christ, and we shall clearly hear\nhim saying, Hail! we, singing victory\u2019s song.\n\n_Troparion._ Let heaven, for \u2019tis meet, rejoice; and let the earth be\nglad; and let the world, all that unseen is and is seen, keep festival;\nfor Christ is risen: joy eterne!\n\n_The Irmos is repeated, and they sing_, Christ is risen ... _the whole.\nAnd so after every Ode._\n\n                               _Ode iii._\n\n_Irmos._ Come, let us drink the beverage new, not that from barren rock\nin wondrous wise outpour\u2019d; but incorruption\u2019s fount, shower\u2019d from the\ngrave of Christ, in whom we stablish\u2019d are.\n\n_Troparion._ Now fill\u2019d is all with light, the heaven, the earth, yea,\nand the underworld. Then let the whole creation festal keep for Christ\u2019s\nawake, whereby it stablish\u2019d is.\n\n_Troparion._ I was entomb\u2019d with thee, Christ, yesterday: to-day, at\nthine arising, I awake. With thee I yesterday was crucified: O Saviour,\nin thy kingdom me glorify with thee.\n\n                           _Hypaco\u00eb. Tone iv._\n\nPreventing the dawn, and finding the stone rolled away from the grave,\nthey that accompanied Mary from an angel heard, Why seek ye as a man\namong the dead him that in light accessless dwells? Behold the swathes of\ndeath! Hasten, and tell the world the Lord is risen, who slayeth death;\nfor he is Son of God, who saves the race of men.\n\n                                _Ode iv._\n\n_Irmos._ With us on watching tower divine may the inspired Abbacum stand,\nand show a radiant angel speaking plain, Salvation\u2019s for the world\nto-day; for Christ, th\u2019 almighty one, is risen.\n\n_Troparion._ Christ hath appeared as a male opening the Virgin\u2019s womb. As\nmortal, he is call\u2019d a lamb; as undefil\u2019d by stain, our Pasch; and, as\ntrue God, he\u2019s perfect nam\u2019d.\n\n_Troparion._ As yearling lamb our blessed crown, even Christ, of his own\nwill, as cleansing Pasch, was slain for all; and from the grave hath\nshin\u2019d to us again, he, glorious Sun of righteousness.\n\n_Troparion._ David, divine forefather, leap\u2019d, dancing the typical ark\nbefore; and, we, beholding types fulfill\u2019d, be we divinely glad, we,\nholy folk of God; for Christ, th\u2019 almighty one, is risen.\n\n                                _Ode v._\n\n_Irmos._ In the deep dawn let us arise, and let us bring, instead of\nmyrrh, the Lord a song, and we the Sun of righteousness shall see, Christ\nshining life to all.\n\n_Troparion._ They that were held by hades\u2019 bonds when they thy boundless\npity saw, hasten\u2019d, O Christ, unto the light, praising, with joyful feet,\nth\u2019 eternal Pasch.\n\n_Troparion._ Bearing the lamps, precede we Christ, who, as a bridegroom,\nfrom the grave comes forth, and, with the festal-loving ranks, let us\ntogether keep the saving Pasch of God.\n\n                                _Ode vi._\n\n_Irmos._ Thou didst descend into earth\u2019s lowest parts, O Christ, and\nbreak the eternal bonds that held the captives bound, and the third day\ndidst rise out of the sepulchre, as Jonas from the whale.\n\n_Troparion._ Keeping the seals entire, thou didst arise, O Christ, out of\nthe sepulchre, who, at thy birth, didst not destroy the virgin bars; and\nthou hast op\u2019d to us the doors of paradise.\n\n_Troparion._ My Saviour, who, as God, didst to the Father bring thyself,\nof thine own will, an offering living and unsacrific\u2019d also, arising from\nthe grave, thou hast, along with thee, raised all Adam\u2019s race.\n\n                         _Condakion. Tone viii._\n\nIf into the grave thou didst descend, Immortal One, yet didst thou\noverthrow the might of hades, and, as victor, rise, Christ God, unto the\nwomen bearing myrrh exclaiming, Hail! and giving peace to thine apostles,\nO thou that grantest resurrection unto them that fallen be.\n\n                                 _Icos._\n\nThe Sun, that was before the sun, set once within a grave, the maidens\nbearing myrrh, preventing dawn, sought as the day, and unto one another\ncried, Come ye, O friends, let us with scents anoint the body that\nlife-bringing is, and buried is, the flesh, that raiseth fallen Adam,\nthat lieth in a grave. Let us go on, let us make haste, like as the Magi\ndid; and let us bring the myrrh as gift to him that\u2019s wrapp\u2019d, not in the\nswaddling bands, but in a winding-sheet; and let us weep, and let us cry,\nMaster, arise, who grantest resurrection unto them that fallen be.\n\n                               _Ode vii._\n\n_Irmos._ He that delivered the children from the furnace became man, and\nsuffered as mortal, and, by his suffering, endued the mortal with the\nbeauty of immortality, even he, our fathers\u2019 God, who only blessed and\nmost glorious is.\n\n_Troparion._ The women who were divinely wise sped back to thee with\nmyrrh; and him whom they sought with tears as mortal, they worshipp\u2019d\nwith joy as living God; and told, O Christ, to thy disciples the glad\ntidings of the mystic Pasch.\n\n_Troparion._ We celebrate the death of death, the overthrow of hades, the\nfirst-fruits of another life that endless is, and sing exultingly the\nCause, even him, our fathers\u2019 God, who only blessed and most glorious is.\n\n_Troparion._ How truly sacred and all-festal is this saving and brightly\nbeaming night, which heraldeth the rising of the splendour-bearing day,\non which the ageless Light in flesh hath shin\u2019d to all from out the grave.\n\n                               _Ode viii._\n\n_Irmos._ This is the chosen and holy day, the one that is of sabbaths\nking and lord. It feast of feasts is, and triumph is of triumphs, on\nwhich we bless Christ for aye.\n\n_Troparion._ Come, let us in the vine\u2019s new fruit participators be of joy\ndivine on the auspicious day of resurrection to Christ\u2019s kingdom, singing\nhim, as God, for aye.\n\n_Troparion._ Lift up thine eyes, O Sion, round about, and see; for, lo!\nthy children come to thee, as lights by God illum\u2019d, from the west and\nfrom the north, from the sea and from the east, in thee blessing Christ\nfor aye.\n\n_Verse._ O most holy Trinity, glory to thee, our God.\n\n_Troparion._ Almighty Father, Word, and Spirit, nature conjoin\u2019d in\npersons three, superessential, God most high, in thee baptized we have\nbeen, and thee we bless for evermore.\n\n                                _Ode ix._\n\n_Irmos._ Shine, shine, O new Jerusalem; for the glory of the Lord\nis risen on thee. Exult now, and rejoice, O Sion; and thou, O pure\nGod-bearing one, be glad at the rising of thy Child.\n\n_Verse._ My soul him magnifies, who willingly did suffer and was buried,\nand rose the third day from the grave, even Christ, the Giver of life.\n\n_Troparion._ O voice of thee divine, most sweet, and dear! for thou hast\npromis\u2019d undeceivingly to be with us, O Christ, until the ages end, which\nholding as hope\u2019s stablishment, let us, the faithful, joyful be.\n\n_Verse._ Christ is the Pascha new, the living sacrifice, the Lamb of God,\nwho the world\u2019s sins doth take away.\n\n_Troparion._ O Christ, thou great most sacred Pasch, wisdom, and Word\nof God, and power! grant us in wise more perfect to partake of thee thy\nkingdom\u2019s day in that no evening hath.\n\n                       _Exapostilarion. Tone ii._\n\nAsleep in flesh as mortal, King and Lord, on the third day thou didst\narise, arousing Adam from corruption and destroying death, O Pasch of\nimmortality, salvation of the world.\n\n                           _Stichera. Tone v._\n\n_Verse._ Let God arise....\n\nTo-day the sacred Pascha is made manifest to us, the new, the holy Pasch,\nthe Pascha mystical, the Pascha all-rever\u2019d, the Pascha, even Christ the\nransomer, the Pascha undefil\u2019d, the Pascha great, the faithful\u2019s Pasch,\nthe Pasch that opes the gates of Paradise to us, the Pasch that halloweth\nall that faithful be.\n\n_Verse._ As smoke is driven away....\n\nCome from that spectacle, ye women-gospellers, and unto Sion say, Receive\nfrom us the joyful tidings of Christ\u2019s resurrection. Be fervent, dance,\nand joy, Jerusalem, beholding Christ the King proceed as bridegroom from\nthe grave.\n\n_Verse._ So let the sinners perish....\n\nThe women bearing myrrh at early dawn stood the Life-giver\u2019s grave\nbefore, and found an angel sitting on the stone, and he, accosting them,\nspake thus, Why seek the living mid the dead? why the corruptless wail as\nthough he in corruption were? Go, tell ye his disciples this!\n\n_Verse._ This is the day which....\n\nPascha the fervent, Pascha, the Pascha of the Lord, the Pascha\nall-rever\u2019d hath risen on us. It Pascha is, let us with joy each other\ngreet. O Pascha, ransoming from grief! For, shining from the grave\nto-day, as bridegroom from a bridal-room, Christ hath with joy the women\nfill\u2019d, saying, Tell the disciples this!\n\n                           _Glory. Both now._\n\nIt is the day of resurrection, and by the triumph be illuminate we, and\nwe each other greet, and Brethren! to them that hate us say, and at the\nresurrection everything forgive; and on this wise let us exclaim,\n\nChrist is risen from the dead, death by death down doth he tread, and on\nthem that dwell in graves he bestoweth life. _Three times._\n\n\n\n\nADDITIONAL NOTES.\n\n\nA. Note that in Appendix the word translated _Archpriest_ is in the\noriginal _Archiereus_, and signifies the Bishop. There is however another\nword which can only be translated into English by the term _Archpriest_,\nnamely _Protoiereus_, but this is a title borne by many priests who are\nnot of episcopal rank.\n\nB. And note that in the Psalms the Orthodox Church follows the Septuagint\nand not the Hebrew enumeration.\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n\n\nERRATA.\n\n\n  Page XI, line 17 of Notes, omit _Archpriest._ A Bishop, as being\n                      calculated to give a wrong impression. See\n                      Additional Note A, page XXXIX.\n\n    \u201d  51,   \u201d   3 of foot-note, _for_ of _read_ in.\n\n    \u201d  61,   \u201d   8, and page 62, line 27, _for_ Gallilee _read_ Galilee.\n\n    \u201d  64,   \u201d   3, _for_ help-meet _read_ helpmeet.\n\n    \u201d 103,   \u201d  16, _for_ who _read_ whom.\n\n    \u201d 142, lines 10 and 11, and page 158, lines 13 and 14, _for_ we ask\n                      of thee, O Christ, _read_ let us ask of Christ.\n\n    \u201d 158, line 4, _after_ for _insert_ the repose of.\n\n    \u201d 160,   \u201d 18, descendants\u2019, _omit the apostrophe_.\n\nThere are, in addition, a few obvious errors in the punctuation.\n\nTranscriber\u2019s Note: The errata have been corrected, including any obvious\nerrors in the punctuation that were found.\n\n\n\n\n                                 TREBNIK.\n\n                                 MOSCOW.\n                          AT THE SYNODAL PRESS.\n                               MDCCCLXXXII.\n\n[Illustration]\n\nTo the glory of the holy, consubstantial, life-creating, and undivided\nTrinity, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost; by the command of our\nMost Pious, Autocratic Great Lord, THE EMPEROR ALEXANDER ALEXANDROVITCH\nof all Russia; before his Consort, the Most Pious Lady, THE EMPRESS MARIA\nTHEODOROVNA; before His Heir, the Right-believing Lord, the Cesarevitch\nand Grand Duke, NICOLAUS ALEXANDROVITCH; before the Right-believing\nLords, the Grand Dukes, GEORGE and MICHAEL ALEXANDROVITCH; before the\nRight-believing Lord, the Grand Duke, VLADIMIR ALEXANDROVITCH, and\nbefore His Consort, the Lady, the Grand Duchess MARIA PAVLOVNA; before\nthe Right-believing Lords, the Grand Dukes, CYRIL, BORIS, and ANDREW\nVLADIMIROVITCH; before the Right-believing Lords, the Grand Dukes,\nALEXIS, SERGIUS, and PAUL ALEXANDROVITCH; before the Right-believing\nLord, the Grand Duke, CONSTANTINE NICOLAEVITCH, and before His Consort,\nthe Right-believing Lady, the Grand Duchess, ALEXANDRA JOSEPHOVNA; before\nthe Right-believing Lords, the Grand Dukes, NICOLAUS, CONSTANTINE, and\nDEMETRIUS CONSTANTINOVITCH; before the Right-believing Lord, the Grand\nDuke, NICOLAUS NICOLAEVITCH, and before His Consort, the Right-believing\nLady, the Grand Duchess, ALEXANDRA PETROVNA; before the Right-believing\nLords, the Grand Dukes, NICOLAUS and PETER NICOLAEVITCH; before the\nRight-believing Lord, the Grand Duke, MICHAEL NICOLAEVITCH, and\nbefore His Consort, the Right-believing Lady, the Grand Duchess, OLGA\nTHEODOROVNA; before the Right-believing Lords, the Grand Dukes, NICOLAUS,\nMICHAEL, GEORGE, ALEXANDER, SERGIUS, and ALEXIS MICHAELOVITCH; and before\nthe Right-believing Ladies, the Grand Duchess, XENIA ALEXANDROVNA, the\nGrand Duchess, MARIA ALEXANDROVNA, and before Her Consort, the Queen of\nthe Hellenes, OLGA CONSTANTINOVNA, and before Her Consort, the Grand\nDuchess, VERA CONSTANTINOVNA, the Grand Duchess, ANASTASIA MICHAELOVNA,\nand before Her Consort, the Queen of W\u00fcrtenburg, OLGA NICOLAEVNA, and\nbefore Her Consort, the Grand Duchess KATHERINE MICHAELOVNA, and the\nGrand Duchess HELEN VLADIMIROVNA; and with the Blessing of the Most Holy\nGoverning SYNOD, this book TREBNIK, hath been printed in the royal\ncity of Moscow at the Synodal Press in the year of the creation of the\nworld viicccxc, and of the birth of God the Word according to the flesh\nmdccclxxxii, the xth of the indict, the month of June.\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n\n\nTHE DESIGNATION, WITH HOLY GOD, OF THE CHAPTERS CONTAINED IN THIS TREBNIK.\n\n\n   _Chap._                                                          _Page._\n\n       I. Prayers on the first day after a child is born to a woman     1\n\n      II. Prayer at the signing of a child when it receiveth a name on\n            the eighth day after its birth                              4\n\n     III. Prayers for a parturient woman after forty days               6\n\n      IV. Prayer for a woman when she hath aborted a child             11\n\n       V. Prayers at the making of a catechumen                        13\n\n      VI. The order of holy baptism                                    24\n\n          And a prayer for holy baptism, that is, how briefly to\n            baptize a child because of fear of death                   41\n\n          Concerning how it behoveth a spiritual person to behave\n            himself                                                    44\n\n     VII. The order concerning confession                              46\n\n    VIII. Prayer on the releasing from prohibition                     51\n\n      IX. The order that is used at betrothals                         53\n\n       X. The order of the coronation                                  58\n\n      XI. Prayer at the taking off of the crowns on the eighth day     72\n\n     XII. The order for a second marriage                              73\n\n    XIII. The order of the sanctification of the holy oil              83\n\n     XIV. The office when in extreme urgency occasion ariseth to\n            give communion to a sick person                           123\n\n      XV. Prayerful canon to our Lord Jesus Christ and to the most\n            holy God-bearing Mother of the Lord at the parting of\n            the soul from the body of every right-believer            128\n\n          And the prayer at the departure of a soul                   136\n\n     XVI. The mortuary order over lay bodies                          138\n\n    XVII. The ordinance that is observed concerning the carrying\n            forth of them that fall asleep in holy Pascha, and in\n            all the bright week                                       164\n\n   XVIII. The mortuary order over a departed priest                   169\n\n     XIX. The office of the burial of a babe                          208\n\n      XX. The order of the lesser sanctification of water             225\n\n     XXI. The order of the sanctification of water on the holy\n            Theophany                                                 240\n\n    XXIV. Prayer at the blessing of flesh-meat                        255\n\n     XXV. Prayer at the blessing of cheese and eggs                   256\n\n    XXVI. Prayer at the partaking of grapes on the vith day of august 256\n\n   XXVII. Prayer for them that gather first-fruits                    257\n\n  XXVIII. Prayer at the laying of the foundation of a house           258\n\n    XXIX. Prayer when one entereth into a new house                   258\n\n  XXXIII. Prayer for one that purposeth to go on a journey            259\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n\n\n_Chapter I._\n\nPRAYERS ON THE FIRST DAY AFTER A CHILD IS BORN TO A WOMAN.\n\n\n                         Let us pray to the Lord.\n\nMaster, Lord Almighty, who healest every sickness, and every weakness; do\nthou thyself heal this thine handmaid, _name_, who to-day hath borne a\nchild, and raise her from the bed upon which she lieth; for, according to\nthe words of thy prophet David, we were conceived in transgressions, and\nare all defiled before thee. Protect her, and this child which she hath\nborne: shelter her under the covering of thy wings from this day even\nunto her last end, through the prayers of the most holy God-bearing one,\nand of all the Saints; for blessed art thou to ages of ages. Amen.\n\n                         Let us pray to the Lord.\n\nMaster, Lord our God, who wast born of our most holy Lady, the\nGod-bearing and ever-virgin Mary, and as a babe wast laid in a manger,\nand as a child wast carried in arms; do thou thyself have mercy upon\nthis thine handmaid, who to-day hath borne this child, and be gracious\nunto her voluntary and involuntary offences, and protect her from every\ndiabolical cruelty; and preserve the child which she hath borne from\nevery bane, from every harm, from every hostile rage, from evil spirits\nof the day and night; and preserve her under thy mighty hand; and grant\nunto her a speedy recovery, and cleansing from defilement, and healing\nof suffering; and vouchsafe to her health, and strength of soul and\nbody; and surround her with bright and shining angels; and preserve her\nfrom every approach of invisible spirits; yea, O Lord, from sickness and\ninfirmity, from jealousy and envy, and from the glance of eyes; and have\nmercy upon her, and upon the child, according to the greatness of thy\nmercy; and cleanse her from bodily defilement, and from diverse inward\ntravail befalling her; and, by thy quick mercy, lead her to recovery\nin her bodily affliction. And vouchsafe unto the child which she hath\nborne to worship the earthly temple which thou hast prepared for the\nglorification of thy holy name. For to thee is due all glory, honour, and\nworship, to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost, now and\never, and to ages of ages. Amen.\n\n                         Let us pray to the Lord.\n\nO Lord our God, who wast pleased to come down from heaven and to be\nborn of the holy God-bearing and ever-virgin Mary for the salvation of\nus sinners, who knowest the feebleness of human nature; be gracious,\naccording to the greatness of thy compassions, unto thine handmaid,\n_name_, who to-day hath borne a child. For thou hast said, O Lord, Be\nfruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it. Therefore\nwe, thy servants, beseech thee, and, trusting in thy forbearing love\nto man, with fear invoke the holy name of thy kingdom, Look down from\nheaven and behold the feebleness of us condemned ones, and be gracious\nunto thine handmaid, _name_, and to all the house in which the child\nhath been born, and to all who are connected with her; and to all that\nhere assemble be thou gracious, as the good and man-loving God. For thou\nalone hast power to forgive sins, through the prayers of the most holy\nGod-bearing one, and of all thy Saints. Amen.\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n\n\n_Chapter II._\n\nPRAYER AT THE SIGNING OF A CHILD WHEN IT RECEIVETH A NAME ON THE EIGHTH\nDAY AFTER ITS BIRTH.\n\n\n_Be it known that on the eighth day after birth the babe is brought by\nthe nurse to the temple, and she standeth before the doors of the temple._\n\n                         _And the priest maketh,_\n\nBlessed be our God... _Trisagion._ O most holy Trinity... _And after_ Our\nFather... For thine is the kingdom...\n\n_Then the troparion of the day, or of the holy habitation. And the priest\nsigneth its forehead, mouth, and breast, and saith the prayer._\n\n                         Let us pray to the Lord.\n\nO Lord our God, to thee we pray, and on thee we call, Let the light\nof thy countenance be signed on this thy servant (_or_, on this thine\nhandmaid), _name_, and be he signed with the cross of thine only-begotten\nSon in his heart and understanding, that he may flee the vanity of the\nworld and every evil device of the enemy, and may keep thy commandments;\nand grant, O Lord, that thy holy name may remain upon him unrenounced,\nwhen at the fitting time he shall be conjoined with thy holy church, and\nbe perfected with the terrible mysteries of thy Christ, that, living\naccording to thy commandments and preserving the seal unbroken, he may\nattain unto the blessedness of thine elect in thy kingdom, through the\ngrace and love to man of thine only-begotten Son, with whom thou art\nblessed, together with thy most holy, and good, and life-creating Spirit,\nnow and ever, and to ages of ages. Amen.\n\n_Then, taking the child in his hands, he standeth before the doors of the\ntemple, or before the image of the most holy God-bearing one, and maketh\nthe sign of the cross, saying,_\n\nHail, grace-accorded God-bearing Virgin! for out of thee the sun of\nrighteousness, Christ our God, hath shined, enlightening them that are in\ndarkness. And thou, O righteous elder, be thou glad, receiving in thine\narms the deliverer of our souls, even him that granteth resurrection unto\nus.\n\n                       _And the dismissal is made._\n\n_It is necessary to know that, if the newly born babe, being exceedingly\nweak, do not suck, but appear likely to die, it behoveth not to wait six\nor eight days, and then to baptize it, as some wickedly say; but at the\nvery hour of its birth to wash it only, and immediately to baptize it,\nthat it die not unilluminated. Since they that are five months pregnant\nare, by the laws and canons, responsible for murder, if it happen that\nby any shock they abort the babe, so much the more is it necessary to\navoid the condemnation of them that are brought forth, that they die not\nunilluminated._\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n\n\n_Chapter III._\n\nPRAYERS FOR A PARTURIENT WOMAN AFTER FORTY DAYS.\n\n\n_On the fortieth day the child is again brought to the temple to be\nchurched, that is, to make a beginning of attending church. It is brought\nby the mother, who hath already been cleansed and washed, accompanied by\nthe intended sponsor at the baptism._\n\n                         _And the priest maketh,_\n\nBlessed be our God.... _Trisagion._ O most holy Trinity ... _and_ Our\nFather.... For thine is the kingdom....\n\n_Then the troparion of the day, or of the commemorated saint._\n\n                            _Glory. Both now._\n\nThrough the prayers, O Lord, of all the Saints, and of the God-bearing\none, grant us thy peace, and have mercy upon us, as the alone\ncompassionate one.\n\n_And she, holding the child, boweth her head, and the priest maketh the\nsign of the cross over him, and, touching his head, saith the prayer._\n\n                         Let us pray to the Lord.\n\nO Lord God Almighty, Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who by thy word\nhast made every rational and irrational creature, and hast led all\nthings into being from non-existence; to thee we pray, and on thee we\ncall, Cleanse this thine handmaid, _name_, whom thou hast saved by thy\nwill, and who cometh into thy holy church, from every sin and from every\ndefilement, that she may be counted worthy to partake uncondemnedly of\nthy holy mysteries.\n\n_Be it known that if the babe be not among the living, the prayer is read\nthus far._\n\n                        _Then, with a loud voice,_\n\nFor thou art a good and man-loving God....\n\n_But if it be alive, read also this to the end._\n\nBless also the child which hath been born of her; increase it, sanctify\nit, give it understanding, and a prudent and virtuous mind; for thou hast\nbrought it into being, and hast shewn unto it perceptible light; that at\nthe time which thou hast appointed it may be counted worthy of spiritual\nlight, and may be numbered together with thy holy flock, through thine\nonly-begotten Son, with whom thou art blessed, together with thy most\nholy, and good, and life-creating Spirit, now and ever, and to ages of\nages. Amen.\n\nPeace to all.\n\nBow your heads to the Lord.\n\n                  _Prayer for the mother of the child._\n\nO Lord our God, who didst come for the salvation of the human race;\ncome also unto thine handmaid, _name_, and, through thine honourable\npresbytery, count her worthy of an entrance into the temple of thy\nglory: wash her from bodily defilement and from spiritual stain in the\ncompletion of the forty days, and make her worthy of the communion of thy\nprecious body and blood.\n\nFor hallowed and glorified is thy most honourable and majestic name, with\nthe Father, and the Holy Ghost, now and ever, and to ages of ages. Amen.\n\n_Prayer ii., for the child, which, signing it, the priest prayeth._\n\n                         Let us pray to the Lord.\n\nO Lord our God, who on the fortieth day wast brought as a child into the\ntemple of the law by Mary, thine unmarried and holy Mother, and wast\ncarried in the arms of righteous Symeon; do thou thyself, O omnipotent\nMaster, bless this presented babe, that it may appear before thee, the\nCreator of all things; and do thou increase it in every work that is\ngood and acceptable unto thee, removing far from it every opposing might\nby the sign of the likeness of thy cross; for thou art he that guardeth\nbabes, O Lord; that, being counted worthy of holy baptism, it may attain\nunto the part of the elect of thy kingdom, being protected with us by\nthe grace of the holy, and consubstantial, and undivided Trinity. For to\nthee is due all glory, thanksgiving, and worship, with thine unbeginning\nFather, and thy most holy, and good, and life-creating Spirit, now and\never, and to ages of ages. Amen.\n\nPeace to all.\n\nBow your heads to the Lord.\n\nO God, Father Almighty, who by the loud-voiced prophet Esaias,\nhast fore-announced unto us the incarnation from a Virgin of thine\nonly-begotten Son and our God, who, in the latter days, by thy good\npleasure and by the co-operation of the Holy Ghost, hath willed, through\nimmeasurable loving-kindness, to become a child of her for the salvation\nof us men; and, according to the custom of thy holy law, after the\nfulfilment of the days of purification, submitted to be brought into\nthe sanctuary, being himself a true lawgiver, and willed to be carried\nin the arms of righteous Symeon; of which mystery we have a prototype\ndeclared in the aforementioned prophet by the taking of coals with tongs\nfrom the altar, and of which we faithful also have an imitation in grace;\ndo thou now, who art he that guardeth babes, thyself, O Lord, bless this\nchild, together with its parents and sponsors, and count it worthy, at\nthe fitting time, to be born again of water and of the spirit: number it\nwith thy holy flock of rational sheep, who are called by the name of thy\nChrist. For thou art he who livest on high, and who regardest the lowly,\nand to thee we ascribe glory, to the Father, and to the Son, and to the\nHoly Ghost, now and ever, and to ages of ages. Amen.\n\n_(And if the babe be baptized, the priest performeth the act of reception\ninto the church; but if not, he doeth this after the baptism. And, after\nthe prayer, he here maketh the dismissal.) Then, taking the child, the\npriest traceth the cross with it before the gates of the temple, saying,_\n\nThe servant of God, _name_, or the handmaid of God, _name_, is received\ninto the church, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the\nHoly Ghost. Amen.\n\n_Then he bringeth it into the temple, saying,_\n\nHe entereth into thy house, he worshippeth towards thy holy temple.\n\n_And he bringeth it into the midst of the temple, saying,_\n\nThe servant of God, _name_, is received into the church....\n\n                             _Then he saith,_\n\nIn the midst of the church he singeth praise unto thee.\n\n_Then he bringeth it before the doors of the altar, saying,_\n\nThe servant of God, _name_, is received into the church....\n\n_And he bringeth it into the holy altar, if it be of the male sex; but,\nif of the female, only as far as the royal gates, saying,_\n\nNow dismiss thy servant, O Master....\n\n_And after these things he layeth it before the doors of the altar, and\nthere the sponsor, bowing thrice, taketh it up, and departeth. And the\npriest, as is customary, maketh the dismissal._\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n\n\n_Chapter IV._\n\nPRAYER FOR A WOMAN WHEN SHE HATH ABORTED A CHILD.\n\n\n_The priest maketh_, Blessed be our God.... _Trisagion._ O most holy\nTrinity.... Our Father.... For thine is the kingdom....\n\n_And the troparion of the day. Then,_\n\n                         Let us pray to the Lord.\n\nMaster, Lord our God, who wast born of the holy God-bearing and\never-virgin Mary, and as a babe wast laid in a manger; do thou thyself,\naccording to thy great mercy, have mercy upon this thine handmaid, who\nto-day is in sins, having fallen even unto voluntary or involuntary\nmurder, and hath aborted that conceived in her; and be gracious unto her\nwilling and unwilling iniquities, and preserve her from every diabolical\nwile, and cleanse her defilement, heal her suffering, and grant unto her,\nO lover of mankind, health and strength of body and soul; and guard her\nby a shining angel from every assault of invisible demons, yea, O Lord,\nfrom sickness and weakness; and cleanse her from bodily defilement, and\nfrom diverse inward travail befalling her; and, by thine abundant mercy,\nrouse her in her humbled body, and raise her from the bed whereon she\nlieth. For we were conceived in sins and in transgressions, and are all\ndefiled before thee, O Lord; and with fear we cry and say, Look down from\nheaven and see the helplessness of us accursed, and be gracious unto this\nthine handmaid, _name_, who is in sins, having fallen even unto voluntary\nor involuntary murder, and hath aborted that conceived in her; and,\naccording to thy great mercy, as the good and man-loving God, have mercy\nupon her and be gracious unto her in all things that have surrounded her\nand have come in contact with her; for thou alone hast power to forgive\nsins and transgressions, through the prayers of thy most pure Mother, and\nall the Saints.\n\nFor to thee is due all glory, honour, and worship, with the Father, and\nthe Holy Ghost, now and ever, and to ages of ages. Amen.\n\n                       _And the dismissal is made._\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n\n\n_Chapter V._\n\nPRAYERS AT THE MAKING OF A CATECHUMEN.\n\n\n_The priest looseth the girdle of him that cometh to be illuminated, and\ndivesteth him of his robes and his shoes, and placeth him looking towards\nthe east, clad in one garment only, without girdle or head-dress, and\nbarefooted, and with his hands down; and breatheth thrice in his face,\nand signeth him thrice upon the forehead and the breast, and layeth his\nhand upon his head, saying,_\n\n                         Let us pray to the Lord.\n\nIn thy name, O Lord, God of truth, and in the name of thine only-begotten\nSon, and of thy Holy Ghost, I lay mine hand upon thy servant, _name_,\nwho hath been counted worthy to betake himself to thy holy name, and to\nbe protected under the shadow of thy wings. Remove far from him that\nold error, and fill him with faith that is in thee, and with hope and\ncharity, that he may understand that thou alone art the true God, and\nthine only-begotten Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, and thy Holy Ghost. Grant\nhim to walk in all thy commandments, and to observe those things which\nare acceptable unto thee; for, if a man do these, he shall find life in\nthem. Inscribe him in thy book of life, and unite him to the flock of\nthine inheritance. May thy holy name be glorified in him, and that of thy\nbeloved Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, and that of thy life-creating Spirit.\nLet thine eyes ever regard him in mercy, and thine ears be ever attentive\nunto the voice of his prayer. Let him rejoice in the works of his hands,\nand in all his generation, that he may give thanks unto thee, worshipping\nand glorifying thy great and most high name, and may ever praise thee all\nthe days of his life,\n\n                              _Exclamation._\n\nFor all the powers of heaven praise thee, and thine is the glory, of the\nFather, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, now and ever, and to ages\nof ages. Amen.\n\n                            _First exorcism._\n\n                         Let us pray to the Lord.\n\n                        _Choir._ Lord, have mercy.\n\nThe Lord forbiddeth thee, O devil, he that came into the world and made\nhis dwelling among men, that he might cast down thy tyranny, and deliver\nmen; he that upon the tree triumphed over the opposing powers, when the\nsun was darkened, and the earth was shaken, and the tombs were opened,\nand the bodies of the saints arose; he that by death destroyed death,\nand overcame him that held the might of death, that is, even thee, O\ndevil. I forbid thee by God, who showeth forth the tree of life, and\nrangeth the cherubim, and the flaming sword that turneth about to guard\nthis. Be thou forbidden! for I forbid thee by him that walketh upon the\nwaves of the sea as upon dry land, who forbiddeth the storm of winds,\nwhose glance drieth up the depths, and whose threatenings melt the\nmountains; for it is he himself that now forbiddeth thee through us.\nBe thou afraid, and depart, and absent thyself from this creature, and\ncome thou not back, neither hide thyself in him, nor encounter him, nor\ninfluence him, either in the night, or in the day, or in the morning, or\nat noon; but get thee away to thine own tartarus, until the appointed\ngreat day of judgment. Fear God, who sitteth upon the cherubim, and\nlooketh upon the depths, before whom tremble angels, archangels, thrones,\ndominations, principalities, virtues, powers, the many-eyed cherubim, and\nthe six-winged seraphim; whom heaven and earth fear, the sea, and all\nthat in them is. Get thee away and depart from the sealed newly-elected\nsoldier of Christ our God; for I forbid thee by him that rideth upon the\nwings of the winds, that maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers a\nflame of fire; get thee away and depart from this creature with all thy\nmight and angels.\n\n                              _Exclamation._\n\nFor glorified is the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy\nGhost, now and ever, and to ages of ages. Amen.\n\n                            _Second exorcism._\n\n                         Let us pray to the Lord.\n\nGod, the holy, the terrible, and the glorious, who concerning all his\nworks and strength is incomprehensible and unsearchable, who himself hath\nordained for thee, O devil, the retribution of eternal torment, through\nus, his unworthy servants, biddeth thee, and all thy co-operating might\nto depart from him that is newly sealed in the name of our Lord Jesus\nChrist, our true God. I forbid thee therefore, O most evil, and impure,\nand foul, and abominable, and alien spirit, by the might of Jesus Christ,\nwho hath all power in heaven and upon earth, who spake unto the deaf and\ndumb demon, Get thee out of the man, and enter no more into him. Depart,\nknow the vainness of thy might, which had not power even over swine.\nRemember him who bade thee, at thy request, enter into the herd of swine.\nFear God, at whose command the earth was stablished upon the waters; who\nhath founded the heaven, and fixed the mountains with a line, and the\nvalleys with a measure; who hath placed the sand as a bound for the sea,\nand made a safe path in the raging water; who toucheth the mountains and\nthey smoke; who investeth himself with light as with a garment; who hath\nstretched out the heaven as a curtain; who covereth his upper-chambers\nwith waters; who hath founded the earth on firm foundations, so that it\nshall not be moved for ever; who calleth up the water of the sea, and\npoureth it upon the face of the earth. Get thee hence and depart from him\nwho is being prepared for holy illumination. I forbid thee by the saving\npassion of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by his precious body and blood, and\nby his terrible advent; for he shall come, and shall not tarry, to judge\nall the earth, and shall punish thee and thy co-operating might in the\ngehenna of fire, consigning thee to outer darkness, where the worm dieth\nnot and the fire is not quenched. For of Christ our God is the might,\nwith the Father and the Holy Ghost, now and ever, and to ages of ages.\nAmen.\n\n                            _Third exorcism._\n\n                         Let us pray to the Lord.\n\nO Lord of Sabaoth, the God of Israel, who healest every sickness and\nevery wound; look down upon thy servant, search out and try him, and\ndrive away from him every operation of the devil. Forbid the unclean\nspirits, and expel them, and cleanse the work of thy hand, and, using\nthy swift efficacy, beat down satan shortly under his feet; and give\nhim victory over him, and over his unclean spirits; that, obtaining\nmercy from thee, he may be counted worthy of thine immortal and heavenly\nmysteries, and may ascribe glory unto thee, to the Father, and to the\nSon, and to the Holy Ghost, now and ever, and to ages of ages. Amen.\n\n                             _Fourth prayer._\n\n                         Let us pray to the Lord.\n\nThou that art, Master, Lord, who madest man after thine image and\nlikeness, and gavest him the power of eternal life, and when he had\nfallen through sin didst not disdain him, but didst provide, through\nthe incarnation of thy Christ, for the salvation of the world; do thou\nthyself also, delivering this thy creature from the yoke of the enemy,\nreceive him into thy heavenly kingdom: open his mental eyes, that the\nlight of thy gospel may dawn upon him: join to his life a shining angel,\nwho may deliver him from every adverse snare, from evil encounters, from\nthe noon-day demon, and from wicked illusions.\n\n_And the priest breatheth on his mouth, on his forehead, and on his\nbreast, saying,_\n\nDrive from him every evil and unclean spirit, hiding and lurking in his\nheart.\n\n                       _And he saith this thrice._\n\nThe spirit of error, the spirit of evil, the spirit of idolatry and\nof all covetousness, the spirit of lying and of all uncleanness, that\nworketh according to the instruction of the devil. And make him a\nrational sheep of the holy flock of thy Christ, an honourable member of\nthy church, a son and inheritor of thy kingdom; that, living according\nto thy commandments, and keeping the seal unbroken, and preserving the\ngarment undefiled, he may attain unto the blessedness of the saints in\nthy kingdom.\n\n                           _With a loud voice._\n\nThrough the grace, and compassions, and love to man of thine\nonly-begotten Son, with whom thou art blessed, together with thy most\nholy, and good, and life-creating Spirit, now and ever, and to ages of\nages. Amen.\n\n_And he that is to be baptized, being unvested and barefooted, the priest\nturneth him looking towards the west, with his hands uplifted, and saith,_\n\nDost thou renounce satan, and all his works, and all his angels, and all\nhis service, and all his pomp?\n\n_And the catechumen answereth, or his sponsor, if he that is to be\nbaptized be a barbarian, or a child, and saith_, I renounce.\n\n_Again the priest saith a second time,_\n\nDost thou renounce satan, and all his works, and all his angels, and all\nhis service, and all his pomp?\n\n_And he answereth_, I renounce.\n\n_Again the priest saith a third time._\n\nDost thou renounce satan, and all his works, and all his angels, and all\nhis service, and all his pomp?\n\n_And he answereth_, I renounce.\n\n_Again the priest interrogateth him that is to be baptized._\n\nHast thou renounced satan?\n\n_And the catechumen answereth, or his sponsor_, I have renounced.\n\n_Again the priest interrogateth,_\n\nHast thou renounced satan?\n\n_And he answereth_, I have renounced.\n\n_Again the priest interrogateth a third time,_\n\nHast thou renounced satan?\n\n_And he answereth_, I have renounced.\n\n_Then the priest saith,_\n\nBlow upon him, and spit upon him.\n\n_And this being done, the priest turneth him looking towards the east,\nwith his hands down; and the priest saith to him,_\n\nDost thou join Christ?\n\n_And the catechumen answereth, or his sponsor, saying_, I join.\n\n_Again the priest saith a second time,_\n\nDost thou join Christ?\n\n_He answereth a second time_, I join.\n\n_Again the priest saith a third time,_\n\nDost thou join Christ?\n\n_He answereth a third time_, I join.\n\n_Then again the priest saith to him,_\n\nHast thou joined Christ?\n\n_And he answereth_, I have joined.\n\n_And again he saith_, Dost thou believe in him?\n\n_And he saith_, I believe in him, as King and God.\n\n                             _And he saith,_\n\nI believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and\nof all things visible and invisible. And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the\nonly-begotten Son of God, who was begotten of the Father before all ages.\nLight of Light, very God of very God, begotten, not made, consubstantial\nwith the Father, by whom all things were made. Who for us men, and for\nour salvation, came down from the heavens, and was incarnate of the Holy\nGhost and the Virgin Mary, and was made man; And was crucified also\nfor us under Pontius Pilate, and suffered, and was buried, and rose\nagain the third day, according to the scriptures; And ascended into the\nheavens, and sitteth at the right hand of the Father; And shall come\nagain with glory to judge both the quick and the dead, of whose kingdom\nthere shall be no end. And in the Holy Ghost, the Lord, the giver of\nlife, who proceedeth from the Father, who with the Father and the Son is\ntogether worshipped and glorified, who spake by the prophets. In one,\nholy, catholic, and apostolic church. I acknowledge one baptism for the\nremission of sins. I look for the resurrection of the dead; And the life\nin the ages to come. Amen.\n\n_And when he hath finished the holy symbol, he also again saith to him,_\n\nHast thou joined Christ?\n\n_And he answereth_, I have joined.\n\n_And again he saith_, Dost thou believe in him?\n\n_And he saith_, I believe in him as King and God. _And he saith_, I\nbelieve in one God ... _all to the end_.\n\n_And when he hath finished the holy symbol a second time, again he saith\nto him a third time,_\n\nHast thou joined Christ?\n\n_And he answereth_, I have joined.\n\n_And again he saith_, Dost thou believe in him?\n\n_And he saith_, I believe in him, as King and God. _And he saith_, I\nbelieve in one God ... _all to the end._\n\n_And when he hath finished the holy symbol a third time, the priest again\ninterrogateth him, saying,_\n\nHast thou joined Christ?\n\n_And he answereth_, I have joined.\n\n_Again the priest interrogateth a second time,_\n\nHast thou joined Christ?\n\n_And he answereth a second time_, I have joined.\n\n_Again the priest interrogateth a third time,_\n\nHast thou joined Christ?\n\n_And he answereth a third time_, I have joined.\n\n_And the priest saith_, Bow thyself also unto him.\n\n_And he boweth himself, saying,_\n\nI bow myself to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost, to the\nconsubstantial and undivided Trinity.\n\n                         _Then the priest saith,_\n\nBlessed be God, who desireth that all men should be saved, and come to a\nknowledge of the truth, now and ever, and to ages of ages. Amen.\n\n                       _Then he saith this prayer._\n\n                         Let us pray to the Lord.\n\nMaster, Lord our God, call thy servant, _name_, to thy holy illumination,\nand count him worthy of this great grace of thy holy baptism: put off\nfrom him the old man, and renew him unto everlasting life, and fill him\nwith the power of thy Holy Ghost, in the unity of thy Christ, that he may\nbe no longer a child of the body, but a child of thy kingdom; through\nthe goodwill and grace of thine only-begotten Son, with whom thou art\nblessed, together with thy most holy, and good, and life-creating Spirit,\nnow and ever, and to ages of ages. Amen.\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n\n\n_Chapter VI._\n\nTHE ORDER OF HOLY BAPTISM.\n\n\n_The priest entereth, and vesteth himself with the white sacerdotal\ngarment, and the maniples, and all the tapers are lighted, and he taketh\nthe censer, and goeth to the font and censeth round, and giveth up the\ncenser, and boweth himself._\n\n                         _Then saith the deacon,_\n\nBless, master.\n\n                   _And the priest, with a loud voice,_\n\nBlessed be the kingdom of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy\nGhost, now and ever, and to ages of ages.\n\n_Choir._ Amen.\n\n             _And the deacon straightway saith the ectenia._\n\nIn peace let us pray to the Lord.\n\nFor the peace that is from above....\n\nFor the peace of the whole world....\n\nFor this holy temple....\n\nFor the Most Holy Governing Synod....\n\nFor our Most Pious....\n\nThat this water may be hallowed by the might, and operation, and descent\nof the Holy Ghost, let us pray to the Lord.\n\nThat there may be sent down into it the grace of redemption, the blessing\nof Jordan, let us pray to the Lord.\n\nThat there may come down into this water the cleansing operation of the\nsupersubstantial Trinity, let us pray to the Lord.\n\nThat we may be illuminated with the illumination of understanding and\npiety through the descent of the Holy Ghost, let us pray to the Lord.\n\nThat it may be manifested the averting of every counsel of visible and\ninvisible enemies, let us pray to the Lord.\n\nThat he that is baptized therein may be worthy of the incorruptible\nkingdom, let us pray to the Lord.\n\nFor him that now cometh to holy illumination, and for his salvation, let\nus pray to the Lord.\n\nThat he may be manifested a son of light, and an inheritor of eternal\ngood things, let us pray to the Lord.\n\nThat he may be planted with, and become a partaker of the death and\nresurrection of Christ our God, let us pray to the Lord.\n\nThat he may preserve the garment of baptism, and the earnest of the\nSpirit undefiled and unblameable in the terrible day of Christ our God,\nlet us pray to the Lord.\n\nThat this water may be to him the bath of regeneration, unto the\nforgiveness of sins, and the putting on of incorruption, let us pray to\nthe Lord.\n\nThat the Lord God may hearken unto the voice of our prayer, let us pray\nto the Lord.\n\nThat he may deliver him and us from all affliction, passion, and want,\nlet us pray to the Lord.\n\nHelp us, save us, have mercy....\n\nCommemorating our most holy, most pure....\n\n_And while the deacon is saying these, the priest saith this prayer to\nhimself secretly._\n\nO loving-kind and merciful God, who triest the hearts and reins, and who\nalone knowest the secrets of men, for nothing is unmanifest before thee,\nbut all things are naked and exposed in thine eyesight; do thou thyself,\nwho perceivest that which concerneth me, loathe me not, neither turn\naway thy face from me; but overlook mine offences in this hour, O thou\nthat overlookest the sins of men that they may repent. And wash me from\nthe defilement of my body and from the stain of my soul, and sanctify\nme wholly by thine all-effectual invisible might, and by thy spiritual\nright hand, lest, preaching liberty to others, and offering this in the\nperfect faith of thine unspeakable love to man, I myself may be condemned\nas a servant of sin. Nay, O Master, who alone art good and man-loving,\nlet me not be turned back humbled; but send unto me power from on high,\nand strengthen me for the ministration of this thy present great and most\nheavenly mystery; and form the image of thy Christ in him who is about to\nbe born again through my humility; and build him upon the foundation of\nthine apostles and prophets; and cast him not down, but plant him as a\nplant of truth in thy holy, catholic, and apostolic church; and pluck him\nnot up, that, by his advancing in piety, by the same may be glorified thy\nmost holy name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, now\nand ever, and to ages of ages. Amen.\n\n_It behoveth to know that he maketh no exclamation, but saith even the\nAmen to himself._\n\n_Then he saith this prayer with a loud voice,_\n\nGreat art thou, O Lord, and wonderful are thy works, and no word shall be\nsufficient for the praise of thy wonders.\n\n                                                                 _Thrice._\n\nFor thou by thy will hast from nothingness brought all things into being,\nand by thy power thou sustainest creation, and by thy foreknowledge,\ndirectest the world. Thou from four elements hast formed creation, and\nhast crowned the circle of the year with four seasons. All the spiritual\npowers tremble before thee, the sun praiseth thee, the moon glorifieth\nthee, the stars make intercession with thee, the light hearkeneth unto\nthee, the depths shudder at thy presence, the springs of water serve\nthee. Thou hast stretched out the heaven as a curtain, thou hast founded\nthe earth upon the waters, thou hast bounded the sea with sand, thou hast\ndiffused the air for breathing. The angelic powers minister unto thee,\nthe choirs of archangels worship thee, the many-eyed cherubim and the\nsix-winged seraphim, standing and flying around, cover themselves with\nfear of thine unapproachable glory. For thou, being the uninscribable,\nunbeginning, and unspeakable God, didst come down upon earth, taking\nthe form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men; for thou, O\nMaster, through the tenderness of thy mercy, didst not endure to behold\nthe race of men tormented by the devil, but thou didst come and save\nus. We confess thy grace, we proclaim thy mercy, we conceal not thy\nbeneficence. Thou hast set at liberty the generations of our nature,\nthou didst hallow the virginal womb by thy birth. All creation praiseth\nthee who didst manifest thyself; for thou, O our God, wast seen upon\nearth, and didst dwell together with men. Thou didst hallow the streams\nof Jordan, sending down from heaven thy Holy Ghost, and didst crush the\nheads of the dragons that lurked therein.\n\nDo thou thyself therefore, O man-loving King, be present now also through\nthe descent of thy Holy Ghost, and sanctify this water.\n\n                                _Thrice._\n\nAnd give it the grace of redemption, the blessing of Jordan. Make it a\nfountain of incorruption, a gift of sanctification, a loosing of sins,\na healing of sicknesses, a destruction of demons, unapproachable by\nhostile powers, fulfilled with angelic strength, and let them that take\ncounsel together against thy creature flee therefrom; for I have called\nupon thy name, O Lord, which is wonderful, and glorious, and terrible to\nadversaries.\n\n_And he signeth the water thrice, dipping his fingers therein, and,\nbreathing upon it, saith,_\n\nLet all the hostile powers be crushed beneath the sign of the image of\nthy cross.\n\n                                                                 _Thrice._\n\nWe pray thee, O Lord, let every airy and invisible spectre withdraw\nitself from us, and let not a demon of darkness conceal himself in this\nwater, neither let an evil spirit, bringing obscurity of purpose and\nrebellious thoughts, descend thereinto with him that is to be baptized.\nBut thou, O Master of all, declare this water water of redemption,\nwater of sanctification, a cleansing of flesh and spirit, a loosing of\nbonds, a forgiveness of iniquities, an illumination of soul, a bath of\nregeneration, a renewal of the spirit, a gift of sonship, a garment of\nincorruption, a fountain of life. For thou hast said, O Lord, Wash you,\nand be ye clean, put away evil from your souls. Thou hast bestowed upon\nus regeneration from on high by water and the spirit. Manifest thyself,\nO Lord, in this water, and grant that he that is to be baptized may be\ntransformed therein to the putting away of the old man, which is corrupt\naccording to the deceitful lusts, and to the putting on of the new, which\nis renewed according to the image of him that created him, that, being\nplanted in the likeness of thy death through baptism, he may become a\nsharer of resurrection; and, preserving the gift of thy Holy Ghost, and\nincreasing the deposit of grace, he may attain unto the prize of his high\ncalling, and be counted among the number of the first-born, whose names\nare written in heaven, to thee our God and Lord, Jesus Christ, to whom\nbe glory and might, together with thine unbeginning Father, and with thy\nmost holy, and good, and life-creating Spirit, now and ever, and to ages\nof ages. Amen.\n\nPeace to all.\n\nBow your heads to the Lord.\n\n_And he breatheth thrice upon the cruet of oil, and signeth this thrice,\nwhile it is held by the deacon, who saith,_\n\n                         Let us pray to the Lord.\n\n                    _And the priest saith the prayer._\n\nMaster, Lord, O God of our fathers, who didst send to them that were in\nthe ark of Noe a dove bearing a twig of olive in its mouth as a sign\nof reconciliation and salvation from the flood, and by the same didst\nfore-image the mystery of grace, and who hast provided the fruit of the\nolive for the completion of thy holy mysteries, and thereby hast filled\nthem that were under the law with the Holy Ghost, and perfected them\nthat are under grace; do thou thyself bless this oil by the might, and\noperation, and descent of thy Holy Ghost, that it may become an anointing\nof incorruption, a shield of righteousness, a renewal of soul and body,\nan averting of every diabolical operation, to the removal of all evils\nfrom them that are anointed with it in faith, or that are partakers of\nit to thy glory, and to that of thine only-begotten Son, and of thy most\nholy, and good, and life-creating Spirit, now and ever, and to ages of\nages.\n\n_Choir._ Amen.\n\n_Deacon._ Let us attend.\n\n_And the priest, singing Alleluia thrice with the people, maketh three\ncrosses with the oil upon the water._\n\n                          _Then he exclaimeth,_\n\nBlessed be God, who enlighteneth and sanctifieth every man that cometh\ninto the world, now and ever, and to ages of ages.\n\n_Choir._ Amen.\n\n_And he that is to be baptized is brought forward; and the priest taketh\nof the oil with two fingers, and maketh the sign of the cross on his\nforehead, and breast, and between his shoulders, saying,_\n\nThe servant of God, _name_, is anointed with the oil of gladness, in the\nname of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, now and ever,\nand to ages of ages. Amen.\n\n_And he signeth his breast and between the shoulders. On the breast\nsaying,_\n\nFor the healing of soul and body.\n\n_And on the ears_, For the hearing of faith.\n\n_On the hands_, Thy hands have made me, and fashioned me.\n\n_On the feet_, That he may walk in the path of thy commandments.\n\n_And when he hath anointed the whole body, the priest baptizeth him,\nholding him erect and looking towards the east, saying,_\n\nThe servant of God, _name_, is baptized in the name of the Father. Amen.\nAnd of the Son. Amen. And of the Holy Ghost. Amen. Now and ever, and to\nages of ages. Amen.\n\n_At each invocation he immerseth him, and raiseth him again. And after\nthe baptism the priest washeth his hands, singing with the people psalm\nxxxi._\n\nBlessed are they whose transgressions....\n\n_And this whole psalm is said thrice; and, vesting him with the robe, he\nsaith,_\n\nThe servant of God, _name_, is invested with the robe of righteousness,\nin the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.\n\n                _And the troparion is sung in tone viii._\n\nGive unto me a shining robe, thou that art invested with light as with a\ngarment, O most merciful Christ our God.\n\n_And after investing him, the priest prayeth, saying this prayer._\n\nBlessed art thou, O Lord God Almighty, fountain of good things, sun\nof righteousness, who shinest to them that are in darkness the light\nof salvation, through the manifestation of thine only-begotten Son,\nand our God, and grantest unto us, unworthy ones, blessed cleansing in\nholy water, and divine sanctification in life-effecting anointing; and\nwho art now well-pleased for thy servant, the newly-illuminated, to\nbe born again through water and the spirit, and who grantest unto him\nremission of voluntary and involuntary sins; do thou thyself, O Master,\nthou loving-kind supreme King, bestow upon him also the seal of thine\nomnipotent and adorable Holy Ghost, and the communion of the holy body\nand the precious blood of thy Christ; keep him in thy sanctification,\nconfirm him in the orthodox faith; deliver him from the evil one and all\nhis devices; and preserve his soul, through thy saving fear, in purity\nand righteousness, that, in every work and word, being acceptable unto\nthee, he may become a son and heir of thine heavenly kingdom.\n\n_With a loud voice._ For thou art our God, the God of mercy and\nsalvation, and to thee we ascribe glory, to the Father, and to the Son,\nand to the Holy Ghost, now and ever, and to ages of ages. Amen.\n\n_And, after the prayer, he anointeth the baptized with the holy myrrh,\nmaking the sign of the cross, On the forehead, and eyes, and nostrils,\nand lips, And both ears, and breast, And hands, and feet, and saying,_\n\nThe seal of the gift of the Holy Ghost. Amen.\n\n_Then the priest maketh, together with the sponsor and the child, a\ncircumambulation. And we sing,_\n\nAs many as have been baptized into Christ, have put on Christ. Alleluia,\n_thrice_.\n\n                     _Then the prokimenon, tone iii._\n\nThe Lord is mine illumination, and my saviour, whom shall I fear?\n\n_Verse._ The Lord is the defence of my life, of whom shall I be afraid?\n\n                _The epistle to the Romans, section xci._\n\nBrethren, as many of us as were baptized.... _ending_, through Jesus\nChrist our Lord.[9]\n\n_Priest._ Peace to thee.\n\n_Deacon._ Wisdom, let us attend.\n\n_Reader._ Alleluia.\n\n_After this the deacon._ Wisdom, standing, let us hear the holy gospel.\n\n_Priest._ The reading of the holy gospel from Matthew.\n\n_Deacon._ Let us attend.\n\n_The priest readeth, section cxvi._ At that time, the eleven\ndisciples.... _ending_, the end of the world. Amen.[10]\n\n                           _Then the ectenia._\n\nHave mercy upon us, O God....\n\nFurthermore let us pray for our Most Pious Autocratic Great Lord, THE\nEMPEROR ALEXANDER ALEXANDROVITCH of all Russia.\n\nFurthermore let us pray for His Consort, the Most Pious Lady, THE EMPRESS\nMARIA THEODOROVNA.\n\nFurthermore let us pray for His Heir, the Right-believing Lord, the\nCesarevitch and Grand Duke, NICOLAUS ALEXANDROVITCH.\n\nFurthermore let us pray for the Most Holy Governing Synod.\n\nFurthermore let us pray for mercy, life, peace, health, salvation, and\nforgiveness of sins for the servant of God, _name_, the sponsor.\n\nFurthermore let us pray for the newly-illuminated servant of God, _name_.\n\nThat he may be preserved in the faith of a pure confession, in all piety,\nand in the fulfilment of the commandments of Christ throughout all the\ndays of his life.\n\nFor a merciful and man-loving God thou art....\n\n_Choir._ Amen.\n\n_Priest._ Glory to thee, O Christ God, our hope, glory to thee.\n\n                            _Glory. Both now._\n\nLord, have mercy, _thrice_. Bless.\n\n                  _And the priest maketh the dismissal._\n\n_Note. And on the eighth day they bring him again to the church for the\nablution. And the priest looseth his garment and girdle, saying these\nprayers._\n\n                         Let us pray to the Lord.\n\n                        _Choir._ Lord, have mercy.\n\nThou that by holy baptism hast granted forgiveness of sins unto thy\nservant, and bestowed upon him a life of regeneration; do thou thyself,\nO Master Lord, be pleased that the light of thy countenance may evermore\nshine in his heart, Keep the escutcheon of his faith undefamed by\nenemies: preserve for him the garment of incorruption, which he hath put\non, undefiled and unstained: preserve unbroken in him the spiritual seal\nby thy grace; and be gracious unto him and unto us, according to the\nplenitude of thy compassions.\n\nFor blessed and glorified is thy most honourable and majestic name, of\nthe Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, now and ever, and to\nages of ages. Amen.\n\n                               _Prayer ii._\n\n                         Let us pray to the Lord.\n\n                        _Choir._ Lord, have mercy.\n\nMaster, Lord our God, who, through the font, bestowest heavenly\nillumination upon them that are baptized, who hast regenerated thy\nservant, the newly-illuminated, by water and the spirit, and bestowed\nupon him forgiveness of his voluntary and involuntary sins; do thou lay\nupon him thy mighty hand, and keep him in the power of thy goodness;\npreserve his pledge inviolate, and count him worthy of eternal life, and\nof thine approval.\n\nFor thou art our sanctification, and to thee we ascribe glory, to the\nFather, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost, now and ever, and to ages\nof ages.\n\n_Choir._ Amen.\n\nPeace to all.\n\n_Choir._ And to thy spirit.\n\n_Deacon._ Bow your heads to the Lord.\n\n_Choir._ To thee, O Lord.\n\nHe that hath put on thee, O Christ our God, with us boweth his head to\nthee; and do thou keep him that he may abide a combatant unovercome\nagainst them that bear vain enmity against him and us, and by thy crown\nof incorruption at the last declare us all to be victorious ones. For\nit is thine to have mercy and to save, and to thee we ascribe glory,\nwith thine unbeginning Father, and with thy most holy, and good, and\nlife-creating Spirit, now and ever, and to ages of ages.\n\n_Choir._ Amen.\n\n_And he looseneth the child\u2019s girdle and garment, and, joining the ends\nof these, soaketh them with clean water, and sprinkleth the child,\nsaying,_\n\nThou art justified. Thou art illuminated. Thou art sanctified. Thou art\nwashed, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the Spirit of our\nGod.\n\n_And he taketh a new sponge dipped in water, and wipeth his face, as also\nhis head, and breast, and the rest, saying,_\n\nThou art baptized. Thou art illuminated. Thou art anointed with myrrh.\nThou art sanctified. Thou art washed. In the name of the Father, and of\nthe Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.\n\n                   _Prayer at the tonsure of the hair._\n\n_Deacon._ Let us pray to the Lord.\n\n_Choir._ Lord have mercy.\n\nMaster, Lord our God, who didst honour man with thine image, providing\nhim with a rational soul and comely body, that the body might serve the\nrational soul; for thou didst place the head in superiority, and therein\nemplant the greater number of the senses, which impede not one another,\nand didst cover the head with hair that it might not be injured by the\nchanges of weather, and didst fit all the members serviceably thereunto,\nthat by all it might render thanks unto thee, the excellent artist; do\nthou thyself, O Master, who, by thy chosen vessel, Paul, the apostle,\nhast bidden us to do all things to thy glory, bless thy servant, _name_,\nwho is come to make the first offering by the cutting of the hair of\nhis head; and with him also his sponsors; and grant unto them all that\nthey may exercise themselves in thy law, and do those things that are\nacceptable unto thee.\n\nFor a merciful and man-loving God thou art, and to thee we ascribe glory,\nto the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost, now and ever, and\nto ages of ages.\n\n_Choir._ Amen.\n\nPeace to all.\n\n_Choir._ And to thy spirit.\n\n_Deacon._ Bow your heads to the Lord.\n\n_Choir._ To thee, O Lord.\n\n                   _And the priest saith this prayer._\n\nO Lord our God, who, through the completion of the bath, hast, by thy\ngoodness, sanctified them that believe in thee; do thou bless the present\nchild, and may thy blessing come down upon his head. And as by Samuel the\nprophet thou didst bless David the King, so also bless the head of thy\nservant, _name_, by the hand of me, a sinner, visiting him with thy Holy\nGhost, that he may increase unto maturity, and in the grey hairs of old\nage may ascribe glory unto thee, and may see the good things of Jerusalem\nall the days of his life.\n\nFor to thee is due all glory, honour, and worship, to the Father, and to\nthe Son, and to the Holy Ghost, now and ever, and to ages of ages.\n\n_Choir._ Amen.\n\n_And he sheareth him in the form of a cross, saying,_\n\nThe servant of God, _name_, is shorn, in the name of the Father, and of\nthe Son, and of the Holy Ghost.\n\n                                                            _Choir._ Amen.\n\n_Then the ectenia, in which after THE EMPEROR, the sponsor is\ncommemorated together with the newly-illuminated._\n\nHave mercy upon us, O God, according to thy great mercy....\n\nFurthermore let us pray for mercy, life, peace, health, and for the\nsalvation of the servant of God, _name_, the sponsor, and, _name_, the\nnewly-illuminated.\n\n_Priest._ For a merciful....\n\n                  _And the customary dismissal is made._\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n\n\nA PRAYER FOR HOLY BAPTISM, THAT IS, HOW BRIEFLY TO BAPTIZE A CHILD\nBECAUSE OF FEAR OF DEATH.\n\n\n_The priest saith_, Blessed be the kingdom.... _Then_, Trisagion. O most\nholy Trinity.... Our Father.... For thine is....\n\n                         Let us pray to the Lord.\n\nLord God Almighty, the author of all creation, visible and invisible, who\ndidst make heaven and earth, and the sea, and all that in them is, who\ndidst gather the waters unto one gathering together, who didst shut up\nthe depth and seal it by thy terrible and glorious name, who didst raise\nup the waters to be above the firmament: thou hast founded the earth upon\nthe waters, thou hast stablished the sea by thy power, thou hast crushed\nthe heads of the dragons in the waters: terrible art thou, and who shall\noppose thee? Do thou, O Lord, regard this thy creature, and this water,\nand give it the grace of redemption, the blessing of Jordan: make it a\nfount of incorruption, a gift of sanctification, a loosing of sins, a\nhealing of sicknesses, a destruction of demons, an inaccessibility to\nhostile powers, a fulness of angelic strength, that they may flee from it\nthat plot against thy creature; for I have called upon thy name, O Lord,\nwhich is wonderful and glorious, and terrible to adversaries.\n\n_And straightway he poureth oil upon the water. Then he baptizeth,\nsaying,_\n\nThe servant of God is baptized.... _And the rest._\n\n_And straightway he investeth him, and anointeth him with the myrrh,\nsaying,_\n\nThe seal of the gift.... _And the rest._\n\n_And after these things he goeth round with him, singing according to\nrule,_\n\nAs many as have been baptized into Christ....\n\n                       _And the dismissal is made._\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n\n\nPREFACE AND INSTRUCTION CONCERNING HOW IT BEHOVETH A SPIRITUAL PERSON TO\nBEHAVE HIMSELF, AND TO INSTRUCT WITHOUT CONTRADICTION THEM THAT BETAKE\nTHEMSELVES TO HIM.\n\n\nIt is the duty of him that is the recipient of human thoughts to be a\npattern of all good things, and to be continent, humble, and virtuous,\npraying himself every hour unto God, that he may give him the word of\nwisdom to correct them that betake themselves to him. First of all it\nis his duty himself to fast wednesday and friday throughout the year,\nas the divine canons direct, since from these he hath to direct himself\nand others what to do. But if he himself be ignorant, incontinent, and\npleasure-loving, how can he teach virtue unto others? and who would be\nso unwise as to hearken unto him concerning that which he hath to say,\nseeing him a disorderly person and a drunkard, and teaching others not\nto be intemperate, or to follow any virtue whatever, while he himself\nis unable to do this? For eyes are more believing than ears, saith the\ndivine scripture. Therefore, take heed unto thyself, O thou that art a\nspiritual person; for if one sheep be lost through thy negligence, it\nshall be required at thy hands. For cursed, saith the scripture, is he\nthat doeth the work of the Lord negligently. And the great Basil saith,\nGive heed, that thou fear not a man in his fall, that thou give not the\nSon of God into unworthy hands, that thou be not ashamed of him because\nof them that are glorious on the earth, and that thou communicate not\neven him that weareth a diadem. For the divine canons do not permit the\nunworthy to be communicated, since they are regarded as heathen. If\nthey will not repent, woe unto them, and to them that communicate them.\nGive heed, he saith, thou seest I will not permit such things. These\nand the like precepts keeping, and before all things, preserving the\necclesiastical dogmas immoveably, thou shalt save thyself, and them that\nhearken unto thee. If any without proper licence from the local Bishop\ndare to be the recipient of thoughts and to confess, such shall rightly\nreceive punishment as a transgressor of the divine canons; for he doth\nnot only ruin himself, but as many as are confessed by him, they are not\nconfessed, and as many as are bound or loosed, they are not corrected,\naccording to the sixth canon of the synod of Carthage, and according to\nthe forty-third of the same synod.\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n\n\n_Chapter VII._\n\nTHE ORDER CONCERNING CONFESSION.\n\n\n_The spiritual father leadeth one that cometh to confess, but not two or\nmore, with uncovered head before an icon of our Lord Jesus Christ. And he\nmaketh the initial verse._\n\n_Then_, Trisagion. _After_ Our Father.... Lord have mercy, _xii_.\n\n                            _Glory. Both now._\n\nO come, let us worship.... _Thrice._\n\n_Then Psalm l._ Have mercy upon me, O God....\n\n                  _And these present troparia, tone vi._\n\nHave mercy upon us, O Lord, have mercy upon us; for, destitute of all\ndefence, we sinners offer unto thee, as Master, this prayer, Have mercy\nupon us.\n\n                                 _Glory._\n\nO Lord, have mercy upon us; for we have put our trust in thee. Be not\nexceedingly wroth against us, neither remember our transgressions; but,\nas being loving-kind, look now upon us, and deliver us from our enemies;\nfor thou art our God, and we are thy people, we are all the work of thy\nhand, and we call upon thy name.\n\n                               _Both now._\n\nOpen unto us the gates of loving-kindness, O blessed God-bearing one,\nthat we perish not who put our trust in thee, but through thee may we be\ndelivered from calamities; for thou art the salvation of the christian\nrace.\n\n                      _Then_, Lord have mercy, _xl_.\n\n               _The priest saith_, Let us pray to the Lord.\n\n                            _And this prayer._\n\nO God, our Saviour, who, by thy prophet Nathan, didst grant remission\nof his sins to the repentant David, and didst accept the penitent\nprayer of Manasse; do thou thyself, in thy wonted love to man, accept\nthis thy servant, _name_, who lamenteth because of those iniquities\nwhich he hath wrought, overlooking all that he hath done, forgiving his\nunrighteousness, and passing-by his transgressions. For thou, O Lord,\nhast said that pleasure thou hast not in the death of a sinner, but\nrather that he should return and live; and that sins shall be forgiven\nuntil seventy times seven. For as thy greatness is incomparable, so\nis thy mercy immeasurable. For if thou shouldest mark transgressions,\nwho should stand? For thou art the God of the penitent, and to thee we\nascribe glory, to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost, now\nand ever, and to ages of ages. Amen.\n\n                         Let us pray to the Lord.\n\n                          _And another prayer._\n\nO Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the living God, the shepherd, and the lamb\nthat taketh away the sins of the world, who didst give remittance unto\nthe two debtors, and grant pardon of her sins unto the harlot; do thou\nthyself, O Master, concede, forgive, and pardon the sins, transgressions,\nand the voluntary and involuntary offences, which, in knowledge and in\nignorance, thy servants have wrought, and whatsoever they have done,\nas men bearing flesh and living in the world, being beguiled by the\ndevil. If by word, or by deed, or in knowledge, or in ignorance they\nhave sinned, or have despised the word of a priest, or are under the\nmalediction of a priest, or are fallen under their own anathema, or are\nbound under an oath; do thou thyself, as the good Master, who requitest\nnot evil, be pleased that these, thy servants, be loosed by the word,\nforgiving them their own anathema and oath, according to the greatness\nof thy mercy. Yea, O Master, thou man-loving Lord, hearken unto us\nbeseeching thy grace for these thy servants; and, as the most merciful\none, overlook all their offences, and deliver them from everlasting\ntorment. For thou, O Master, hast said, Whatsoever ye shall bind on\nearth shall be bound in heaven, and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth\nshall be loosed in heaven. For thou alone art without sin, and to thee we\nascribe glory, to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost, now\nand ever, and to ages of ages. Amen.\n\n                      _After this he saith to him,_\n\nBehold, child, Christ invisibly standeth here to hear thy confession. Be\nnot ashamed, neither be afraid, and hide nothing from me; but fear not to\ntell me all that thou hast done, so that thou mayest receive forgiveness\nfrom our Lord Jesus Christ. Behold, his image is before us, and I am only\nthe witness, that I may bear witness before him of all thou tellest me.\nIf thou hidest anything from me thou hast double sin. Bethink thee then;\nfor since thou art come unto the place of the physician, go not thou away\nunhealed.\n\n_And then he interrogateth him minutely, question by question, and\nwaiteth until he answer after each interrogation._[11]\n\n                              _Admonition._\n\nConcerning all these things thou art bound henceforth to take care;\nsince, according to the christian mystery, thou art baptized with a\nsecond baptism, and, God helping thee, do thou make a good beginning.\nAnd, above all things, make thou not light of it, to return to the same\nthings, lest thou become a derision unto men; for this becometh not\nchristians: but live honourably, and righteously, and devoutly, and may\nGod assist thee by his grace.\n\n_And when thou hast said all these things unto him, and hast carefully\nexamined him, and he hath moreover made answer without concealment of all\nthings concerning himself, say thou also unto him_, Bow thyself. _Then he\nthat hath confessed boweth his head._\n\n              _And the spiritual person saith this prayer._\n\n                         Let us pray to the Lord.\n\nO Lord God of the salvation of thy servants, who art merciful, and\ncompassionate and long-suffering, and repentest thee concerning our\nmiseries, who desirest not the death of a sinner, but that he should\nreturn and live; do thou thyself now be merciful unto thy servant,\n_name_, and grant unto him an image of repentance, pardon and remission\nof sins; and forgive him every voluntary and involuntary offence:\nreconcile and unite him to thy holy church, through Christ Jesus our\nLord, with whom is due to thee might and majesty, now and ever, and to\nages of ages. Amen.\n\n_After this prayer the priest absolveth the penitent, who lowly\nkneeleth, saying on this wise, to the completion of the mystery of holy\npenitence,_\n\nOur Lord and God, Jesus Christ, by the grace and compassion of his love\nto man, forgive thee, child, _name_, all thine iniquities; and I, an\nunworthy priest, by the power that is given unto me, forgive thee and\nloosen thee from all thy sins, in the name of the Father, and of the Son,\nand of the Holy Ghost. Amen.\n\n_And finally, the priest, while saying the absolution, signeth the\npenitent with his right hand with the sign of the cross._\n\n_Then_, It is very meet.... Glory. Both now. _And the dismissal._[12]\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n\n\n_Chapter VIII._\n\nPRAYER ON THE RELEASING FROM PROHIBITION.\n\n\nO benign Lord, good and man-loving, who, for thy mercy\u2019s sake, didst send\nthine only-begotten Son into the world that he might tear in pieces the\naccusation of offences against us, and burst the bonds of them that are\nbound by sin, and preach deliverance unto the captives; do thou thyself,\nO Master, by thy grace, deliver thy servant, _name_, from the bond that\nlieth upon him, and grant unto him that, in every time and place, he may\nwithout sin draw nigh with boldness unto thy majesty, and, in a pure\nconscience, entreat the rich mercy that is from thee.\n\nFor a merciful and man-loving God thou art, and to thee we ascribe glory,\nto the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost, now and ever, and\nto ages of ages. Amen.\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n\n\n_Chapter IX._\n\nTHE ORDER THAT IS USED AT BETROTHALS.\n\n\n_After the divine liturgy, while the priest standeth in the sanctuary,\nthey that purpose to be joined together stand before the holy doors, the\nman on the right side and the woman on the left. And on the right side of\nthe holy table are laid their two rings, a golden one and a silver one,\nthe silver one towards the right and the golden one towards the left,\nclose to one another. And the priest signeth the heads of the bridal\npair thrice, and giveth them burning tapers, and leadeth them within the\ntemple, and censeth crosswise, and by the deacon is said,_\n\nBless, master.\n\n_And the priest._ Blessed be Our God....\n\n_Choir._ Amen.\n\n_Deacon._ In peace let us pray to the Lord.\n\nFor the peace that is from above, and for the salvation of their two....\n\nFor the peace of the whole world, the good estate....\n\nFor this holy temple, and for them that with faith....\n\nFor the most holy governing Synod....\n\nFor our Most Pious....\n\nFor the servant of God, _name_, and for the handmaid of God, _name_, who\nare now being betrothed to one another, and for their salvation, let us\npray to the Lord.\n\nThat there may be vouchsafed unto them children for the succession of\ngeneration, and all desires that tend to salvation, let us pray to the\nLord.\n\nThat there may be sent down upon them perfect love, peace, and\nassistance, let us pray to the Lord.\n\nThat they may be preserved in unanimity, and stedfast faith, let us pray\nto the Lord.\n\nThat they may be blessed with a blameless course of life, let us pray to\nthe Lord.\n\nThat the Lord our God may grant unto them an honourable marriage, and a\nbed undefiled, let us pray to the Lord.\n\nFor our deliverance from all affliction....\n\nCommemorating our most holy, most pure, most blessed....\n\n                                _Priest._\n\nFor to thee is due all glory....\n\n              _Then he saith the prayer with a loud voice._\n\nO God eternal, who bringest things that are divided unto unity, and\nimposest upon these an indissoluble bond of love, who didst bless Isaac\nand Rebecca, and declare them to be the inheritors of thy promise; do\nthou thyself bless these thy servants, _name_, _name_, directing them in\nevery good work. For a merciful and man-loving God thou art, and to thee\nwe ascribe glory, to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost,\nnow and ever, and to ages of ages.\n\n_Choir._ Amen.\n\n_Priest._ Peace to all.\n\n_Choir._ And to thy spirit.\n\n_Deacon._ Bow your heads to the Lord.\n\n_Choir._ To thee, O Lord.\n\n                                _Priest._\n\nO Lord our God, who hast espoused the church as a pure virgin from among\nthe gentiles; do thou bless these espousals, and unite and keep these thy\nservants in peace and unanimity.\n\nFor to thee is due all glory, honour, and worship, to the Father, and to\nthe Son, and to the Holy Ghost, now and ever, and to ages of ages.\n\n_Choir._ Amen.\n\n_Then the priest, taking the rings, giveth first the golden one to the\nman, then the silver one to the woman._\n\n                        _And he saith to the man,_\n\nThe servant of God, _name_, is betrothed to the handmaid of God, _name_,\nin the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.\n\n                      _Then to the woman he saith,_\n\nThe handmaid of God, _name_, is betrothed to the servant of God, _name_,\nin the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.\n\n_And when he hath thus spoken to each one thrice, he maketh a cross with\nthe rings upon their heads, and placeth them on the fingers of their\nright hands. Then the sponsor changeth the rings of the bridal pair._\n\n                      _The priest saith the prayer._\n\n                         Let us pray to the Lord.\n\nO Lord, our God, who didst accompany the servant of the patriarch Abraham\nto Mesopotamia, when he was sent to espouse a wife for his lord Isaac,\nand didst reveal to him by means of the drawing of water to betroth\nRebecca; do thou thyself bless the betrothal of thy servants, this,\n_name_, and this, _name_, and confirm the word that hath been spoken by\nthem, confirm them by the holy union that is from thee; for thou from the\nbeginning hast created male and female, and by thee a woman is conjoined\nto a man, for assistance and for the succession of the generation of\nman. Therefore, O Lord our God, who hast sent forth thy truth unto thine\ninheritance, and thy promise unto thy servants, our fathers, even thine\nelect in every generation, do thou thyself regard thy servant, _name_,\nand thine handmaid, _name_, and confirm their betrothal in faith, and\nunanimity, and truth, and love. For thou, O Lord, hast declared that\ntroth should be given and confirmed in everything. By a ring was given\nmight unto Joseph in Egypt; by a ring Daniel was exalted in the land\nof Babylon; by a ring was revealed the truth of Thamar; by a ring our\nheavenly Father showed compassion upon his son; for, said he, Put ye a\nring upon his right hand, and kill the fatted calf, and let us eat and\nrejoice. Thine own right hand, O Lord, armed Moses in the red sea; for,\nby thy true word, the heavens were established and the earth firmly\nfounded, and the right hand of thy servants shall be blessed by thy\nmighty word, and by thine uplifted arm. Therefore, O Master, do thou\nthyself now bless this putting on of rings with thy heavenly benediction;\nand may thine Angel go before them all the days of their life.\n\nFor thou art he that blesseth and sanctifieth all things, and to thee we\nascribe glory, to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost, now\nand ever, and to ages of ages. Amen.\n\n                  _Straightway the deacon this ectenia._\n\nFurthermore let us pray for our Most Pious, Autocratic, Great Lord, THE\nEMPEROR ALEXANDER ALEXANDROVITCH of all Russia.\n\nFurthermore let us pray for His Consort, the Most Pious Lady, THE EMPRESS\nMARIA THEODOROVNA.\n\nFurthermore let us pray for His Heir, the Right-believing Lord, the\nCesarevitch and Grand Duke, NICOLAUS ALEXANDROVITCH.\n\nFurthermore let us pray for the Most Holy Governing Synod.\n\nFurthermore let us pray for all Their christ-loving army.\n\nFurthermore let us pray for the servants of God, _name_, and _name_, who\nare being betrothed to one another.\n\n_Choir._ Lord have mercy, _thrice_.\n\nFurthermore let us pray for the whole brotherhood....\n\n                              _Exclamation._\n\nFor a merciful and man-loving God thou art, and to thee we ascribe glory,\nto the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost, now and ever, and\nto ages of ages. Amen.\n\n                          _Then the dismissal._\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n\n\n_Chapter X._\n\nTHE ORDER OF THE CORONATION.\n\n\n_Now if at the same time they desire to be crowned, they go into the\ntemple with burning tapers, preceded by the priest with the censer, and\nsinging psalm cxxvii thus. And the people say after each verse,_\n\n_Glory to thee, O our God, glory to thee._\n\nBlessed are all they that fear the Lord.\n\n_Glory to thee, O our God, glory to thee._\n\nThey that walk in his ways.\n\n_Glory to thee, O our God, glory to thee._\n\nThou shalt eat the fruit of thy labours.\n\n_Glory to thee, O our God, glory to thee._\n\nBlessed art thou, and it shall be well with thee.\n\n_Glory to thee, O our God, glory to thee._\n\nThy wife shall be as a fruitful vine on the gables of thine house.\n\n_Glory to thee, O our God, glory to thee._\n\nThy sons shall be as newly-planted olive trees round about thy table.\n\n_Glory to thee, O our God, glory to thee._\n\nLo, thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the Lord.\n\n_Glory to thee, O our God, glory to thee._\n\nThe Lord shall bless thee out of Sion, and thou shalt see the good things\nof Jerusalem all the days of thy life.\n\n_Glory to thee, O our God, glory to thee._\n\nAnd thou shalt see thy son\u2019s sons: peace be upon Israel.\n\n_Glory to thee, O our God, glory to thee._\n\n_After this the priest saith a word of instruction, telling them what is\nthe mystery of marriage, and how in marriage they have to live acceptably\nunto God, and honourably. And after the conclusion of this, the priest\ninterrogateth the bridegroom, saying,_\n\nHast thou, _name_, a good and unconstrained will, and a firm intention\nto take unto thyself this woman, _name_, whom here thou seest before thee?\n\n_And the bridegroom answereth, saying_, I have, reverend father.\n\n_The priest again_, Thou hast not vowed thyself to another bride?\n\n_Bridegroom._ I have not vowed myself, reverend father.\n\n_And straightway the priest, regarding the bride, interrogateth her,\nsaying_, Hast thou a good and unconstrained will, and a firm intention to\ntake unto thyself this man, _name_, whom thou seest here before thee?\n\n_And the bride answereth, saying_, I have, reverend father.\n\n_The priest again_, Thou hast not vowed thyself to another man?\n\n_And the bride answereth_, I have not vowed myself, reverend father.\n\n_Then the deacon saith_, Bless, master.\n\n_Priest._ Blessed be the kingdom....\n\n_Choir._ Amen.\n\n                          _Deacon, the ectenia._\n\nIn peace let us pray to the Lord.\n\nFor the peace that is from above....\n\nFor the peace of the whole world....\n\nFor this holy temple....\n\nFor the Most Holy Governing Synod.\n\nFor our Most Pious....\n\nFor the servants of God, _name_, _name_, who are now being conjoined to\none another in the community of marriage, and for their salvation, let us\npray to the Lord.\n\nThat this marriage may be blessed as was that in Cana of Galilee, let us\npray to the Lord.\n\nThat there may be vouchsafed unto them chastity, and fruit of the womb\nfor their benefit, let us pray to the Lord.\n\nThat they may be rejoiced in the beholding of sons and daughters, let us\npray to the Lord.\n\nThat there may be granted unto them the acquisition of fair children, and\na blameless course of life, let us pray to the Lord.\n\nThat there may be granted unto them and unto us all desires that tend\nunto salvation, let us pray to the Lord.\n\nFor their deliverance and ours from every affliction.\n\nHelp us, save us, have mercy....\n\nCommemorating our most holy, most pure, most blessed....\n\n                       _Priest, with a loud voice,_\n\nFor to thee is due all glory....\n\n_Choir._ Amen.\n\n_Deacon._ Let us pray to the Lord.\n\n_Choir._ Lord have mercy.\n\n              _The priest, with a loud voice, this prayer._\n\nO God most pure, and the Author of all creation, who, through thy love\nto man, didst transform a rib of Adam the forefather into a woman, and\ndidst bless them, and say, Increase and multiply, and have dominion over\nthe earth, and, by the conjoining, didst declare them both to be one\nmember; for because of this a man shall forsake his father and mother,\nand shall cleave unto his wife, and the two shall be in one flesh; and\nwhom God hath joined together let man not put asunder; who didst also\nbless thy servant Abraham, and open the womb of Sara, and didst make him\nthe father of many nations; who didst bestow Isaac upon Rebecca, and\ndidst bless her offspring; who didst join Jacob unto Rachel, and from\nthem didst make manifest the twelve patriarchs; who didst yoke Joseph\nand Aseneth together, and as the fruit of generation didst bestow upon\nthem Ephrem and Manasse; who didst accept Zacharias and Elizabeth, and\ndidst declare their offspring the Forerunner; who out of the root of\nJesse, according to the flesh, didst produce the Ever-Virgin, and from\nher wast incarnate and wast born for the salvation of the human race; who\nthrough thine unspeakable grace and plenteous goodness, wast present in\nCana of Galilee, and didst bless the marriage there, that thou mightest\nshow that a lawful union, and a generation therefrom is according to thy\nwill. Do thou thyself, O most holy Master, accept the prayer of us, thy\nservants, and, with thine invisible presence being here, as there, do\nthou bless this marriage, and give unto thy servants, _name_, _name_, a\npeaceful life, length of days, chastity, love for one another in the bond\nof peace, a long-lived seed, grace upon their children, and an unfading\ncrown of glory. Count them worthy to see their children\u2019s children;\npreserve their bed undefiled; and give them of the dew of heaven from\nabove, and of the fatness of the earth. Fill their houses with corn, wine\nand oil, and with every bounty, that they may have to give to them that\nare in need, bestowing also unto them that are here assembled with us all\ndesires that tend to salvation.\n\nFor a merciful, and compassionate, and man-loving God thou art, and to\nthee we ascribe glory, with thine unbeginning Father, and thy most holy,\nand good, and life-creating Spirit, now and ever, and to ages of ages.\n\n_Choir._ Amen.\n\n_Deacon._ Let us pray to the Lord.\n\n_Choir._ Lord, have mercy.\n\n               _The priest this prayer with a loud voice._\n\nBlessed art thou, O Lord our God, thou hierurgist of mystical and pure\nmarriage and lawgiver of that of the body, thou guardian of incorruption,\nthou good provider of the means of life. Do thou thyself now, O Master,\nwho in the beginning didst create man, and appoint him as the king of\ncreation, and say, It is not good for man to be alone upon the earth,\nlet us make him a helpmeet for him; and, taking one of his ribs, didst\nmake woman, whom when Adam saw he said, This now is bone of my bones, and\nflesh of my flesh: she shall be called woman, for she was taken out of\nher man: for this cause a man shall forsake his father and mother, and\ncleave unto his wife, and two shall be in one flesh: and whom God hath\njoined, let not man divide: do thou thyself now, O Master, Lord our God,\nsend down thy heavenly grace upon these thy servants, _name_, _name_, and\ngrant unto this thine handmaid to be in all things subject unto the man,\nand to this thy servant to be at the head of the woman, that they may\nlive according unto thy will. Bless them, O Lord our God, as thou didst\nbless Abraham and Sara. Bless them, O Lord our God, as thou didst bless\nIsaac and Rebecca. Bless them, O Lord our God, as thou didst bless Jacob,\nand all the patriarchs. Bless them, O Lord our God, as thou didst bless\nJoseph and Aseneth. Bless them, O Lord our God, as thou didst bless Moses\nand Sepphora. Bless them, O Lord our God, as thou didst bless Joakim\nand Anna. Bless them, O Lord our God, as thou didst bless Zacharias and\nElizabeth. Preserve them, O Lord our God, as thou didst preserve Noe in\nthe ark. Preserve them, O Lord our God, as thou didst preserve Jonas\nin the belly of the whale. Preserve them, O Lord our God, as thou didst\npreserve the three holy children from the fire, sending down upon them\ndew from heaven; and may that joy come upon them which the blessed Helen\nhad when she found the precious cross. Remember them, O Lord our God,\nas thou didst remember Enoch, Sem, and Elias. Remember them, O Lord our\nGod, as thou didst remember thy holy forty martyrs, sending down upon\nthem crowns from heaven. Remember, O God, the parents who have reared\nthem; for the prayers of parents confirm the foundation of houses.\nRemember, O Lord our God, thy servants, the paranymphs, who are present\nat this rejoicing. Remember, O Lord our God, thy servant, _name_, and\nthine handmaid, _name_, and bless them. Give them fruit of the womb,\nfair children, and unanimity of soul and body. Exalt them as the cedars\nof Libanus, and as a well-cultured vine. Bestow upon them seed of corn,\nthat, having every sufficiency, they may abound in every work that is\ngood and acceptable unto thee; and let them behold their sons\u2019 sons as\nnewly planted olive-trees round about their table, and, being accepted\nbefore thee, may they shine as the luminaries in heaven unto thee, our\nLord. And, together with thee, be glory, might, honour, and worship, to\nthine unbeginning Father, and to thy life-creating Spirit, now and ever,\nand to ages of ages.\n\n_Choir._ Amen.\n\n_Deacon._ Let us pray to the Lord.\n\n_Choir._ Lord, have mercy.\n\n              _And again the priest saith this prayer with a\n                               loud voice._\n\nO holy God, who didst form man from the dust, and from his rib didst\nfashion woman, and yoke her unto him a helpmeet for him, because so it\nwas seemly unto thy majesty for man not to be alone upon the earth;\ndo thou thyself now, O Master, stretch forth thy hand from thy holy\ndwelling-place, and conjoin this thy servant, _name_, and this thine\nhandmaid, _name_; for by thee a woman is conjoined unto a man. Yoke them\ntogether in unanimity, crown them in one flesh, bestow on them fruit of\nthe womb, and the gain of well-favoured children.\n\nFor thine is the might, and thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the\nglory, of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, now and\never, and to ages of ages.\n\n_Choir._ Amen.\n\n_And after the Amen the priest, taking the crowns, crowneth first the\nbridegroom, saying,_\n\nThe servant of God, _name_, is crowned for the handmaid of God, _name_,\nin the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.\n\n                _Then he crowneth also the bride, saying,_\n\nThe handmaid of God, _name_, is crowned for the servant of God, _name_,\nin the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.\n\n              _Then he blesseth them thrice, saying thrice,_\n\nO Lord our God, crown them with glory and honour.\n\n             _Then the prokimenon of the epistle, tone viii._\n\nThou hast set upon their heads crowns of precious stones; they asked life\nof thee, and thou gavest it them.\n\n_Verse._ For thou wilt give them a blessing to ages of ages, thou wilt\nmake them glad through joy with thy countenance.\n\n               _The epistle to the Ephesians, section cci._\n\nBrethren, give thanks.... _ending_, that she reverence her husband.[13]\n\n                                                               _Alleluia._\n\n_Verse._ Thou, O Lord, shalt keep us, and shalt protect us, from this\ngeneration, and to ages.\n\n_Deacon._ Wisdom, standing, let us hear....\n\n                   _The gospel from John, section vi._\n\nAt that time there was a marriage.... _ending_, believed on him.[14]\n\n_Deacon._ Let us all say with our whole soul, and with our whole mind let\nus say.\n\nO Lord Almighty, the God....\n\nHave mercy upon us, O God....\n\nFurthermore let us pray for mercy, life, peace, health, salvation, and\nvisitation for the servants of God, _names_, _and he commemorateth whom\nhe wisheth_.\n\n_Exclamation._ For a merciful....\n\n_Deacon._ Let us pray to the Lord.\n\n_Choir._ Lord have mercy.\n\n                          _Priest, this prayer._\n\nO Lord our God, who, in thy saving providence, didst vouchsafe in Cana\nof Galilee to declare marriage honourable by thy presence; do thou now\nthyself preserve in peace and unanimity thy servants, _name_, and,\n_name_, whom thou art well-pleased should be conjoined to one another:\ndeclare their marriage honourable: preserve their bed undefiled: be\npleased that their mutual life may be unblamable, and count them worthy\nto attain unto a ripe old age, keeping thy commandments in a pure heart.\n\nFor thou art our God, the God to have mercy and to save, and to thee we\nascribe glory, with thine unbeginning Father, and with thine all-holy,\nand good, and life-creating Spirit, now and ever, and to ages of ages.\n\n_Choir._ Amen.\n\n_Deacon._ Help us, save us, have mercy on us, and keep us, O God, by thy\ngrace.\n\n_Choir._ Lord, have mercy.\n\nThat the whole day may be perfect, holy....\n\n_Choir._ Vouchsafe, O Lord.\n\nAn angel of peace....\n\nPardon and forgiveness of our sins....\n\nWhat is good and profitable for our souls....\n\nThat the remaining time of our life....\n\nA christian end of our life....\n\nHaving prayed for the unity of the faith, and the communion of the Holy\nGhost....\n\n_Choir._ To thee, O Lord.\n\n                         _The priest exclaimeth,_\n\nAnd count us worthy, O Master, with boldness to dare without condemnation\nto call upon thee, our heavenly Father God, and say,\n\n_And the people_, Our Father.... _all to the end_.\n\n_The priest exclaimeth_, For thine is the kingdom....\n\nPeace to all.\n\nBow your heads to the Lord.\n\n_Then the common cup is brought, and the priest blesseth it, and saith\nthis prayer._\n\n                    _Deacon._ Let us pray to the Lord.\n\nO God, who by thy might createst all things, and confirmest the universe,\nand adornest the crown of all things created by thee; do thou, with thy\nspiritual blessing, bless also this common cup given for the community of\nmarriage unto them that are conjoined.\n\n_With a loud voice_, For blessed is thy name, and glorified thy\nkingdom....\n\n_Choir._ Amen.\n\n_Then the priest, taking in his hand the common cup, giveth them to drink\nthrice, first to the man, and then to the woman. And straightway the\npriest taketh them, while the groomsman holdeth the crowns behind, and\nleadeth them in the form of a circle. And the priest, or the people, sing\nthe present troparion in tone v,_\n\nRejoice, O Esaias, the virgin is with child, and bringeth forth a son,\nEmmanuel, God and man: the orient is his name, whom magnifying, we call\nthe virgin blessed.\n\n                           _Another, tone vii._\n\nO holy martyrs, who valiantly contended, and are crowned; pray ye the\nLord for mercy on our souls.\n\nGlory to thee, Christ God, apostles\u2019 boast, and martyrs\u2019 joy, whose\npreaching was the consubstantial Trinity.\n\n_Then, taking the crown from the bridegroom, he saith,_\n\nBe thou magnified, O bridegroom, as Abraham, and blessed as Isaac, and\nincreased as Jacob, walking in peace, and performing in righteousness the\ncommandments of God.\n\n_And when he taketh the crown from the bride, he saith,_\n\nAnd thou, O bride, be thou magnified as Sara, and rejoiced as Rebecca,\nand increased as Rachel, being glad in thy husband, and keeping the\npaths of the law, for so God is well-pleased.\n\n_Deacon._ Let us pray to the Lord.\n\n_Choir._ Lord, have mercy.\n\n                          _Priest, The prayer._\n\nO God, our God, who wast present in Cana of Galilee, and didst bless\nthe marriage there; do thou bless also these thy servants, who, by thy\nprovidence, are conjoined in the community of marriage. Bless their\nincomings and outgoings, replenish their life with good things, accept\ntheir crowns in thy kingdom unsullied and undefiled, and preserve them\nwithout offence to ages of ages.\n\n_Choir._ Amen.\n\n_Priest._ Peace to all.\n\nBow your heads to the Lord.\n\n                        _And the priest prayeth._\n\nThe Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, the all-holy, and\nconsubstantial, and life-originating Trinity, one Godhead and\nsovereignty, bless you, and vouchsafe unto you long life, well-favoured\nchildren, progress in life and faith, and replenish you with all the\ngood things of earth, and count you worthy of the obtaining of promised\nblessings, through the prayers of the holy God-bearing one, and of all\nthe Saints. Amen.\n\n_Then they come and congratulate them, and they kiss one another, and\nthe full dismissal is made by the priest._\n\n_Saith the deacon_, Wisdom.\n\n_Choir._ The more honourable than the Cherubim....\n\n                         _Priest, the dismissal._\n\nHe that by his presence in Cana of Galilee declared marriage to be\nhonourable, Christ our true God, through the prayers of his most pure\nMother; of the holy, glorious, and all-praised apostles; of the holy\ngod-crowned sovereigns and equals of the apostles, Constantine and Helen;\nof the holy great martyr Procopius, and of all the Saints, have mercy\nupon us and save us, as being good and the lover of mankind.\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n\n\n_Chapter XI._\n\nPRAYER AT THE TAKING OFF OF THE CROWNS ON THE EIGHTH DAY.\n\n\nO Lord our God, who blessest the crown of the year, and permittest these\ncrowns to be put on them that are conjoined to one another by the law of\nmarriage, vouchsafing them to them as the reward of chastity; for they\nare pure that are conjoined in the lawfully appointed marriage that\nis from thee; do thou thyself also bless, in the taking off of these\ncrowns, them that have been conjoined together, and preserve their union\nunbroken, that they may ever give thanks unto thine all-holy name, of the\nFather, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, now and ever, and to ages\nof ages. Amen.\n\n_Priest._ Peace to all.\n\nO Lord, thy servants, having met in concord and accomplished the order\nof marriage as at Cana of Galilee, and contracted the signs according\nthereto, ascribe glory to thee, to the Father, and to the Son, and to the\nHoly Ghost, now and ever, and to ages of ages. Amen.\n\n                           _And the dismissal._\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n\n\n_Chapter XII._\n\nTHE ORDER FOR A SECOND MARRIAGE.\n\n\n_The priest beginneth_, Blessed be our God.... _Then_, Trisagion. _After_\nOur Father.... _the troparion of the day_.\n\n                             _Then, ectenia._\n\nIn peace let us pray to the Lord.\n\nFor the peace that is from above....\n\nFor the peace of the whole world....\n\nFor this holy temple....\n\nFor the servants of God, _name_, and, _name_, and for their protection by\nGod and mutual life, let us pray to the Lord.\n\nThat they may live together virtuously in unanimity, let us pray to the\nLord.\n\nHelp us, save us, have mercy....\n\nCommemorating our most holy, most pure, most blessed....\n\nFor to thee is due....\n\n_Then_, Let us pray to the Lord.\n\n                          _Priest, the prayer._\n\nO God eternal, who bringest things that are divided unto unity, and\nimposest upon these two an indissoluble bond of love, who didst bless\nIsaac and Rebecca, and declare them to be the inheritors of thy promise;\ndo thou thyself also bless these thy servants, _name_, and, _name_,\ndirecting them in every good work.\n\nFor a merciful and man-loving God thou art, and to thee we ascribe glory,\nto the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost, now and ever, and\nto ages of ages. Amen.\n\n_Priest._ Peace to all.\n\n_Deacon._ Bow your heads to the Lord.\n\n                          _Priest, the prayer._\n\nO Lord our God, who hast espoused the church as a pure virgin from among\nthe gentiles; do thou bless these espousals, and unite and keep these\nthy servants in peace and unanimity.\n\nFor to thee is due all glory, honour, and worship, to the Father, and to\nthe Son, and to the Holy Ghost, now and ever, and to ages of ages.\n\n_Then the priest, taking the rings, giveth first the golden one to the\nman, and the silver one to the woman, and saith to the man,_\n\nThe servant of God, _name_, is betrothed to the handmaid of God, _name_,\nin the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.\n\n_And in like manner to the woman_, The handmaid of God, _name_, is\nbetrothed to the servant of God, _name_, in the name of the Father, and\nof the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.\n\n_And he maketh a cross with the rings upon their heads, and placeth them\non the fingers of their right hands. Then the sponsor changeth the rings\nof the bridal pair._\n\n_After this, the deacon._ Let us pray to the Lord.\n\n                          _Priest, the prayer._\n\nMaster, Lord our God, who sparest all, and providest for all, who knowest\nthe secrets of men, having knowledge of all things; do thou cleanse\nour sins, and pardon the transgression of thy servants, calling them\nto repentance: vouchsafe unto them remission of iniquities, cleansing\nof sins, pardon of voluntary and involuntary transgressions, O thou\nthat knowest the weakness of human nature, thou Fashioner and Creator.\nO thou who didst forgive Raab the harlot, and accept the repentance of\nthe publican, remember not our sins of ignorance from our youth up. For\nif thou, O Lord, shouldest mark transgressions, who should stand before\nthee, O Lord? or what flesh should be justified in thy sight? For thou\nonly art just, sinless, holy, of abundant mercy, plenteous beneficence,\nand repentest thee concerning the evils of men. Do thou thyself, O\nMaster, who claimest thy servants, _name_, _name_, unite them to one\nanother in love; give unto them the conversion of the publican, the tears\nof the harlot, and the confession of the thief, that, through repentance\nfrom all their heart, performing thy commandments in unanimity and peace,\nthey may be counted worthy of thy heavenly kingdom.\n\nFor thou art the provider for all, and to thee we ascribe glory....\n\n_Priest._ Peace to all.\n\n_Deacon._ Bow your heads to the Lord.\n\n                            _And this prayer._\n\nO Lord Jesus Christ, Word of God, who wast lifted up upon the precious\nand life-effecting cross, and didst tear up the handwriting that was\nagainst us, and deliver us from the power of the devil; do thou cleanse\nthe transgressions of thy servants, for, unable to bear the burden and\nthe heat of the day, and the burning of the flesh, they are come to a\nsecond community of marriage, in accordance with that which thou hast\nlawfully appointed by thy chosen vessel, Paul, the apostle, saying,\nbecause of our low estate, It is better to marry in the Lord than to\nburn. Do thou thyself, as being good and man-loving, have mercy and\npardon, cleanse, remit, and forgive our debts; for thou art he that took\nour weaknesses on thy shoulders: for there is none sinless, or without\ndefilement for even one day of his life: thou only art the one who didst\nbear flesh sinlessly, and thou bestowest upon us eternal passionlessness.\n\nFor thou art God, the God of the penitent, and to thee we ascribe glory,\nto the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost, now and ever, and\nto ages of ages.\n\n_People._ Amen.\n\n                         Let us pray to the Lord.\n\n                          _Priest, the prayer._\n\nO holy God, who didst form man from the dust, and from his rib didst\nfashion woman, and yoke her unto him a helpmeet for him, because so it\nwas seemly unto thy majesty for man not to be alone upon the earth;\ndo thou thyself, now, O Master, stretch forth thy hand from thy holy\ndwelling-place, and conjoin this thy servant, _name_, and this thine\nhandmaid, _name_; for by thee a woman is conjoined to a husband. Yoke\nthem together in unanimity, crown them in one flesh, bestow on them fruit\nof the womb, and the gain of well-favoured children.\n\nFor thine is the might, and thine is the kingdom, and the power....\n\n_And, taking the crowns, he crowneth the bridegroom, saying,_\n\nThe servant of God, _name_, is crowned for the handmaid of God, _name_,\nin the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.\n\n_In like manner he crowneth also the bride, saying,_\n\nThe handmaid of God, _name_, is crowned for the servant of God, _name_,\nin the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.\n\n                 _Then he blesseth them, saying thrice,_\n\nO Lord our God, crown them with glory and honour.\n\n_Then he saith the epistle and gospel, as they are written in the first\ncoronation. Vide page 67._\n\n                            _Then the deacon._\n\nLet us all say with our whole soul....\n\nO Lord Almighty, the God of our fathers....\n\nHave mercy upon us, O God....\n\nFurthermore let us pray for mercy, life, peace, health, salvation, and\nvisitation for the servants of God, _names_, _and he commemorateth whom\nhe wisheth_.\n\n_Exclamation._ For a merciful....\n\n_Deacon._ Let us pray to the Lord.\n\n                          _Priest, this prayer._\n\nO Lord our God, who, in thy saving providence, didst vouchsafe in Cana\nof Galilee to declare marriage honourable by thy presence; do thou now\nthyself preserve in peace and unanimity thy servants, _name_, and,\n_name_, whom thou art well-pleased should be conjoined to one another:\ndeclare their marriage honourable: preserve their bed undefiled: be\npleased that their mutual life may be unblamable, and count them worthy\nto attain unto a ripe old age, keeping thy commandments in a pure heart.\n\nFor thou art our God, the God to have mercy and to save, and to thee we\nascribe glory, with thine unbeginning Father, and with thine all-holy,\nand good, and life-creating Spirit, now and ever, and to ages of ages.\nAmen.\n\n                                _Deacon._\n\nHelp us, save us, have mercy....\n\nThat the whole day may be perfect, holy....\n\nAn angel of peace, a faithful....\n\nPardon and forgiveness of our sins....\n\nWhat is good and profitable for our souls....\n\nThat the remaining time of our life....\n\nA christian end of our life....\n\nHaving prayed for the unity of the faith, and the communion....\n\n                         _The priest exclaimeth,_\n\nAnd count us worthy, O Master....\n\n_People._ Our Father....\n\n_Priest_, For thine is the kingdom....\n\nAmen.\n\n_Priest._ Peace to all.\n\nBow your heads to the Lord.\n\n_Then the common cup is brought, and the priest blesseth it, and saith\nthis prayer._\n\nO God, who by thy might createst all things, and confirmest the universe,\nand adornest the crown of all things created by thee; do thou, with thy\nspiritual blessing, bless also this common cup given for the community of\nmarriage unto them that are conjoined.\n\n                           _With a loud voice,_\n\nFor blessed is thy name, and glorified thy kingdom....\n\n_Then the priest, taking in his hand the common cup, giveth them to drink\nthrice, first to the man, and then to the woman. And straightway the\npriest, taking them, leadeth them in the form of a circle, and singeth in\ntone v,_\n\nRejoice, O Esaias, the virgin is with child, and bringeth forth a son,\nEmmanuel, God and man: the orient is his name, whom magnifying, we call\nthe virgin blessed.\n\n                           _Another, tone vii._\n\nO holy martyrs, who valiantly contended and are crown\u2019d; pray ye the Lord\nfor mercy on our souls.\n\nGlory to thee, Christ God, apostles\u2019 boast and martyrs\u2019 joy, whose\npreaching was the consubstantial Trinity.\n\n          _And, taking the crown from the bridegroom, he saith,_\n\nBe thou magnified, O bridegroom, as Abraham, and blessed as Isaac, and\nincreased as Jacob, walking in peace, and performing in righteousness the\ncommandments of God.\n\n            _And, taking the crown from the bride, he saith,_\n\nAnd thou, O bride, be thou magnified as Sara, and rejoiced as Rebecca,\nand increased as Rachel, being glad in thy husband, and keeping the paths\nof the law, for so God is well pleased.\n\n                         Let us pray to the Lord.\n\n                            _Then the prayer._\n\nO God, our God, who wast present in Cana of Galilee, and didst bless\nthe marriage there; do thou bless also these thy servants, who, by thy\nprovidence, are conjoined in the community of marriage. Bless their\nincomings and outgoings, replenish their life with good things, accept\ntheir crowns in thy kingdom unsullied and undefiled, and preserve them\nwithout offence to ages of ages.\n\n_Choir._ Amen.\n\n_Priest._ Peace to all.\n\nBow your heads to the Lord.\n\n                            _And he prayeth._\n\nThe Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, the all-holy, and\nconsubstantial, and life-originating Trinity, one Godhead and\nsovereignty, bless you, and vouchsafe unto you long life, well-favoured\nchildren, progress in life and faith, and replenish you with all the good\nthings of the earth, and count you worthy of the obtaining of promised\nblessings, through the prayers of the holy God-bearing one, and of all\nthe Saints. Amen.\n\n_Then they come and congratulate them, and they kiss one another. And the\ndismissal is made._\n\nHe that by his presence in Cana of Galilee declared marriage to be\nhonourable, Christ our true God, through the prayers of his most pure\nMother; of the holy, glorious, and all-praised apostles; of the holy\ngod-crowned sovereigns and equals of the apostles, Constantine and Helen;\nof the holy great-martyr Procopius, and of all the Saints, have mercy\nupon us and save us, as being good and the lover of mankind.\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n\n\n_Chapter XIII._\n\nTHE ORDER OF HOLY UNCTION SUNG BY SEVEN PRIESTS ASSEMBLED IN A CHURCH OR\nIN A HOUSE.\n\n\n_A table is prepared, and on this they place the holy gospel and a dish\nof wheat, and on the wheat an empty oil cruet, and round it in the wheat\nseven twigs wrapped with cotton wool for the anointing; and they give\ntapers to all the priests. And, all standing round the table vested in\nphelonia, the first of the priests taketh the censer with incense, and\ncenseth the table upon which the oil is round about, and all the church,\nor the house, and the people; and, standing before the table, looking\ntowards the east, he beginneth,_\n\nBlessed be our God.... _And_ Trisagion. O most holy Trinity.... Our\nFather.... For thine is the kingdom.... Lord, have mercy, _xii_. O come,\nlet us worship.... _thrice_.\n\n_And psalm cxlii._ O Lord hear my prayer....\n\n                   Glory. Both now. Alleluia, _thrice_.\n\n                      _And the deacon, the ectenia._\n\nAgain and again in peace let us pray to the Lord.\n\nHelp us, save us, have mercy....\n\nCommemorating our most holy, most pure, most blessed....\n\n_Priest._ For to thee is due....\n\n_Choir._ Amen.\n\n             _And straightway they sing Alleluia in tone vi._\n\n_Verse i._ O Lord, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in\nthy fury.\n\n_Verse ii._ Have mercy upon me, O Lord, for I am weak.\n\n                             _Then troparia._\n\nHave mercy upon us, O Lord, have mercy upon us; for, destitute of all\ndefence, we sinners offer unto thee, as Master, this prayer, Have mercy\nupon us.\n\n                                 _Glory._\n\nO Lord, have mercy upon us; for we have put our trust in thee. Be not\nexceedingly wroth against us, neither remember our transgressions; but,\nas being loving-kind, look now upon us, and deliver us from our enemies:\nfor thou art our God, and we are thy people, we are all the work of thy\nhand, and we call upon thy name.\n\n                               _Both now._\n\nOpen unto us the gates of loving-kindness, O blessed God-bearing one,\nthat we perish not who put our trust in thee, but through thee may we be\ndelivered from calamities; for thou art the salvation of the christian\nrace.\n\n_After this_, Have mercy upon me, O God....\n\n                _And the canon, whereof the acrostic is,_\n\n                    A song of prayer oil by Arsenius.\n\n                         _Ode i. Irmos. Tone iv._\n\nThrough the red sea\u2019s depth....\n\nO Master, who with oil of loving-kindness dost mortals\u2019 souls and bodies\nalway tranquilize, and them that faithful be preserv\u2019st with oil; do thou\nthyself now have compassion upon those approaching thee by means of oil.\n\nThe earth, O Master, is of thy mercy full. Therefore to-day anointed with\nthy sacred precious oil, in faith we pray thee to bestow thy mercy that\nsurpasseth thought on us.\n\n                                 _Glory._\n\nO lover of mankind, who mercifully thine apostles didst command to\nminister thy priestly unction on thine ailing servants; do thou, at their\nentreaties, through thy seal, have mercy upon all.\n\n                               _Both now._\n\nO only pure one, who didst bear the boundless sea of peace, by thine\nentreaties alway unto God, thy servant free from ailings and from griefs,\nthat he may magnify thee ceaselessly.\n\n                            _Ode iii. Irmos._\n\nIn thee thy church is glad....\n\nThou that alone art wonderful to faithful men, merciful Christ, grant\nfrom on high thy grace to him that suffereth grievously.\n\nO Lord, who once, for thy divine token that the flood had ceas\u2019d, didst\nshew an olive branch, in mercy save the afflicted one.\n\n                                 _Glory._\n\nWith a lamp of light divine, in mercy lighten him, O Christ, who now, in\nfaith through the anointing, to thy mercy maketh speed.\n\n                               _Both now._\n\nO Mother of the Maker of all things, look from on high with favour, and\nrelease, by thine entreaties, the sufferer from his bitter pain.\n\n                          _Kathisma, tone viii._\n\n_Like_, The pastoral reed....\n\nThou that art a divine river of mercy, a depth of abundant sympathy, O\ncompassionate one; manifest the divine streams of thy mercy, and heal\nall: let the springs of wonders flow plenteously, and wash all; for, ever\nbetaking ourselves to thee, we fervently entreat thy grace.\n\n                           _Another, tone iv._\n\n_Like_, Thou that wast lifted up....\n\nPhysician and helper of them that are in sufferings, redeemer and Saviour\nof them that are in sicknesses; do thou thyself, O Master and Lord of\nall, grant healing unto thine afflicted servant: have compassion and\nmercy upon him who hath greatly offended, and deliver him, O Christ, from\niniquities, that he may glorify thy divine power.\n\n                             _Ode iv. Irmos._\n\nSeeing thee lifted up....\n\nThou, Saviour, that, as myrrh corruptless, dost, through thy grace,\nthyself outpour and cleanse the world; compassionate be, yea, merciful to\nhim, who doth, in faith divine, the body\u2019s sores anoint.\n\nWith the tranquility of thy mercy\u2019s seal, O Master, sign now the senses\nof thy servants, and make the way thereto accessless and approachless to\nall opposing powers.\n\n                                 _Glory._\n\nThou who dost bid that thy divine hierurgists be call\u2019d to them whose\nstrength hath fail\u2019d, and these by prayer and unction with thine oil to\nsave; do thou, O lover of mankind, save, by thy mercy, the afflicted one.\n\n                               _Both now._\n\nMost holy and God-bearing ever-virgin, strong shelter and defence, thou\nladder and thou wall, have mercy and compassion on the sufferer; for he\nhath fled to thee, and thee alone.\n\n                             _Ode v. Irmos._\n\nThou, Lord, my light....\n\nThou, good one, that art mercy\u2019s depth, do thou, O merciful, have\nmercy, in thy mercifulness divine, on him that suffereth; for thou art\nloving-kind.\n\nSanctifying unspeakably from on high, O Christ, our souls and bodies with\nthe divine impression of thy seal, with thine own hand heal all.\n\n                                 _Glory._\n\nO most good Lord, who, through thine untold love, acceptedst\nmyrrh-anointing from the sinful woman; compassionate thy servant.\n\n                               _Both now._\n\nAll-praised, pure, and most good Queen, have mercy upon them that are\nanointed with the oil divine, and save thy servant.\n\n                             _Ode vi. Irmos._\n\nI will sacrifice unto thee with the voice....\n\nO lover of mankind, who shewest by thy words anointing is for kings, and\nthis performest by highpriests; save thou the sufferer by thy seal, for\nthou art loving-kind.\n\nLet no communicating act of bitter demons touch his senses who is sign\u2019d\nwith the divine anointing, Saviour; but with the safeguard of thy glory\nhim surround.\n\n                                 _Glory._\n\nStretch from on high thy hand, O lover of mankind, and sanctify thine\noil, and grant this to thy servant, Saviour, for healing and deliverance\nfrom all sicknesses.\n\n                               _Both now._\n\nMother of the Creator, thou, in thy sacred temple, hast appear\u2019d a\nfruitful olive tree, whereby the world appeareth fill\u2019d with mercy.\nTherefore save the sufferer by the touching of thy prayers.\n\n                          _Condakion, tone ii._\n\n_Like_, Seeking the things above....\n\nThou that art the fountain of mercy, O thou that art most good, do thou\ndeliver from every calamity them that with fervent faith fall down before\nthine unspeakable mercy; and, O thou that art loving-kind, taking away\ntheir ailings, do thou grant unto them thy divine grace from on high.\n\n                            _Ode vii. Irmos._\n\nThe abrahamic children in the furnace....\n\nThou, Saviour, that alone art God, who in thy mercy and compassions,\nhealest the spiritual passions and bodily wounds of all; physician be\nthou for this sufferer with disease, and make him whole thyself.\n\nSince with anointing oil the heads of all anointed are, so give to this\none joy of gladness, Christ, granting the mercy of thy redemption unto\nhim that seeketh this, for thy rich mercy\u2019s sake, O Lord.\n\n                                 _Glory._\n\nThy seal, O Saviour, against demons is a sword, and prayers of priests\na fire that burneth passions of the soul. Therefore in faith we praise\nthee, we, who have healing gain\u2019d.\n\n                               _Both now._\n\nO thou, the Mother of God, who didst conceive within thy womb, in wise\nbefitting God, him that doth all things hold within his hand, and flesh\ndidst give to him unspeakably; we pray thee, Be thou gracious to this\nsuffering one.\n\n                            _Ode viii. Irmos._\n\nWith hands extended, Daniel....\n\nO Saviour, have mercy upon all, according to thy mercy mighty and divine;\nfor, for this cause, we all are gather\u2019d here to image forth in mystic\nwise the condescension of thy mercies, and to bring the unction with the\noil in faith unto thy servant, whom visit thou likewise.\n\nWith thy mercy\u2019s streams, O Christ, and by thy priests\u2019 anointing wash\naway, as Lord the loving-kind, the pains and wounds, and overwhelmings of\naffliction of him tormented with the stress of sufferings, that he, being\nsav\u2019d, may praise thee with thanksgiving.\n\n                                 _Glory._\n\nThe sign of condescension from on high and of tranquility being drawn on\nus, O Master, through thy godlike mercy; do thou thy mercy not withdraw,\nnor him reject who ever crieth faithfully, O bless the Lord, all ye his\nworks.\n\n                               _Both now._\n\nGlorious as a crown, O pure one, nature hath gain\u2019d thy sacred\ngiving-birth, which crusheth hosts of foes, and mightily doth vanquish\nthem. Therefore, with festal brightness crowned through thy grace, we\nthee extol, O most extolled Queen.\n\n                             _Ode ix. Irmos._\n\nUnquarried rock....\n\nLook down from heaven, O compassionate one, and shew thy mercy unto all;\nand thine assistance and thy strength bestow on him who now approacheth\nthee through the divine anointing by thy priests, O lover of mankind.\n\nO Saviour, thou most good, we have, rejoicing, seen the oil divine,\nwhich, through thy godlike condescension for them that are recipients,\nthou thyself accepted hast, and typically hast given to them that have\nparticipated in the font divine.\n\n                                 _Glory._\n\nO Saviour, be compassionate and have mercy: deliver out of dangers and\nafflictions\u2014deliver from the arrows of the evil one the souls and bodies\nof thy servants, and heal them, as the Lord, the merciful, by thy divine\nanointing.\n\n                               _Both now._\n\nAccept thy servants\u2019 songs and prayers, O Virgin, and, by thy\nsupplications, from sufferings and from ills deliver us, even us who to\nthy sacred shelter us betake, O thou most pure.\n\nIt is very meet....\n\n                            _Exapostilarion._\n\n_Like_, He hath visited us....\n\nIn mercy, O thou good one, with thine eyes regard our prayer, ours, who\nto-day are gather\u2019d in thy holy temple to anoint with oil divine thy\nsuffering servant.\n\n                        _Then stichera, tone iv._\n\n_Like_, Thou hast given a sign....\n\nThou hast given thy grace through thine apostles, O good physician, lover\nof mankind, to heal the wounds and sicknesses of all men through thy\nholy oil. Therefore, as being loving-kind, him that now faithfully to\nthy mercy hieth sanctify, have mercy upon him, and cleanse him from all\nsickness, and count him worthy of thy corruptless sweetness, Lord.\n\nO lover of mankind incomprehensible, who, with thine unseen hand, as\nbeing loving-kind, sealest our senses with thine oil divine; look down\nfrom heaven, and give to him that faithfully betaketh him to thee, and\nasketh pardon of iniquities, healing of soul and body, that he may\nglorify thee lovingly, and magnify thy might.\n\nThrough the anointing with thine oil, and through the touching of thy\npriests, O lover of mankind, hallow thy servant from on high, free him\nfrom sicknesses, cleanse him from soul\u2019s defilement, wash him, O Saviour,\nand deliver him from scandals manifold; tranquilize his grief, remove his\nhindrances, and banish his afflictions, as being merciful and loving-kind.\n\n                      _Glory. Both now. Theotokion._\n\nO most pure royal palace much extoll\u2019d, I pray thee, cleanse my mind\ndefil\u2019d by every kind of sin; and make it a meet dwelling-place for the\nmost holy Trinity, that I thy worthless servant, being sav\u2019d, may magnify\nthy might and mercy measureless.\n\n_Then_, Trisagion. O most holy Trinity.... _After_ Our Father.... For\nthine is the kingdom....\n\n                        _Then troparion, tone iv._\n\nThou that alone art quick to help, O Christ, make manifest from on high\na speedy visitation to thine ailing servant: deliver him from sicknesses\nand bitter pains, and raise him up, that, without ceasing, he may praise\nand glorify thee, through the God-bearing one\u2019s entreaties, O thou sole\nlover of mankind.\n\n             _And after these the deacon, or the first of the\n                      priests, saith this ectenia._\n\nIn peace let us pray to the Lord.\n\nFor the peace that is from above....\n\nFor the peace of the whole world....\n\nFor this holy temple, and for them that with faith....\n\nThat this oil may be blessed by the might, and operation, and descent of\nthe Holy Ghost, let us pray to the Lord.\n\nFor the servant of God, _name_, and for his visitation by God, and for\nthe coming upon him of the grace of the Holy Ghost, let us pray to the\nLord.\n\nFor his deliverance and ours from every affliction, passion, and want.\n\nHelp us, save us, have mercy on us, and keep us, O God....\n\nCommemorating our most holy, most pure....\n\n_Then the first of the priests saith the prayer of oil over the cruet._\n\n_Note. Be it known that in the great church they pour wine instead of\nwater into the cruet of prayer-unction._\n\n                         Let us pray to the Lord.\n\n                            Lord, have mercy.\n\nO Lord, who, through thy mercy and compassions, healest the infirmities\nof our souls and bodies; do thou thyself, O Master, sanctify this oil,\nthat it may be to them that are anointed therewith for healing, and for\nthe removal of every passion, of defilement of flesh and spirit, and\nof every ill, and that thereby may be glorified thy holy name, of the\nFather, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, now and ever, and to ages\nof ages. Amen.\n\n_And the other priests likewise read this prayer, but quietly to\nthemselves._\n\n_And while the prayer is being said by the priests, they sing these\ntroparia._\n\n                                _Tone iv._\n\nThou that alone art quick to help, O Christ, make manifest from on high\na speedy visitation to thine ailing servant: deliver him from sicknesses\nand bitter pains, and raise him up, that, without ceasing, he may praise\nand glorify thee, through the God-bearing one\u2019s entreaties, O thou sole\nlover of mankind.\n\nWith blinded spiritual eyes to thee, O Christ, I come, as he that from\nhis birth was blind; and penitentially to thee I cry, Be merciful to us,\nthou that alone the good physician art.\n\n                               _Tone iii._\n\nMy soul, that, Lord, by every kind of sin and unbecoming deeds is\nparalys\u2019d, O by thy godlike intervention do thou raise, as thou of old\na paralytic didst upraise, that I, being sav\u2019d, may cry to thee, Give\nhealing unto me, O Christ compassionate.\n\n                                _Tone ii._\n\nO just one, as the Lord\u2019s disciple, thou the gospel didst receive; as\nmartyr, dost possess that which unwritten is; a daring, as God\u2019s brother,\nhast; as hierarch, hast to pray: do thou beseech Christ God to save our\nsouls.\n\n                                _Tone iv._\n\nThe Father\u2019s sole-begotten, who is God the Word, in latter days hath come\nto us, O James divine, declaring thee first pastor and instructor of them\nthat of Jerusalem were; a faithful steward too of ghostly mysteries.\nTherefore, apostle, we all reverence thee.\n\n                               _Tone iii._\n\nTo them of Myra, saint, thou didst appear a hierurgist; for Christ\u2019s\nevangel, thou, O venerated one, fulfilling, didst for thy people yield\nthy soul, and save the innocent from death. For this cause art thou\nsanctified as a great mystic of the grace of God.\n\n                             _The same tone._\n\nO pain-enduring one, that overcame the heathen, in dangers hath the world\nthee found a champion great. Therefore, as thou didst humble Lyev\u2019s\npride, and in the strife make Nestor brave, so, saint Demetrius, pray\nChrist God to give great mercy unto us.\n\n                             _The same tone._\n\nThou holy pain-enduring one, physician too, O Pantelimon, mediate with\nGod the merciful, that he may grant our souls remission of iniquities.\n\n                               _Tone viii._\n\nYe saints that were unmercenary and wonders wrought, make visitation in\nour weaknesses. Freely ye have receiv\u2019d: O freely give to us.\n\n                                _Tone ii._\n\nWho can narrate thy mightiness, O virgin one? for thou dost wonders gush,\nand pourest cures, and prayest for our souls, O thou divine and friend of\nChrist.\n\nWarm advocate and assailless wall, the spring of mercy and the world\u2019s\ndefence, to thee unceasingly we cry, God-bearing Queen, prevent thou us,\nand us from dangers free, thou that alone art quick to intercede.\n\n_Deacon._ Let us attend.\n\n_The first priest._ Peace to all.\n\n_Choir._ And to thy spirit.\n\n_Deacon._ Wisdom, let us attend.\n\n                    _Reader, the prokimenon, tone i._\n\nLet thy mercy, O Lord, come upon us like as we have put our trust in thee.\n\n                                 _Verse._\n\nRejoice, O ye righteous, in the Lord, for praise becometh the upright.\n\n                              _The epistle._\n\nThe lection of the catholic message of James.\n\n_And be it known that the epistle is read by the deacon, section lvii,_\n\nBrethren, take for an example.... _ending_, availeth much.[15]\n\n_The first priest._ Peace to thee. Alleluia.\n\n_Tone viii. Verse._ I will sing unto thee of mercy and judgment, O Lord.\n\n                  _The gospel from Luke, section liii._\n\nAt that time, a certain lawyer.... _ending_, do thou likewise.[16]\n\n_Then_, Have mercy upon us, O God, according to thy great mercy, we pray\nthee, hear and have mercy.\n\nLord, have mercy, _thrice_.\n\nFurthermore let us pray for mercy, life, peace, health, salvation,\nvisitation, and forgiveness of sins for the servant of God, _name_.\n\nLord, have mercy, _thrice_.\n\nThat to him may be remitted every iniquity, voluntary and involuntary,\nlet us pray to the Lord.\n\nLord, have mercy, _thrice_.\n\n                          _And the exclamation._\n\nFor a merciful and man-loving God thou art, and to thee we ascribe glory,\nto the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost, now and ever, and\nto ages of ages. Amen.\n\n_Deacon._ Let us pray to the Lord.\n\nLord have mercy.\n\n                          _Priest, the prayer._\n\nO thou that art unbeginning, eternal, and in the holy of holies, who\ndidst send down thine only-begotten Son, who healeth every infirmity and\nevery wound of our souls and bodies; do thou send down thy Holy Ghost,\nand sanctify this oil, and let it be unto thine anointed servant, _name_,\nfor a perfect deliverance from his sins, and for the inheritance of the\nkingdom of heaven.\n\n_Be it known that some say this prayer only thus far, with the\nexclamation,_\n\nFor it is thine to have mercy.....\n\n                   _But others say even unto the end,_\n\nFor thou art God great and wonderful, who keepest thy testament and thy\nmercy unto them that love thee, granting deliverance from sins through\nthy holy child, Jesus Christ, who regenerateth us from sin, enlighteneth\nthe blind, setteth up them that are cast down, loveth the righteous,\nand is merciful to sinners, who hath called us out of darkness and the\nshadow of death, saying unto them that are in bonds, Come forth, and to\nthem that are in darkness, Be ye unveiled. For he hath shined in our\nhearts the light of the knowledge of his countenance, in that for our\nsake he was made manifest upon earth, and dwelt among men; and to them\nthat accepted thee gave he power to become the children of God; and hath\nbestowed upon us a sonship through the laver of regeneration, and made\nus to have no participation in the domination of the devil. For thou\nwast not pleased that we should be cleansed through blood, but hast\ngiven, through holy oil, an image of his cross, that we may be a flock\nof Christ, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, cleansing us by water,\nand sanctifying us by thy holy spirit. Do thou thyself, O Master Lord,\ngive grace unto us in this thy service, as thou didst give unto Moses,\nthine accepted, and unto Samuel, thy beloved, and unto John, thine\nelect, and unto all who in every generation have been acceptable unto\nthee. And so make us to be ministers of thy new testament upon this oil,\nwhich thou hast made thine own through the precious blood of thy Christ,\nthat, putting away worldly lusts, we may die unto sin and live unto\nrighteousness, so that we may be led of the proposed oil to be invested\nin him with the anointing of sanctification. May this oil, O Lord, be an\noil of gladness, an oil of sanctification, a royal investiture, a cuirass\nof power, an averting of every diabolical operation, an inviolable seal,\na rejoicing of the heart, an eternal joy, that they that are anointed\nwith this oil of regeneration may be terrible to adversaries, and may\nshine in the brightness of thy saints, having no spot or wrinkle; and\nmay they attain unto thine eternal rest, and gain the prize of the\ncalling from on high.\n\nFor it is thine to have mercy, and to save us, O our God, and to thee we\nascribe glory, with thine only-begotten Son, and with thy most holy, and\ngood, and life-creating Spirit, now and ever, and to ages of ages, Amen.\n\n_And after the prayer; the priest taketh a twig, and, dipping it in\nthe holy oil, anointeth the sick person in the form of a cross, on the\nforehead, on the nostrils, on the cheeks, on the lips, on the breast, on\nthe hands on both sides, saying this prayer._\n\nHoly Father, physician of souls and bodies, who didst send thine\nonly-begotten Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, who healeth every infirmity,\nand delivereth from death; do thou heal thy servant, _name_, from the\nbodily and spiritual weakness that presseth upon him, and quicken him\nby the grace of thy Christ; through the prayers of our most holy Lady,\nthe God-bearing and ever-virgin Mary; through the intercession of the\nhonourable, heavenly bodiless powers; through the power of the precious\nand life-effecting cross; of the honourable glorious prophet, Forerunner,\nand Baptist John; of the holy, glorious, and all-praised apostles; of the\nholy glorious, and excellently victorious martyrs; of our venerable and\ngod-bearing fathers; of the holy and unmercenary physicians, Cosmas and\nDamian, Cyrus and John, Pantelimon and Hermolaus, Sampson and Diomed,\nPhotius and Anicetas; of the holy and righteous god-progenitors, Joakim\nand Anna, and of all the Saints.\n\nFor thou art the fount of healing, O our God, and to thee we ascribe\nglory, with thine only-begotten Son, and with thy consubstantial Spirit,\nnow and ever, and to ages of ages. Amen.\n\n_This prayer is said by each priest after he hath said his gospel and\nprayer, while he anointeth the sick person with oil._\n\n_Deacon._ Let us attend.\n\n_The second priest._ Peace to all.\n\n                          _Prokimenon, tone ii._\n\nThe Lord is my strength and song, and is become for salvation unto me.\n\n_Verse._ When thou chastenest, thou hast chastened me, O Lord; but thou\nhast not given me up unto death.\n\n                _The epistle to the Romans, section cxvi._\n\nBrethren, we that are strong ought.... _ending_, received us to the glory\nof God.[17]\n\n_The second priest._ Peace to thee.\n\n                           _Alleluia, tone v._\n\n_Verse._ I will sing of thy mercy, O Lord, for ever.\n\n                           _The second priest._\n\n                  _The gospel from Luke, section xciv._\n\nAt that time, Jesus passed through.... _ending_, to save that which was\nlost.[18]\n\n                            _And the deacon._\n\nHave mercy upon us, O God.... _Page 98._\n\nFurthermore let us pray for mercy, life....\n\nThat to him may be remitted....\n\nFor a merciful and man-loving God....\n\n                          _Priest, the prayer._\n\nO God, great and most high, who art worshipped by all creation, thou\ntrue fountain of wisdom, and impenetrable depth of goodness, and\nboundless ocean of benignity; do thou thyself, O man-loving Master, O\nGod of things eternal and wonderful, whom none among men by thinking can\ncomprehend, look upon us, and hearken unto us, thine unworthy servants,\nand wheresoever in thy great name we bring this oil, do thou send down\nthy gift of healing, and the remission of sins, and heal him in the\nplentitude of thy mercy. Yea, O Lord, thou good physician, thou sole\nmerciful one and lover of mankind, who repentest thee concerning our\nills, who knowest that the intention of man inclineth unto evil from his\nyouth up, who desirest not the death of a sinner, but that he should\nreturn and live, who for the salvation of sinners, being God, becamest\nman, and for thy creature wast thyself created: thou art he that hath\nsaid, I came not to call the righteous but sinners to repentance: thou\nart he that hath sought the lost sheep: thou art he that hath diligently\nsought the lost drachma, and found it: thou art he that hath said, He\nthat cometh unto me I will in no wise cast out: thou art he that did not\nloathe the sinful woman, who watered thy revered feet with tears: thou\nart he that hath said, As often as thou fallest, arise, and be saved:\nthou art he that hath said, There is joy in heaven over, one sinner that\nrepenteth: do thou thyself, O benign Master, look down from the height\nof thy sanctuary, visiting us, thy sinful and unworthy servants, at this\nhour, with the grace of thy Holy Ghost, and be present with thy servant,\n_name_, who acknowledgeth his iniquities, and in faith draweth nigh unto\nthee; and, accepting him in thine own love to man, in whatsoever he hath\noffended, by word, or deed, or intention, making remission, do thou\ncleanse him, and make him pure from every sin, and, being ever present\nwith him, keep the remaining time of his life, that walking in thy\nstatutes, he may never become a derision to the devil, so that in him may\nbe glorified thy most holy name.\n\n                              _Exclamation._\n\nFor it is thine to have mercy, and to save us, O Christ God, and to thee\nwe ascribe glory, with thine unbeginning Father, and with thy most holy,\nand good, and life-creating Spirit, now and ever, and to ages of ages.\nAmen.\n\n_And after the prayer the second priest straightway taketh a second twig,\nand, dipping it in the holy oil, anointeth the sick person, saying the\nprayer,_\n\nHoly Father, physician of souls and bodies....\n\n                             _Vide page 101._\n\n_And the deacon._ Let us attend.\n\n_The third priest._ Peace to all.\n\n                         _Prokimenon, tone iii._\n\nThe Lord is my light, and my Saviour, whom shall I fear?\n\n_Verse._ The Lord is the defence of my life, of whom shall I be afraid.\n\n             _The epistle to the Corinthians, section cliii._\n\nBrethren, ye are the body of Christ.... _ending_, Charity never\nfaileth.[19]\n\n_The third priest._ Peace to thee.\n\n_Deacon._ Wisdom. _Alleluia, tone ii._\n\n_Verse._ In thee, O Lord, have I trusted, let me never be confounded.\n\n                       _The third priest readeth._\n\n_The gospel from Matthew, section xxxiv. from the paragraph,_\n\nAt that time, Jesus called.... _ending_, freely give.[20]\n\n             _And the deacon straightway saith this ectenia._\n\nHave mercy upon us, O God....\n\nFurthermore let us pray for mercy, life....\n\nThat to him may be remitted....\n\n_And, with a loud voice_, For a merciful....\n\n_Deacon._ Let us pray to the Lord.\n\n                      _The priest saith the prayer._\n\nMaster Almighty, holy King, who chastenest, and killest not, who\nsupportest them that are falling, and settest up them that are cast\ndown, who restorest the bodily afflictions of men; we entreat thee, O\nour God, that thou wouldest send down thy mercy upon this oil, and upon\nthem that are anointed therewith in thy name, that it may be to them for\nthe healing of soul and body, and for the cleansing and removal of every\npassion, and of every sickness and wound, and of every defilement of\nflesh and spirit. Yea, O Lord, send down from heaven thy healing power;\ntouch the body; allay the fever; soothe the suffering; and banish every\nlurking weakness. Be the physician of thy servant, _name_, raise him\nfrom a bed of suffering, and from a couch of ailment whole and perfectly\nrestored, granting him in thy church to be acceptable, and one that doeth\nthy will.\n\n                              _Exclamation._\n\nFor it is thine to have mercy and to save us, O our God, and to thee we\nascribe glory, to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost, now\nand ever, and to ages of ages. Amen.\n\n_And after the prayer the third priest taketh a third twig, and, dipping\nit in the holy oil, anointeth the sick person, saying the prayer,_\n\nHoly Father, physician of souls and bodies....\n\n                             _Vide page 101._\n\n_Deacon._ Let us attend.\n\n                           _The fourth priest._\n\nPeace to all.\n\n                          _Prokimenon, tone iv._\n\nIn whatsover day that I call upon thee, O hearken unto me speedily.\n\n_Verse._ O Lord, hearken unto my prayer, and unto my crying.\n\n            _The epistle to the Corinthians, section clxxxii._\n\nBrethren, ye are the temple.... _ending_, holiness in the fear of God.[21]\n\n_Priest._ Peace to thee.\n\n                           _Alleluia, tone ii._\n\n_Verse._ I waited patiently for the Lord, and he inclined unto me.\n\n                           _The fourth priest._\n\n_The gospel from Matthew, section xxvi._\n\nAt that time, Jesus came into Peter\u2019s house.... _ending_, his disciples\nfollowed him.[22]\n\n_And the deacon._ Have mercy upon us, O God....\n\n                                                                _Page 98._\n\nFurthermore let us pray for mercy, life....\n\nThat to him may be remitted....\n\n_And the exclamation_, For a merciful....\n\n_Deacon._ Let us pray to the Lord.\n\n                          _Priest, the prayer._\n\nO good and man-loving, benign and most merciful Lord, great in mercy\nand plenteous in goodness, O Father of compassions and God of every\nconsolation, who hast empowered us, through thy holy apostles, to heal\nthe weaknesses of the people by prayer with oil; do thou thyself appoint\nthis oil for the healing of them that are anointed therewith, for the\nalleviation of every sickness and every wound, for deliverance from evils\nof them that expect salvation that is from thee. Yea, O Master, Lord our\nGod, we beseech thee, thou almighty one, to save us all, and, thou that\nalone art the physician of souls and bodies, to sanctify us all; thou\nthat healest every sickness, do thou heal thy servant, _name_; raise\nhim from the bed of suffering through the mercy of thy grace; visit him\nthrough thy mercy and compassions; remove from him every ailment and\nweakness, that, being raised by thy mighty hand, he may serve thee with\nall thanksgiving, as also that we, now participating in thine unspeakable\nlove to man, may sing and glorify thee, who doest great and wonderful,\nglorious and transcendent things.\n\nFor it is thine to have mercy, and to save us, O our God....\n\n_And after the prayer the fourth priest straightway taketh a fourth twig,\nand, dipping it in the holy oil, anointeth the sick person, saying the\nprayer,_\n\nHoly Father, physician of souls.... _Vide page 101._\n\n_Deacon._ Let us attend.\n\n_The fifth priest._ Peace to all.\n\n                          _Prokimenon, tone v._\n\nThou, O Lord, shalt keep us and shalt protect us, from this generation,\nand for ever.\n\n_Verse._ Save me, O Lord, for the righteous are become few.\n\n_Deacon._ Wisdom.\n\n            _The epistle to the Corinthians, section clxviii._\n\nBrethren, we would not have you ignorant.... _ending_, by many on our\nbehalf.[23]\n\n_Priest._ Peace to thee.\n\n                           _Alleluia, tone v._\n\n_Verse._ I will sing of thy mercy, O Lord, for ever.\n\n                 _The gospel from Matthew, section cvi._\n\nThe Lord spake this parable, Then shall the kingdom.... _ending_, wherein\nthe Son of man cometh.[24]\n\n                            _And the deacon._\n\nHave mercy upon us, O God.... _Page 98._\n\nFurthermore let us pray for mercy, life....\n\nThat to him may be remitted....\n\n                          _And the exclamation._\n\nFor a merciful....\n\n_Deacon._ Let us pray to the Lord.\n\n                          _Priest, this prayer._\n\nO Lord our God, who chastenest and again healest, who raisest the\npoor from the earth, and liftest up the beggar from the dunghill, O\nFather of the orphans, and haven of the tempest-tost, and physician of\nthem that are sick; who painlessly bearest our weaknesses, and takest\naway our sicknesses; who shewest mercy with gentleness, overlookest\ntransgressions, and takest away unrighteousness; who art quick to help\nand slow to anger; who didst breathe upon thy disciples, and say, Receive\nye the Holy Ghost, whosoever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto\nthem; who acceptest the repentance of sinners, and hast power to forgive\nmany and grievous sins, and vouchsafest healing unto all that continue\nin weakness and protracted sickness; who me also, thine humble, sinful,\nand unworthy servant, involved in many sins, and overwhelmed with lusts\nof pleasures, hast called to the holy and exceeding great degree of the\npriesthood, and to enter in within the veil into the holy of holies,\nwhere the holy Angels desire to stoop to look, and hear the evangelical\nvoice of the Lord God, and behold as eye-witnesses the presence of the\nholy oblation, and be enraptured with the divine and sacred liturgy; who\nhast counted me worthy to minister the sacred rite of thy most heavenly\nmystery, and to offer unto thee gifts and sacrifices for our sins,\nand for the ignorances of the people, and to mediate for thy rational\nflock, that, through thy great and unspeakable love to man, thou mayest\ncleanse their iniquities; do thou thyself, O most good King, attend\nunto my prayer at this hour, and on this holy day, and in every time\nand place, and accept the voice of my prayer, and grant healing unto\nthy servant, _name_, who is in weakness of soul and body, vouchsafing\nunto him remission of sins and forgiveness of voluntary and involuntary\niniquities: heal his incurable wounds, and every sickness and every\nsore, bestowing upon him spiritual healing. It was thou who didst touch\nthe mother-in-law of Peter, and the fever left her, and she arose and\nministered unto thee: do thou thyself, O Master, bestow a remedy upon thy\nservant, _name_, and an alleviation of every mortal pain, and remember\nthine abundant compassions, and thy mercy. Remember that the intention\nof man inclineth constantly toward evil from his youth up, and that none\nis to be found sinless upon earth; for thou alone art without sin, who\ndidst come and save the race of men, and deliver us from the servitude of\nthe enemy. For if thou shouldest enter into judgment with thy servants,\nthere is none that would be found pure from defilement, but every mouth\nwould be shut, not having wherewith to answer; for all our righteousness\nis as filthy rags before thee. For this cause remember not, Lord, the\nsins of our youth; for thou art the hope of the hopeless, and the rest of\nthem that are weary and heavy-laden with transgressions, and to thee we\nascribe glory, with thine unbeginning Father, and with thy most holy, and\ngood, and life-creating Spirit, now and ever, and to ages of ages. Amen.\n\n_And after the prayer the fifth priest straightway taketh a fifth twig,\nand, dipping it in the holy oil, anointeth the sick person, saying the\nprayer,_\n\nHoly Father, physician of souls and bodies....\n\n                             _Vide page 101._\n\n_Deacon._ Let us attend.\n\n_And the sixth priest._ Peace to all.\n\n                          _Prokimenon, tone vi._\n\nHave mercy upon me, O God, according to great mercy.\n\n_Verse._ Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit\nwithin me.\n\n             _The epistle to the Galatians, section ccxiii._\n\nBrethren, the fruit of the spirit.... _ending_, so fulfil the law of\nChrist.[25]\n\n_The sixth priest._ Peace to thee.\n\n_Deacon._ Wisdom, let us attend.\n\n                           _Alleluia, tone vi._\n\n_Verse._ Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord, in his commandments he\nrejoiceth exceedingly.\n\n_Deacon._ Wisdom, standing, let us hear the holy gospel.\n\n                 _The gospel from Matthew, section lxii._\n\nAt that time, Jesus went.... _ending_, from that very hour.[26]\n\n                            _And the deacon._\n\nHave mercy upon us, O God....\n\nFurthermore let us pray for mercy, life....\n\nThat to him may be remitted....\n\n_Exclamation._ For a merciful...\n\n_Deacon._ Let us pray to the Lord.\n\n                        _The priest, this prayer._\n\nWe give thanks unto thee, O Lord our God, thou good lover of mankind, and\nphysician of our souls and bodies, who painlessly bearest our sicknesses,\nand by whose stripes we have all been healed; thou good shepherd, who\ncamest to seek the wandering sheep; who givest consolation unto the\nfaint-hearted, and life unto them that are broken down; who didst heal\nthe source of the issue of blood that had lasted twelve years; who didst\ndeliver the daughter of the Chananitish woman from the ruthless demon;\nwho didst forgive the debt unto the two debtors, and give remission\nunto the sinful woman; who didst bestow healing upon the paralytic,\nwith the remission of his sins; who didst justify the publican by a\nword, and didst accept the thief in his last confession; who takest away\nthe sins of the world, and wast nailed on the cross; to thee we pray,\nand thee we beseech, Do thou thyself, O God, in thy goodness, loosen,\nforgive, and pardon the transgressions and sins of thy servant, _name_,\nand his voluntary and involuntary iniquities, those in knowledge and\nin ignorance, those by trespass and disobedience, those by night and\nby day; or if he be under the curse of a priest, or of a father or a\nmother; or if by the glance of the eye, or a movement of the eyelid; or\nby the contact of adultery, or the tasting of prodigality, or in any\nexcitement of flesh and spirit he have estranged himself from thy will,\nand from thy holiness. And if he have sinned, and in like manner we also,\nas the good God that rememberest not evil and the lover of mankind,\ndo thou pardon, not leaving him and us to fall into a dissolute life,\nneither to walk in ways of destruction. Yea, O Master Lord, hear me, a\nsinner, at this hour on behalf of thy servant, _name_, and overlook,\nas the God that rememberest not evil, all his iniquities; deliver him\nfrom eternal torment; fill his mouth with thy praise; open his lips to\nthe glorification of thy name; extend his hands to the doing of thy\ncommandments; direct his feet in the path of thy gospel, confirming all\nhis members and his intention by thy grace. For thou art our God, who, by\nthy holy apostles, hast commanded us, saying, Whatsoever ye shall bind on\nearth, shall be bound in the heavens, and whatsoever ye shall loose on\nearth shall be loosed in the heavens; and again, Unto whomsoever ye remit\nsins, they are remitted unto them, and, If ye bind them, they are bound.\nAnd, as thou didst hearken unto Ezekias in the affliction of his soul\nin the hour of his death, and didst not despise his prayer, so hearken\nunto me, thine humble, and sinful, and unworthy servant at this hour. For\nthou, O Lord Jesus Christ, art he that, in thy goodness and love to man,\nbiddeth to forgive until seventy times seven them that fall into sins;\nand thou repentest thee concerning our evils, and rejoicest over the\nreturn of the wanderer. For, as is thy greatness, so also is thy mercy,\nand to thee we ascribe glory, with thine unbeginning Father, and with thy\nmost holy, and good, and life-creating Spirit, now and ever, and to ages\nof ages. Amen.\n\n_And after the prayer the sixth priest straightway taketh a sixth twig,\nand, dipping it in the holy oil, anointeth the sick person, saying the\nprayer,_\n\nHoly Father, physician of souls and bodies....\n\n                             _Vide page 101._\n\n_Deacon._ Let us attend.\n\n_And the seventh priest._ Peace to all.\n\n                         _Prokimenon, tone vii._\n\nO Lord, rebuke me not in thy fury, neither chasten me in thine anger.\n\n_Verse._ Have mercy upon me, O Lord, for I am weak.\n\n          _The epistle to the Thessalonians, section cclxxiii._\n\nBrethren, we exhort you.... _ending_, the coming of our Lord Jesus\nChrist.[27]\n\n_And the seventh priest._ Peace to thee.\n\n_Deacon._ Wisdom.\n\n                          _Alleluia, tone vii._\n\n_Verse._ The Lord hear thee in the day of trouble, the name of the God of\nJacob defend thee.\n\n                 _The gospel from Matthew, section xxx._\n\nAt that time, Jesus, passing by.... _ending_, sinners to repentance.[28]\n\n_And the deacon._ Have mercy upon us, O God....\n\nFurthermore let us pray for mercy, life....\n\nThat to him may be remitted....\n\n_And the exclamation._ For a merciful....\n\n_The deacon saith_, Let us pray to the Lord.\n\n                        _The priest, this prayer._\n\nO Master, Lord our God, physician of souls and bodies, who restorest from\nlong-continued sufferings, healest every sickness and every wound among\nthe people, willest that all men should be saved and come to a knowledge\nof the truth, and desirest not the death of a sinner, but that he should\nreturn and live. For, thou, Lord, in the old testament didst appoint\nrepentance unto sinners, to David, and to the Ninevites, and to them that\nwere before these; but during the course of thine incarnate dispensation,\ndidst not call the righteous but sinners to repentance, even accepting\nthe publican, the harlot, the thief, and the blaspheming persecutor, the\ngreat Paul, through repentance. Thou, through repentance, didst accept\nPeter, the leader and thine apostle, who denied thee thrice, and didst\nmake promise unto him, saying, Thou art Peter, and upon this rock will\nI build my church, and the gates of hades shall not prevail against it,\nand I will give to thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven. Wherefore\nwe also, O good one and the lover of mankind, being bold according to\nthine undeceiving promises, pray unto thee, and supplicate at this hour.\nHearken unto our prayer and accept it as incense offered unto thee, and\nvisit thy servant, _name_, and if he have sinned by word, or deed, or\nintention, or in the night, or in the day, if he be under the curse of a\npriest, or be fallen under his own curse, or be embittered by a curse,\nand have forsworn himself, we supplicate thee, and to thee we pray,\nPardon, forgive, and loosen him, O God, overlooking his transgressions,\nand the sins which in knowledge and in ignorance have been done by him.\nAnd in whatsoever he have transgressed thy commandments, or have sinned,\nbecause he beareth flesh and liveth in the world, or because of the\noperation of the devil, do thou thyself, as the good and man-loving God,\nloosen him; for there is no man that liveth and sinneth not: thou only\nart without sin, thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and\nthy word is the truth. For thou didst not form man for destruction, but\nfor the keeping of thy commandments, and for the inheritance of life\nincorruptible, and to thee we ascribe glory, with the Father, and with\nthe Holy Ghost, now and ever, and to ages of ages. Amen.\n\n_And after the prayer the seventh priest taketh a seventh twig, and,\ndipping it in the holy oil, anointeth the sick person, saying the prayer,_\n\nHoly Father, physician of souls and bodies....\n\n                             _Vide page 101._\n\n_And after this, the sick person that receiveth the sacred unction, if\nhe be able, cometh himself into the midst of the priests, or, held by\nhis own people, standeth, or sitteth. And if he be not able, the priests\nthemselves stand around him lying on the bed. And the president, taking\nthe holy gospel and opening it, layeth the text upon the head of the sick\nperson, the book being held by all the priests. And he that is the leader\ndoth not lay on his hand, but he saith this prayer with a loud voice._\n\nO Holy King, O loving-kind and most merciful Lord Jesus Christ, Son and\nWord of the living God, who desirest not the death of a sinner, but that\nhe should return and live; I lay not my sinful hand upon the head of him\nthat cometh to thee in sins, and beseecheth of thee through us remission\nof sins, but thy strong and mighty hand which is in this holy gospel\nwhich my fellow-ministers hold upon the head of thy servant, _name_, and\nI pray with them and entreat thy merciful love to man, which remembereth\nnot evil, O God, our Saviour, who, through thy prophet Nathan, didst\ngrant remission of his iniquities unto the repentant David, and didst\naccept the prayer of repentance of Manasse; and do thou thyself, in thy\nwonted love to man, accept thy servant, _name_, who bewaileth on account\nof his own offences, and overlook all his iniquities. For thou art our\nGod, who hast bidden to forgive until seventy times seven them that have\nfallen into sins; for as is thy greatness, so also is thy mercy, and to\nthee is due every glory, honour, and worship, now and ever, and to ages\nof ages. Amen.\n\n_And taking the gospel from the head of the sick person, they present it\nto him to kiss._\n\n_And the deacon._ Have mercy upon us, O God....\n\nFurthermore let us pray for mercy, life....\n\nAnd that to him may be remitted....\n\n                              _Exclamation._\n\nFor a merciful and man-loving....\n\n               _Then they sing, Glory, idiomelon, tone iv._\n\nHaving a fountain of remedies, O holy unmercenary ones, ye bestow\nhealings unto all that are in need, as being counted worthy of mighty\ngifts from the ever-flowing fountain of our Saviour. For the Lord hath\nsaid unto you, as unto co-emulators of the apostles, Behold, I have\ngiven unto you power over unclean spirits, so as to cast them out, and\nto heal every sickness and every wound. Therefore in his commandments\nhaving virtuously liv\u2019d, freely ye receiv\u2019d, freely ye bestow, healing\nthe sufferings of our souls and bodies.\n\n                        _Both now, tone the same._\n\nAttend unto the supplications of thy servants, thou altogether undefiled\none, quelling the uprisings of evils against us, and releasing us from\nevery affliction; for thee we have alone a sure and certain confirmation,\nand we have gain\u2019d thy mediation that we may not be put to shame, O\nQueen, who call upon thee. Be instant in supplication for them that\nfaithfully exclaim to thee, Hail, Queen, thou aid of all, the joy and\nsafeguard, and salvation of our souls.\n\n_Glory. Both now._ Lord, have mercy, _thrice_. Bless.\n\n                                                      _And the dismissal._\n\nChrist our true God, through the prayers of his most pure Mother,\nthrough the power of the honourable and life-effecting cross, of the\nholy, glorious, and all-praised James, apostle and first highpriest of\nJerusalem, the brother of God, and of all the Saints, save us and have\nmercy upon us, as being good and the lover of mankind.\n\n_And he that receiveth the prayer oil maketh reverence, saying,_\n\nBless me, holy fathers, and forgive me, a sinner.\n\n                                                                 _Thrice._\n\n_And, having received from them blessing and forgiveness, he departeth,\nthanking God._\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n\n\n_Chapter XIV._\n\nTHE OFFICE WHEN IN EXTREME URGENCY OCCASION ARISETH TO GIVE COMMUNION TO\nA SICK PERSON.\n\n\n_The priest taketh a particle of the holy mysteries, and placeth it\nin a chalice, and poureth thereunto a little wine, as much at may be\nsufficient for the sick person to receive it._\n\n_And he beginneth_, Blessed be our God, always, now.... _Then_,\nTrisagion. _After_ Our Father.... Lord, have mercy, _xii_. O come, let us\nworship.... _thrice_. I believe in one God.... _all to the end_.\n\n                             _Then he saith,_\n\nOf thy mysterious supper, Son of God, me a communicant accept to-day; for\nI thy mystery to thy foes will not betray, nor give to thee a kiss as\nJudas did; but, as the thief, I will confess thee: Lord, in thy kingdom O\nremember me.\n\n                                 _Glory._\n\nO heavenly king, O comforter, Spirit of truth who art everywhere and\nfillest all, treasury of blessings and giver of life; come and abide in\nus, and cleanse us from all stain, and save our souls, O blessed one.\n\n                         _Both now. Theotokion._\n\nGod-bearing Virgin, we have understood the God made flesh from thee, whom\ndo thou pray to save our souls.\n\nLord, have mercy, _xl_.\n\n                           _Then this prayer._\n\nMaster, Lord Jesus Christ, our Saviour, who alone hast power to\nforgive sins, as the good and man-loving God, do thou overlook all the\niniquities, in knowledge and in ignorance, of thy servant, _name_, and\ncount him worthy to partake, without condemnation, of thy most pure\nmysteries, not to torment, nor to the increase of sins, but to the\ncleansing of soul and body, and as an earnest of thy kingdom; for thou\nart his assistance, and firm wall, and bulwark against the adversary, and\nthe cleansing of his iniquities. For thou art a merciful and man-loving\nGod, and to thee we ascribe glory, to the Father, and to the Son, and to\nthe Holy Ghost.\n\n                             _Second prayer._\n\nLord, I know that I am not worthy that thou shouldest enter under my\nroof, into the house of my soul; for it is all deserted and in ruins, and\nthou hast not in me a fitting place where to lay thy head; but since thou\nwishest to abide with me, trusting in thy compassions, I come unto thee.\nBid the doors of mine unworthy lips to open, that I may be satisfied with\nthee alone; enter into me, and cleanse me from every bodily and spiritual\ndefilement; be thou my helper and defender, and count me worthy to stand\nat thy right hand, through the prayers and supplications of our most pure\nLady, the God-bearing and Ever-virgin Mary, and of all the Saints, who\nfrom ages have been acceptable unto thee; for blessed art thou to ages.\nAmen.\n\n                             _Third prayer._\n\nThe Lord God most merciful have compassion upon thee. The Lord Jesus\nChrist bestow upon thee every good desire. The Lord Almighty deliver\nthee from every calamity. The Lord teach thee. The Lord give thee\nunderstanding. The Lord help thee. The Lord save thee. The Lord protect\nthee. The Lord keep thee. The Lord cleanse thee. The Lord fill thee with\nspiritual joy. The Lord be the defender of thy soul and body. The Lord,\nas the merciful and good lover of mankind, bestow upon thee forgiveness\nof sins. The Lord God Jesus Christ have mercy upon thee in the day of\njudgment, and bless thee all the days of thy life. For to him is due all\nglory, honour, and worship, with his unbeginning Father, and with his\nmost holy, good, and life-creating Spirit, now and ever, and to ages of\nages. Amen.\n\n_And if the sick person shall have been previously confessed, let him\nstraightway communicate of the holy mysteries. But if not, the priest\nbiddeth them that are there present to retire for a short time, and he\ninterrogateth him concerning offences diverse and of many kinds, being\ncareful that nothing shall be concealed, or unconfessed because of shame.\nAnd then, after the confession, the priest saith this prayer._\n\nO Lord our God, who didst forgive sins unto Peter and unto the harlot\nthrough their tears, and didst justify the publican who acknowledged his\niniquities; do thou accept the confession of thy servant, _name_, and\nthat wherein he hath sinned against thee, his voluntary and involuntary\nsins, by word, or deed, or intention, as being good, do thou overlook.\nFor thou alone hast power to forgive sins, for thou art God merciful and\ncompassionate, and to thee we ascribe glory, to the Father, and to the\nSon, and to the Holy Ghost, now and ever, and to ages of ages. Amen.\n\n                     _After the communion he saith,_\n\nNow dismiss thy servant, O Master.... _all to the end_. _Then_,\nTrisagion. _After_ Our Father.... _the troparion of the day_.\n\n                      _Glory. Both now. Theotokion._\n\nThrough the prayers, O Lord, of all the Saints, and of the God-bearing\none, grant us thy peace, and have mercy upon us, as being alone\ncompassionate.\n\nLord, have mercy, _thrice_. Bless.\n\n                 _And the dismissal of the day that is._\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n\n\n_Chapter XV._\n\nPRAYERFUL CANON TO OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, AND TO THE MOST HOLY\nGOD-BEARING MOTHER OF THE LORD AT THE PARTING OF THE SOUL FROM THE BODY\nOF EVERY RIGHT-BELIEVER.\n\n\n_The abbot cometh, but to a layman his spiritual father, and asketh if\nthrough forgetfulness or shame he have any word or deed, or any malice\nagainst a brother, unconfessed, or unforgiven: it is obligatory to\nexamine and interrogate the dying concerning all things one by one._\n\n_After this he beginneth_, Blessed be our God.... _Trisagion._ _After_\nOur Father.... Lord, have mercy, _xii_. O come, let us worship....\n_thrice_. _Psalm l._ Have mercy upon me O God....\n\n_A prayerful canon to the Most Holy God-bearing one, with the irmi to vi,\nfrom the person of a man who is being parted from his soul, and who is\nnot able to speak._\n\n                         _Tone vi. Ode i. Irmos._\n\nPassing as on dry land....\n\n_Refrain._ God-bearing one most holy, save thou us.\n\nLike unto drops of rain, mine evil and brief days, becoming scant with\nsummer\u2019s roll, already well-nigh vanish\u2019d are: do thou save me, O Queen.\n\nIn thy benignity and many mercies, O thou Queen, in this dread hour, when\nnature faileth, stand by me, an aid invincible.\n\nNow mighty fear constrains my soul, it trembleth inexpressibly and\ngrieves: console it, thou Most Pure, as it the body quits.\n\n                                 _Glory._\n\nKnown refuge of the sinful and the low, make known to me thy mercy, O\nthou Pure, and me from demons\u2019 hands set free; for like as many dogs they\nme surround.\n\n                               _Both now._\n\nLo, \u2019tis the time for help: lo, for thy mediation \u2019tis the time: lo, O\nthou Queen, it is the time concerning which I have both day and night\nwith fervour cast me down and pray\u2019d to thee.\n\n                            _Ode iii. Irmos._\n\nThere is none holy like to thee, O Lord....\n\nFrom long ago this day, O Queen, have I foreseen, and, ever musing\nthereupon as though it had arriv\u2019d, with fervent tears I thee have\npray\u2019d, Forget me not.\n\nThey, roaring, me surround, the mental lions, and seek to seize and rend\nme bitterly; but crush their teeth and jaws, O Pure, and save thou me.\n\nAlthough henceforward be my vocal organs dumb, my tongue be bound, my\nspeech be stay\u2019d, in heart\u2019s contrition thee I pray, O my deliverer, save\nthou me.\n\n                                 _Glory._\n\nThine ear to me incline, Mother of Christ my God, from thy great glory\u2019s\nheight, thou blessed one, and hear my latest sigh, and reach thy hand to\nme.\n\n                               _Both now._\n\nThy many mercies take thou not from me, nor close thy loving tenderness\nfor man \u2019gainst me, O Pure; but stand thou by me now, and in the hour of\njudgment think on me.\n\n                             _Ode iv. Irmos._\n\nChrist is my might, the God and Lord....\n\nNow make a flood of tears offences\u2019 bath, thou that art good; my heart\u2019s\ncontrition take; yea, blessed one, confirm my trust in thee, that thou\nwilt free me from the fearful fiery pain; for thou, God-bearing one,\nthyself art grace\u2019s fount.\n\nThou that for all in need a refuge art, that put to shame is not, and all\noffenceless is; be thou, O Queen most undefil\u2019d, an advocate for me in\ntrial\u2019s hour.\n\nThou stretchest forth thy most rever\u2019d and precious hands in guise of\nwings of dove divine, and \u2019neath their shade and shelter coverest me, O\nQueen.\n\n                                 _Glory._\n\nBy him, the prince of air, and him that violent is, and him that torturer\nis, and him that standeth in the fearful ways, and by the false accusing\nwords of these, grant me to pass unovercome, when I depart from earth.\n\n                               _Both now._\n\nLo, terror meeteth me, O Queen, and I have dread thereof. Behold, a great\nevent befalleth me, and O be thou therein a helper unto me, O trust of my\nsalvation thou.\n\n                             _Ode v. Irmos._\n\nWith thy divine light, O blessed one....\n\nThou that art good, forget me not, nor from thy servant turn thy face;\nbut hear thou me, for I am griev\u2019d, and O attend unto my soul, and rescue\nthis.\n\nO ye my kinsfolk in the flesh, and ye my brethren in the spirit, and ye\nmy friends and comrades known, weep, sigh, lament; for lo, I now depart\nfrom you.\n\nNow none delivereth, and in truth nothing affordeth aid: be thou mine\naid, O Queen, lest I be as a man that hath no help, and in mine enemies\u2019\nhands enclos\u2019d.\n\n                                 _Glory._\n\nGo, ye my holy Angels, stand at the judgment-seat of Christ, and bend\nyour spiritual knees, and tearfully exclaim to him, Have mercy, Maker of\nall things, and, blessed one, reject thou not the work of thine own hands.\n\n                               _Both now._\n\nUnto the Queen bow ye yourselves, and my God\u2019s most pure Mother pray\nthat she may bend her knees with you, and unto mercy him incline; for\nhearken\u2019d unto she will be, as Mother and as nurturer.\n\n                             _Ode vi. Irmos._\n\nLife\u2019s sea perturbed....\n\nMy lips are silent, and my tongue speaks not, but my heart cries,\nbecause, contrition\u2019s fire consuming it within, it burns, and, with a\nvoice unutterable, invoketh thee, O Virgin.\n\nRegard me from on high, O Mother of God, and mercifully now attend to\ncome and visit me, that, seeing thee, I may rejoice, departing from the\nbody.\n\nWhen broken are the bonds, dissolv\u2019d the laws of natural setting, and\nthose of every bodily substance, to need importable and straight they\nsubject me.\n\n                                 _Glory._\n\nPlace me, O Queen, in holy Angels\u2019 sacred and revered hands, that cover\u2019d\nby their wings, I may not see the forms devoid of grace, and foul, and\ndark of demons.\n\n                               _Both now._\n\nThou all-revered bridal-room of God, me worthy count to enter in the\nheavenly spiritual bridal-room, enkindling with thy mercy\u2019s holy oil my\nquenched and unshining lamp.\n\n                          _Condakion, tone vi._\n\nMy soul, my soul, arise, why sleepest thou? The end draws very near,\nand thou hast need to pray. Then rouse thyself, that Christ God may\ncompassionate thee, he who is present everywhere, and filleth everything.\n\n                                 _Icos._\n\nBeholding open Christ\u2019s remedial fount, and Adam drawing healing thence,\nthe devil, suffering, wounded was, wailed as they who ill receive, and\ncried to those conjoin\u2019d with him, What shall I do to Mary\u2019s Son? He\nkilleth me, the Bethleemite, he who is present everywhere, and filleth\neverything.\n\n                            _Ode vii. Irmos._\n\nThe angel made the furnace to bedew....\n\nMe unprepar\u2019d death\u2019s dark and moonless night o\u2019ertaken hath, and\njourneying unprepar\u2019d, along that straight and fearful way, O may thy\nmercy company me, O Queen.\n\nLo, verily, all my days in vanity wasted are, as hath been written, and\nmy years with care, and deadly bitter snares, in truth, prevented have my\nsoul, and these me still constrain.\n\nLet not the number of my sins thy great beneficence exceed, O Queen; but\nlet thy mercy come on me, and all mine oversteppings do thou hide.\n\n                                 _Glory._\n\nLeading me hence they go, on all sides binding me, and, fill\u2019d with much\nrebellion, quelled is my soul, and fears; but, O thou Pure, with thine\nappearance, do thou it appease.\n\n                               _Both now._\n\nIn mine affliction have I no one found to mourn with me and comfort me, O\nQueen; for mine acquaintances and friends have now together quitted me;\nbut, thou who art my trust, do thou forsake me not.\n\n                            _Ode viii. Irmos._\n\nFrom flame thou didst a dew outpour on reverend ones....\n\nAs God\u2019s man-loving Mother, be man-loving thou, with gentle eyes and\nmerciful regarding me, as from the body goes my soul, that thee I ever\nmay extol, thou holy Bringer-forth of God.\n\nMe worthy count to overcome the hosts of bodiless foes, to mount th\u2019\na\u00ebrial space and enter heaven, that thee I ever may extol, thou holy\nBringer-forth of God.\n\nThou who didst bear th\u2019 Almighty Lord, from me far keep away the\nworld-controlling prince of bitter guiles when I approach mine end, that\nthee I ever may extol, thou holy Bringer-forth of God.\n\n                                 _Glory._\n\nWhen the great final trump shall sound, arousing all to resurrection\nmenacing and dread, O then do thou remember me, thou holy Bringer-forth\nof God.\n\n                               _Both now._\n\nPalace high rais\u2019d of Christ the Lord, send from on high thy grace, and\nnow in trouble\u2019s day prevent thou me, that I may ever thee extol, thou\nholy Bringer-forth of God.\n\n                             _Ode ix. Irmos._\n\nMortals may not see God....\n\nO how shall I th\u2019 invisible behold? how that most dreadful vision bear?\nhow venture to lift up mine eyes? how dare my Master to regard, whom,\nfrom my youth, I never ceased have to give offence?\n\nThou holy maiden, Bringer-forth of God, look on my lowliness with tender\nheart; accept thou this, my last and penitential prayer; and make thou\nspeed to rescue me from the tormenting endless fire.\n\nMy soul, that temples holy hath defil\u2019d, having a stain\u2019d and bodily\ntemple left, beseecheth thee, O maiden, Virgin Mother, that it may \u2019scape\nthe gloom profound, and fierce gehenna\u2019s flame.\n\n                                 _Glory._\n\nSeeing the end of life draw near, and on my most unseemly thoughts and\ndeeds bethinking me, O thou All-pure, the darts of conscience fiercely\nwound mine active soul; but O in mercy turn thyself to me, and be mine\nadvocate.\n\n                               _Both now._\n\nThe Son in mercy gave himself for us, the Son of God and angels\u2019 King\neterne, becoming man from thy pure blood; move him to mercy on my\npassionate soul, O Maid, which is with violence from my wretched body\ntorn.\n\n_Then_, It is very meet....\n\n\n\n\n_Prayer said by the priest at the departure of a soul._\n\n\nO Master, Lord Almighty, Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who desirest\nthat all men should be saved and come to a knowledge of the truth; who\ndesirest not the death of a sinner, but that he should return and live;\nwe pray and make supplication unto thee, Loosen the soul of thy servant,\n_name_, from every bond, and deliver him from every curse: forgive him\nthe iniquities, known and unknown, which from youth up, in deed and\nword, he hath confessed sincerely, or, through forgetfulness or shame\nhath hidden; for thou alone art he that looseth them that are in bonds,\nand setteth upright them that are crushed down, thou hope of them that\nhave no hope, who canst remit the sins of every man that hath a trust\nin thee. Yea, O man-loving Lord, bid that he be set free from carnal and\nsinful bonds, and receive in peace the soul of this thy servant, _name_,\nand rest it in the eternal habitations with thy Saints, through the grace\nof thine only-begotten Son, our Lord God and Saviour, Jesus Christ, with\nwhom also thou art blessed, together with thy most holy, and good, and\nlife-creating Spirit, now and ever, and to ages of ages. Amen.\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n\n\n_Chapter XVI._\n\nTHE MORTUARY ORDER OVER LAY BODIES.\n\n\n_On the decease of one of the right-believers, his kinsfolk straightway\nsend for the priest, who cometh to the house in which the remains of\nhim that hath fallen asleep lie, and putting on the epitrachelion, and\nputting incense into the censer, censeth the body of the dead, and them\nthat stand by, and beginneth as customarily,_\n\nBlessed be our God....\n\n                       _And the bystanders begin,_\n\nHoly God.... O most holy Trinity.... Our Father.... For thine is the\nkingdom....\n\n           _And straightway they sing these troparia. Tone iv._\n\nWith the spirits of the righteous dead, O Saviour, rest thy servant\u2019s\nsoul, keeping it in that blessed life which is with thee, thou lover of\nmankind.\n\nIn thy resting-place, O Lord, where all thy Saints repose, O rest thy\nservant\u2019s soul; for thou alone art lover of mankind.\n\n                                 _Glory._\n\nThou art the God that wentest down to hades, and didst burst the\ncaptives\u2019 bonds: rest also thou thyself thy servant\u2019s soul.\n\n                               _Both now._\n\nO only pure and spotless Virgin, who without seed didst bring forth God,\npray that his soul be sav\u2019d.\n\n                           _The deacon saith,_\n\nHave mercy upon us, O God, according to thy great mercy, we pray thee,\nhear, and have mercy.\n\nLord, have mercy, _thrice_.\n\nFurthermore let us pray for the repose of the soul of the servant of God,\n_name_, who hath fallen asleep, and that to him may be remitted every\ntransgression, voluntary and involuntary.\n\nLord, have mercy, _thrice_.\n\nThe mercy of God, the kingdom of heaven, and the forgiveness of his sins,\nwe ask of thee, O Christ, our immortal King and God.\n\nVouchsafe, O Lord.\n\n_Deacon._ Let us pray to the Lord.\n\nLord have mercy.\n\n                     _The priest saith this prayer,_\n\nO God of spirits and of every flesh, who didst tread down death, and\novercome the devil, and bestow life upon thy world; do thou thyself, O\nLord, rest the soul of thy servant, _name_, who hath fallen asleep, in\na place of light, in a place of refreshment, in a place of rest, whence\npain, and grief, and sighing are driven away; and every iniquity wrought\nby him, in word, or deed, or in intention, as the good man-loving God,\ndo thou remit; for there is no man that shall live and shall not sin;\nfor thou alone art without sin, thy righteousness is an everlasting\nrighteousness, and thy word the truth.\n\n                              _Exclamation._\n\nFor thou art the resurrection and the life, and the repose of thy\nservant, _name_, who hath fallen asleep, O Christ our God, and to thee we\nascribe glory, with thine unbeginning Father, and with thy most holy, and\ngood, and life-creating Spirit, now and ever, and to ages of ages. Amen.\n\n_Deacon._ Wisdom.\n\n_Choir._ The more honourable than the Cherubim.... _And the rest._\n\n_And straightway the dismissal is made by the priest on this wise,_\n\nHe that hath dominion over quick and dead, Christ our true God, through\nthe prayers of his most pure Mother, of our venerable and god-bearing\nfathers, and of all his Saints, place the soul of his servant, _name_,\ndeparted from us, in holy tabernacles, and number it with the just, and\nhave mercy upon us, as being good and the lover of mankind.\n\n_And then if all things be ready for the departure, the priest again\nmaketh the beginning,_\n\nBlessed be our God....\n\n_And we begin to sing_, Holy God.... _with fear, and with every\ncompunction_.\n\n_And taking up the remains of him that hath fallen asleep, we go forth to\nthe temple; preceded by the priests with tapers, and the deacon with the\ncenser._\n\n_And when they come unto the temple, then the remains are placed in the\nporch, (or in the temple, as is here in great Russia the custom.)_\n\n                            _And they begin,_\n\nWhoso dwelleth under the defence of the Most High....[29]\n\n_And after this they sing with a loud voice,_\n\nBlessed art thou, O Lord: O teach me thy statutes.\n\nThe undefiled in the way. Alleluia.\n\n_And the first stasis of the undefiled[30] is sung to tone vi, and at the\nend of every verse we sing,_ Alleluia.\n\nBlessed are the undefiled in the way, that walk in the law of the Lord.\nAlleluia.\n\nBlessed are they that, searching out his testimonies, seek him with the\nwhole heart. Alleluia.\n\n_And the rest of the psalm. Glory._ Alleluia.\n\n_Both now._ Alleluia.\n\n_Deacon._ Again and again in peace let us pray to the Lord.\n\nFurthermore let us pray for the repose of the soul of the servant of God,\n_name_, who hath fallen asleep, and that to him may be remitted every\ntransgression, voluntary and involuntary.\n\nThat the Lord God may place his soul where the righteous rest.\n\nThe mercy of God, the kingdom of heaven, and the forgiveness of his sins\nlet us ask of Christ, our immortal King and God.\n\nVouchsafe, O Lord.\n\n_Deacon._ Let us pray to the Lord.\n\nLord have mercy.\n\n                     _The priest saith this prayer._\n\nO God of spirits.... _Vide page 139._\n\n_And after this they begin the second stasis in tone v, in which also, at\nthe ending of a verse, we say,_\n\nHave mercy upon thy servant.\n\n_The choir beginneth_, Thy commandments.\n\nHave mercy upon thy servant.\n\n                         _Again the same choir,_\n\nThy hands have made me, and fashioned me: O give me understanding, and I\nshall be taught by thy commandment.\n\nHave mercy upon thy servant.\n\nThey that fear thee beheld me and rejoiced, for I have trusted in thy\nwords.\n\nHave mercy upon thy servant.\n\n           _And the rest of the psalm, and at the end, Glory._\n\nHave mercy upon thy servant. _Both now._\n\nHave mercy upon thy servant.\n\n_Deacon._ Again and again.... _Vide page 142._\n\n_And again they begin the third stasis in the third tone._\n\nThy name. Alleluia.\n\n                     _Again the same choir singeth,_\n\nLook upon me, and have mercy upon me, according to the judgment of them\nthat love thy name. Alleluia.\n\nDirect my steps according to thy word, and let not every transgression\nhave dominion over me. Alleluia.\n\n           _And the rest. And, after the ending, straightway,_\n\n           _Blessed art thou, O Lord: O teach me thy statutes._\n\nThe choir of saints have found life\u2019s spring, and paradise\u2019s door; and\nmay I also find the way through penitence. I am a wandering sheep: O\nSaviour, me recall, and save thou me.\n\n                      _Blessed art thou, O Lord...._\n\nYe saints, that preach\u2019d the Lamb of God, and sacrificed were as lambs,\nand unto life that grows not old and aye endures translated are; this\nceaselessly, ye martyrs, pray, that unto us vouchsaf\u2019d may be remission\nof our trespasses.\n\n                      _Blessed art thou, O Lord...._\n\nO ye that walk\u2019d the narrow way, that ever-suffering is; all ye that\nduring life accepted have as yoke the cross, and follow\u2019d me in faith;\ncome, and enjoy those things prepar\u2019d for you, rewards and crowns\ncelestial.\n\n                      _Blessed art thou, O Lord...._\n\nOf thy narrateless glory I an image am, and, though I bear offences\u2019\nscars, compassionate thy creature, Lord, and cleanse me in thy\ntenderness, and the desired fatherland give thou to me, a citizen of\nparadise me making once again.\n\n                      _Blessed art thou, O Lord...._\n\nThou who of old didst form me out of nothingness, and with thy godlike\nimage didst adorn, but, for transgressing the commands, didst turn again\nto earth, whereout I taken was, to that which sembleth thee do thou me\ncall once more, shaping again the erewhile comeliness.\n\n                      _Blessed art thou, O Lord...._\n\nO rest thy servant, God, and O in paradise appoint his place, where\nchoirs of saints and righteous ones, O Lord, are luminous as stars: O to\nthy sleeping servant give thou rest, and pass all his offences by.\n\n                                 _Glory._\n\nThe tri-illuminating of the Godhead one let us with reverence\nsing, exclaiming, Thou, O Father unbeginning, holy art, and thou,\nco-unbeginning Son, and thou, O Spirit Divine: enlighten us who serve\nthee faithfully, and save us from eternal fire.\n\n                               _Both now._\n\nHail, pure one, who didst bring forth God in flesh for all men\u2019s saving,\nthrough whom the human race hath found salvation! through thee may we\nfind paradise, God-bearing one, who pure and blessed art. Alleluia,\n_thrice_.\n\n_Then the deacon_, Again and again.... _Vide page 142._\n\n_And, after the exclamation, we sing the present troparia, tone v._\n\nOur Saviour, rest thy servant with the just, and place him in thy\ncourts, as it is written, as being good, despising his iniquities, both\nwilling ones and those unwilling, and all those done in knowledge and in\nignorance, O lover of mankind.\n\n                           _Glory. Conclusion._\n\nAnd all those done in knowledge and in ignorance, O lover of mankind.\n\n                         _Both now. Theotokion._\n\nChrist God, who from the Virgin shinedst to the world, who hast through\nher made manifest the sons of light, have mercy thou on us.\n\n_Then psalm l, and the canon, whereof the acrostic is,_\n\nTo him that is departed a sixth song I address. _Theophany._\n\n                         _Ode i. Tone vi. Irmos._\n\nPassing as on dry land....\n\nIn heavenly palaces the noble martyrs ever pray thee, Christ, Him whom\nthou hast remov\u2019d from earth, a faithful one, count worthy to attain\neternal blessedness.\n\nThou that adornest everything, mid life compound createdst me a man,\nlowly and also great. Then, Saviour, rest thy servant\u2019s soul.\n\n                                 _Glory._\n\nA citizen and husbandman of paradise in the beginning thou appointedst\nme; but thou didst exile me for breaking thy command. Then, Saviour, rest\nthy servant\u2019s soul.\n\n                         _Both now. Theotokion._\n\nHe that aforetime from a rib our protomother Eva form\u2019d, from thy pure\nwomb assumed flesh, and thereby hath annull\u2019d the might of death, thou\nPure.\n\n                            _Ode iii. Irmos._\n\nThere is none holy like to thee, O Lord....\n\nThy martyrs suffer\u2019d lawfully, O Giver of life, and with a crown of\nvictory adorn\u2019d, they ceaselessly bestow on the departed faithful one an\neverlasting ransoming.\n\nFor me, a wanderer, taught erewhile by signs and wonders many, thou hast\nat last thyself made void, as sympathiser, and, seeking, me hast found\nand sav\u2019d.\n\n                                 _Glory._\n\nHim that departs to thee from streams of transient mortal life, count\nworthy to abide with joy in tabernacles that eternal be, him justifying,\nBlessed One, by faith and grace.\n\n                         _Both now. Theotokion._\n\nThere is none undefil\u2019d as thou, God\u2019s Mother thou most pure; for thou\nalone didst in the womb conceive the true eternal God, who hath annull\u2019d\nthe power of death.\n\n_Deacon._ Again and again.... _Vide page 142._\n\n                           _Kathisma, tone vi._\n\nVerily everything is vain, and life a shadow is, a dream; for vainly\nevery earth-born one disquieteth himself, as saith the scripture. When\nwe have gain\u2019d the world, then dwell we in the grave, where kings and\nbeggars are as one. Therefore, Christ God, as lover of mankind, to thy\ndeparted servant give thou rest.\n\n                      _Glory. Both now. Theotokion._\n\nAll-holy Bringer-forth of God, in my life\u2019s time forsake me not, to human\nmediation leave me not; but me thyself defend, and be thou merciful to me.\n\n                             _Ode iv. Irmos._\n\nChrist is my might, the God and Lord....\n\nOf greatest wisdom shewing sign, and of rewards\u2019 perfectionment, O\ngracious Lord, with Angels thou the choirs of martyrs number\u2019d hast.\n\nOf thy narrateless glory count him worthy to participate, who unto thee\ntranslated is, where, Christ, their dwelling is who joy, and where pure\ngladness\u2019 voice resounds.\n\n                                 _Glory._\n\nHim that extols thy might divine, whom thou from earth received hast,\ndo thou accept, creating him a child of light; and cleanse him from the\ngloom of sin, O thou Most Merciful.\n\n                         _Both now. Theotokion._\n\nO tabernacle thou most pure, temple all-undefil\u2019d, all-holy ark, virginal\nplace of sanctity, of Jacob thou the excellence, the Lord hath chosen\nthee.\n\n                             _Ode v. Irmos._\n\nWith thy divine light, O Blessed One....\n\nLike an oblation sacred, and human nature\u2019s first-fruits, the martyrs,\nwho were offer\u2019d for God\u2019s glorifying, for our salvation ever mediate.\n\nOf heavenly dwelling, of grace\u2019s distribution, thy faithful servant gone\nbefore, count worthy, Lord, and give him ransom from iniquities.\n\n                                 _Glory._\n\nThou that alone by nature life-effector art, and grace\u2019s trackless\ndepth, him that is gone, count worthy of thy kingdom, Pitiful, thou sole\nimmortal one.\n\n                         _Both now. Theotokion._\n\nThe strength, and song, and saving of the lost is he become that to the\nworld was born of thee, O Queen, delivering them, who thee in faith call\nbless\u2019d, from hades\u2019 gates.\n\n                             _Ode vi. Irmos._\n\nLife\u2019s sea perturb\u2019d....\n\nNail\u2019d on the cross the choir of martyrs thou hast gather\u2019d to thyself,\nthem that thy passion imitate, O Blessed One. Therefore, we thee beseech,\nRest him that now betaketh him to thee.\n\nWhen thou in thy narrateless glory all the world to judge shalt on the\nclouds in terror come, Deliverer, be thou pleas\u2019d that he, thy faithful\nservant, whom thou from earth received hast, may meet thee shiningly.\n\n                                 _Glory._\n\nBeing life\u2019s fount, O Lord, who, through divine humanity, didst lead the\nfetter\u2019d forth; thy servant, who to thee in faith is gone, place thou in\njoys of paradise.\n\n                         _Both now. Theotokion._\n\nWe have been turned back to earth for breaking the divine command of\nGod; but, through thee, Virgin, unto heaven from earth are rais\u2019d again,\nshaking off death\u2019s corruption.\n\n_Deacon._ Again and again.... _Vide page 142._\n\n                         _Condakion, tone viii._\n\nRest with the Saints, O Christ, thy servant\u2019s soul, where is no pain, nor\ngrief, nor sighing, but life that endeth not.\n\n                                 _Icos._\n\nThyself alone immortal art, who madest and didst fashion man; for out of\nearth we mortals fashion\u2019d were, and unto that same earth shall go, as\nthou who madest me hast given command, and sayest unto me, Earth thou\nart, and unto earth shalt thou return. And thither all we mortals go,\nmaking the funeral wail, even the song, the Alleluia.\n\n                               _And again._\n\nRest with the Saints, O Christ....\n\n                            _Ode vii. Irmos._\n\nThe angel made the furnace to bedew....\n\nFrom the primeval fall were sav\u2019d the martyrs by thy blood, and, with\ntheir own blood sprinkled, they clearly thy slaying image forth. Blessed\nart thou, our fathers\u2019 God.\n\nO life-originating Word, thou hast slain raging death; and him O now\nreceive, O Christ, who sleeps in faith, and sings, and says, Blessed art\nthou, our fathers\u2019 God.\n\n                                 _Glory._\n\nDivine-originating Lord, who me, a man, with breath divine sufflated\nhast; vouchsafe thy kingdom unto him departed hence, who, Saviour, sings\nto thee, Blessed art thou, our fathers\u2019 God.\n\n                         _Both now. Theotokion._\n\nMost undefil\u2019d, conceiving God, who crush\u2019d death\u2019s gates and burst the\nbars, thou higher than all creatures art. Therefore, we faithful thee, O\npure, extol as Mother of God.\n\n                            _Ode viii. Irmos._\n\nFrom flame thou didst a dew outpour on reverend ones....\n\nMartyrs of Christ, who sufferings bore, who in the strifes were steadfast\nprov\u2019d, ye are adorn\u2019d with victory\u2019s crown, crying, O Christ, to ages\nthee we set on high.\n\nThe faithful ones who life depart in sacred wise, and unto thee, O\nMaster, go, gently, as loving-kind, receive, that they may rest, and thee\nto ages set on high.\n\n                                 _Glory._\n\nNow in the land of gentle ones, Saviour, be pleas\u2019d to stablish all who\nfallen have on sleep afore, and who in thee, by faith and grace, are\njustified, and thee to ages set on high.\n\n                         _Both now. Theotokion._\n\nAll-blessed one, we thee all bless, who didst bring forth the Word who is\nblessed indeed, who for our sake incarnate was, and whom on high to ages\nwe set up.\n\n                             _Ode ix. Irmos._\n\nMortals may not see God....\n\nHope made the choirs of martyrs strong, and flam\u2019d them ardently towards\nthy love, prefiguring unto those to come a rest in verity undisturb\u2019d;\nand unto this, O Blessed One, may thy departed faithful one be counted\nworthy to attain.\n\nOf thine illumination, Christ, which bright and godlike is, be pleas\u2019d\nthat he, departed hence in faith, may share, to him, as being merciful,\nin Abraham\u2019s bosom giving rest, and granting him eternal blessedness.\n\n                                 _Glory._\n\nO thou that art by nature good and loving-kind, and mercy willest, and a\ndepth of loving-kindness art, his lot, whom, Saviour, thou from this ill\nplace removed hast, and from the shades of death, appoint where shines\nthy light.\n\n                         _Both now. Theotokion._\n\nA holy tabernacle thee we own to be, O Pure, an ark likewise, and\nbreastplate of the law and grace; for pardon is bestow\u2019d, through thee,\non them, All-undefil\u2019d, that have, by his blood justified been, who of\nthy womb incarnate was.\n\n_Deacon._ Again and again in peace let us pray to the Lord. _Vide page\n142._\n\n                _We begin the idiomela of John the monk._\n\n                                _Tone i._\n\nWhat sweet of life abideth unaccompanied with grief? what glory stayeth\nupon earth unchang\u2019d? All is the feeblest shade, all the most cheating\ndream: one moment, and death taketh all these things. But in thy face\u2019s\nlight, O Christ, and in the sweetness of thy beauty, grant rest to him\nwhom thou hast call\u2019d, as lover of mankind.\n\n                                _Tone ii._\n\nWoe unto me, what agony hath the soul when it is from the body torn!\nalas, then how it weeps, and none is merciful to it! To Angels lifting\neyes, without effect it prays; to men extending hands, it findeth none to\nhelp. Therefore, my brethren lov\u2019d, musing on our brief life, let us for\nthe departed ask for rest from Christ, and for great mercy for our souls.\n\n                               _Tone iii._\n\nAll human things are vanity which last not after death: riches abide not,\nnor doth glory stay; for when death cometh, these all disappear. Then let\nus cry to the immortal Christ, O rest him who is gone away from us where\nis the dwelling-place of all that joy.\n\n                                _Tone iv._\n\nWhere is the predilection of the world? where their imaginings who\nfade? where is the silver and the gold? where servants\u2019 multitude and\nnoise? All dust, all ashes, all a shade. But, come ye, let us say to\nthe immortal King, O Lord, him, who hath been remov\u2019d from us, of thine\neternal blessings worthy count, him resting in thine ageless happiness.\n\n                                _Tone v._\n\nI remember\u2019d what the prophet said, I am earth, and I am dust; and again\nI meditated in the graves, and saw the naked bones, and said, Who now is\nking, or warrior who, or who is rich, or who is poor, or who the just, or\nhe that sinn\u2019d? But, with the just, thy servant rest, O Lord.\n\n                                _Tone vi._\n\nTo me thy life-effecting bidding was substance and origin; for, willing\nme to form a living one from nature that unseen is and is seen, my body\nthou didst make of earth, and, by thy breathing life-creating and divine,\nme gavest soul. Therefore, O Christ, thy servant rest in tract of them\nthat living are, and in the dwellings of the just.\n\n                               _Tone vii._\n\nAfter thine image and resemblance in the beginning making man, in\nparadise thou him didst place to be of thy creation lord; but, by the\ndevil\u2019s enviousness beguil\u2019d, he ate the fruit, transgressing thy\ncommands. Therefore, again to earth, whence he was taken, thou hast\ndoom\u2019d him to return, O Lord, and beg for rest.\n\n                               _Tone viii._\n\nI weep and I lament when I reflect on death, and see the comeliness,\naccording to God\u2019s image, that was shap\u2019d for us lying in the graves\ndisfigured, and bereft of glory and of form. O wonder! what is this\nmystery concerning us? how to corruption have we been assign\u2019d? how unto\ndeath conjoin\u2019d? Verily by God\u2019s command, as it is written, who giveth\nthe departed rest.\n\n                        _The beatitudes, tone vi._\n\nWhen in thy kingdom thou shalt come, O Lord, remember us.\n\nBlessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.\n\nBlessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted.\n\nBlessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.\n\nBlessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they\nshall be filled.\n\nBlessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.\n\nChrist, who, aforetime, for his penitence, didst make the thief a citizen\nof paradise when on the cross to thee he cried, Remember me, of this even\nme, unworthy, worthy count.\n\nBlessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.\n\nThou who dominion hast o\u2019er life and death, rest in the courts of saints\nhim whom from things of time thou taken hast; and think on me, when in\nthy kingdom thou shalt come.\n\nBlessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God.\n\nThou who o\u2019er souls and bodies lordship hast, thou in whose hand is held\nour breath, who mourners\u2019 consolation art; rest in the land of righteous\nones thy servant whom thou hast removed hence.\n\nBlessed are they that are persecuted for righteousness\u2019 sake....\n\nChrist rest thee in the land of living ones, and open paradise\u2019s gates to\nthee, and of the kingdom thee declare a citizen, and give thee pardon of\nthose things wherein in life thou sinned hast, O thou of Christ belov\u2019d.\n\nBlessed are ye when men shall revile you....\n\nLet us go forth and muse among the graves; for man is naked bones, the\nfood of worms, and of an odour ill; and let us learn what riches are,\nyea, beauty, strength, and comeliness.\n\nRejoice, and be exceeding glad....\n\nLet us give ear to what the Almighty saith, Woe unto them that seek to\nsee the Lord\u2019s most fearful day! for it is one of gloom: for everything\nwith fire shall be tried.\n\n                                 _Glory._\n\nBy the unbeginningness, and the begetting, and the proceeding, I bow me\nto the Father who begat, the Son begotten I extol, I sing the Holy Ghost,\nco-shining with the Father and the Son.\n\n                         _Both now. Theotokion._\n\nHow, Virgin, from thy breast flow\u2019d milk? how didst thou nurture him,\ncreation\u2019s nurturer? It was as was the springing forth of water from the\nrock, as streams of waters for a thirsty folk, as hath been written.\n\n_After this the deacon saith_, Let us attend.\n\n_Priest._ Peace to all.\n\n              _And the choir singeth, prokimenon, tone vi,_\n\nBlessed is the way wherein thou goest to-day, O soul, because a place of\nrest hath been prepared for thee.\n\n_Verse._ Unto thee have I cried, O Lord.\n\n_Deacon._ Wisdom.\n\n_Reader. The epistle to the Thessalonians, section cclxx._\n\nBrethren, I would not have you to be ignorant ... _ending_, be ever with\nthe Lord.[31]\n\n_Priest._ Peace to thee. _Alleluia._\n\n                                _Tone vi._\n\nBlessed is he whom thou hast chosen and received, O Lord.\n\n                   _The gospel from John, section xvi._\n\nThe Lord spake unto the Jews that came unto him, Verily, verily, I say\nunto you ... _ending_, the Father which hath sent me.[32]\n\n                                _Deacon._\n\nHave mercy upon us, O God, according to thy great mercy, we pray thee,\nhear, and have mercy.\n\nLord, have mercy, _thrice_.\n\nFurthermore let us pray for the repose of the soul of the servant of God,\n_name_, who hath fallen asleep, and that to him may be remitted every\ntransgression, voluntary and involuntary.\n\nLord, have mercy, _thrice_.\n\nThat the Lord God may place his soul where the righteous rest.\n\nLord, have mercy, _thrice_.\n\nThe mercy of God, the kingdom of heaven, and the forgiveness of his sins\nlet us ask of Christ, our immortal King and God.\n\nVouchsafe, O Lord.\n\n_Deacon._ Let us pray to the Lord.\n\nLord, have mercy.\n\n_And after the conclusion of this the first of the priests, or the\narchpriest, if one happen to be there, saith the prayer_, O God of\nspirits.... _with a loud voice, standing nigh unto the dead._\n\n_And in like manner all the priests that be present._\n\n_And be it known that as many times as the petition is said by the\ndeacon, while the petition is being said by him, each of the priests in\nhis order saith the above mentioned prayer in a low voice nigh unto the\ndead, and exclaimeth,_\n\nFor thou art the resurrection....\n\n_And now by the first priest, or by the archpriest, the prayer_, O God\nof spirits.... _is said with a loud voice, as is mentioned above._\n\n             _And, after the exclamation, the kiss is given._\n\n_And we sing the present stichera of similar rhythm._\n\nWhen from the tree....\n\n                                                                _Tone ii._\n\nCome, brethren, let us give the last kiss to the dead, and render thanks\nto God; for he hath left his kinsfolk, and hasteneth to the grave: to\nhim there is no care concerning vanities and carnal toil. Where now are\nkinsfolk and where friends? Lo, we are parted from him, whom, Lord, we\npray thee to give rest.\n\nWhat, O ye brethren, is this parting? what this weeping? what this\nwailing in the present hour? Come, kiss ye then him whom but lately\nwas with us; for he is given to the grave, is cover\u2019d with a stone, in\ndarkness dwelleth, is buried with the dead, and now is parted from all\nkinsfolk and from friends; and him, O Lord, we pray thee to give rest.\n\nNow is life\u2019s evil boast of vanity destroy\u2019d; for from its dwelling-place\nthe soul is gone, the clay is ashen, the casket broken, it voiceless is,\nno feeling hath, is dead and motionless. And him consigning to the grave,\nlet us beseech the Lord to give him everlasting rest.\n\nWhat is our life? a flower, a smoke, and, verily, a morning dew. O come\nye then, let us, with open eyes, regard the graves. Where is the beauty\nof the body? where youth? where eyes, and carnal form? All are consum\u2019d\nas grass, all vanish\u2019d. Come, fall we down to Christ in tears.\n\nGreat is the weeping and the wailing, great is the sighing and the need\nat parting from the soul. Hades and destruction wait; and transitory life\nappears a fleeting shade, a dream of error; and the toil of earthly life\nunseemly phantasy. Far let us fly from every worldly sin, that heaven may\nbe our heritage.\n\nGazing on him that lieth dead, O take we all a likeness of our final\nhour; for he is pass\u2019d as vapour from the earth, is wither\u2019d as a flower,\nas grass cut down, wrapp\u2019d in a winding-sheet, and hid in earth. And,\nleaving him unseen, let us pray Christ to give him everlasting rest.\n\nAdam\u2019s descendants, come ye, let us see laid low in earth a likeness of\nourselves, which hath all beauty lost, is in the grave\u2019s decay dissolv\u2019d,\nin darkness is by worms consum\u2019d, and in the earth is hid. And, leaving\nhim unseen, let us pray Christ to give him everlasting rest.\n\nWhen from the body parted is the soul by force by Angels dread, all\nkinsfolk and acquaintance it forgets, and is impress\u2019d concerning\nstanding at the judgment-seat to come, that shall decide the things of\nvanity and carnal toil. Then, praying to the judge, let us all beg the\nLord to pardon him what he hath done.\n\nCome, brethren, let us within the grave behold the ashes and the dust\nwhereof we formed were. Where go we now? and what become? what is the\npoor, or what the rich? or what the lord, and what the free? Are not all\ndust? The beauty of the countenance is gone, and death hath wasted all\nthe flower of youth.\n\nVerily vain and perishing are all the things of life, seeming, and\ngloriousless; for we all go away, all die, kings and princes, judges and\nthem that mighty be, the rich and poor, and every mortal man; for now\nthey that aforetime liv\u2019d are cast into the grave, whom that the Lord may\nrest we pray.\n\nNow all the organs of the body idle are beheld, which active were but\nlate, all without motion, without feeling, dead; for closed are the eyes,\nthe feet are bound, the hands are listless, and with them the ears; the\ntongue is clos\u2019d in silence, consigned to the grave: all human things are\nvanity indeed.\n\nSave them that put their trust in thee, O Mother of the Sun that setteth\nnot, thou Bringer-forth of God: with thine entreaties, we beseech thee,\npray the most good God to rest him now departed hence where rest the\nrighteous souls; him of divine good things declare thou heir in halls of\nrighteous ones, unto remembrance everlasting, thou all undefil\u2019d.\n\n                            _Glory. Tone vi._\n\nMe, lying voiceless and depriv\u2019d of breath, beholding, bewail ye me,\nO brethren and O friends, O kinsfolk and acquaintances; for yesterday\nI spake with you, and suddenly on me came the dread hour of death.\nBut, come ye, all that love me, and kiss me with the final kiss; for\nnever shall I go with you again, or further converse hold with you. For\nI depart unto the judge, where no respect of persons is, where slave\nand lord together stand, the king and warrior, rich and poor, in equal\nworthiness; for each, according to his deeds, is glorified or sham\u2019d.\nBut I beg all, and all entreat unceasingly to pray Christ God for me,\nthat, for my sins, I be not bidden unto torment\u2019s place, but that he may\nappoint my lot where is the light of life.\n\n                  _Both now. Theotokion, the same tone._\n\nThrough her entreaties who to thee gave birth, O Christ, and those of thy\nforerunner, and of apostles, prophets, hierarchs, venerables, and just,\nand of all Saints, unto thy sleeping servant give thou rest.\n\n_Then_, Trisagion. O most holy Trinity.... Our Father....\n\n_Priest._ For thine is the kingdom....\n\n_Then_, With the spirits of the righteous.... _and the rest_.\n\n_The petition by the deacon_, Have mercy upon us, O God, according to thy\ngreat mercy....\n\n_Vide page 142. And after the exclamation, Glory. Both now. And the\ndismissal._\n\nHe that arose from the dead, Christ our true God, through the prayers of\nhis most pure Mother, of the holy glorious and all-praised apostles, of\nour venerable and God-bearing fathers, and of all the Saints, place the\nsoul of his servant, _name_, departed from us, in the tabernacles of the\njust, rest it in the bosom of Abraham, and number it with the righteous,\nand have mercy upon us, as being good and the lover of mankind. Amen.\n\n_And the archpriest, or the principal priest, saith himself this thrice._\n\nThy remembrance is everlasting, O our deservedly blessed and ever\nremembered brother.\n\n                                _Thrice._\n\n                     _Then the singers sing thrice,_\n\n                         Everlasting remembrance.\n\n_And straightway the archpriest, if he happen to be there, or the priest,\nreadeth the prayer of absolution with a loud voice._\n\nThe Lord Jesus Christ our God, who gave divine commandments unto his\nholy disciples and apostles to bind and loose the sins of the fallen,\nand from whom we have again received authority to do the like, forgive\nthee, O spiritual child, whatever thou hast done in the life that now is,\nvoluntarily or involuntarily, now and ever, and to ages of ages. Amen.\n\n_And so, taking up the remains, we go forth to the grave, followed by all\nthe people, and preceded by the priests, and singing_, Holy God.... O\nmost holy Trinity.... Our Father.... _and the rest_.\n\n_And they lay the remains in the grave; and the archpriest, or the\npriest, taking earth upon a shovel, casteth it crosswise over the\nremains, saying,_\n\nThe earth is the Lord\u2019s, and the fulness thereof, the world and all they\nthat dwell therein.\n\n_And after this he poureth over the remains oil from the lamp, or\nscattereth ashes out of the censer, and so they fill up the grave as\ncustomarily, meantime singing the troparia_, With the spirits of the\nrighteous.... _and all the rest. Vide page 138._\n\n                           _And the dismissal._\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n\n\n_Chapter XVII._\n\nTHE ORDINANCE THAT IS OBSERVED CONCERNING THE CARRYING FORTH OF THEM THAT\nFALL ASLEEP IN HOLY PASCHA, AND IN ALL THE BRIGHT WEEK.\n\n\nIt behoveth to know that if any pass away on holy pascha, or on any day\nwhatever of the bright week until the sunday of Thomas, somewhat less of\nthe customary song for them that have fallen asleep is sung, because of\nthe majesty and honour of the joyful festival of the resurrection; for\nit is a festival of joy and gladness, and not of lamentation. And since\nall who die in hope of resurrection and eternal life are through the\nresurrection of Christ, removed from the griefs of this world to things\nthat are joyful and glad, the church at the time when Christ is risen\nproclaimeth this by the resurrection song over them that have fallen\nasleep; and, by somewhat less song, ectenias and prayer for them that\nhave fallen asleep, we are assured that he that dieth in penitence, if\nhe have not yet made satisfaction concerning his iniquities, these are\nremitted to him by the prayers of the church, and that he is freed from\ntheir bond.\n\n_The priest then having come, with his clerks, to the house in which\nthe body of the dead lieth, and put on him the epitrachelion and the\nphelonion, and censed the remains, beginneth as customarily,_\n\nBlessed be our God.... _And the clerk singeth_, Christ is risen.... _in\ntone v. And the priest saith the customary verses, that is to say,_ Let\nGod arise.... _and all the rest_.\n\n_And while these are being sung, the priest sprinkleth the body of the\ndead with sanctified water, and his coffin without and within, and\nstraightway they lay him therein. And, the song being ended, the deacon\nsaith the customary ectenias for them that have fallen asleep. And the\npriest in a low voice readeth the prayer, that is to say_, O God of\nSpirits.... _Vide page 139. And after the exclamation they read,_\n\nHaving seen the resurrection of Christ....\n\n_And taking up the remains of him that hath fallen asleep, they go forth\nto the church, the priests, deacons, and every clerk going before, and\nthe lay people following; and, as they go, the clerks and singers sing\nthe paschal canon, that is to say_, It is the day of resurrection....\n\n_This in order until they come even unto the church. And in the church,\nhaving put down the remains, they conclude the canon that hath been\nbegun, while the priests cense according to the customary rite. And at\nthe fourth ode, the customary diaconals for them that have fallen asleep,\nwith the prayer._\n\n                           _And he exclaimeth,_\n\nFor thou art the resurrection, and the life....\n\n_Then_, Preventing the dawn....\n\n_And after this the ivth ode is sung in order._\n\n_And after the sixth ode, the customary diaconals for them that have\nfallen asleep with the prayer._\n\n_And he exclaimeth_, For thou art the resurrection and the life....\n\n_Then the condakion_, Rest with the saints.\n\n_And the icos_, Thyself alone immortal art.... _Vide page 149._\n\n                     _And, instead of the trisagion,_\n\nAs many as have been baptized into Christ....\n\n_The epistle in the Acts for the day being.[33] Alleluia in tone ii._\n\n                   _The first resurrection gospel._[34]\n\n_And after this_, Having seen the resurrection of Christ, we adore....\n\n                    _And the other odes of the canon._\n\n_And after the conclusion of the canon is read or sung the\nexapostilarion_, Asleep in flesh.... _twice_.\n\n_After these we sing_, Blessed art thou, O Lord: O teach me thy statutes.\n\nThe angelic council was amaz\u2019d....\n\n            _Then the stichera of pascha, with their verses._\n\n                            _Glory. Both now._\n\nIt is the day of resurrection.... and Christ is risen.... _thrice_.\n\n_And these stichera having been sung, the customary kiss of him that hath\nfallen asleep taketh place, saying,_\n\nChrist is risen.\n\n_And after the stichera the customary diaconals for them that have\nfallen asleep with the prayer, which is read with a loud voice by the\narchpriest, or the priest, nigh unto the remains._\n\n                           _And he exclaimeth,_\n\nFor thou art the resurrection and the life....\n\n                  _And the customary dismissal is made._\n\n                     _Then the prayer of absolution._\n\nThe Lord Jesus Christ our God.... _Vide page 163._\n\n_And we go forth to the grave, bearing the body of him that hath fallen\nasleep to the burial. And the priests with all the clerks, preceding the\nremains, sing,_\n\nChrist is risen....\n\n_And they bury them with thanksgiving and joy, doing and saying all that\nis written at page 157 for the burial of a lay person._\n\n                       _And singing the troparion._\n\nO earth that yawnest, take thou that that out of thee was made.\n\n_End of the order of the burial of them that fall asleep in the days of\nthe bright week._\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n\n\n_Chapter XVIII._\n\nTHE MORTUARY ORDER OVER A DEPARTED PRIEST.\n\n\nWhen one of the secular priests departeth to the Lord, three priests come\nand lift him from the bed, and lay him on the floor upon a mat. And since\nit behoveth not that he be washed, being naked, by the priests, they\nsponge him with pure oil. Then they clothe him in his customary garments,\nand after that with all the priestly vestments, and cover his face with\nthe a\u00ebr, and lay the holy gospel upon him. Then the priests come vested\nin the priestly vestments.\n\n_And the president maketh_, Blessed be our God....\n\n                  _And they that are standing by begin,_\n\nHoly God.... O most holy Trinity.... and Our Father.... For thine is the\nkingdom....\n\n           _And straightway they sing these troparia, tone iv._\n\nWith the spirits of the righteous.... _Page 138._\n\n                           _The deacon saith,_\n\nHave mercy upon us, O God.... _Vide page 139._\n\n_And straightway the priests take the remains, and carry them into the\nporch of the temple, and lay the holy gospel over him, as aforesaid, and\ncandlesticks crosswise with tapers, and the singer beginneth,_\n\nThe undefiled in the way, alleluia.\n\n                              _In tone vi._\n\n_Then_, Blessed are the undefiled.... _Page 141._\n\n_After the first stasis, deacon_, Again and again.... _Page 142._\n\n_After this we begin the second stasis in tone v, in which at the end of\na verse we say,_\n\nHave mercy upon thy servant.\n\n_The choir beginneth_, Thy commandments....\n\nHave mercy upon thy servant.\n\n_And again the same choir_, Thy hands have made me....\n\n_After the iind stasis, deacon_, Again and again.... _Page 142._\n\n_And again they begin the third stasis in tone iii._\n\nThy name, alleluia.\n\n                   _And again the same choir singeth,_\n\nLook upon me, and have mercy upon me....\n\n_After the iiird stasis, and after the troparia of the undefiled,\ndeacon_, Again and again.... _Page 142._\n\n                         _Then troparia, tone v._\n\nOur Saviour rest thy servant with the just, and place him in thy courts,\nas it is written, as being good, despising his iniquities, both willing\nones and those unwilling, and all those done in knowledge and in\nignorance, O lover of mankind.\n\n                            _Glory. Both now._\n\nChrist God, who from the Virgin, shinest to the world, who hast through\nher made manifest the sons of light, have mercy thou on us.\n\n                        _Then graduals, tone vi._\n\nUnto heaven have I lifted up mine eyes, unto thee, O Word; have\ncompassion upon me, that I may live to thee.\n\nHave mercy upon us who have been set at nought, appointing us, O Word, to\nbe vessels acceptable unto thee.\n\n                                 _Glory._\n\nTo the Holy Ghost belongs every all-saving cause: on whomsoever he,\nthrough worthiness, doth breathe, he quickly taketh him from earthly\nthings, gives wings, exalteth and appoints his place on high.\n\n                          _Both now, the same._\n\n                       _Then prokimenon, tone vi._\n\nBlessed is the way wherein thou goest to-day, O soul, because a place of\nrest hath been prepared for thee.\n\n_Verse._ Return O my soul, unto thy rest, for the Lord hath wrought a\ngood thing for thee.\n\n_The message of the holy apostle Paul to the Thessalonians, section\ncclxx._\n\nBrethren, I would not have you to be ignorant.... _ending_, be ever with\nthe Lord.[35]\n\n_Priest._ Peace to thee.\n\n_Reader._ And to thy spirit.\n\n_Reader. A psalm of David. Alleluia, tone viii._\n\nBlessed is he whom thou hast chosen and received, O Lord.\n\n_Deacon._ Wisdom, standing, let us hear the holy gospel.\n\n_Priest. The reading of the holy gospel from John, section xvi._\n\nThe Lord said unto the Jews that came unto him, Verily, verily, I say....\n_ending_, the Father which hath sent me.[36]\n\n_Then the deacon._ Let us pray to the Lord.\n\n_Choir._ Lord, have mercy.\n\n                       _And the priest the prayer._\n\nMaster, Lord our God, who only hast immortality, who dwellest in\nunapproachable light, who killest and makest alive, who wentest down into\nhades and didst arise therefrom; thou didst in wisdom create man, and\ndidst turn him again to earth, exacting payment of his spiritual debt.\nThee we beseech, Accept the soul of thy servant, and rest him in the\nbosom of Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob; and give unto him the crown of\nthy righteousness, the portion of the saved, in the glory of thine elect;\nthat in whatsoever he hath laboured in this world for thy name\u2019s sake, he\nmay receive a plenteous reward in the habitations of thy saints; through\nthe grace, and compassions, and love to man of thine only-begotten Son,\nour Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.\n\n                           _Kathisma, tone ii._\n\nTo-day I from my kinsfolk sever\u2019d am, and unto thee betake myself, thou\nonly sinless one: O rest me in the tabernacles of the just with thine\nelect.\n\n                        _Then we say psalm xxii._\n\nThe Lord tendeth me, and there is nothing lacking to me.\n\n_Alleluia, thrice, repeating alleluia to every verse of the rest of the\npsalm._\n\n                  _Then the present troparion, tone ii._\n\nSince to the same abiding-place we all are urg\u2019d, and under the same\nstone shall come, and in a little time in self same dust shall be, let\nus ask Christ for rest for him removed hence. For such our life is,\nbrethren, this on earth, a toy: that which is not it abides, and that\nthat doth abide it perisheth. We are a dream that stayeth not, a breath\nthat is not held, a flight of passing birds, a ship upon a trackless sea.\nThen let us cry to the immortal King, O Lord, vouchsafe to him thine\nendless blessedness.\n\n                          _Prokimenon, tone vi._\n\nBlessed is he whom thou hast chosen and received, O Lord.\n\n_Verse._ To thee is due a song, O God, in Sion.\n\n               _The epistle to the Romans, section lxxxix._\n\nBrethren, as by one man sin.... _ending_, Jesus Christ our Lord.[37]\n\n                           _Alleluia, tone vi._\n\n_Verse._ Blessed is he whom thou hast chosen and received, O Lord.\n\n                   _The gospel from John, section xv._\n\nThe Lord saith unto the Jews that came unto him, My Father worketh....\n_ending_, but is passed from death unto life.[38]\n\n_Then the deacon._ Let us pray to the Lord.\n\n                            _And the priest._\n\nWe give thanks unto thee, O Lord our God, for thine alone it is to have\nimmortal life, and inaccessible glory, and unspeakable love to man, and\nan uninheritable kingdom, and there is no respect of persons with thee;\nfor thou hast appointed unto all men a common limit of life, when life\nhath been fulfilled. Therefore we beseech thee, O Lord, Rest thy servant,\nand our fellow minister, _name_, who hath fallen asleep in hope of the\nresurrection of eternal life, in the bosom of Abraham, and Isaac, and\nJacob. And as on earth thou hast appointed him a minister of thy church,\nso also declare him at thy heavenly altar, O Lord; and like as thou hast\nadorned him with spiritual honour among men, so accept him uncondemned in\nangelic glory. Thou thyself hast glorified his life on earth, and do thou\nthyself appoint the outgoing of his life to be the ingoing to thy holy\nrighteous ones; and number his soul among all them that from ages have\nbeen acceptable unto thee.\n\nFor thou art the resurrection and the life, and the repose of thy\nservant, _name_, who hath fallen asleep, O Christ our God, and to thee we\nascribe glory, with thine unbeginning Father, and with thy most holy, and\ngood, and life-creating Spirit, now and ever, and to ages of ages. Amen.\n\n                              _Antiphon ii._\n\nWere not the Lord with us, we none could have withstood the foe\u2019s attack;\nfor they that overcome are thence lift up.\n\nAs a small bird be not my soul caught in their teeth, O Word: woe unto\nme! how from the foe shall I be freed, who am a lover of sin.\n\n                                 _Glory._\n\nThrough the Holy Ghost divinity comes to all, goodwill and understanding,\npeace and blessing; for he is like-effective with the Father and the Word.\n\n                          _Both now, the same._\n\nThe earth is the Lord\u2019s, and the fulness thereof.[39]\n\n_Alleluia, thrice, repeating alleluia to every verse of the rest of the\npsalm. Glory, alleluia. Both now, alleluia._\n\n                          _Troparion, tone ii._\n\nIn faith, and hope, and love, and meekness, and in chastity, and in\nthe priestly dignity thou piously hast liv\u2019d, thou aye remember\u2019d one.\nTherefore the eternal God, whom thou hast served, in a bright and\npleasant place, where rest the just, thy soul hath plac\u2019d; and, at the\njudgment-seat of Christ, thou shalt forgiveness gain, and mercy great.\n\n                           _Kathisma, tone v._\n\nThou knowest, O our God, that we were born in sin. Therefore we thee\nbeseech, Rest him who is remov\u2019d from us, o\u2019erlooking, as the good one,\nthe iniquities, which he, as mortal man, hath done in life, through the\nGod-bearing one\u2019s entreaties, thou sole lover of mankind.\n\n                          _Prokimenon, tone vi._\n\nBlessed is he whom thou hast chosen and received, O Lord.\n\n_Verse._ His remembrance is to generation and generation.\n\n            _The epistle to the Corinthians, section clviii._\n\nBrethren, I declare unto you.... _ending_, so ye believed.[40]\n\n_Alleluia._ Blessed is he whom thou hast chosen and received, O Lord.\n\n                   _The gospel from John, section xxi._\n\nThe Lord spake unto the Jews that came unto him, I am the bread....\n_ending_, at the last day.[41]\n\n_Then the deacon._ Let us pray to the Lord.\n\n                      _And the priest this prayer._\n\nO Lord of hosts, who art the joy of the afflicted, the consolation of\nmourners, and the aid of all them that are faint-hearted; do thou in\nthy tenderness console them that are constrained with grief for him that\nhath fallen asleep, and heal every distress that lieth in their hearts,\nand rest thy servant, _name_, who hath fallen asleep in hope of the\nresurrection of eternal life, in the bosom of Abraham.\n\nFor thou art the resurrection, the life, and the repose of thy servant,\n_name_, O Christ our God, and to thee we ascribe glory, with thine\nunbeginning Father, and with thy most holy, and good, and life-creating\nSpirit, now and ever, and to ages of ages. Amen.\n\n                             _Antiphon iii._\n\nThey that trust in the Lord are terrible to enemies, and wonderful to\nall; for they look on high.\n\nLet not the inheritance of the righteous, having thee, O Saviour, as a\nhelper, stretch forth their hands unto transgression.\n\n                                 _Glory._\n\nOf the Holy Ghost is the might in all things: him the hosts above\nworship, and everything that hath breath below.\n\n                          _Both now, the same._\n\nHow amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord of hosts....[42]\n\n_Alleluia, thrice, repeating also in order the rest of the Psalm._\n\n                        _Then troparion, tone vi._\n\nO my beloved brethren, do ye forget me not, when ye sing unto the Lord;\nbut remember ye the brotherhood, and beseech ye God that the Lord may\nrest me with the just.\n\n                          _Troparion, tone vi._\n\nOn me death suddenly hath come, and parted me to day from that which\nwas mine own; but me, translating, do thou rest, O Christ, in places of\nrefreshment.\n\nHave mercy upon us, O Lord, have mercy upon us; for, destitute of all\ndefence, we sinners offer unto thee, as Master, this prayer, Have mercy\nupon us.\n\n                                 _Glory._\n\nO Lord, have mercy upon us; for we have put our trust in thee. Be not\nexceedingly wroth against us, neither remember our transgressions; but,\nas being loving-kind, look now upon us, and deliver us from our enemies;\nfor thou art our God, and we are thy people, we are all the work of thy\nhand, and we call upon thy name.\n\n                         _Both now. Theotokion._\n\nOpen unto us the gates of loving-kindness, O blessed God-bearing one,\nthat we perish not who put our trust in thee, but through thee may we be\ndelivered from calamities; for thou art the salvation of the christian\nrace.\n\n                          _Prokimenon, tone vi._\n\nHis soul shall dwell in good things.\n\n_Verse._ Unto thee, O Lord, have I cried....\n\n              _The epistle to the Corinthians, section clx._\n\nBrethren, Christ is risen ... _ending_, God may be all in all.[43]\n_Alleluia._\n\nBlessed is the man that feareth the Lord.\n\n_Verse._ His seed shall be mighty upon earth.\n\n                  _The gospel from John, section xxii._\n\nThe Lord spake unto the Jews that came unto him, This is the will....\n_ending_, at the last day.[44]\n\n                    _Then the beatitudes in tone ii._\n\nIn thy kingdom remember us, O Lord, when thou comest in thy kingdom.\n\nBlessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.\n\nBlessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted.\n\nBlessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.\n\nBlessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they\nshall be filled.\n\nBlessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.\n\nFor tasting the tree\u2019s fruit of old Adam from paradise was driven; but\nfor thee owning to be God, when on the cross he hung, the thief was\nplac\u2019d in paradise. And, saved by thy passion, Lord, we imitate the\nthief, crying in faith, Remember us, when in thy kingdom thou shalt come.\n\nBlessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.\n\nMy maker, taking clay from earth, by will divine my body form\u2019d, but by a\nholy ordinance he plac\u2019d a soul therein, by breathing breath that beareth\nlife. And when to sin\u2019s corruption I in evil wise was bound, me thou\nrecalledst, lover of mankind, by tenderness extreme. But rest, O God,\namong thy Saints, him whom thou hast receiv\u2019d.\n\nBlessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God.\n\nWhen soul and body parted are, fearful and dread the mystery is to\nall: then wailing goeth forth the soul, and hid the body is, consign\u2019d\nto earth. Therefore let us, knowing the final going hence, before the\nSaviour come with tears, and cry, When in thy kingdom thou shalt come, do\nthou remember us.\n\nBlessed are they that are persecuted for righteousness\u2019 sake, for theirs\nis the kingdom of heaven.\n\nWhy bitterly do ye lament, O men, for me? and why in vain do ye a\nmurmuring make? he that is gone to all exclaims; for unto all a rest is\ndeath. Then let us hear the voice of Job who saith, Death is the rest of\nman. But rest, O God, among thy Saints him whom thou hast receiv\u2019d.\n\nBlessed are ye when they shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall\nsay all manner of evil against you falsely for my name\u2019s sake.\n\nThe all-wise Paul hath clearly fore-announc\u2019d the change, instructing all\nthat uncorrupt the dead shall rise, and we be chang\u2019d by God\u2019s command.\nThen shall that trumpet sound in fearful wise, and they that have from\nages slept shall rise from sleep. But rest, O God, among thy Saints him\nwhom thou hast receiv\u2019d.\n\nRejoice and be exceeding glad, for great is your reward in heaven.\n\nHe that is gone and in the grave lies dead, being reconcil\u2019d, to all\nexclaims, Come unto me, ye sons of earth, see ye the body\u2019s beauty\nrender\u2019d dark. Then, brethren, knowing his departure hence, let us before\nthe Saviour come, and cry with tears, Rest thou, O God, among thy Saints\nhim whom thou hast receiv\u2019d.\n\n                      _Glory. Both now. Theotokion._\n\nThou, Queen, didst seedlessly within thy womb in supernatural wise\nconceive the God who ere the ages was, and bring him forth in flesh\nunchangedly and unconfusedly, himself being God and man. Therefore we\never owning thee God-bearing one in faith exclaim to God brought forth\nfrom thee, Remember in thy kingdom also us.\n\n                          _Prokimenon, tone vi._\n\nBlessed is he whom thou hast chosen and received, O Lord.\n\n_Verse._ His soul shall dwell in good things.\n\n               _The epistle to the Romans, section cxiii._\n\nBrethren, he that regardeth the day.... _ending_, the dead and living.[45]\n\n                           _Alleluia, tone vi._\n\nBlessed is he whom thou hast chosen and received, O Lord.\n\n_Verse._ His soul shall dwell in good things.\n\n                  _The gospel from John, section xxiii._\n\nThe Lord spake unto the Jews that came unto him, I am the bread of\nlife.... _ending_, at the last day.[46]\n\n                 _Then psalm l. And the canon, tone vi._\n\n                             _Ode i. Irmos._\n\nHim that beneath the surges of the sea....\n\n_Refrain._ Rest, O Lord, thy sleeping servant\u2019s soul.\n\nTo thee, O benefactor, Christ, and Lord of all, we cast us down with\nfervent tears, and wailing cry this funeral song, Thy faithful servant\nrest, thou that art loving-kind.\n\nHim that is dead in hope of resurrection grant the holy standing, Word,\nat thy right hand with thine elect, prolongedly with voice of praise we\npray, O lover of mankind.\n\nThy chosen servant from the earth remov\u2019d, O lover of mankind, count\nworthy brightly to rejoice within thy kingdom heavenly and rever\u2019d; and\noverlook, as loving-kind, his soul\u2019s iniquities.\n\n                                 _Glory._\n\nAlas! life\u2019s glory grew as grass, and straightway was dried up. Where\nin the grave is honour? and where form or beauty there? Then spare thy\nservant, Lord, as being loving-kind.\n\n                         _Both now. Theotokion._\n\nWith love, as it behoves, we thee all praise, O Mary, Mother of God,\nVirgin most pure; for thou hast ever sleepless eyes\u2014thy prayers\u2014to save\nus now from sins, and from the doom of death.\n\n                            _Ode iii. Irmos._\n\nThere is none holy like to thee, O Lord my God....\n\nThere is no man on earth that hath not sinn\u2019d, O Word. Therefore accept\na prayer from us, the lowly ones: and, Saviour, pardon and forgive thy\nservant all iniquities.\n\nAnd who, O lover of mankind, as thou, Lord merciful, forgivest sins of\nquick and dead with great authority? Therefore thy servant do thou save\nby this.\n\n                                 _Glory._\n\nOf calling from on high, O Saviour, him heritor declare, even him gone\nhence in faith, accepting his last tearful prayer, thou only sinless one.\n\n                         _Both now. Theotokion._\n\nO thou that art our Queen, all holy Virgin, cease not beseeching God,\nwhom thou didst bear, to count him worthy of his kingdom, even him who\nhence in faith hath gone.\n\n                           _Kathisma, tone vi._\n\nVerily everything is vain, and life a shadow is, a dream; for vainly\nevery earth-born one disquieteth himself, as saith the scripture. When\nwe have gain\u2019d the world, then dwell we in the grave, where kings and\nbeggars are as one. Therefore, O Christ, thy servant rest in tract of\nliving ones, and in the dwellings of the just.\n\n                             _Ode iv. Irmos._\n\nThy divine exhaustion on the cross....\n\nSince importable is the terrible threatening of that day, let us\nunceasingly beseech of Christ forgiveness of all sins for him that hath\nin faith and hope of resurrection hither gone.\n\nSince, through penitence, he, thy servant, unto thee a lamp enkindled\nbrightly ere his death, O Master, Saviour loving-kind, vouchsafe to him\nin brightly wise thy bridal-room.\n\n                                 _Glory._\n\nWhen all things hid thou dost reveal, and prove our sins, O Christ, him\nwhom thou hast receiv\u2019d do thou then spare, remembering his confession,\nLord.\n\n                         _Both now. Theotokion._\n\nHoly God-bearing one, forget not all that cry to thee with ceaseless\nwail; and find him rest, thou blessed one, even him, thy faithful\nservant, who is gone from us.\n\n                             _Ode v. Irmos._\n\nOf thy divine epiphany, O Christ....\n\nIn the elect ones\u2019 choir, and in the joy of paradise, O thou\ncompassionate one, give rest to him whom thou from us in faith removed\nhast; for thou, our Saviour, hast divine repentance laid on all men who\nhave sinn\u2019d; and him, as Master, of thy kingdom worthy count.\n\nAccording to thy might as God, thou art, in lordly wise, unto thy\ncreature merciful, whom thou subjected hast to human law, O Lord, sole\nlover of mankind. Therefore remit, forgive the sins of him gone hence in\nfaith, and him, O Saviour, of thy kingdom worthy count.\n\n                                 _Glory._\n\nNone there escape the fearful sentence of thy judgment-seat: kings,\nmighty ones with servants all together stand, and them, the people who\nhave sinn\u2019d, the judge\u2019s fearful voice bids to gehenna\u2019s doom; but save\nfrom this thy servant, Christ.\n\n                         _Both now. Theotokion._\n\nIn supernatural wise from thee was born, according unto human nature, him\nthat Redeemer is; and him, O thou unwedded Virgin, ceaselessly beseech to\nfree from torment all, and from the fierce and fearful hades\u2019 pains; and\nsave him who is now in faith remov\u2019d from us.\n\n                             _Ode vi. Irmos._\n\nThe lowest depth....\n\nDeath and the grave and judgment us await, impressing all our works; and\nout of these thy servant save, O lover of mankind, even him who thou\nremoved hast.\n\nOpen, my Saviour, I beseech thee, unto him gone hence thy mercy\u2019s door,\nthat he, O Christ, in glory may in chorus sing, partaking of the gladness\nof thy mightiness.\n\n                                 _Glory._\n\nDeliver, Saviour, from iniquities thy servant for thy mercy\u2019s sake, him\nwhom thou now removed hast in faith; for none is justified by human\nworks, O lover of mankind.\n\n                         _Both now. Theotokion._\n\nThe slayer of death and looser of the curse in flesh thou broughtest\nforth, God-bearing one, and all that die in faith he saves, as being\ngood and lover of mankind.\n\n                      _Then the customary ectenia._\n\nAgain and again.... _Page 142._\n\n_And the prayer_, O God of spirits.... _Page 139._\n\n                         _Condakion, tone viii._\n\nRest with the Saints, O Christ, thy servant\u2019s soul, where is no pain, nor\ngrief, nor sighing, but life that endeth not.\n\n                                 _Icos._\n\nThyself alone immortal art, who madest and didst fashion man, for out of\nearth we mortals fashion\u2019d were, and unto that same earth shall go, as\nthou who madest me hast given command, and sayest unto me, Earth thou\nart, and unto earth shalt thou return. And thither all we mortals go,\nmaking the funeral wail, even the song, the _Alleluia_.\n\nHearken in thoughtful wise, I pray; for I with pain these words announce;\nyea, for your sake I make the wail: it may for profit be to some. But\nwhen ye have to sing these words, remember me who once was known;\nfor ofttimes we together went, and in God\u2019s house together sang the\n_Alleluia_.\n\nArise ye then, and gather ye together all, and, sitting down, hear ye a\nword, Brethren, the judgment-seat is dread, where we have every one to\nstand. There none is slave, and none is free; there none is little, none\nis great; but all in nakedness shall stand: for this cause it is well to\nsing ofttimes the psalm, the _Alleluia_.\n\nBewail we all with tears as we behold the relics lie, and all approaching\nthem to kiss let us in equal wise exclaim, Lo, thou hast left them who\nthee lov\u2019d: wilt thou not speak with us again? Why dost thou speak not,\nfriend, as thou wast wont to speak to us? But so thou silent art, even to\nsay with us the _Alleluia_.\n\nWhat, brethren, are the dying\u2019s bitter words, which, when they go, they\nsay? I from the brethren parted am, I quit and leave you all, O friends.\nThen where I go I do not know, and how I shall be there know not: God\nonly knows, who calleth me. But make ye my memorial with the song, the\n_Alleluia_.\n\nThen where now go the souls? then how now fare they there? I long to\nlearn the mystery; but none sufficient is to tell. Do they remember their\nown things, as we remember them? or have they us forgotten who are left,\nwho them lament and make the song, the _Alleluia_.\n\nAccompany the dead, O friends, and to the grave with heed hie ye,\nand muse ye there in thoughtful wise, and your own feet prepare: all\nyouthfulness is cast therein, all vigour fadeth there: there dust and\nashes are, and worms: there all is silence, and none saying _Alleluia_.\n\nLo, now we see him lying, but to us no presence is of him: behold,\nthe tongue now silent is, and, lo, already cease the lips. Farewell, O\nfriends, O children; be ye saved, O ye brethren, O acquaintance, be ye\nsav\u2019d; for I depart my way. But make ye my memorial with the song, the\n_Alleluia_.\n\nNot one of those who there hath gone doth live again to tell to us how\nthey, our brethren once and kinsfolk, fare who there have come before the\nLord. Therefore, we oft, yea, ever say, Do they each other there behold?\ndo they a brother see? do they together say the psalm, the _Alleluia_?\n\nWe go the everlasting way in mien as them that are condemn\u2019d, with faces\nall cast down. Then where is beauty? where is wealth? then where the\nglory of this life? Nothing of these shall help us there, even to say\nofttimes the psalm, the _Alleluia_.\n\nWhy in untimely wise disquietest thou thyself, O man? one hour, and all\nis gone; for there in hades no repentance is, nor any further pardon\nthere: the never-dying worm is there, all there is dark and gloomy land,\nwhere I must come to be condemn\u2019d. For I have not ofttimes made speed to\nsay the psalm, the _Alleluia_.\n\nNothing so soon forgotten is by man as man when he is gone; for, if we\ndo remember for a time, we straightway death forget, when absent is the\ndead. And parents even every child forget, that, of the womb begot, they\nnourish\u2019d have, and have with tears accompanied with the song, the\n_Alleluia_.\n\nI remind you, O my brethren, and my children, and my friends, that ye\nforget me not when ye beseech the Lord. I pray, I ask, I make entreaty\nthat ye keep these words in memory, and bewail me day and night. I\nspeak to you as Job did to his friends, O sit ye down to say again the\n_Alleluia_.\n\nForsaking all things we depart, and naked and abhorrent we become; for\ncomeliness doth fade away as grass, but only do we men delude ourselves.\nThou naked, wretched one, wast born, and altogether naked there shalt\nstand! Then be not prodigal in life, O man; but only always sigh with\nwailing, _Alleluia_.\n\nIf thou, O man, art merciful to man, he there shall mercy have to show to\nthee; and if to any orphan hast been kind, he there shall thee deliver\nout of need; if thou in life the naked clothed hast, he there shall\nclothing have to put on thee, and sing the psalm, the _Alleluia_.\n\nThe way is evil whereby I depart, and therein so I never went; that\ncountry also is unknown, where me none recognize at all. \u2019Tis fearful\nthem to see who dreadfully are led, and him who me hath call\u2019d, who\nruleth life and death, and there us biddeth when he willeth. _Alleluia._\n\nIf from some country we depart, we of some guides have need. What shall\nwe do, and whither go, that country in, where we are quite unknown? To\nthee will then be needful many guides, and many prayers to go with thee\nto save thy wretched soul, ere it attain to Christ, and say to him, the\n_Alleluia_.\n\nThey that to lusts material subject are, in nowise have forgiveness\nthere: there terrible accusers are, and there too opened are the books.\nThen where, O man, wilt thou glance round? or who will there then thee\nassist? save thou in life hast wrought some good, or done some kindness\nto the poor, singing the _Alleluia_.\n\nBoth youth and bodily beauty fade away in time of death, and then in\npainful wise is parch\u2019d the tongue, and, dried up, is scorch\u2019d the\nthroat, then quenched is the beauty of the eyes, all chang\u2019d the beauty\nof the face, the beauty of the neck is spoil\u2019d, and what remaineth silent\nis to say ofttimes the _Alleluia_.\n\nKeep silence then, keep silence: O ye survivors, be ye still before him\nlying there, and contemplate the mystery great; for fearful is the hour.\nHush, that the soul may go in peace; for it endureth anguish great, and\nin much fear beseecheth God with _Alleluia_.\n\nI have seen an infant dying, and for my life have wept; for it was\naltogether scar\u2019d, and, when its hour came, trembling cried, O father,\nhelp me; mother, save me! and none sufficient was to help it then: they\nonly griev\u2019d beholding, and in the grave bewail\u2019d it. _Alleluia._\n\nHow many on a sudden have been taken from their bridal to the grave,\nbetroth\u2019d been with an everlasting troth, have costless made the dirge,\nand from the chamber have not risen; but together there was marriage and\nthe grave, together troth and parting, together laughter and the wail,\nyea, and the psalm, the _Alleluia_.\n\nWe are enflam\u2019d when only hearing that everlasting light is there, there\nour life\u2019s fount, and there eternal joy: the paradise is there where\nevery soul rejoiceth with the just. We all in Christ shall gather\u2019d be,\nthat so to God we all may cry the _Alleluia_.\n\nAll-holy Virgin, thou unwedded one, who didst bring forth th\u2019\napproachless light, I pray, entreaty make, and beg, Cease not to pray the\nLord concerning him, thy sleeping servant, thou most pure, that in the\nday of judgment he may find forgiveness there; for thou, as Queen all\npure, to pray thy Son hast always boldness. _Alleluia_.\n\n                       _Then again the condakion._\n\nRest with the Saints, O Christ.... _Page 188._\n\n                            _Ode vii. Irmos._\n\nNarrateless wonder....\n\nAs being pitiful, O Christ, deliver him, thy servant, whom thou in faith\nreceived hast, from fearful doom, and from gehenna\u2019s fire, and to thy\nservant grant to sing to thee, Blessed art thou, redeemer, God.\n\nWithin the land of gentle ones, and in delights of paradise, in glory\u2019s\nwondrous dwelling-place, thy servant faithfully asleep esteeming worthy,\nGod, do thou grant him to sing to thee, Blessed art thou, redeemer, God.\n\n                                 _Glory._\n\nGreat is the doom and undescribable the need, O brethren, in gehenna; for\nthe souls of sinners there are burned with their bodies, and in anguish\nweep, unable to exclaim, Blessed art thou, redeemer, God.\n\n                               _Both now._\n\nThem that undoubtingly thee praise, O Mother of God, thou altogether\nundefil\u2019d God-bearing one, when living by thy prayers for ever guard, and\nwhen departed free from bitter torment, that they with thee to Christ may\nsay, Blessed art thou, redeemer, God.\n\n                            _Ode viii. Irmos._\n\nFearingly quake, O heaven....\n\nO what dread hour awaiteth sinners, brethren! O what terror then!\ngehenna\u2019s fire consumes, and shall eternally torment. Therefore, O\nChrist, compassionate Lord, deliver him departed now from us from fearful\nthreatening, and snatch him from gehenna\u2019s pains eternally.\n\nOh, of the just the joy which they receive when comes the judge! for them\nthe bridal-chamber is prepar\u2019d, and paradise, and all Christ\u2019s kingdom;\nand there thy servant, Christ, make manifest rejoicing with the Saints\neternally.\n\n                                 _Glory._\n\nWho shall endure the fearful menace of thy presence, Christ? the heavens\nthereat roll\u2019d up shall be as is a scroll in fearful wise, the stars\nshall fall, and all creation shake with fear, and changed be the light;\nbut then, O Word, spare him whom thou removed hast from us.\n\n                         _Both now. Theotokion._\n\nHim whom thou gavest flesh in supernatural wise, O pure, even the Son, he\nis the judge of living and of dead, and judgeth all the earth, and saves\nfrom torment whom he wills, and them especially who in types adore him\nlovingly, and thee, God-bearing one, extol eternally.\n\n                             _Ode ix. Irmos._\n\nWeep not for me, O mother....\n\nO weep ye not, all ye who die in faith; for Christ for us bore flesh, the\ncross, and sepulture, and made all them immortal sons that sing to him, O\ninto judgment with thy servant enter not.\n\nLet us, ye faithful, from the heart pray Christ to stablish in the\ndwellings of the saints the brother who in faith and hope of resurrection\nsleeps; for there is judgment stern and trial dread, and none can help\nhimself without good works, and common prayer of faithful ones; and let\nus cry, Lord, into judgment with thy servant enter not.\n\n                                 _Glory._\n\nIn, Blessed One, thy glory that becomes not old, and in delights of\nparadise, place him who now is gone from us, and in the right-belief and\npenitence betaketh him to thee in faith; and of thy kingdom him a chosen\npartner make.\n\n                         _Both now. Theotokion._\n\nGod-bearing Virgin, we reverently, we, faithful ones, extol thee who art\nmother of life in supernatural wise; for we, aforetime dead, being made\nimmortal, life have found; and, lo, to thee the song we end.\n\n_Deacon._ Again and again.... _Page 142._\n\n_And the prayer_, O God of spirits.... _Page 139._\n\n                            _Exapostilarion._\n\nNow am I at rest, and much forgiveness have receiv\u2019d; for I have passed\nfrom corruption, and am translated unto life: glory to thee, O Lord.\n\n                        _And the people the same._\n\n_Verse i._ Man is as grass, his day is as a flower of the field.\n\n_Verse ii._ For his spirit goeth through in him, and he shall not be.\n\n_Verse iii._ And the mercy of the Lord shall endure to ages.\n\n                 _And to each verse the exapostilarion._\n\n                         _Then, Glory. Both now._\n\nNow have I chosen the maiden Mother of God, for Christ, redeemer of all,\nwas born of her: glory to thee, O Lord.\n\n_And straightway_, Praise the Lord from the heavens....[47]\n\n                        _Then stichera, tone vi._\n\n_Like_, Having despair\u2019d....\n\nThy godly minister is gone to thee, now deified in the translation by thy\nquickening mystery, Christ: take as a bird his soul into thy hand, and\nrange him in thy courts and in the angelic choirs, and rest him whom thou\nhast received by thy command, O Lord, for thy great mercy\u2019s sake.\n\nStrange is the mystery of death; for unacceptably it comes to all, nature\nby force is spoil\u2019d; it taketh elders, abbots, scribes, teachers who\nvainly strive, bishops, and pastors too. Then let us cry with tears, Him,\nwhom thou hast receiv\u2019d, O Lord, by thy command, O rest, for thy great\nmercy\u2019s sake.\n\nHe that in piety hath liv\u2019d, and was thy decorated priest, O Christ, the\ncelebrant and offerer of thy mysteries divine, is gone, by thy divine\ncommand, from life\u2019s alarms to thee; and him, accepting as a priest, O\nSaviour, save, and with the righteous rest, even him whom thou received\nhast, for thy great mercy\u2019s sake.\n\n                      _Glory. Both now. Theotokion._\n\nGod-bearing Virgin, we have understood the God made flesh from thee, whom\ndo thou pray to save our souls.\n\n_Then they say_, Glory to God in the highest....\n\n_And after the_ Vouchsafe, O Lord....\n\n                _the following stichera idiomela are said,\n                          of Damascene, tone i._\n\nWhat sweet of life abideth unaccompanied with grief? what glory stayeth\nupon earth unchang\u2019d? All is the feeblest shade, all the most cheating\ndream: one moment, and death taketh all these things. But in thy face\u2019s\nlight, O Christ, and in the sweetness of thy beauty, grant rest to him\nwhom thou hast call\u2019d, as lover of mankind.\n\n_Verse._ The Lord tendeth me, and there is nothing lacking to me.\n\nBy deed, my Saviour, thou hast shewn that thou the resurrection art of\nall, who didst, O Word, by word raise Lazarus from the dead. Then were\nthe fetters burst, and shatter\u2019d hades\u2019 gates; then human death declared\nwas a sleep. Thou, therefore, who didst come thy creature, not to judge,\nbut save, rest him whom thou received hast, as lover of mankind.\n\n                      _Glory. Both now. Theotokion._\n\nThou art made manifest, O Bringer-forth of God, a fervent advocate for\nall, for all a shelter, and a might of God for them that hie to thee, an\naid for them that are in need, a quick deliverance for the bound. For\nthee against barbarians Christ hath placed as a fence, and barrier, and\nassailless wall; and for the weak a strength unovercome; and for our\nsouls the arbitress of peace.\n\n                           _Stichera, tone ii._\n\nWoe unto me, what agony hath the soul when it is from the body torn!\nalas, then how it weeps, and none is merciful to it! To Angels lifting\neyes, without effect it prays; to men extending hands, it findeth none to\nhelp. Therefore, my brethren lov\u2019d, musing on our brief life, let us for\nthe departed ask for rest from Christ, and for great mercy for our souls.\n\n_Verse._ When I was in affliction I cried unto the Lord, and he heard me.\n\nCome, let us all a wonder passing thought behold: he who but yesterday\nabode with us now lieth dead. Come, let us know that soon in funeral\nswathes we also at an end shall be; and they anointed with the fragrant\nmyrrh shall lie of odour ill. How is it they adorn\u2019d with gold lie\nunadorn\u2019d and void of form? Therefore, my brethren well belov\u2019d, musing\non our brief life, let us of Christ entreat for rest for him who hence\nhath gone, and for great mercy for our souls.\n\n_Verse._ O Lord, deliver my soul from unrighteous lips.\n\nFarewell, vain life; farewell, all friends, acquaintances, and children\ntoo; for in a way I go where never have I trod. But come, remembering my\nlove for you, follow ye me, and give ye to the grave this clay of mine,\nand pray ye Christ with tears, who hath to judge my humble soul, that he\nmay snatch me from the quenchless fire.\n\n                      _Glory. Both now. Theotokion._\n\nO gate impassable, in mystery seal\u2019d, God-bearing Virgin bless\u2019d; accept\nour prayers, and offer them thy Son and God, that he, through thee, may\nsave our souls.\n\n                      _Stichera idiomela, tone iii._\n\nLo, brethren mine belov\u2019d, amid you all I silent lie, bereft of speech;\nthe mouth is listless, still the tongue, impeded are the lips, the hands\nare tied, the feet together bound, the countenance is chang\u2019d, the eyes\nare dimm\u2019d and see not them that wail, the hearing takes not in the cry\nof them that mourn, the nose the fragrant incense smelleth not; but\nin nowise true love becometh dead. Therefore I you beseech, all mine\nacquaintances and friends, Remember me before the Lord, that I in day of\ndoom may mercy find before that fearful judgment-seat.\n\n_Verse._ I have lifted up mine eyes to the hills, whence cometh my help.\n\nAll human things are vanity which last not after death: riches abide not,\nnor doth glory stay; for when death cometh these all disappear. Then let\nus cry to the immortal Christ, O rest him who is gone away from us where\nis the dwelling-place of all that joy.\n\n_Verse._ The Lord shall keep thy goings-out and thy comings-in from\nhenceforth and for evermore.\n\nO men, why do we vainly we ourselves disquiet? the course we run is quick\nand hard: life is as smoke: soon vapour, dust, and ashes we shall be; and\nas a flower shall fade. Therefore let us to the immortal Christ exclaim,\nRest him remov\u2019d from us where is the dwelling-place of all that joy.\n\n                      _Glory. Both now. Theotokion._\n\nGod-bearing Virgin, we, we tempest-tost upon life\u2019s sea, thee as\nsalvation\u2019s haven have. Therefore pray God, who seedlessly from thee\nincarnate was, and man became unspeakably, to save our souls.\n\n                           _Stichera, tone iv._\n\nWhere is the predilection of the world? where their imaginings who\nfade? where is the silver and the gold? where servants\u2019 multitude and\nnoise? All dust, all ashes, all a shade. But, come ye, let us say to\nthe immortal King, O Lord, him, who hath been remov\u2019d from us, of thine\neternal blessings worthy count, him resting in thine ageless happiness.\n\n_Verse._ I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of\nthe Lord.\n\nDeath as a robber came, like as a thief he came, and laid me low; he\ncame, and me declar\u2019d as one existing not; he came, and, being earth,\nI lie as being not. We verily are a dream, O men, a phantom verily.\nBut, come ye, let us cry to the immortal King, O Lord, vouchsafe thine\neverlasting blessings unto him remov\u2019d from us, him resting in the life\nthat grows not old.\n\n                      _Glory. Both now. Theotokion._\n\nO only pure and spotless Virgin, who without seed didst bring forth God,\npray that our souls be sav\u2019d.\n\n                           _Stichera, tone v._\n\nI remember\u2019d what the prophet said, I am earth and I am dust; and again\nI meditated in the graves, and saw the naked bones, and said, Who now is\nking, or, warrior, who; or, who is rich, or, who is poor; or, who the\njust, or, he that sinn\u2019d? But, with the just, thy servant rest, O Lord.\n\n_Verse._ Our feet have stood in thy courts, O Jerusalem.\n\nThou, Christ, hast said that he in thee believing shall not death behold:\nbut, as I out of light in light am light, so shall ye also in my glory\nbe enlightened in me; for I, that am true God, have come to save them\nthat revere me in true right-belief, me, one Lord God, in dual nature of\ndeity and flesh, but one in essence. Therefore, thy faithful servant, who\nthus confesseth thee, rest in thy countenance\u2019s light among the Saints,\nas lover of mankind.\n\n                      _Glory. Both now. Theotokion._\n\nWe thee beseech, as Mother of God, O blessed one, Pray thou for us, that\nwe be sav\u2019d.\n\n                           _Stichera, tone vi._\n\nTo me thy life-effecting bidding was substance and origin; for, willing\nme to form a living one from nature that unseen is and is seen, my body\nthou didst make of earth, and, by thy breathing life-creating and divine,\nme gavest soul. Therefore, O Christ, thy servant rest in tract of them\nthat living are, and in the dwellings of the just.\n\n_Verse._ Unto thee have I lifted up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in\nheaven.\n\nThat which thy hands did frame thou with thine image honour\u2019d hast,\nO Word; for, in material form inscribing livingly a mental essence\u2019s\nsimilitude, of this me also thou hast made participant, placing me on the\nearth to be, of mine own power, creation\u2019s lord. Therefore, thy servant,\nSaviour, rest in tract of them that living are, and in the dwellings of\nthe just.\n\n                      _Glory. Both now. Theotokion._\n\nGod-bearing Virgin, we have understood the God made flesh from thee,\nwhom do thou pray to save our souls.\n\n                          _Stichera, tone vii._\n\nAfter thine image and resemblance in the beginning making man, in\nparadise thou him didst place to be of thy creation lord; but, by the\ndevil\u2019s enviousness beguil\u2019d, he ate the fruit, transgressing thy\ncommands. Therefore again to earth, whence he was taken, thou hast doom\u2019d\nhim to return, O Lord, and beg for rest.\n\n_Verse._ How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord of hosts.\n\nDeath looseth every grief befalling Adam\u2019s nature; for corrupt we have\nbecome, partaking of the food. Then let us learn, form\u2019d out of earth,\nwe dust and ashes shall become, like as we were before. Therefore let\nus with wailing voice our Maker pray pardon and mercy to bestow on him\nremoved hence.\n\n                      _Glory. Both now. Theotokion._\n\nThee, O God-bearing one, we faithful have as an unbroken wall and trust.\nTherefore, cease not, O Queen, to pray for them thy servants that in\nfaith have slept, that in the judgment there may pardon be for them, when\nhe thy Son and God shall sit; for thou dost nature know, that it with\nevery sin is now commix\u2019d: so may we bless thee all.\n\n                          _Stichera, tone viii._\n\nI weep and I lament when I reflect on death, and see the comeliness,\naccording to God\u2019s image, that was shap\u2019d for us lying in the graves\ndisfigur\u2019d, and bereft of glory and of form. O wonder! what is this\nmystery concerning us? how to corruption have we been assign\u2019d? how unto\ndeath conjoin\u2019d? Verily by God\u2019s command, as it is written, who giveth\nthe departed rest.\n\nBearing an image incorrupt, and having an immortal soul received by\nbreath divine, and so become compound, as it is written, why do we fade\naway? and why did we God\u2019s bidding overstep? O wonder! why did we leave\nthe food of life, and eat the fruit that bringeth bitter death? why,\nby guile, have we been robb\u2019d of life divine? As for the rest, let us\nexclaim to Christ, Him whom thou hast removed hence place in thy courts.\n\n                      _Glory. Both now. Theotokion._\n\nGod-bearing Virgin, thy protection is a spiritual healing place; for\nthereunto betaking us, we are set free from ailments of the soul.\n\n                     _Stichera, tone viii. Idiomela._\n\nTo them that prodigally live unmeasur\u2019d torment is, gnashing of teeth,\nand wailing unconsol\u2019d, gloom unillum\u2019d, and darkness most profound,\nthe never dying worm, and unavailing tears, and, without mercy, doom.\nTherefore let us, before the end, lift up our voice, and say, O Master\nChrist, him who thou chosen hast give rest with thine elect.\n\n                                _Similar._\n\nThe trumpet shall give sound, and, as from sleep, the dead shall rise,\ndesiring to obtain the heavenly life, they who have put their trust in\nthee, the Maker and the Lord. Then, O condemn thy servant not; for thou,\nimmortal one, for our sake mortal didst become. Therefore let us, before\nthe end, lift up our voice, and say, O Master Christ, him whom thou\nchosen hast, give rest with thine elect.\n\nBehold, the elements, the heaven and earth shall be transform\u2019d, and all\ncreation shall with incorruption clothed be. Corruption shall be done\naway, and darkness at thine advent fly; for thou with glory art to come\nagain, as it is written, to render unto each as he hath done. O Master\nChrist, him whom thou chosen hast, give rest with thine elect.\n\n                            _Glory, tone vi._\n\nO come ye all and see a strange and fearful sight made manifest to\nall, the image now beheld, and vex yourselves no more with transient\nthings. To-day divided from the body is a soul, and is translated to\nth\u2019 eternal world; for in a way it goeth wherein never yet it went, and\nto the Judge who no respect of persons hath, where stand the Angels\u2019\nhosts. My brethren, fearful is that judgment-seat, where naked all of us\nshall stand, and some be crown\u2019d and some be sham\u2019d. Then let us to th\u2019\nimmortal King exclaim, When thou shalt try the secrets of mankind, O\nspare thy servant whom thou hast receiv\u2019d, Lord, Lover of mankind.\n\n                         _Both now. Theotokion._\n\nThrough her entreaties who to thee gave birth, O Christ, and those of thy\nForerunner, and of apostles, prophets, hierarchs, venerables, and just,\nand of all Saints, unto thy sleeping servant give thou rest.\n\n_Then_, It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord.... _The whole._\nTrisagion. _After_ Our Father....\n\nOur Saviour, rest thy servant with the just, and place him in thy\ncourts, as it is written, as being good despising his iniquities, both\nwilling ones and those unwilling, and all those done in knowledge and in\nignorance, O lover of mankind.\n\nIn thy resting-place, O Lord, where all thy Saints repose, O rest thy\nservant\u2019s soul; for thou alone art lover of mankind.\n\nO holy Mother of describeless Light, revering thee with angels\u2019 songs, we\nmagnify thee piously.\n\n                           _The deacon saith,_\n\nHave mercy upon us, O God, according to thy great mercy, we pray thee,\nhear and have mercy. _Vide page 139._\n\n_After the exclamation of the prayer the kiss is given, while the choir\nsingeth the stichera, tone ii._\n\nCome, brethren, let us give the last kiss....\n\n_And the rest, as hath previously been written in the order for laymen._\n\n_Then, Glory, tone vi._ Me, lying voiceless....\n\n                       _Both now. The theotokion._\n\n_And giving forth to the grave the priests sing the irmi of the great\ncanon, that is to say,_\n\nA help and protection.... _And the rest._\n\n_Trisagion._ _After_ Our Father.... In thy resting-place, O Lord.... O\nonly pure and spotless Virgin....\n\n_Then_, Have mercy upon us, O God.... _and the rest as customarily_. O\nGod of spirits....\n\n                      _And the remains are buried._\n\n                    _And the full dismissal is made._\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n\n\n_Chapter XIX._\n\nTHE OFFICE OF THE BURIAL OF A BABE.\n\n\n_After the priest hath given the blessing, the singers sing,_\n\nWhoso dwelleth under the defence of the Most High....[48]\n\n_And after this_, Alleluia, _in tone viii_.\n\n_Verse._ Blessed is he whom thou hast chosen....\n\n_Verse._ And his remembrance is to generation and generation.\n\n_Trisagion._ _And after_ Our Father.... For thine is the kingdom.\n\n_Then_, Thou who man-lovingly in depth of wisdom....\n\n                                 _Glory._\n\nOur Maker, and our Author, and our God.\n\n                               _Both now._\n\nWe have thee as a fortress and a haven....\n\n                             _Then psalm l._\n\n_And after this the requiem canon over a departed babe is begun._\n\n                           _Ode i. Tone viii._\n\nCrossing the sea as on dry land....\n\n_Refrain._ Rest thou the babe, O Lord.\n\nO Word of God, who in the flesh didst poor become, and, without change,\nwast pleas\u2019d a babe to be; we pray thee place in Abraham\u2019s bosom the babe\nthou hast receiv\u2019d.\n\nThou wast beheld a babe who ere all ages art, and, as the blessed one,\nthy kingdom promis\u2019d hast to babes: O number thou therein the present\nbabe.\n\n                                 _Glory._\n\nThe undefiled babe, O Saviour Christ, whom thou received hast ere\nearthly pleasures\u2019 trial, vouchsafe eternal blessedness, as lover of\nmankind.\n\n                               _Both now._\n\nThou who unspeakably didst bear him who the Father\u2019s Wisdom is and Word;\nheal thou my soul\u2019s sore wound, and my heart\u2019s pain appease.\n\n                            _Ode iii. Irmos._\n\nO Lord, creator of the vault of heaven and builder of the church; thou\nme hast stablish\u2019d in thy love, thou ending of desire, the faithful\u2019s\nconfirmation, sole lover of mankind.\n\n_Refrain._ Rest thou the babe, O Lord.\n\nO thou most perfect Word, who didst appear a perfect babe, thou hast\nremoved to thyself a babe imperfect in its growth, whom do thou rest with\nall the just who have been welcome unto thee, sole lover of mankind.\n\nHim taken hence, not tasting of the pleasures of the world, of\nsupermundane blessings make participant we pray, O thou Compassionate\nOne, even the uncorrupted babe, whom thou hast chang\u2019d by thy divine\ncommand.\n\n                                 _Glory._\n\nOf heavenly dwellings, and of shining lot, and of the sacred choir of\nSaints, O Lord, make the pure babe participant, even him, whom, Saviour,\nas thou wast well-pleas\u2019d, thou hast remov\u2019d.\n\n                               _Both now._\n\nBereft of all, to thy sole shelter, most pure Queen, I fly, O aid thou\nme; for I unto much sinful riches cleave, but with a poverty of virtues\nam altogether fill\u2019d.\n\n_Then the irmos. And after the irmos the priest saith this ectenia._\n\nAgain and again in peace let us pray to the Lord.\n\n_Choir._ Lord, have mercy.\n\nFurthermore let us pray for the repose of the happy babe, _name_, and\nthat to him may be vouchsafed, according to thine undeceiving promise,\nthy heavenly kingdom.\n\n_Choir._ Lord, have mercy, _thrice_.\n\nThat the Lord our God may place his soul where all the just repose.\n\n_Choir._ Lord, have mercy, _thrice_.\n\nThe mercy of God, the kingdom of heaven, and repose among the Saints, for\nhim and for ourselves let us ask of Christ, our immortal King and God.\n\n_Choir._ Vouchsafe, O Lord.\n\n_Priest._ Let us pray to the Lord.\n\n_Choir._ Lord, have mercy.\n\n                                _Priest._\n\nO Lord Jesus Christ our God, who hast promised to bestow the kingdom\nof heaven upon them that are born again of water and of the spirit and\nin a blameless life are translated onto thee, and hast said, Suffer\nthe children to come unto me, for of such is the kingdom of heaven; we\nhumbly beseech thee to grant, according to thine undeceiving promise,\nthe inheritance of thy kingdom unto thy servant, the blameless babe,\n_name_, now removed from us; and count us worthy to continue and end\nan unblamable and christian life, and to be stablished in heavenly\nabiding-places with all thy Saints.\n\n                           _And he exclaimeth,_\n\nFor thou art the resurrection, the life, and the repose of all thy\nservants, and of thy servant, the babe, _name_, now removed from us, O\nChrist our God, and to thee we ascribe glory, with thine unbeginning\nFather, and with thy most holy, and good, and life-creating Spirit, now\nand ever, and to ages of ages.\n\n_Choir._ Amen.\n\n                            _Then troparion._\n\nVerily everything is vain, and life a shadow is, a dream; for vainly\nevery earth-born one disquieteth himself, as saith the scripture. When\nwe have gain\u2019d the world, then dwell we in the grave, where kings and\nbeggars, elders and babes together are. Therefore, Christ God, as lover\nof mankind, rest the departed babe.\n\n                             _Ode iv. Irmos._\n\nI have heard, O Lord, the mystery of thy dispensation....\n\n_Refrain._ Rest thou the babe, O Lord.\n\nWe wail not for the babes, but rather for ourselves do we lament, we, who\nhave always sinn\u2019d, that we may be delivered from gehenna.\n\nThou, Master, hast depriv\u2019d the babe of the delights of earth: do thou,\nas righteous judge, vouchsafe him heavenly blessings.\n\n                                 _Glory._\n\nHe hath declared thee a citizen of paradise, O truly happy babe, he who\nhath taken thee from earth and ranged thee among the choirs of Saints.\n\n                         _Both now. Theotokion._\n\nAll we that are illuminated, O all-pure, own thee God-bearing, thou, O\nEver-virgin; for thou the Sun of righteousness hast borne.\n\n                             _Ode v. Irmos._\n\nWhy hast thou rejected me....\n\n_Refrain._ Rest thou the babe, O Lord.\n\nBy thy just dooming, ere he waxed perfectly in growth, thou hast, as new\ngrown herb, cut down the babe whom thou hast taken, Lord; but, leading\nhim, O Word, to hill divine of everlasting blessings, plant him there.\n\nAs a young branch the sword of death hath come and cut thee off, thou\nwho of worldly sweets no trial hast sustain\u2019d, thou happy one! but, lo,\nto thee the gates of heaven Christ open\u2019d hath, counting thee with th\u2019\nelect, as being loving-kind.\n\n                                 _Glory._\n\nConcerning me, lament ye not; for I in nowise have begun for weeping to\nbe meet; but rather weep ye alway for yourselves, ye who have sinn\u2019d, O\nkinsfolk and O friends, the dead babe cries, so that of torment ye have\nno essay.\n\n                               _Both now._\n\nI am despairing of myself when on the number of my deeds I muse; but when\nin mind I bear thee, Mother of God, who above mind didst bear the Lord, I\nam refresh\u2019d with hope; for we have thee a sole defence.\n\n                             _Ode vi. Irmos._\n\nI will pour forth a prayer before the Lord, and to him will I tell my\ngrief; for my soul is full of evils, and my life draweth nigh unto hades,\nand I pray as Jonas, O God, raise me out of corruption.\n\n_Refrain._ Rest thou the babe, O Lord.\n\nThou was laid in a manger as a babe, and wast plac\u2019d in an elder\u2019s arms,\nwho generatest babes in the womb; and ere this one attain\u2019d perfect\ngrowth, thou hast bidden him to thee. Then we with thanksgiving extol\nthee.\n\nThou didst say to the apostles, O Word, Let the children come unto me;\nfor my kingdom is for them that are such in wiseness. Then count the babe\nremov\u2019d to thee of thy light worthy.\n\n                                 _Glory._\n\nThou of earth\u2019s blessings hast depriv\u2019d thy babe, that thou of heaven\u2019s\nmight\u2019st make him sharer, who hath not overstepp\u2019d thy bid divine. O Good\nOne, we extol thy judgments\u2019 depth unmeasur\u2019d.\n\n                         _Both now. Theotokion._\n\nWe have thee, Maiden, as a sheltering wall, for souls a full salvation,\nand in afflictions ample room; and in thy light we aye rejoice, and in\nthis save us now, O Queen, from passions and from dangers.\n\n_Then the irmos. And after the irmos the priest saith the previously\nwritten ectenia and the prayer. Page 139._\n\n                     _Then the condakion, tone viii._\n\nRest with the Saints, O Christ, thy servant\u2019s soul, where is no pain nor\ngrief, nor sighing, but life that endeth not.\n\n                                 _Icos._\n\nThyself alone immortal art, who madest and didst fashion man; for out of\nearth we mortals fashion\u2019d were, and unto that same earth shall go, as\nthou who madest me hast given command, and sayest unto me, Earth thou\nart, and unto earth shalt thou return. And thither all we mortals go,\nmaking the funeral wail, even the song, the Alleluia.\n\n                       _And these following icosi._\n\nMore sympathetic than a mother there is none, and than a father more\ncompassionate none; for vexed are their inward parts when they the babes\naccompany hence: great is the sting which for the children\u2019s sake their\nhearts receive, and still the more when these sweet-spoken are, and they\ntheir words remember with the song, the Alleluia.\n\nFor oft beside the grave they smite their breasts, and say, O thou my son\nand sweetest child! hearest thou not thy mother what she saith? lo, \u2019tis\nthe womb that thee hath borne: why dost thou speak not as thou wert wont\nto speak to us? But so thou silent art, even to say with us the Alleluia.\n\nO God, O God, who callest me, be now the comfort of my house, for great\nthe wailing is befalling them; for they all have regard to me, even they\nwho have me as a sole-begotten one. But thou who wast of Virgin Mother\nborn, refresh the bowels of my mother, and bedew my father\u2019s heart, even\nwith this, the Alleluia.\n\n                     _Then the condakion, tone viii._\n\nRest with the Saints....\n\n                            _Ode vii. Irmos._\n\nThe hebrew children in the furnace.\n\n_Refrain._ Rest thou the babe, O Lord.\n\nWrite in the book of them that saved be, as lover of mankind\ncompassionate, thy babe, that he rejoicing may exclaim to thy might\u2019s\nglory, Thou art bless\u2019d.\n\nBy, O thou Word, thy countenance\u2019s light, illuminate thy babe, who now\nto thee in faith, at an untimely age, is gone, and sings to thee, Thou\nblessed art, O Lord, O God.\n\n                                 _Glory._\n\nAffliction\u2019s cause thy going hence now seemeth unto them that thee have\nlov\u2019d, but unto thee procuracy in truth of gladness and of joy; for thou,\nO babe, inheritest eternal life.\n\n                         _Both now. Theotokion._\n\nBehold my grief, O Virgin, which th\u2019 abundance of mine ills doth bring on\nme, and ere my going hence give me refreshment by thy mother prayers to\nmake God merciful to me.\n\n                            _Ode viii. Irmos._\n\nThe furnace seven times more....\n\n_Refrain._ Rest thou the babe, O Lord.\n\nIn Abraham\u2019s bosom, in tabernacles of repose, where is their joy who ever\nfestal keep, in places of refreshment where living water is, may Christ\nthee place, yea, he who for our sake became a child, even ours who unto\nhim cry ceaselessly, O priests, extol him, and, O people, set him up for\naye.\n\nA constant cause of grief to us, yea, and for tears, thine ever thought\non parting is in truth become; for ere the tasting in this life of things\nthat give delight thou hast left earth, yea, and thy parents\u2019 breasts.\nBut Abraham\u2019s bosom hath received thee, as babe, and unparticipant of\nevery stain.\n\n                                 _Glory._\n\nWhy mourn ye me, a babe, that hence is gone? lying he cries invisibly:\nfor I am wont not to be mourn\u2019d; for destin\u2019d is the joy of all the just\nfor babes: to them that works perform not there meetness is for tears.\nBut those the song upraise to Christ, O priests, extol him, and, O\npeople, set him up for aye.\n\n                         _Both now. Theotokion._\n\nTo mine assistance, O God-bearing one, arise, attend unto my prayer, and\nme deliver from the dreadful doom, the grave essay, the darkness, and the\nfire, the gnashing of the teeth, the contumely of demons, and from every\nneed, thou hope of them that have no hope, thou, the despairing\u2019s life.\n\n                             _Ode ix. Irmos._\n\nBe thou in dread concerning this, O heaven, and let earth\u2019s limits be\namaz\u2019d: for God hath shewn himself in flesh to men, and wider than the\nheavens thy womb becomes. Therefore the principals of Angels and of men\nthee magnify, God-bearing one.\n\n_Refrain._ Rest thou the babe, O Lord.\n\nChrist, who unchang\u2019d becam\u2019st a babe, and willingly didst bear the\ncross, and the maternal pain didst see of her that gave thee birth;\nassuage the grief and bitter pain of faithful parents of a babe deceas\u2019d,\nthat we thy might may glorify.\n\nMaster, thou King of all, who from on high didst send and take the happy\nbabe as a pure bird to heavenly nest, thou hast from diverse snares\npreserv\u2019d his soul, and join\u2019d it with the righteous souls thy kingdom\u2019s\nsweets that taste.\n\n                                 _Glory._\n\nTo babes that nothing have perform\u2019d, O Word of God, thou hast vouchsaf\u2019d\na heavenly dwelling-place; for so thou art well-pleas\u2019d, O blessed one,\nwith these to count up thy creation; and, taking now the babe to thee, do\nthou thyself alleviate the parents\u2019 pain, as all-compassionate and lover\nof mankind.\n\n                         _Both now. Theotokion._\n\nThe heart\u2019s eyes turn I ever unto thee, who hast maternal prayer with him\nwho birth receiv\u2019d from thee; for I entreat thee, O All-pure, Quell thou\nthe passions of my soul, rouse me betimes to penitence, O maid, and with\nthy light enlighten me.\n\n                        _Then the little ectenia._\n\n                        _And the exapostilarion._\n\nNow am I at rest, and much forgiveness have receiv\u2019d; for I have passed\nfrom corruption, and am translated unto life: glory to thee, O Lord.\n\n                        _And the people the same._\n\n_Verse._ Man is as grass, his day is as a flower of the field.\n\n_Verse._ For his spirit goeth forth through him, and he shall not be.\n\n_Verse._ And the mercy of the Lord shall endure to ages.\n\n                 _And to each verse the exapostilarion._\n\n                         _Then, Glory. Both now._\n\nNow have I chosen the maiden Mother of God; for Christ, redeemer of all,\nwas born of her: glory to thee, O Lord.\n\n                 _And straightway the priest exclaimeth,_\n\nFor holy art thou, O our God, and thou restest on the Saints, and to thee\nwe ascribe glory, to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost,\nnow and ever, and to ages of ages.\n\n_Choir._ Amen. _And they sing_, Holy God....\n\n                          _Prokimenon, tone vi._\n\nBlessed is the way in which thou goest to-day, O soul....\n\n_Verse._ Return, O my soul, unto thy rest.\n\n             _The epistle to the Corinthians, section clxii._\n\nBrethren, all flesh is not the same.... _ending_, a quickening spirit.[49]\n\n_Verse._ Blessed is he whom thou hast chosen and received, O Lord.\n\n_Verse._ His soul shall dwell in good things.\n\n                   _The gospel from John, section xxi._\n\nThe Lord spake unto the Jews that came unto him, I am the bread of\nlife.... _ending_, at the last day.[50]\n\n_And straightway the last kiss is given, while the singers sing these\nstichera. Tone viii._\n\n_Like_, O most glorious wonder!\n\nWho would not weep, my child, because of thy lamented taking from this\nlife; for thou, a babe unwax\u2019d in growth, from the maternal arms, like\nto a bird, hast quickly flown, and unto all things\u2019 Maker hast betaken\nthee. O child! who would not weep, beholding faded thy clear face, which\nerewhile beauteous as a lily was? Who would not sigh, my child, and would\nnot cry with wailing because of thy much comeliness, and for the charm of\nthine estate? for as a ship that leaves no track thou quickly from the\neyes art gone. Come, ye, my friends, kinsfolk, and neighbours, and, along\nwith me, let us him kiss whom send we to the grave.\n\nDeath is the freeing of the babes; for unparticipants of ills of life\nthey are declar\u2019d, and unto rest attain, and they in Abraham\u2019s bosom\nwith heavenly joys are glad, and now along with holy babes in choirs\ndivine rejoice, and festal high in faith they keep; for from corruption,\nthrough the love of sin, they, being pure, translated are.\n\n                            _Glory. Tone vi._\n\nOn Adam pain befell of old in Eden through the tasting of the tree, when\nbane the serpent spued; for thereby death hath come on the omnigenous man\nwho ate. But the Lord came, subdued the serpent, and repose bestow\u2019d on\nus. Then let us cry to him, O Saviour, spare, and rest with thine elect\nhim whom thou hast receiv\u2019d.\n\n                         _Both now. Theotokion._\n\nThou that alleviation art for those in grief, deliverance of the weak,\nGod-bearing Virgin, save the city and the folk, thou that for those at\nenmity art peace, for tempest-tost a calm, the faithful\u2019s sole defence.\n\n_Then_, Trisagion. O most holy Trinity.... Our Father.... For thine is\nthe Kingdom....\n\n_Then the troparion_, With the spirits of the righteous.... _Page 138._\n\n_And he commemorateth according to custom, saying the previously written\nectenia, and the prayer. Page 139._\n\n_Then the deacon._ Wisdom.\n\n_Choir._ The more honourable than the Cherubim.... _Glory. Both now._\nLord, have mercy, _thrice_. Bless.\n\n                 _And the priest maketh this dismissal._\n\nThou that didst arise from the dead, and hast dominion over quick and\ndead, Christ our true God, through the prayers of thy most pure Mother,\nand of all thy Saints, place the soul of the babe, _name_, removed from\nus, in holy tabernacles, and number it with the just, as being good and\nthe lover of mankind.\n\n_Choir._ Amen.\n\n               _And after the dismissal the priest saith,_\n\nThy remembrance is everlasting, O thou deservedly blessed and ever\nremembered babe, _name_.\n\n_And the choir singeth thrice_, Everlasting remembrance.\n\n                _After this the priest saith this prayer,\n            the deacon having said_, Let us pray to the Lord,\n                   _and the singers_, Lord, have mercy.\n\nO Lord, who guardest babes in the life that now is, and in the world\nto come preparest for them the amplitude of Abraham\u2019s bosom, and, for\ntheir purity, bright angelic places where the souls of the righteous are\nestablished; do thou thyself, O Lord Christ, accept in peace the soul of\nthy servant, the babe, _name_. For thou hast said, Suffer the children to\ncome unto me, for of such is the kingdom of heaven. For to thee is due\nall glory, honour, and worship, with the Father, and with the Holy Ghost,\nnow and ever, and to ages of ages. Amen.\n\n_And, taking up the body, they go to the grave, preceded by the priests\nand deacons and all the clergy, singing_, Holy God....\n\n_And, the remains having been laid in the grave, the presiding priest,\ntaking a shovel, scattereth earth in the grave, saying,_\n\nThe earth is the Lord\u2019s, and the fulness thereof, the world and all they\nthat dwell therein.\n\n                _And they depart giving thanks unto God._\n\n                      _End of the burial of a babe._\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n\n\n_Chapter XX._\n\nTHE ORDER OF THE LESSER SANCTIFICATION OF WATER.\n\n\n_A table covered with brocade is placed in the middle of the church in\nthe customary place, and water in a stoup. And the priest, having put\non epitrachelion and phelonion, and holding in his hand the honourable\ncross with an aspergillus, is preceded by the deacon with the censer, and\nby two light-bearers with tapers. And having come before the table, he\nlayeth thereupon the cross, and, taking the censer, he censeth the water\ncrosswise, and beginneth as customarily. And the priest having blessed,\nwe begin psalm cxlii._\n\nO Lord, hear my prayer....\n\n_Then_, God is the Lord, and hath manifested himself unto us.... _thrice,\nin tone iv_.\n\n                   _And the present troparia, tone iv._\n\nTo the God-bearing one we now earnestly hie, we, sinful and lowly ones,\nand bow down, crying in penitence from the depth of the soul, Help us, O\nQueen, being pitiful unto us: make speed, we are undone by the multitude\nof iniquities: turn not thy servants empty away; for thee we hold indeed\nan only trust. _Twice._\n\nAt no time, will we, unworthy ones, be silent, God-bearing one, to tell\nof thy mighty acts; for, hadst thou not prevented with intercession, who\nwould have delivered us out of so many dangers? and who would have kept\nus free until now? We will not turn away from thee, O Queen; for thou\never savest thy servants from all ills.\n\n_Then, psalm l._ Have mercy upon me, O God....\n\n                 _Then we sing these troparia, tone vi._\n\nThou that didst receive the salutation of the Angel, and didst bring\nforth thy Creator, save, O Virgin, them that magnify thee.\n\n                   _The first troparion is said twice._\n\nWe sing praises unto thy Son, God-bearing one, and cry, O most pure\nQueen, deliver thy servants from every danger.\n\nThou art the boast of kings, of prophets and apostles, and of martyrs,\nand the mediatress of the world, All-undefiled one.\n\nEvery tongue of the orthodox praiseth, and blesseth, and glorifieth thy\nmost pure childbirth, O god-wedded Mary.\n\nGrant even unto me, an unworthy one, O my Christ, forgiveness of\ntrespasses, I beseech thee, through the prayers of her that bore thee, as\nbeing compassionate.\n\nI have put my trust in thee, God-bearing one: save me by thy prayers,\nand grant me forgiveness of iniquities.\n\nQuicken me, O thou that didst bring forth the life-giver and Saviour:\nsave me, by thy prayers, thou blessed trust of our souls.\n\nAll-undefiled Virgin, who didst conceive in thy womb the Creator of all\nthings, save our souls by thy prayers.\n\nGod-bearing one all-praised, who by word didst above word bring forth the\nWord, pray him to save our souls.\n\nPropitiate towards me the judge and thy Son, me, above every man most\niniquitous, effecting this by thy prayers, O thou Queen.\n\nAs it is meet we cry to thee, Hail, God-bearing one, pure ever-virgin!\nentreating to be saved by thy prayers.\n\nDeliver me from the everlasting fire and the torments that await me, O\nparent of God, that I may bless thee.\n\nDespise not the supplications of thy servants, O Queen all-extolled, we\nbeseech thee, that we may be delivered from every besetment,\n\nFrom ailments, and from all afflictions, and from dangers deliver us,\neven us who fly to thy sacred protection.\n\nStrange is the wonder appertaining thee, God-conceiving one; for the\ncreator of all things, and our God, for our sake and like us, was born of\nthee.\n\nThy temple, God-bearing one, is declared a free hospital for the sick,\nand a place of consolation for afflicted souls.\n\nMost holy God-bearing one, who didst bring forth the Saviour, save thy\nservants from dangers, and from every other necessity.\n\nDeliver thy servants from every approaching menace, O most pure Queen,\nand from every spiritual and bodily harm.\n\nBy thy prayers, O God-bearing Virgin, save all them that betake\nthemselves to thee, and deliver them from every want and affliction.\n\nWho hieth to thy temple, O most pure God-bearing one, and receiveth not\nquickly a spiritual and also a bodily healing?\n\nO Compassionate One, who art besought by all saints and by hosts on high,\ncleanse me through her that bore thee.\n\nSpare, O Saviour, the souls of our brethren, who have died in hope of\nlife, and pardon and forgive their iniquities.\n\nHail, Virgin, propitiation of the world! hail, vase of divine manna and\ngolden candlestick of light, O Bride of God!\n\nWe sing thee, one God in Trinity, uttering the thrice-holy voice, and\npraying that we may obtain salvation.\n\n                                 _Glory._\n\nO Virgin, who didst bring forth the Saviour, and Master, and Lord of the\nworld! beseech him to save our souls.\n\n                               _Both now._\n\nHail, mountain! hail, bush! hail, gate! hail, ladder! hail, divine table!\nhail, Queen, aid of all!\n\nThrough the prayers, O Gracious One, of thy most pure Mother, and of all\nthy Saints, bestow thy mercies upon thy people.\n\nThrough the prayers of the glorious Archangels and Angels, and of the\nhosts on high, safeguard thy servants, O Saviour.\n\nThrough the prayers of thine honourable and glorious Baptist, the\nprophet, the forerunner, O Christ, my Saviour, preserve thy servants.\n\nThrough the prayers of glorious apostles and martyrs, and of all thy\nSaints, bestow thy mercies upon thy people.\n\nThrough the prayers of the glorious unmercenary ones, O God-bearing one,\npreserve thy servants, as being the protection and stablishing of the\nworld.\n\n                                 _Glory._\n\nLet us glorify the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Ghost, saying, O\nHoly Trinity, save our souls.\n\n                               _Both now._\n\nThou that unspeakably to the uttermost didst conceive and bring forth thy\nCreator, save, O Virgin, them that magnify thee.\n\n                                                                   _Then,_\n\nOpen unto us the gates of mercy, O blessed God-bearing one, that we\nperish not who put our trust in thee, but through thee may we be\ndelivered from dangers; for thou art the salvation of the christian race.\n\n_Then_, Let us pray to the Lord.\n\n_Priest._ For holy art thou, O our God....\n\n_Choir._ Amen.\n\n                  _Then the present troparia, tone vi._\n\nNow present is the time that halloweth all, and the just Judge awaiteth\nus. Then turn thyself to penitence, O soul, exclaiming, as the harlot\ndid, with tears, O Lord, be merciful to me.\n\nThou, who to-day the healing fountain in the Virgin\u2019s all-revered temple\nhast with waters shower\u2019d, dost with the sprinkling of thy blessing quell\nthe ailments of the weak, O Christ, physician of our bodies and our souls.\n\nA virgin who no nuptials knew thou didst bring forth, and thou, unwedded\nmother, virgin didst remain, God-bearing Mary: O pray Christ our God that\nwe be sav\u2019d.\n\nMost pure God-bearing Virgin, do thou direct our works, and pray for\npardon of our trespasses, as we the angelic song upraise,\n\nHoly God, holy mighty one, holy immortal one, have mercy upon us.\n\n_And it is sung as customarily, and, after the trisagion, the deacon\nsaith_, Let us attend.\n\n_Priest._ Peace to all.\n\n_Choir._ And to thy spirit.\n\n                   _Reader, the prokimenon, tone iii._\n\nThe Lord is mine illumination and my Saviour, whom shall I fear?\n\n_Verse._ The Lord is the defence of my life, of whom shall I be afraid?\n\n               _The epistle to the Hebrews, section cccvi._\n\nBrethren, he that sanctifieth ... _ending_, them that are tempted[51]\n\n_Priest._ Peace to thee.\n\n                           _Alleluia, tone vi._\n\n_Verse i._ My heart uttereth a good word.\n\n_Verse ii._ I speak of my works unto the King.\n\n                   _The gospel from John, section xiv._\n\nAt that time Jesus went up ..., _ending_, whatsoever disease he had.[52]\n\n                      _Then the deacon the ectenia._\n\nIn peace let us pray to the Lord.\n\nFor the peace that is from above....\n\nFor the peace of the whole world....\n\nFor this holy temple....\n\nFor the Most Holy Governing Synod....\n\nFor our Most Pious....\n\nThat he would assist them and subdue under Their feet....\n\nFor this city.... (_if it is a monastery_)\n\nFor this holy habitation....\n\nFor healthiness of weather....\n\nFor them that voyage, that journey....\n\nThat this water may be hallowed by the might, and operation, and\nvisitation of the Holy Ghost.\n\nThat there may come down into this water the cleansing operation of the\nsupersubstantial Trinity.\n\nThat this water may be to the healing of soul and body, and to the\nturning aside of every opposing might.\n\nThat the Lord God may send down the blessing of Jordan, and hallow this\nwater.\n\nFor all them that need help and assistance from God.\n\nThat we may be illuminated with the illumination of understanding by the\nconsubstantial Trinity.\n\nThat the Lord God may declare us sons and inheritors of his kingdom,\nthrough partaking of this water, and through being sprinkled therewith.\n\nFor our deliverance from every affliction....\n\nHelp us, save us, have mercy on us....\n\nCommemorating our most holy, most pure....\n\n_Choir._ To thee, O Lord.\n\n                              _Exclamation._\n\nFor to thee is due all glory....\n\n                           _Then this prayer._\n\nO Lord our God, mighty in counsel, and wonderful in works, Maker of all\ncreation, who keepest thy covenant and thy mercy towards them that love\nthee and that keep thy commandments, who acceptest the piteous tears of\nall them that are in need; for for this cause thou didst come in the\nform of a servant, not terrifying us with phantoms, but vouchsafing true\nbodily healing, and saying, Behold, thou art made whole, sin no more:\nyea, thou didst with clay restore the eyes of the blind, and didst bid\nhim wash, and by a word didst make him see, O thou that breakest the\nwaves of adverse passions, and driest up the salt sea of this life,\nand quellest the billows of lusts that are hard to be endured; do thou\nthyself, O man-loving King, who hast given unto us to be invested with a\nsnow-white robe by water and the Spirit, by the partaking of this water,\nand by being sprinkled therewith, send down upon us thy blessing, which\ntaketh away the defilement of passions. Yea, O Blessed One, we pray thee\nto visit our infirmities, and to heal our spiritual and bodily weaknesses\nby thy mercy: through the prayers of our altogether most pure, most\nblessed Lady, the God-bearing ever-virgin Mary; through the might of the\nhonourable and life-effecting cross; through the intercessions of the\nhonourable heavenly bodiless hosts; of the honourable glorious prophet,\nforerunner, and baptist, John; of the holy glorious and all-praised\napostles; of our venerable and god-bearing fathers; of our fathers in\nthe saints, the great hierarchs and ecumenical doctors, Basil the great,\nGregory the theologian, and John Chrysostom; of our fathers in the\nsaints, Athanasius and Cyril, patriarchs of Alexandria; of our father in\nthe saints, Spyridon, wonderworker of Trimythes; of our father in the\nsaints, archbishop Nicolas, wonderworker of Myrlicia; of our fathers\nin the saints, Peter, Alexis, Jonas, and Philip, wonderworkers of all\nRussia; of the holy and glorious great martyr, George, the triumphant;\nof the holy and glorious great martyr, Demetrius, the myrrh-emitter: of\nthe holy and excellently victorious martyrs; of the holy and righteous\ngod-progenitors, Joakim and Anna; of the holy glorious and unmercenary\nwonderworkers, Cosmas and Damian, Cyrus and John, Pantelimon and\nHermolaus, Sampson and Diomed, Mocius and Anicetus, Thalaleus and\nTryphon; and of the holy, _name_, whose memory we keep, and of all thy\nSaints.\n\nAnd preserve, O Lord, thy Servant, our Most Pious, Autocratic, Great\nLord, THE EMPEROR ALEXANDER ALEXANDROVITCH, of all Russia. _Thrice._\n\nAnd His Consort, the Most Pious Lady, THE EMPRESS MARIA THEODOROVNA.\n\nAnd His Heir, the Right-believing Lord, the Cesarevitch and Grand Duke,\nNICOLAUS ALEXANDROVITCH, and all the reigning House.\n\nSave, O Lord, and have mercy upon the Most Holy Governing Synod, give\nunto them spiritual and bodily health, and be gracious in all things to\nthis thy ministration of the christian polity. Remember, O Lord, every\nepiscopate of the right-believers, that rightly divide the word of thy\ntruth, and every priestly and monastic order, and their salvation.\nRemember, O Lord, them that hate and them that love us, our ministering\nbrethren here present, and them that for a blessed cause are absent and\nhave desired us, unworthy ones, to pray for them. Remember, O Lord, our\nbrethren that are in bonds and afflictions, and have mercy upon them\naccording to thy great mercy, delivering them from every need. For thou\nart the fountain of healing, O Christ our God, and to thee we ascribe\nglory, with thine unbeginning Father, and with thy most holy, and good,\nand life-creating Spirit, now and ever, and to ages of ages.\n\n_Choir._ Amen.\n\n_Priest._ Peace to all.\n\n_Choir._ And to thy spirit.\n\n_Deacon._ Bow your heads to the Lord.\n\n_Choir._ To thee, O Lord.\n\n                  _And the priest secretly the prayer._\n\nIncline thine ear, O Lord, and hearken unto us, thou who didst vouchsafe\nto be baptized in Jordan, and didst hallow the waters; and do thou bless\nus all, who through the bending of our necks indicate the representation\nof service; and count us worthy to be filled with thy sanctification\nthrough the partaking of this water; and may it be unto us, O Lord, for\nthe healing of soul and body.\n\n_Exclamation._ For thou art our sanctification, and to thee we ascribe\nglory, and thanksgiving, and worship, with thine unbeginning Father, and\nwith thine all-holy, and good, and life-creating Spirit, now and ever,\nand to ages of ages.\n\n_Choir._ Amen.\n\n_Then, taking the honourable cross, he blesseth the water thrice, dipping\nit and raising it perpendicularly in the form of a cross, and singing the\npresent troparion in tone i thrice._\n\nO Lord, save thy people, and bless thine inheritance, granting victory to\nour Right-believing EMPEROR, _name_, over enemies, and preserving thine\nestate by thy cross.\n\n           _And after this they sing this troparion, tone ii._\n\nMake us worthy of thy gifts, O God-bearing Virgin, overlooking our\niniquities, and vouchsafing cures unto them that in faith receive thy\nblessing, O thou most pure.\n\n_Then the priest kisseth the honourable cross, as also do all the people,\nand he sprinkleth all with the sanctified water, and the altar, and the\nwhole church. And the people sing the present troparia, tone iv._\n\nHaving a fountain of remedies, O holy unmercenary ones, ye bestow\nhealings unto all that are in need, as being counted worthy of mighty\ngifts from the ever-flowing fountain of our Saviour; for the Lord hath\nsaid unto you, as unto co-emulators of the apostles, Behold, I have given\nunto you power over unclean spirits so as to cast them out, and to heal\nevery sickness and every wound. Therefore in his commandments having\nvirtuously liv\u2019d, freely ye receiv\u2019d, freely ye bestow, healing the\nsufferings of our souls and bodies.\n\nAttend unto the supplications of thy servants, thou altogether undefiled\none, quelling the uprisings of evils against us, and releasing us from\nevery affliction; for thee we have alone a sure and certain confirmation,\nand we have gained thy mediation that we may not be put to shame, O\nQueen, who call upon thee, Be instant in supplication for them that\nfaithfully exclaim to thee, Hail, Queen, thou aid of all, the joy and\nsafeguard, and salvation of our souls!\n\nAccept the prayers of thy servants, O Queen, and deliver us from every\nnecessity and grief.\n\n                _And, after the sprinkling, the ectenia._\n\nHave mercy upon us, O God....\n\nFurthermore let us pray for the preservation of this holy habitation,\nand of every city and country, from famine, pestilence, earthquake,\nflood, fire, sword, invasion of strangers, and civil war, that our good\nand man-loving God may be gracious and favourably disposed to turn away\nfrom us every rage that riseth against us, and to deliver us from his\nimpending and righteous threatening, and to have mercy upon us.\n\nLord, have mercy, _xl_.\n\n                       _And the priest exclaimeth,_\n\nHear us, O God our Saviour, thou hope of all the ends of the earth....\n_and the rest_.\n\n_Choir._ Amen.\n\n_Priest._ Peace to all.\n\n_Choir._ And to thy spirit.\n\n_Deacon._ Let us bow our heads to the Lord.\n\n_Choir._ To thee, O Lord.\n\n                 _Priest, this prayer with a loud voice._\n\nO most merciful Master, O Lord Jesus Christ our God, through the prayers\nof our all-holy Lady, the God-bearing ever-virgin Mary; through the might\nof the honourable and life-effecting cross; through the intercession\nof the honourable heavenly bodiless hosts; of the honourable glorious\nprophet, forerunner, and baptist, John; of the holy glorious and\nall-praised apostles; of the holy glorious and excellently victorious\nmartyrs; of our venerable and god-bearing fathers; of our fathers in\nthe saints, the great ecumenical doctors and divines, Basil the great,\nGregory the theologian, and John Chrysostom; of our father in the saints,\narchbishop Nicolas, wonderworker of Myrlicia; of our fathers in the\nsaints, Peter, Alexis, Jonas, and Philip, wonderworkers of all Russia;\nof the holy and righteous god-progenitors, Joakim and Anna, _and of the\nholy, name, whose is the temple_, and of all thy Saints, make our prayer\nacceptable unto thee; grant unto us forgiveness of our iniquities; cover\nus with the shelter of thy wings; remove far from us every enemy and\nadversary; give peace to our life; O Lord, have mercy upon us, and upon\nthy world, and save our souls, as being good and the lover of mankind.\n\n_Choir._ Amen.\n\n                           _And the dismissal._\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n\n\n_Chapter XXI._\n\nTHE ORDER OF THE GREAT SANCTIFICATION ON THE HOLY THEOPHANY.\n\n\n_After the priest hath said the prayer behind the ambo, we all go to the\nbaptismal font, the taper-bearers going in front, and after them the\ndeacons and priests with the gospel and with incense, while the brethren\nsing the present troparia._\n\n                               _Tone viii._\n\nThe voice of the Lord crieth upon the waters, saying, O come ye, and all\nreceive the spirit of wisdom, the spirit of understanding, the spirit of\nthe fear of God, even Christ, who is made manifest.\n\n                                                                 _Thrice._\n\nTo-day the nature of the waters is sanctified, and the Jordan is divided,\nand turneth back the flowing of its waters, beholding the baptism of the\nMaster.\n\n                                                                  _Twice._\n\nAs a man thou didst come to the river, O Christ the King, desiring to\nreceive the baptism of a servant, O thou good one, at the hand of the\nForerunner, because of our sins, O lover of mankind.\n\n                                                                  _Twice._\n\n                    _Glory. Both now. The same tone._\n\nTo the voice crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord,\nthou didst come, O Lord, taking the form of a servant, asking for\nbaptism, thou who knowest not sin. The waters beheld thee, and were\nafraid. The Forerunner became trembling, and cried, saying, How shall\nthe lamp of light be lighted? how shall the servant lay hands upon the\nMaster? Sanctify thou me and the waters, O Saviour, thou that takest away\nthe sins of the world.\n\n_And straightway, standing by the baptismal font, the deacon saith_,\nWisdom.\n\n            _And the reader, the reading from the prophesy of\n                                 Esaias._\n\n                              _Chap. xxxv._\n\nThus saith the Lord, Let the thirsty desert be glad, let the wilderness\nrejoice, and blossom as a rose, and let them bud forth and be exceedingly\nglad. And let the desert of Jordan rejoice, and the glory of Libanus\nshall be given unto it, and the honour of Carmel, and my people shall\nbehold the glory of the Lord, and the exaltedness of God. Strengthen ye\nthe weak hands, and comfort ye the feeble knees; and say unto them that\nare faint-hearted in intention, Be ye strong, and fear not, behold our\nGod will render judgment, he will come and save us. Then shall the eyes\nof the blind be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall hear. Then shall\nthe lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the deaf be distinct;\nfor in the wilderness shall water break out, and a ravine in a thirsty\nland. And waterless places shall become pools, and in a thirsty land\nshall be a spring of water: there shall be joy of birds, abodes of\nsyrens, and reeds and pools. And there shall be a pure way, and it shall\nbe called a holy way; and the impure shall not pass there, neither shall\nan impure way be there, and the dispersed shall walk therein, and shall\nnot wander. And no lion shall be there, nor of evil beasts shall one\nenter there, nor be found there; but the redeemed and chosen of the Lord\nshall walk therein. And they shall return and come to Sion with joy and\ngladness, and everlasting joy shall be upon their heads: praise, and\ngladness, and joy shall penetrate them, and pain, grief, and sighing\nshall flee away.\n\n                _The reading from the prophecy of Esaias._\n\n                               _Chap. lv._\n\nThus saith the Lord, O every one that thirsteth, come ye to the water,\nand as many as have no money, come ye, buy, and eat and drink, wine\nand fat, without money and without price. Wherefore do ye spend money\nfor that which is not bread, and labour for that which satisfieth not?\nhearken ye to me, and eat that which is good, and let your soul delight\nitself in good things. Incline your ears, and follow in my ways; hearken\nunto me, and your soul shall live in good things; and I will promise\nunto you an everlasting testament, even faithful things befitting unto\nDavid. Behold, I have given him to be a testimony among the nations, a\nprince and a commander among the nations. Behold, nations that have not\nknown thee shall call upon thee, and people that have not recognised\nthee shall have recourse unto thee, because of the Lord thy God and the\nholy one of Israel, for I have glorified thee. Seek ye God, and, when ye\nhave found him, call upon him, if haply he may draw nigh unto you. Let\nthe impious forsake his ways, and the transgressing man his counsels;\nand turn ye unto the Lord your God, and ye shall be pitied; for in much\nwise he forgiveth your sins. For my counsels are not as your counsels,\nneither as your ways are my ways, saith the Lord. For as the heaven\nstandeth far from the earth, so standeth my way from your ways, and your\ncontemplations from my thoughts. For as the rain or the snow cometh down\nfrom heaven, and returneth not thither, until it soaketh the earth, and\ngenerateth, and increaseth, and giveth seed to the sower, and bread to\nthe eater, so shall my word be which goeth out of my lips, and returneth\nnot unto me void, until it accomplisheth all that I have wished, and\nfurthereth my ways and my commandments. For ye shall go forth with joy,\nand be taught with gladness: for the mountains and the hills shall leap,\nexpecting you with joy, and all the trees of the field shall clap their\nhands. And instead of the thorn shall come up the cypress, and instead of\nthe nettle shall come up the myrtle; and it shall be to the Lord for a\nname and for an everlasting sign, and it shall not be cut off.\n\n                _The reading from the prophecy of Esaias._\n\n                               _Chap. xii._\n\nThus saith the Lord, Ye shall draw water with joy out of wells of\nsalvation. And thou shalt say in that day, Confess ye unto the Lord, and\ncall upon his name, declare his glory unto the nations, make mention that\nhis name is exalted. Sing ye the name of the Lord, for he hath wrought\nexcellent things: declare ye these throughout all lands. Rejoice and be\nglad, ye that dwell in Sion, for the holy one of Israel is exalted in the\nmidst thereof.\n\n_Deacon._ Wisdom.\n\n                     _Reader, prokimenon, tone iii._\n\nThe Lord is mine illumination, and my Saviour, whom shall I fear?\n\n_Verse._ The Lord is the defence of my life, of whom shall I be afraid?\n\n          _The epistle to the Corinthians, section cxliii, from\n                         the paragraph, Chap. x._\n\nBrethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant how that all our fathers\nwere under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; and were all\nbaptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; and did all eat the\nsame spiritual meat, and did all drink the same spiritual drink; for they\ndrank of the spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.\n\n                           _Alleluia, tone iv._\n\n_Verse._ The voice of the Lord is upon the waters, the God of glory\nthundereth, the Lord is upon many waters.\n\n               _The gospel from Mark, section ii. Chap. i._\n\nAt that time Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized of\nJohn in Jordan. And straightway coming up out of the water, he saw the\nheavens opened, and the Spirit like a dove descending upon him. And there\nwas a voice from heaven, saying, Thou art my beloved Son, in whom I am\nwell pleased.\n\n                   _And the deacon saith the ectenia._\n\nIn peace let us pray to the Lord.\n\nFor the peace that is from above....\n\nFor the peace of the whole world....\n\nFor this holy temple....\n\nFor the Most Holy Governing Synod....\n\nFor our Most Pious, Autocratic Great Lord, THE EMPEROR ALEXANDER\nALEXANDROVITCH of all Russia; and for His Consort, the Most Pious Lady,\nTHE EMPRESS MARIA THEODOROVNA.\n\nFor His Heir, the Right-believing Lord, the Cesarevitch and Grand Duke\nNICOLAUS ALEXANDROVITCH; and for all the Reigning House.\n\nThat he would assist Them, and subdue....\n\nFor this city, (_if it is a monastery_, For this holy habitation)....\n\nFor healthiness of weather....\n\nFor them that voyage, that journey....\n\nThat this water may be hallowed by the might, and operation, and descent\nof the Holy Ghost, let us pray to the Lord.\n\nThat there may come down into these waters the cleansing operation of the\nsupersubstantial Trinity, let us pray to the Lord.\n\nThat there may be bestowed upon them the grace of redemption, the\nblessing of Jordan, through the might, and operation, and descent of the\nholy Ghost, let us pray to the Lord.\n\nThat he would quickly beat down satan under our feet, and destroy every\nevil counsel that he conceiveth against us, let us pray to the Lord.\n\nThat the Lord our God may deliver us from every evil device, and from the\nessay of the adversary, and may count us worthy of promised blessings,\nlet us pray to the Lord.\n\nThat we may be illuminated with the illumination of understanding and\npiety through the descent of the Holy Ghost, let us pray to the Lord.\n\nThat the Lord God would send down the blessing of Jordan, and hallow\nthese waters, let us pray to the Lord.\n\nThat this water may be a gift of sanctification, a loosing of sins, for\nthe healing of soul and body, and for every befitting need, let us pray\nto the Lord.\n\nThat this water may well up unto eternal life, let us pray to the Lord.\n\nThat it may be manifested to the destruction of every counsel of visible\nand invisible enemies, let us pray to the Lord.\n\nFor them that laid and draw thereof for the sanctification of houses, let\nus pray to the Lord.\n\nThat it may be to the cleansing of soul and body of all that with faith\ndraw and partake of it, let us pray to the Lord.\n\nThat we may be counted worthy to be filled with sanctification through\nthe partaking of these waters, by the invisible manifestation of the Holy\nGhost, let us pray to the Lord.\n\nThat the Lord God may hearken unto the voice of the prayer of us sinners,\nand have mercy upon us, let us pray to the Lord.\n\nFor our deliverance from every affliction....\n\nHelp us, save us, have mercy....\n\nCommemorating our most holy, most pure, most blessed....\n\n            _While these are being said, the priest saith this\n                            prayer secretly._\n\nLord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son, that art in the bosom of the\nFather, O thou true God, fountain of life and immortality, thou light\nof light, that camest into the world to enlighten it; do thou dawn\nupon our mind by thy Holy Ghost, and accept us offering magnifying and\nthanksgiving unto thee for thy wonderful mighty works from eternity, and\nfor thy saving providence in these last ages, in which thou hast assumed\nour impotent and poor substance, and, condescending to the estate of\na servant, who art King of all things, didst furthermore endure to be\nbaptized in Jordan by the hand of a servant, that thou, the sinless one,\nhaving sanctified the nature of water, mightest lead us unto regeneration\nby water and the spirit, and stablish us in the aforetime liberty.\nAnd, celebrating the memory of this divine mystery, we beseech thee, O\nman-loving Master, Sprinkle thou also upon us, thine unworthy servants,\naccording to thy divine promise, pure water, the gift of thy tenderness,\nthat the prayer of us sinners over this water may be acceptable through\nthy grace, and that thereby thy blessing may be bestowed upon us and upon\nall thy faithful people, to the glory of thy holy and adorable name. For\nto thee is due all glory, honour, and worship, with thine unbeginning\nFather, and with thy most holy, and good, and life-creating Spirit, now\nand ever, and to ages of ages.\n\n_And he saith to himself_, Amen.\n\n_And when the deacon hath finished the ectenia, the priest beginneth this\nprayer with a loud voice._\n\nGreat art thou, O Lord, and wonderful are thy works, and no word shall\nbe sufficient for the praise of thy wonders.\n\n                                                                 _Thrice._\n\nFor thou by thy will hast from, nothingness brought all things into\nbeing, and, by thy power, thou sustainest creation, and, by thy\nforeknowledge, directest the world. Thou from four elements hast formed\ncreation, and hast crowned the circle of the year with four seasons. All\nthe spiritual powers tremble before thee, the sun praiseth thee, the\nmoon glorifieth thee, the stars make intercession with thee, the light\nhearkeneth unto thee, the depths shudder at thy presence, the springs\nof water serve thee. Thou hast stretched out the heavens as a curtain,\nthou hast founded the earth upon the waters, thou hast bounded the sea\nwith sand, thou hast diffused the air for breathing. The angelic powers\nminister unto thee, the choirs of archangels worship thee, the many-eyed\ncherubim, and the six-winged seraphim, standing and flying around, cover\nthemselves with fear of thine unapproachable glory. For thou, being the\nuninscribable, unbeginning and unspeakable God, didst come down upon\nearth, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men;\nfor thou, O Master, through the tenderness of thy mercy, didst not endure\nto behold the race of men tormented by the devil, but thou didst come and\nsave us. We confess thy grace, we proclaim thy mercy, we conceal not thy\nbeneficence. Thou hast set at liberty the generations of our nature,\nthou didst hallow the virginal womb by thy birth. All creation praiseth\nthee who didst manifest thyself; for thou, O our God, wast seen upon\nearth, and didst dwell together with men. Thou didst hallow the streams\nof Jordan, sending down from heaven thy Holy Ghost, and didst crush the\nheads of the dragons that lurked therein.\n\n_And the priest then saith this thrice, and blesseth the water with his\nhand at each verse._\n\nDo thou thyself, O man-loving King, be present now also through the\ndescent of thy Holy Ghost, and sanctify this water.\n\nAnd give it the grace of redemption, the blessing of Jordan. Make it a\nfountain of incorruption, a gift of sanctification, a loosing of sins,\na healing of sicknesses, a destruction of demons, unapproachable by\nhostile powers, fulfilled with angelic strength, that all they that draw\nand partake thereof may have it for the cleansing of souls and bodies,\nfor the healing of sufferings, for the sanctification of houses, and for\nevery befitting need. For thou art our God, who through water and the\nspirit hast renewed our nature fallen through sin: thou art our God,\nwho through water didst overwhelm sin in the time of Noe: thou art our\nGod, who through the sea by Moses didst deliver the Hebrew race from the\nservitude of Pharao: thou art our God, who didst divide the rock in the\nwilderness, and it gushed waters and poured streams, and satisfied thy\nthirsty people: thou art our God, who through water and fire by Elias\ndidst convert Israel from the error of Baal.\n\nAnd do thou thyself now, O Master, sanctify this water by thy Holy Ghost.\n\n                                                                 _Thrice._\n\nAnd grant unto all them that touch it, and partake thereof, and are\nsprinkled therewith, sanctification, healing, cleansing, and blessing.\n\nSave, O Lord, thy Servant, our Most Pious, Autocratic Great Lord, THE\nEMPEROR ALEXANDER ALEXANDROVITCH of all Russia, _thrice_.\n\nAnd his Consort, the Most Pious Lady, THE EMPRESS MARIA THEODOROVNA.\n\nAnd His Heir, the Right-believing Lord, the Cesarevitch and Grand Duke,\nNICOLAUS ALEXANDROVITCH, and all the Reigning House.\n\nSave, O Lord, and have mercy upon the Most Holy Governing Synod.\n\nAnd keep them under thy protection in peace, subdue under Them every\nenemy and adversary, grant unto Them all desires for salvation and\neternal life, that by elements, and by men, and by angels, and by things\nvisible and invisible thy most holy name may be glorified, with the\nFather and the Holy Ghost, now and ever, and to ages of ages. Amen.\n\n_Priest._ Peace to all.\n\n_Deacon._ Bow your heads to the Lord.\n\n                    _Priest, the bowing down prayer._\n\nIncline thine ear, O Lord, and hearken unto us, thou that didst vouchsafe\nto be baptized in Jordan, and didst hallow the waters; and bless us all,\nwho through the bending of our necks indicate the representation of\nservice; and count us worthy to be filled with thy sanctification through\npartaking of this water; and may it be to us, O Lord, for the healing of\nsoul and body.\n\n                              _Exclamation._\n\nFor thou art our sanctification, and to thee we ascribe glory, and\nthanksgiving, and worship, with thine unbeginning Father, and with thy\nMost Holy, and good, and life-creating Spirit, now and ever, and to ages\nof ages. Amen.\n\n_And straightway, blessing the water crosswise with the honourable cross,\nhe dippeth it perpendicularly, sinking it in the Water and raising it,\nholding it with both hands, and singing the present troparion in tone i._\n\nIn Jordan when thou wast baptized, O Lord, the worship of the Trinity was\nmanifested; for the Parent\u2019s voice bore witness unto thee, naming thee\nthe well-beloved Son; and the Spirit, in appearance of a dove, testified\nto the surety of the word. Thou who wast manifested, O Christ God, and\nenlightenest the world, glory to thee.\n\n                  _And the same is sung by the singers._\n\n_Again a second time in like manner he signeth the water. And a third\ntune in like manner. And the priest, having taken of the sanctified water\nin a salver, turneth himself with his face towards the west, holding the\ncross in his left hand and the aspergillus in his right. And first the\npresident approacheth, and kisseth the honourable cross, and the priest\nsigneth him in the face with the aspergillus with the sanctified water.\nThen the priests come forward in their order. And after this all the\nbrotherhood in order._\n\n                           _And the troparion,_\n\nIn Jordan when thou wast baptized, O Lord.... _is sung many times, until\nall the brotherhood are sanctified with the sprinkling of the water_.\n\n_And straightway we go into the temple, singing the idiomelon, tone vi._\n\nYe faithful, let us sing the greatness of God\u2019s providence for us; for\nhe that for our sins became a man, in Jordan for our cleansing cleansed\nwas, himself alone being pure and uncorrupt, me hallowing and the waters,\nand the dragons\u2019 heads crushing the water in. Then, brethren, let us\nwater draw with joy; for unto them that draw in faith the Spirit\u2019s grace\ninvisibly is given by Christ, the God and Saviour of our souls.\n\n_Then_, Blessed be the name of the Lord.... _thrice_.\n\n_And Psalm xxxiii._ I will bless the Lord at all times....\n\n_And, first having drunk of the sanctified water, we receive the\nantidoron from the priest. And he maketh the full dismissal._\n\nHe that vouchsafed to be baptized in Jordan for our salvation, Christ our\ntrue God, through the prayers of his Most Pure Mother, and of all the\nSaints, have mercy upon us and save us, as being good and the lover of\nmankind.\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n\n\n_Chapter XXIV._\n\nPRAYER AT THE BLESSING OR FLESH-MEAT ON THE HOLY AND GREAT SUNDAY OF\nPASCHA.\n\n\n                           _The priest maketh,_\n\n                          Blessed be our God....\n\n                      Christ is risen.... _thrice_.\n\n                     _Then_, Let us pray to the Lord.\n\n                            Lord, have mercy.\n\nO Lord Jesus Christ, our God, look thou upon flesh-meat, and sanctify\nit, as thou didst sanctify the ram which the faithful Abraham brought\nunto thee, and as the lamb which Abel offered unto thee as a holocaust,\nlikewise also as the fatted calf which thou didst bid to be killed for\nthy prodigal son when he returned again to thee, that as he was counted\nworthy to enjoy thy grace, so may we also enjoy those things that are\nsanctified and blessed by thee for the nourishment of us all. For thou\nart the true nourishment, and the giver of good things, and to thee we\nascribe glory, with thine unbeginning Father, and with thy most holy, and\ngood, and life-creating Spirit, now and ever, and to ages of ages. Amen.\n\n\n\n\n_Chapter XXV._\n\nPRAYER AT THE BLESSING OF CHEESE AND EGGS.\n\n\nMaster, Lord our God, author and creator of all things, bless thou\nthe curdled milk, and with this also the eggs, and preserve us in thy\ngoodness, that, as we partake of these, we may be filled with thine\nungrudgingly bestowed gifts, and with thine unspeakable goodness. For\nthine is the might, and thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the\nglory, of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, now and\never, and to ages of ages. Amen.\n\n\n\n\n_Chapter XXVI._\n\nPRAYER AT THE PARTAKING OF GRAPES ON THE VITH DAY OF AUGUST.\n\n\n                         Let us pray to the Lord.\n\n                             Lord have mercy.\n\nBless, O Lord, this new fruit of the vine, which through the salubrity\nof the air, and through showers of rain and temperate weather, thou art\nwell-pleased should at this time attain unto maturity. May our partaking\nof this new growth of the vine be for gladness, and for the offering of\na gift unto thee for the cleansing of sins, through the sacred and holy\nbody of thy Christ, with whom thou art blessed, together with thy most\nholy, and good, and life-creating Spirit, now and ever, and to ages of\nages. Amen.\n\n_And be it known that this prayer is said, where there are vineyards,\nover grapes, and these are brought into the temple for a blessing on this\nsixth day of August. But here in great Russia, where, vineyards are not\nfound, apples are this day brought into the temple, and the prayer for\nthem that offer first-fruits is said, of which the beginning is,_\n\n                         Master, Lord our God....\n\n_And likewise other fruits, let each be brought in their season to the\ntemple for a blessing, and then let the prayer be said over them._\n\n\n\n\n_Chapter XXVII._\n\nPRAYER FOR THEM THAT OFFER FIRST-FRUITS.\n\n\nMaster, Lord our God, who biddest everyone according to their purpose to\noffer unto thee thine own of thine own, and bestowest upon them in return\nthine everlasting blessings, who didst favourably accept the offering of\nas much as she could of the widow; do thou now also accept the things\noffered by thy servant, _name_, and vouchsafe to lay up the same in thine\neternal treasury, and grant unto him abundant possession of thy worldly\nblessings, together with all things that are serviceable unto him.\n\nFor blessed is thy name, and glorified is thy kingdom, of the Father, and\nof the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, now and ever, and to ages of ages.\nAmen.\n\n\n\n\n_Chapter XXVIII._\n\nPRAYER AT THE LAYING OF THE FOUNDATION OF A HOUSE.\n\n\nO God Almighty, who didst make the heaven in understanding, and didst\nfound the earth on its firmness, thou builder and creator of all; look\nupon thy servant, _name_, who purposeth, in the might of thy strength,\nto erect a house for habitation, and to set it up with a building. Do\nthou stablish the same on a firm rock, and, according to thy divine\nevangelical voice, so found it that neither wind nor water, nor\nanything whatsoever may be able to injure it. Be pleased to bring it to\ncompletion, and deliver them that desire to live therein from every snare\nof the enemy.\n\nFor thine is the might, and thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the\nglory, of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, now and\never, and to ages of ages. Amen.\n\n\n\n\n_Chapter XXIX._\n\nPRAYER WHEN ONE ENTERETH INTO A NEW HOUSE.\n\n\nO God our Saviour, who was pleased to enter in under the roof of\nZaccheus, and didst bring salvation unto him and unto all his house;\ndo thou thyself now also preserve unhurt from every harm them that have\npurposed to live here, and offer unto thee prayers and supplications\nthrough us unworthy ones, blessing those whose dwelling-place is here,\nand preserving their life without snares.\n\nFor to thee is due all glory, honour, and worship, with thine unbeginning\nFather, and with thy most holy, and good, and life-creating Spirit, now\nand ever, and to ages of ages. Amen.\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n\n\n_Chapter XXXIII._\n\nPRAYER FOR ONE THAT PURPOSETH TO GO ON A JOURNEY.\n\n\nO God, our God, the true and living way, who didst journey with thy\nservant Joseph; do thou journey with thy servant, _name_, and deliver him\nfrom every storm and snare, and peace and vigour continually provide.\nBe pleased that, having accomplished every intention of righteousness,\naccording to thy commandment, and being filled with temporal and heavenly\nblessings, he may return again.\n\nFor thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, of the Father,\nand of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, now and ever, and to ages of ages.\nAmen.\n\n[Illustration]\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n\n\nFOOTNOTES\n\n\n[1] The office for the laying on of hands of a bishop is not found in the\nbook here mentioned, and consequently no translation of this office will\nbe found in the present work.\n\n[2] This work also contains the _troparia for the day_ and other matter\nnot written at length in the text of the present one.\n\n[3] See _Euchology_, chap. xxvii.\n\n[4] These verses form no part of the proper Easter service, but are sung\nat Matins on ordinary Sundays. See _Euchology_, page 25.\n\n[5] This Doxology is the one sung at Matins on an ordinary week-day when\nno festival is observed. See _Euchology_, page 105. And observe how the\npresent office, with its Stichera, etc., takes the form of Matins.\n\n[6] These Verses are proper for the Saturday of meat-abstinence. See\n_Euchology_, page 261.\n\n[7] This verse is proper to Matins, and serves as a keynote to\nindicate whether the occasion is a joyful or a penitential one, it\nbeing superseded by the singing of Alleluia in the latter case. See\n_Euchology_, pages 23 and 94.\n\n[8] An exclamation at the celebration of the Liturgy, after the\nconsecration and the intercession for the dead and living, and before the\nectenia that introduces the Lord\u2019s prayer.\n\n[9] Chap. vi., 3-11.\n\n[10] Chap. xxxviii., 16 ad fin.\n\n[11] The questions that follow, coming down from Byzantine times, though\nretained in the _Tr\u00e9bnik_, are not now asked, but the confessor waits for\nthe penitent to reveal his or her offences, and, when necessary, puts\nsuitable questions, according to the person\u2019s condition, sex, and age.\n\n[12] Here in the _Tr\u00e9bnik_ follow some instructions respecting the\nimposition of penance, which, according to the canons, consists in\nprohibition from Holy Communion for a given time for certain grave sins.\n\n[13] Chap. v. 20, ad fin.\n\n[14] Chap. ii. 1-11.\n\n[15] James v: 10-16.\n\n[16] Chap. x. 25-37.\n\n[17] Chap. xv. 1-8.\n\n[18] Chap. xix. 1-10.\n\n[19] 1 Cor. xii. 27\u2014xiii. 8.\n\n[20] Chap. x. 1, 5-8.\n\n[21] 2 Cor. vi. 16\u2014vii. 1.\n\n[22] Chap. viii. 14-23.\n\n[23] 2 Cor. i. 8-11.\n\n[24] Chap. xxv. 1-13.\n\n[25] Chap. v. 22\u2014vi. 2.\n\n[26] Chap. xv., 21-28.\n\n[27] 1 Thess. v., 14-23.\n\n[28] Chap. ix., 9-13.\n\n[29] Psalm xc.\n\n[30] Psalm cxviii.\n\n[31] 1 Thess. iv. 13-17.\n\n[32] Chap. v. 24-30.\n\n[33] Sun. chap. i. 1-8. Mon. chap. i. 12-17 21-26. Tues. chap. ii. 14-21.\nWed. chap. ii. 22-36. Thurs. chap. ii. 38-43. Fri. chap. iii. 1-8. Sat.\nchap. iii. 11-16.\n\n[34] Matt. xxviii. 16-20.\n\n[35] 1 Thess. iv. 13-17.\n\n[36] Chap. v. 24-30.\n\n[37] Chap. v. 12 ad fin.\n\n[38] Chap. v. 17-24.\n\n[39] Psalm xxiii.\n\n[40] 1 Cor. xv. 1-11.\n\n[41] Chap. vi. 35-39.\n\n[42] Psalm lxxxiii.\n\n[43] 1 Cor. xv. 20-28.\n\n[44] Chap. vi. 40-44.\n\n[45] Chap. xiv. 6-9.\n\n[46] Chap. vi. 48-54.\n\n[47] Psalms cxlviii, cxlix, and cl.\n\n[48] Psalm xc.\n\n[49] 1 Cor. xv. 39-45.\n\n[50] Chap. vi. 35-39.\n\n[51] Chap. ii. 11 ad fin.\n\n[52] Chap. v. 1-4.\n\n\n\n\nAPPENDIX.\n\nTHE LAYING ON OF HANDS.\n\n\n\n\nCONTENTS OF APPENDIX.\n\n\n                                                                     PAGE.\n\n  The office for the appointment of a reader and singer                 5\n\n  The office that is used at the laying on of hands of a subdeacon      9\n\n  The office that is used at the laying on of hands of a deacon        12\n\n  The office that is used at the appointment of an archdeacon and\n    a protodeacon                                                      17\n\n  The office that is used at the laying on of hands of a presbyter     18\n\n  The order of the office for the making of a protopresbyter           23\n\n  The office that is used at the appointment of an abbot               24\n\n  The office that is used at the appointment of an archimandrite       27\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n\n\nTHE OFFICE FOR THE APPOINTMENT OF A READER AND SINGER IS PERFORMED ON\nTHIS WISE.\n\n\n_He that is to be made a taper-bearer is brought by two subdeacons into\nthe middle of the church, and he maketh three reverences. And, turning\nhimself, he boweth thrice to the Archpriest; and, having been conducted\nto the Archpriest, he boweth his head, and the Archpriest signeth him\ncrosswise with the hand upon his head thrice. And after this, placing his\nhand upon his head, he saith this prayer._\n\nLord, who with the light of thy wonders enlightenest all Creation, who\nknowest the intention of each before it is formed, and strengthenest them\nthat desire to serve thee; do thou thyself adorn with thine unspotted\nand undefiled robes thy servant, _name_, who is minded to precede thy\nholy mysteries as a taper-bearer, that, being enlightened and meeting\nthee in the world to come, he may obtain an incorruptible crown of life,\nrejoicing with thine elect in everlasting blessedness.\n\n_Exclamation._ For hallowed is thy name, and glorified is thy kingdom, of\nthe Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, now and ever, and to\nages of ages. Amen.\n\n_And be it noted that, if the liturgy be not celebrated, the Archpriest\nmaketh the beginning_, Blessed be our God.... _and then is sung_, O\nheavenly King.... _Trisagion._ O most holy Trinity.... Our Father.... For\nthine is the kingdom.... _And the troparion of the day is said._\n\n_But if the liturgy be celebrated_, O heavenly King.... _and Trisagion\nand_ Our Father.... _are not sung, and only these troparia are said._\n\nO holy apostles, pray the merciful God that he may grant our souls\nremission of sins.\n\nThe grace of thy mouth, shining forth like fire, hath illuminated the\nuniverse, hath offered the world treasures of liberality, and hath shewed\nto us the height of humility. And as thou instructest by thy words, O\nfather John Chrysostom, pray Christ, the Word of God, to save our souls.\n\nThy sound is gone forth into all the earth, which hath received thy word,\nwhereby thou hast divinely taught, hast explained the nature of things\nthat are, and brightened the customs of men, O royal divine, venerable\nfather: pray thou Christ God to save our souls.\n\nThe shepherd\u2019s reed of thy divinity hath overcome the trumpets of the\norators; for as to him that seeketh the deep things of the spirit, so\nwas the grace of language accorded thee. Then, father Gregory, pray\nChrist God to save our souls.\n\n                            _Glory. Both now._\n\nThrough the prayers, O Lord, of all the saints, and of the God-bearing\none, grant thy peace to us, and have mercy upon us, as being alone\ncompassionate.\n\n_Then the Archpriest sheareth his head crosswise, saying_, In the name\nof the Father. _A protodeacon and a reader, or a singer, say_, Amen.\n_Archpriest._ And of the Son. _Protodeacon._ Amen. _Archpriest._ And of\nthe Holy Ghost. _Protodeacon._ Amen.\n\n_Then the Archpriest putteth the short phelonion on him, and again thrice\nsigneth him crosswise on his head with the hand, and layeth his hand upon\nhim, and prayeth thus,_\n\nO Lord God almighty, elect this thy servant, and sanctify him, and grant\nunto him, in all wisdom and understanding, to practise the study and\nreading of thy divine words, preserving him in a blameless course of life.\n\n                              _Exclamation._\n\nThrough the mercy, and compassions, and love to man of thine\nonly-begotten Son, with whom thou art blessed, together with thine\nall-holy, and good, and life-creating Spirit, now and ever, and to ages\nof ages. Amen.\n\n_And after the prayer the Archpriest openeth the book of the apostles\nover the head of the reader. And the subdeacons conduct him from the\nArchpriest, and place him in the middle of the church, with his face\ntowards the east, and give him the book of the apostles, and he readeth\nthus, The reading of the message of the holy apostle Paul to the Romans\n(or, to others). And he readeth the portion of the epistle that is\nappointed, from the beginning to the end, and turneth himself and boweth\nthrice to the Archpriest according to rite. And the subdeacons take\noff from him the phelonion, and conduct him to the Archpriest. And the\nArchpriest again signeth his head thrice with the hand. And they bring\nthe sticharion to the Archpriest, and he signeth the sticharion with\nhis hand over the cross. And he that hath been appointed, having signed\nhimself with his hand, kisseth the cross upon the sticharion, and the\nhand of the Archpriest; and the subdeacons vest him with the sticharion.\nAnd the Archpriest addresseth him on this wise,_\n\nChild, the first degree of the priesthood is that of reader. Therefore\nit becometh thee to read every day in the divine scriptures, that they\nthat hear, considering thee, may receive edification, and that thou, in\nnowise shaming thine election, mayest prepare thyself for a more advanced\ndegree. For, living temperately, holily, and righteously, thou shalt gain\nthe mercy of the man-loving God, and make thyself worthy of a higher\nministry, in Christ Jesus our Lord, to whom be glory to ages of ages.\nAmen.\n\n                _Then the Archpriest saith on this wise,_\n\nBlessed be the Lord, lo, the servant of God, _name_, becometh reader of\nthe most holy church, _name_, in the name of the Father, and of the Son,\nand of the Holy Ghost.\n\n_And the Archpriest giveth him a lamp, and he standeth before the\nArchpriest with the lamp in the indicated place._\n\n          _And if there be several readers to receive the laying\n                 on of hands they receive this together,\n                      and the prayer is said in the\n                                 plural._\n\n\n\n\nTHE OFFICE THAT IS USED AT THE LAYING ON OF HANDS OF A SUBDEACON.\n\n\n_Now if on the same day he is to receive the laying on of hands for the\nsubdiaconate, after the investing with the sticharion, the subdeacons\nbring a sticharion-girdle to the Archpriest. And the Archpriest maketh\nthe sign of the cross upon the girdle, and he that is to receive the\nlaying on of hands kisseth the girdle, and the hand of the Archpriest,\nand they gird him. And the Archpriest signeth him with the hand upon the\nhead thrice. After this the protodeacon saith_, Let us pray to the Lord.\n_And the Archpriest, having laid his hand upon him, saith this prayer._\n\nO Lord our God, who through one and the same holy Spirit, distributest\ngifts to them whom thou hast chosen, bestowing various orders in thy\nchurch, and appointing degrees of service therein for the ministration\nof thy divine and spotless mysteries, who, in thine unspeakable\nforeknowledge, dost also appoint this thy servant to be worthy to serve\nin thy holy church; do thou thyself, O Master, preserve him blameless in\nall things, and grant unto him to love the beauty of thy house, to stand\nat the doors of thy holy temple, to kindle the lamp of the tabernacle\nof thy glory; and plant him in thy holy church as a fruitful olive-tree\nthat beareth fruit of righteousness; and, at the time of thine advent,\ndeclare thy servant perfected to receive the reward of them that have\nbeen acceptable unto thee.\n\n                                                            _Exclamation._\n\nFor thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, of the Father,\nand of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, now and ever, and to ages of ages.\nAmen.\n\n_And after the prayer the subdeacons give a ewer to him that is receiving\nthe laying on of hands, and lay a towel upon his shoulder; and the\nArchpriest washeth his hands. And he that is receiving the laying on\nof hands for subdeacon poureth water on the hands of the Archpriest.\nAfter this he that is receiving the laying on of hands, and the other\nsubdeacons, kiss the Archpriest\u2019s hand, and betake themselves from him to\nthe indicated place. And he that is receiving the laying on of hands for\nsubdeacon standeth, holding the ewer, and the wash-hand basin, together\nwith the towel, until the cherubic hymn. And he saith, Trisagion._ O\nmost holy Trinity.... Our Father.... Lord, have mercy. I believe in\none God.... Forgive, remit.... _and whatever else he is minded to say\nsecretly. And during the cherubic hymn he is conducted before the royal\ndoors to the Archpriest; and the Archpriest washeth his hands according\nto rite, and saith the prayer. Then he signeth the water with his\nhand crosswise thrice. And the Archpriest with this sanctified water\nwetteth his eyes, ears, nostrils, and lips. And at the great introit he\nwalketh behind all the ministers. And when the Archpriest taketh up the\nholy things, and all the ministers proceed into the altar, he that is\nreceiving the laying on of hands for subdeacon boweth to the Archpriest,\nand beareth water to the right and left choirs, and to the people, and\nthey all splash themselves with this water. And they conduct him back\nto the altar, and they pour the water that remaineth into the piscina.\nAnd, being conducted, he remaineth before the royal doors, and standeth\nin the indicated place according to rite. And when the Archpriest hath\nsaid_, And may the mercies.... _after this exclamation he is conducted\ninto the altar by the subdeacons according to rite, and, having received\na blessing from the Archpriest, he standeth with the subdeacons._\n\n\n\n\nTHE OFFICE THAT IS USED AT THE LAYING ON OF HANDS OF A DEACON.\n\n\n                    _After the Archpriest hath said,_\n\nAnd may the mercies of the great God.... _the subdeacons bring forward\nthe throne, and place it before the holy table, but somewhat on the left\nside, so that they may not turn their backs towards the holy things.\nAnd the Archpriest seateth himself thereupon, and they take him that is\nto receive the laying on of hands from the middle of the church, two\nsubdeacons holding him between them, each of them laying one hand upon\nhis neck, and with the other hand holding him by the hands, and they bow\nhim down as lowly as possible. And a deacon in the altar saith_, Bid.\n_Then, having advanced somewhat, they bow him down as before. And another\ndeacon saith_, Bid ye. _Then they come nigh unto the holy gates of the\naltar, and bow him down before the Archpriest._\n\n                       _And the protodeacon saith,_\n\n                       Bid, right reverend master.\n\n_And the subdeacons leave him that is to receive the laying on of hands\nat the royal gates, and two receive him, a protodeacon and a deacon, one\nby the right and the other by the left hand, and he boweth himself to the\nArchpriest. And the Archpriest signeth him with the hand crosswise, and\nthey conduct him round the holy table, they that lead him and the others\nsinging,_\n\nO holy martyrs, who valiantly contended, and are crown\u2019d; pray ye the\nLord for mercy on our souls.\n\n_Then they that are without sing the same once. And he that is receiving\nthe laying on of hands kisseth the four corners of the holy table, and\nthe hand of the Archpriest, and his knee. Then they conduct him round\nagain, singing,_\n\nGlory to thee, Christ God, apostles\u2019 boast, and martyrs\u2019 joy, whose\npreaching was the consubstantial Trinity.\n\n_And the choir without singeth the same once. And he that is receiving\nthe laying on of hands again kisseth the holy table in like manner as\nbefore, and the Archpriest\u2019s epigonation, and his hand._\n\n_Then again they conduct him round, singing,_\n\nRejoice, O Esaias, the virgin is with child, and bringeth forth a son,\nEmmanuel, God and man: the orient is his name, whom magnifying, we call\nthe virgin blessed.\n\n_And they make the rite, as before written. And they sing the same\nwithout. Then the Archpriest riseth, and they remove the throne, and he\nthat is receiving the laying on of hands goeth to the right side of the\nArchpriest, and boweth himself before the holy table thrice, saying_, O\nGod, cleanse me, a sinner. _And, bending the right knee, he placeth his\npalms crosswise on the holy table, and layeth also his forehead between\nhis hands on the holy table. The Archpriest placeth the end of the\nomophorion on the head of him that it receiving the laying on of hands,\nand blesseth him upon the head thrice. And the protodeacon or the deacon\nhaving said_, Let us attend, _the Archpriest, holding his hand upon his\nhead, readeth aloud in the hearing of all them that stand in the altar,_\n\nThe divine grace, which always remedieth that which is feeble, and\nsupplieth that which is lacking, layeth hands upon, _name_, the most\npious subdeacon to be deacon: let us therefore pray for him, that the\ngrace of the all-holy Spirit may come upon him.\n\n_And the priests within sing, from the right hand side_, Lord, have\nmercy, _thrice. Then again, from the left hand side, the same thrice.\nAnd the singers without, in the right and left choirs_, Kyrie eleison,\n_antiphonally thrice slowly, while the Archpriest readeth the prayer.\nThen the Archpriest blesseth him upon the head thrice, holding his hand\nupon the head of him that is receiving the laying on of hands. The\nprotodeacon saith_, Let us pray to the Lord, _in a low voice._\n\n             _And the Archpriest saith the prayer secretly._\n\nO Lord our God, who, by thy foreknowledge sendest the gift of thy holy\nSpirit on them that are destined, by thine unsearchable might, to be\nministers, and to serve at thy spotless mysteries; do thou thyself, O\nMaster, preserve in every virtue this man whom thou art well-pleased to\nlay hands upon by me for the ministry of the diaconate, he holding the\nmystery of the faith in a pure conscience. Give unto him the grace which\nthou gavest to thy protomartyr Stephen, whom thou didst first call to the\nwork of thy ministry; and make him worthy to use, as may be acceptable\nunto thee, the degree which, by thy goodness, is given unto him (for they\nthat minister well prepare for themselves a good degree); and do thou\ndeclare him thy perfect servant.\n\n                              _Exclamation._\n\n                 For thine is the kingdom, and the power,\n                   and the glory, of the Father, and of\n                     the Son, and of the Holy Ghost,\n                           now and ever, and to\n                              ages of ages.\n                                  Amen.\n\n_And the protodeacon readeth that which is of peace in a low voice._ In\npeace let us pray to the Lord. _And they answer to each petition_, Lord\nhave mercy, _once_. For the peace that is from above.... For the peace\nof the whole world.... For our archpriest, _name_, for his priesthood,\nassistance, continuance, peace, health, salvation, and for the work of\nhis hands, let us pray to the Lord. For the servant of God, _name_, now\nreceiving the laying on of hands for deacon, and for his salvation, let\nus pray to the Lord. That the man-loving God may bestow on him a spotless\nand blameless diaconate, let us pray to the Lord. For our Most Pious,\nAutocratic Great Lord, THE EMPEROR ALEXANDER ALEXANDROVITCH of all\nRussia, and for all HIS palace and army, let us pray to the Lord. For\nthis city.... For our deliverance.... Help us, save us, have mercy on\nus.... Commemorating our most holy, most pure.... _They answer_, To thee,\nO Lord.\n\n               _And the Archpriest, holding his hand on the\n          head of him that is receiving the laying on of hands,\n                        saith the second prayer._\n\nO God our Saviour, who, by thine incorruptible voice, didst appoint\nthe law of the diaconate unto thine apostles, and didst declare the\nprotomartyr Stephen of such rank, and proclaim him the first to fulfil\nthe work of a deacon, as it is written in thy holy gospel, Whosoever\ndesireth to be the first among you, let him be your minister; do thou,\nO Master of all, fill this thy servant, whom thou hast made worthy to\nenter on the ministry of a deacon, with all faith, and love, and power,\nand sanctification, through the visitation of thy holy and life-creating\nSpirit (for it is not by the imposition of my hands, but by the presence\nof thy compassions, that grace is given unto them that are worthy of\nthee), that he, being without any sin, may stand blameless before thee in\nthe fearful day of thy judgment, and may receive the unfailing reward of\nthy promise.\n\n_Exclamation._ For thou art our God, and to thee we ascribe glory, to the\nFather, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost, now and ever, and to ages\nof ages. Amen.\n\n_Then they raise him up, and loosen his girding. And the Archpriest,\ntaking the orarion, layeth it upon his left shoulder saying with a loud\nvoice,_ Axios. _And they sing in the altar thrice_, Axios. _And in like\nmanner without by both choirs. Then the maniples are given him, and the\nArchpriest saith_, Axios. _And they sing the same in the altar thrice,\nand in like manner without. Then the fan is given him, and the Archpriest\nsaith_, Axios. _And they sing in the altar and without according to\ncustom. And he kisseth the Archpriest on the shoulder, and placeth\nhimself by the altar, and fanneth the holy things._\n\n\n\n\nTHE OFFICE THAT IS USED AT THE APPOINTMENT OF AN ARCHDEACON AND A\nPROTODEACON.\n\n\n_He that is to be appointed an archdeacon is led by a protodeacon and a\ndeacon unto the right reverend Archpriest in the middle of the church,\nwhere the Archpriest is standing at the time of the introit with the\ngospel; and he inclineth himself to his girdle before the Archpriest\nthrice, and boweth his head. And the Archpriest, sitting, signeth him\nwith the hand on his head crosswise, thrice; and, rising, he layeth his\nhand upon his head. And the deacon having said_, Let us pray to the Lord,\n\n                   _the Archpriest saith this prayer._\n\nMaster, Lord our God, who, by thine unspeakable providence, hast given to\nour race archdeaconship, that they that are endued therewith may command\nand serve, with the subordinate ministers at thy divine mysteries; do\nthou thyself endue with this grace of archdeaconship thy present servant,\n_name_, and adorn him with thy virtue to stand at the head of the deacons\nof thy people, and to be a good example to them that are under him. And\nmake him to attain unto a ripe old age to glorify thy majestic name, of\nthe Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, now and ever, and to\nages of ages. Amen.\n\n_Then the Archpriest signeth his head crosswise, saying_, Blessed be the\nLord, lo, the servant of God, _name_, is archdeacon (or protodeacon) in\nthe name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.\n\n_And the Archpriest, laying his hand upon his head, exclaimeth_, Axios,\n_thrice. And the singers sing_, Axios, _thrice. And they enter the altar\naccording to rite._\n\n\n\n\nTHE OFFICE THAT IS USED AT THE LAYING ON OF HANDS OF A PRESBYTER.\n\n\n_After the conclusion of the cherubic hymn, he that is to be appointed\npresbyter is conducted by an archdeacon, or by one of the other deacons,\nthrough the royal gates unto the holy table before the Archpriest on the\nright hand side. And the Archpriest signeth him with the hand crosswise,\nand he is conducted round the throne thrice, as it is written in the\ndiaconal laying on of hands, while all in the altar sing these troparia._\n\nO holy martyrs, who valiantly contended and are crown\u2019d; pray ye the Lord\nfor mercy on out souls.\n\n                                                                   _Once._\n\nGlory to thee, Christ God, apostles\u2019 boast and martyrs\u2019 joy, whose\npreaching was the consubstantial Trinity.\n\n                                                                   _Once._\n\n_Then_, Rejoice, O Esaias, the virgin is with child, and bringeth forth a\nson, Emmanuel, God and man: the orient is his name, whom magnifying, we\ncall the virgin blessed.\n\n                                                                   _Once._\n\n_And he bendeth both knees, and placeth his palms crosswise on the holy\ntable, and layeth his forehead between his hands on the holy table. The\nArchpriest placeth the end of the omophorion on the head of him that is\nreceiving the laying on of hands, and blesseth him upon the head thrice.\nAnd the leading priest having said_, Let us attend, _the Archpriest,\nholding his hand upon his head, readeth aloud in the hearing of all them,\nthat stand in the altar,_\n\nThe divine grace, which always remedieth that which is feeble, and\nsupplieth that which is lacking, layeth hands upon, _name_, the most\npious deacon, to be presbyter: let us therefore pray for him, that the\ngrace of the all-holy Spirit may come upon him.\n\n_And the priests within sing_, Lord, have mercy, _thrice from the right\nhand side. Then again thrice from the left hand side. Then in like manner\nalso the singers without in the right and left choirs,_ Kyrie eleison,\n_antiphonally thrice slowly, while the Archpriest readeth the prayer.\nThe Archpriest again blesseth him thrice, having his hand lying upon the\nhead of him that is receiving the laying on of hands. And the protodeacon\nsaith_, Let us pray to the Lord, _in a low voice._\n\n               _The Archpriest saith the prayer secretly._\n\nO God, unbeginning and unending, who art older than every created thing,\nwho honourest with the tide of presbyter them who are made worthy in\nthis degree to minister sacredly the word of thy truth; do thou thyself,\nO Master of all, vouchsafe that this man, whom thou art well-pleased to\nlay hands upon by me, may receive, in a blameless conversation and in\nunswerving faith, this great grace of thy holy Spirit, and declare him\nthy perfect servant, acceptable unto thee in all things, and worthily\nexercising this great priestly honour vouchsafed unto him by thy\nforeknowing power.\n\n                              _Exclamation._\n\n            For thine is the might, and thine is the kingdom,\n                   and the power, and the glory, of the\n                    Father, and of the Son, and of the\n                        Holy Ghost, now and ever,\n                           and to ages of ages.\n                                  Amen.\n\n_And the priest readeth that which is of peace in a low voice._\n\nIn peace let us pray to the Lord. _They answer to each petition_, Lord,\nhave mercy, _once_. For the peace that is from above.... For the peace\nof the whole world.... For our archpriest, _name_, for his priesthood,\nassistance, continuance, peace, health, salvation, and for the work of\nhis hands, let us pray to the Lord. For the Servant of God, _name_, now\nreceiving the laying on of hands for presbyter, and for his salvation,\nlet us pray to the Lord. That the man-loving God may bestow on him a\nspotless and blameless priesthood, let us pray to the Lord. For our Most\nPious, Autocratic Great Lord, THE EMPEROR ALEXANDER ALEXANDROVITCH of all\nRussia, and for all HIS palace and army, let us pray to the Lord. For\nthis city.... For our deliverance.... Help us, save us.... Commemorating\nour most holy, most pure.... _They answer_, To thee, O Lord.\n\n_The Archpriest, having his hand lying on the head of him that is\nreceiving the laying on of hands, prayeth thus,_\n\nO God, mighty in power, and unsearchable in understanding, wonderful\nin counsels above the sons of men; do thou thyself, O Lord, fill with\nthe gift of thy holy Spirit this man, whom thou art well-pleased should\nattain unto the presbyterial degree, that he may be worthy to stand\nblamelessly at thine altar, to declare the gospel of thy kingdom, to\nminister sacredly the word of thy truth, to offer unto thee gifts\nand spiritual sacrifices, and to renew thy people by the laver of\nregeneration, that he, meeting thee at the second coming of the great God\nand our Saviour, Jesus Christ, thine only-begotten Son, may receive the\nreward of a good stewardship of his order, in the plentitude of thy grace.\n\n                              _Exclamation._\n\nFor blessed and glorified is thine all-revered and majestic name, of the\nFather, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, now and ever, and to ages\nof ages. Amen.\n\n_Then they raise him up, and bring the epitrachelion, and taking\nthe orarion from him that hath received the laying on of hands, the\nArchpriest giveth him the epitrachelion, having blessed it, and he that\nhath received the laying on of hands kisseth the epitrachelion, and the\nArchpriest\u2019s hand. And the Archpriest layeth it upon his neck, saying\nwith a loud voice_, Axios. _And they sing in the altar thrice_, Axios.\n_And the singers without sing the same in both choirs. In like manner\nhe giveth him also the girdle, and he kisseth it, and the Archpriest\u2019s\nhand, and girdeth himself. And the Archpriest saith_, Axios. _And they\nsing in the altar and without in like manner. And they do the same with\nthe phelonion, and with the slouj\u00e9bnik. And the Archpriest saith with\neach_, Axios. _And they sing according to custom. And, having kissed the\nomophorion and the Archpriest\u2019s hand, he that hath received the laying on\nof hands as priest goeth out and kisseth the archimandrites, and all the\nco-ministrants on the shoulder, and standeth with the priests._\n\n\n\n\nTHE ORDER OF THE OFFICE FOR THE MAKING OF A PROTOPRESBYTER.\n\n\n_He that is to be appointed protopresbyter is conducted by a protodeacon,\nor by two deacons, to the right reverend Archpriest in the middle of the\nchurch, where the Archpriest standeth at the time of the introit with\nthe gospel. And he inclineth himself to his girdle before the Archpriest\nthrice, and boweth his head. And the Archpriest, sitting, signeth him\nwith the hand on his head crosswise thrice. And, rising, he layeth his\nhand upon his head. And the protodeacon having said_, Let us pray to the\nLord,\n\n                   _the Archpriest saith this prayer._\n\nMaster, Lord Jesus Christ, our God, who hast bestowed priesthood on our\nrace, and hast endued us with the grace of this gift and honour, and hast\nappointed us who are sufficiently pious to rule the priestly order, and\nthe other subordinate ministers of thy mysteries; do thou thyself endue\nour brother, _name_, with thy grace, and adorn him with virtue to stand\nat the head of the presbyters of thy people, and make him worthy to be a\ngood example to them that are with him; and be thou pleased that he may\nfinish his life in piety and virtue unto a good old age; and, as the good\nGod, have mercy upon us all. For thou art the giver of wisdom, and all\ncreation singeth thee to ages of ages.\n\n_Then the Archpriest signeth his head crosswise, saying_, Blessed be the\nLord, lo, the servant of God, _name_, becometh protopresbyter of the most\nholy church of God, _name_, in the name of the Father, and of the Son,\nand of the Holy Ghost.\n\n_And the Archpriest, laying his hand upon his head, exclaimeth_, Axios,\n_iii. And the singers sing,_ Axios, _thrice. Then they range the\nprotopresbyter with the other clergy according to rite, and they go\ninto the altar through the royal doors, and they act with the ministers\naccording to rite._\n\n\n\n\nTHE OFFICE THAT IS USED AT THE APPOINTMENT OF AN ABBOT.\n\n\n_He that is to be appointed abbot is conducted by a protodeacon, or by\ntwo deacons, to the Archpriest in the middle of the church, where the\nArchpriest standeth at the time of the introit with the gospel, if the\nArchpriest himself be celebrating the liturgy. But if not, they bring\nto the Archpriest the epitrachelion, the maniples, and the omophorion,\nand he vesteth himself, standing in his place. And he that is to be\nappointed abbot is conducted to his place, and inclineth himself to\nhis girdle before the Archpriest thrice, and boweth his head. And the\nArchpriest, sitting, signeth him with the hand upon his head thrice. And,\nrising, he layeth his hand upon his head, and the protodeacon having\nsaid_, Let us pray to the Lord,\n\n                   _the Archpriest saith this prayer._\n\nO God, who ever makest provision for the salvation of men, and gatherest\ntogether in one this thy rational flock; do thou, O Master of all things,\nin thy measureless love to man, thyself preserve this same blameless,\nkeeping thy commandments continually, so that not one sheep thereof may\nbe lost, and be devoured by the wolf. And declare this thy servant,\nwhom thou art pleased to appoint abbot over it, worthy of thy grace,\nand adorn him with all virtues, that he, by his works, may be a good\nexample to them that are under him, that they, being emulators of his\nblameless conversation, may stand with him uncondemned before thy fearful\njudgment-seat.\n\n_Exclamation._ For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, of\nthe Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, now and ever, and to\nages of ages. _Singers._ Amen.\n\n                       _Archpriest._ Peace to all.\n\n_Singers._ And to thy spirit. _Protodeacon._ Bow your heads to the Lord.\n_Singers._ To thee, O Lord.\n\n                    _The Archpriest prayeth secretly._\n\nIncline thine ear, O Lord, and hearken unto our prayer, and declare this\nthy servant to be abbot of this honourable habitation, a faithful and\nwise administrator over the rational flock committed to him by thy grace,\nhe doing thy will in all things, and becoming worthy of thy heavenly\nkingdom.\n\n                              _Exclamation._\n\nThrough the grace, and compassions, and love to man of thine\nonly-begotten Son, with whom thou art blessed, together with thine\nall-holy, and good, and life-creating Spirit, now and ever, and to ages\nof ages. Amen.\n\n_And the protodeacon saith with a loud voice_, Bid, master.\n\n              _And the Archpriest saith with a loud voice,_\n\nThe grace of the all-holy Spirit, through our mediocrity, appointeth thee\nabbot of the honourable habitation of our Lord, God, and Saviour, Jesus\nChrist, _name, whatever title of him the temple may be, or_, of our most\nholy God-bearing Lady, _whatever title of her the temple may be, or_, of\nSaint, _name, to whom may be dedicated the temple_.\n\n_Then, laying his hand upon his head, the Archpriest exclaimeth_, Axios,\n_thrice. And the singers sing_, Axios, _thrice._\n\n              _After this he that hath been appointed abbot\n             kisseth the Archpriest\u2019s omophorion on the right\n           and left shoulder; and, being conducted, he rangeth\n           himself with the other abbots according to rite; and\n                 they go into the altar through the royal\n                      doors, and he acteth with the\n                           ministers according\n                                to rite._\n\n\n\n\nTHE OFFICE THAT IS USED AT THE APPOINTMENT OF AN ARCHIMANDRITE.\n\n\n_He that is to be appointed archimandrite is conducted by a protodeacon,\nor by two deacons, to the Archpriest in the middle of the church where\nthe Archpriest standeth at the time of the introit with the gospel, if\nthe Archpriest himself be celebrating the liturgy. But if not, they bring\nthe epitrachelion, the maniples, and the omophorion to the Archpriest,\nand he vesteth himself standing in his place. And he that is to be\nappointed archimandrite is conducted to his place, and he inclineth\nhimself to his girdle thrice before the Archpriest, and boweth his head.\nAnd the Archpriest, sitting, signeth him with the hand upon his head\nthrice. And if he that is to be appointed archimandrite be not an abbot,\nthe Archpriest saith over him the prayers which are said over an abbot.\nBut if he be already an abbot the prayers for an abbot are not said over\nthe archimandrite, and the protodeacon only saith with a loud voice,_\n\n                               Bid, master.\n\n            _And the Archpriest exclaimeth with a loud voice,_\n\nThe grace of the all-holy Spirit, through our mediocrity, appointeth\nthee archimandrite of the honourable habitation of our Lord, God, and\nSaviour, Jesus Christ, or, of our most holy God-bearing Lady, _whatever\ntemple of her it may be, or_, of Saint, _name, to whom may be dedicated\nthe temple_.\n\n_Then the Archpriest, laying his hand on the head of him that is\nappointed, exclaimeth_ Axios, _thrice._\n\n                 _And the singers sing_, Axios, _thrice._\n\n                _And if, by the command of our Most Pious,\n                    Autocratic Great Lord, THE EMPEROR\n                       ALEXANDER ALEXANDROVITCH of\n            all Russia, and with the blessing of the Most Holy\n        Governing Synod, the mitre be given to the archimandrite,\n                 then after the procession from the altar\n         with the gospel at the divine liturgy, the archimandrite\n                 is conducted to the Archpriest. And the\n          Archpriest doth not say the prayer, but only blesseth\n             the archimandrite with the hand. And he kisseth\n              the Archpriest\u2019s hand, and the mitre; and they\n             place the mitre on the archimandrite. And, being\n          conducted, he rangeth himself with the archimandrites\n                     and abbots according to degree,\n                    and they go into the altar through\n                      the royal doors, and he acteth\n                            with the ministers\n                               according to\n                                  rite._\n\n[Illustration]","title":"Book of Needs of the Holy Orthodox Church : $b with an appendix containing offices for the laying on of hands","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":64629}