Liturgia sancti Gregorii

The Divine Liturgy of Our Father among the Saints Gregory. O Master Lord Jesus Christ, who have visited us in mercy and compassion, and granted us, your humble, sinful, and unworthy servants, the freedom to stand before your holy altar and to offer to you the fearful and bloodless sacrifice for our own transgressions and for the ignorances of your people, for the relief and repose of our forefathers and brethren who have fallen asleep, and for the strengthening of all your people. Look upon me, your worthless servant, and blot out my transgressions by your compassion; and cleanse my lips and my heart from every defilement of flesh and spirit; and remove from me every thought that is shameful and senseless; and sanctify me by the power of your holy Spirit for this liturgy, and accept me by your goodness as I draw near to your holy altar; and be pleased, O Lord, that the gifts about to be offered by my hands be acceptable, condescending to my weaknesses; and do not cast me away from your face; do not abhor me, my unworthiness, but have mercy on me, O God, according to your great mercy, and according to the abundance of your compassion blot out my lawlessness, that I may approach without condemnation before your glory, and be deemed worthy of your protection and of the illumination of your all-holy Spirit; and may I not become a rejected servant of sin, but a servant who finds grace and mercy and remission of sins, both now and in the age to come.

Yes, almighty Master, all-powerful Lord, hearken to my supplication. For you are the one who works all things in all; and we all seek from you assistance and support in all things, because you are benevolent and glorified, Jesus our God, with your beginningless Father and your Holy Spirit, now and always. Prayer after the preparation of the holy altar. Master Lord Jesus Christ, our God, who through your salvific presence and the illumination of your all-holy Spirit have deemed us, your humble, sinful, and unworthy servants, worthy to stand before your holy altar and to offer and serve the pure mysteries of your new covenant. Yourself life-giver and bestower of goods, make with us a sign for good, and deem us worthy to serve you with a clear conscience all the days of our life, and to offer this divine liturgy to you in sanctification, for the remission of sins and for the enjoyment of future blessedness. Remember, O good one, benefactor, king of the ages, and creator of all creation, those who have offered and those through whom they have offered; and preserve us blameless in the sacred service of your divine mysteries; for your most honored and magnificent holy name is blessed, sanctified, and glorified, with the Father and the Holy Spirit, now, and. Prayer of the holy Gospel.

Peace to all. Master Lord Jesus Christ our God, who said to your holy disciples and sacred apostles that many prophets and righteous ones desired to see what you see, and did not see; and to hear what you hear, and did not hear; for blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear. And may we be deemed worthy now to hear and to do your holy Gospels, through the supplications of your sacred ones. Remember therefore, Master, also now, all those who charged us unworthy ones to remember them in our prayers and petitions, which we offer up to you, Lord our God. Those who have died before us, give them rest; those who are laboring, strengthen them; for you are the life of us all, and the salvation of us all, and the hope of us all, and the healing of us all, and the proper resurrection of us all; and to you we send up glory, honor, and worship, together with your almighty and all-seeing Father and your all-holy, life-originating, and consubstantial Spirit, now and always. Prayer of the curtain. No one bound by fleshly desires and pleasures is worthy to approach, or draw near, or minister to you, King of glory. For serving you is great and fearful, and inaccessible even to the heavenly powers themselves. But nevertheless, on account of your ineffable and immeasurable love for humanity, you became man unchangeably and unalterably, and you acted as high priest for us, and you handed down to us the sacred rite of this liturgical and bloodless sacrifice, as Master of all.

For you are master of the heavenly, the earthly, and the subterranean; you who ride upon the cherubic throne; you who are Lord of the seraphim and King of Israel; you who alone are holy and repose among the holy. Therefore I beseech you, the only good and gracious God: look upon me, your sinful and worthless servant, and empower me with the strength of the Holy Spirit, clothed in the grace of the priesthood, to stand before this holy table of yours and to perform the sacred rite of your immaculate body and your precious blood. For I approach you, bowing my own neck, and I entreat you: do not turn your face away from me, nor reject me from among your children, but deem me worthy to offer these gifts to you, from me, your sinful and unworthy servant. For you are the one who sanctifies and is sanctified, who offers and is offered, who receives and is received, who gives and is distributed; and we send up glory to you, together with the Father and the Holy Spirit.

Another prayer of the veil, from the Egyptians. Lord our God, almighty, who oversee the mind of men, who examine hearts and kidneys; who called me, the unworthy one, to this your liturgy: do not abhor me, nor turn your face away from me; but blot out all my transgressions, and wash away the filth of my body and the stain of my soul, and sanctify me entirely, that I may not, while beseeching you to grant remission of sins to others, myself become reprobate. Yes, Lord, do not turn away from me, humbled and ashamed, but send me the grace of your Holy Spirit, and deem me worthy to stand before your holy altar without condemnation, and to offer you this rational and bloodless offering, with a clear conscience, for the forgiveness of our sins and transgressions; and for the remission of the ignorances of your people; for the rest and refreshment of our fathers and brethren who have fallen asleep before us, and for the strengthening of all your people, to the glory of you, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now.

Prayer of the kiss. Peace to all. The one who is, and pre-exists, and endures through the ages; coeternal and consubstantial with the Father, and co-throned and co-creator. Who, solely out of goodness, brought man from non-being into being, and placed him in the paradise of delight. But when he fell through the deceit of the enemy and disobedience to your commandment, wishing to renew him and lead him back to his ancient dignity, you entrusted the salvation of us not to an angel, not to an archangel, not to a patriarch, not to a prophet; but you yourself, unchanged, became flesh and were made man, being made like us in all things except sin alone; becoming mediator between us and the Father, and having demolished the partition wall of the fence and the long-standing enmity, you joined the earthly to the heavenly, and brought both into one, and fulfilled the incarnate economy. And when you were about to depart bodily into the heavens, while divinely filling all things, you said to your holy disciples and apostles: I leave peace to you; I give you my peace. Grant us this peace now also, O Master; bestow upon us purification from every defilement, from every deceit and every evil, and from every malice and deadly rancor, and deem us worthy to greet one another with a holy kiss, so that we may partake without condemnation of your immortal and heavenly gift; by the grace of the Father’s good will and the energy of the Holy Spirit. For you are the provider and giver of all good things, and to you we send up glory, the eternal doxology, together with your beginningless Father and your Holy Spirit, now and always.

Another prayer of the kiss. Christ our God, the fearful and incomprehensible power of God the Father; who sits above the fiery throne of the cherubim and is attended by fiery powers, and exists as consuming fire as God; and through your ineffable condescension and love for mankind, you did not burn the treacherous betrayer with your approach, but greeted him in a friendly manner, drawing him to repentance and recognition of his own audacity. Deign, O Master, at this dread hour, that we may receive one another in a holy kiss in concord and without any anger or remnant of malice. And do not condemn us for not being entirely, and as would please your goodness, purified from every dreg of sin and wickedness and deadly rancor; but by your ineffable and indescribable compassion, knowing our weak and downward-burdened creation, erase every stain of our transgressions, so that this divine mystery may not become a judgment or condemnation for us. For you are the one who can forgive every sin and pass over the injustices and lawlessness of wretched men, being the purification of the whole world, and to you is due unanimous doxology, honor, and worship, together with your immaculate Father and your life-giving Spirit now, etc. And the kiss takes place. The deacon says: Let us stand well.

The people say: Mercy of peace. The priest will proclaim: The love of God the Father, and the grace of the only-begotten Son, our Lord and God and Savior Jesus Christ; and the communion and gift of the Holy Spirit, be with all of you. The people say: And with your spirit. The priest says: Let us lift up our hearts. The people say: We have them toward the Lord. The priest says: Let us give thanks to the Lord. The people say: It is worthy and right. The priest says: Worthy and right, worthy and right. Beginning of the prothesis. For truly it is worthy and right to praise you, to bless you, to worship you, to glorify you, the only true God, the lover of mankind, the ineffable, the invisible, the uncontainable, the beginningless, the eternal, the timeless, the immeasurable, the unchangeable, the incomprehensible; the maker of all things, the redeemer of all; the one who is propitious to all our transgressions; the one who heals all our diseases; the one who delivers our life from corruption; the one who crowns us with mercy and compassion. Angels praise you; archangels worship you; principalities hymn you; dominions acclaim you; powers proclaim your glory; thrones send up praise to you; thousands upon thousands stand by you, and myriads upon myriads offer you their service. The invisible things hymn you; the visible things worship you, all doing your word, O Master.

The deacon says: Those who are seated, arise. The priest says: O true God, Lord, from true God; who showed us the radiance of the Father; who granted us the true knowledge of the Holy Spirit; who revealed this great mystery of life; who established for men the choral dance of the incorporeal beings; who handed down to those on earth the hymnody of the seraphim, receive our voice also with the invisible ones. Unite us with the heavenly powers. Let us also, having suppressed every improper thought, cry out with them, as they cry out with unceasing voices, and let us hymn your majesty with unresting mouths. The deacon says: Look to the east. The priest says: For around you stand the seraphim, six wings to each one; and with two wings they cover their faces; with two, their feet; and with two they fly, and they cried out one to another. He will exclaim: The triumphal hymn of our salvation, with a glorious voice, with a bright voice, hymning, singing, crying, glorifying, shouting, and saying.

The deacon says: Let us attend. The people say: Holy, holy, holy Lord Sabaoth, full is the heaven, etc. The priest says: Holy, holy are you, Lord, and all-holy. The radiance of your essence is exceptional; the power of your wisdom is ineffable. No word can measure the sea of your love for humanity. You made me a human being, as a lover of humanity, not because you yourself were in need of my service, but rather because I am in need of your lordship. You brought me into being out of compassion, though I was nothing; you set up the sky as a roof for me; you fixed the earth as a foundation for me; for my sake you tamed the sea; for my sake you revealed the nature of living creatures; you subjected everything beneath my feet; you left out not one of the works of your love for humanity in me. The people say: Lord, have mercy. The priest says: You formed me, and you laid your hand upon me; you inscribed the image of your authority in me; you placed the gift of reason within me; you opened paradise for me as a delight; you handed over the teaching of your knowledge; you showed me the tree of life; you pointed out the wood to me; you made known the sting of death; you forbade me the enjoyment of one plant; from that alone, then, you told me not to eat; I ate, I violated the law; I neglected the commandment in my will; and I seized the sentence of death.

The people say: Lord, have mercy. The priest says: You, O Master, transformed my punishment for me; as a good shepherd, you ran to the wandering one; as a true father, you grieved with me, the fallen one; you bound me with all the remedies for life. You yourself sent prophets to me; for me, the sick one, you gave the law as help. You yourself ministered to me the things transgressed for health; you caused light to rise for the wandering; to the ignorant, you, the ever-present, sojourned; you came into the virgin womb. Being the uncontainable God, you did not consider it a seizure to be equal to God, but you emptied yourself, taking the form of a slave; you blessed my nature in yourself; for my sake you fulfilled the law, you prescribed the resurrection of my fall. You gave release to those held by Hades; you drove away the curse of the law; in the flesh you annulled sin; you made known to me the dominion of your authority; you restored sight to the blind; you raised the dead from tombs; by a word you set nature upright; you revealed to me the economy of your compassion; you endured the violence of the wicked; you offered your back to lashes; you submitted your cheeks to slaps; you did not turn your face away from the shame of spittings for my sake. The people say: Lord, have mercy.

The priest says: As a sheep you came to the slaughter, you showed your care for me even to the cross; by your tomb you put my sin to death; you caused my first offering to ascend to heaven; you announced to me your coming, in which you are about to come to judge the living and the dead, and to give to each according to his works. The people say: According to your mercy, Lord. The priest says: I offer you the symbols of this my freedom, I inscribe the realities with your words. You handed down to me this mystical participation in your flesh, in bread and wine. The people say: We believe. The priest says: For on the night when you gave yourself, of your own authority. The people say: We believe. The priest says: Taking bread in your holy, pure, and undefiled hands, you looked up to your own Father, our God and the God of all; you gave thanks, you blessed, you sanctified, you broke, you gave to your holy disciples and apostles, saying: Take, eat; this is my body, broken for you and for many, and distributed for the remission of sins; do this in my memory. Likewise after supper, taking a cup, and mixing it from the fruit of the vine and from water, you gave thanks, you blessed, you sanctified, you gave to your holy disciples and apostles, saying: Drink from it, all of you; this is my blood, of the new covenant, poured out for you and for many for the remission of sins; do this in my memory.

For whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim my death and confess my resurrection until I come. The people say: Amen. 3. Your death, etc. The priest says: Therefore, O Master, remembering your descent to earth, your life-giving death, your three-day burial, your resurrection from the dead, your ascension into heaven, your session at the right hand of the Father, and your future second, fearful, and glorious coming from heaven. He will proclaim: Offering to you from your own gifts, in all things, through all things, and in all things. The people say: We praise you, we bless you. The deacon says: Bow to God with fear. The priest says, bowing to himself: Therefore, O Master, by your own voice transform the offerings set before you; be present yourself and complete this mystical liturgy; preserve for us the memory of your worship. Send down your all-holy Spirit, so that by its holy, good, and glorious presence it may hallow and transform these precious and holy gifts set before you into the very body and blood of our redemption. The people say: Let us attend.

The deacon says: Amen. The priest says aloud: And may this bread become your holy body, of our Lord and God and Saviour and All-King Jesus Christ, for the remission of sins and for eternal life to those who partake of it. The people say: Amen. The priest says: And this cup, your precious blood, of your new covenant, of our Lord and God and Saviour and All-King Jesus Christ, for the remission of sins and for eternal life to those who partake of it. The people say: Amen. The priest says and the people respond: Lord, have mercy. We entreat you, Christ our God. Establish the foundation of your Church, O Lord. Root in us the concord of love. Increase the truth of faith. Straighten for us the path of your piety. Fortify the shepherds. Secure the flock. Give seemliness to the clergy. Give continence to the monks. Give prudence to those in virginity. Give good living to those in holy marriage. Give mercy to those in repentance. Give goodness to the rich. Give succour to the needy. Give help to the poor. Gird the elders. Discipline the young. Convert the unbelievers. Cease the schisms of the Church. Abolish the insolence of the heresies. Unite us all in the concord of your piety.

The people say: Lord, have mercy. The priest says: Remember, Lord, the peace of your holy, one, catholic, and apostolic Church, from the ends to the ends of the inhabited world, and the orthodox bishops in her, who have cut straight the word of truth. He will say aloud: Especially our most holy and most blessed high priest Abba [the fourth], pope and patriarch of the great city of Alexandria, and for the remaining bishops, presbyters, deacons, readers, psalmists, exorcists, monastics, perpetual virgins, ascetics, widows, orphans, laity, and for the whole fullness of the holy Church of God of the faithful. The people say: Lord, have mercy. The priest says: Remember, Lord, those who have reigned piously. Remember, Lord, those in the palace, our faithful and orthodox brethren, and the whole army. Remember, Lord, those offering these holy gifts, and for whom and through whom they have offered them, and grant heavenly reward to all of them. Remember, Lord, also those in mountains, caves, and holes of the earth. And our brethren who are in captivity, and grant peaceful restorations to their own homes.

The deacon says: Pray for the captives. The people say: Lord, have mercy. Then the priest bows his head, saying to himself within himself: Remember, Lord, also my wretched and miserable soul, my humility, and forgive me all my transgressions, and where sin has abounded, let your grace overflow, and do not, because of my sins and the defilement of my heart, deprive your people of the grace of your Holy Spirit. He raises his head and proclaims: For your people and your Church beseech you, and through you and with you say to the Father. The people say: Have mercy on us, O God, our Savior. Three times. The priest says: Have mercy on us, O God, our Savior. Three times. The people say: Lord, have mercy. Three times. The priest says: Remember, Lord, the air and the fruits of the earth. Remember, Lord, the moderate rising of the river waters. Remember, Lord, the rains and the sown fields of the earth. Gladden again and renew the face of the earth. Drench its furrows, multiply its produce; present them to us for seed and for harvest, and now blessing, bless. Order our life. Bless the crown of the year of your goodness, for the poor of your people, for the widow and the orphan, for the stranger and the convert, and for all of us who hope in you and call upon your holy name. For the eyes of all hope in you, and you give their food in due season.

Act with us according to your goodness, you who give food to every flesh. Fill our hearts with joy and gladness, so that in all things, at all times, having complete sufficiency, we may abound in every good work, to do your holy will. The people say: Lord, have mercy. The priest says, and the people answer: Lord, have mercy. Grant to your people concord. To the world stability. To the air good temperateness. To the sick deliverance. To those in need refreshment. To those in exile relief. To the orphans assistance. To the widows support. To those in distress provide for good. Strengthen those who stand. Raise up those who have fallen. Secure those who are standing. Remember those who have fallen asleep. Accept the intercessions of those in confession. Number those who have sinned and repented among your faithful. Number the faithful among your martyrs. Make those present in this place imitators of the angels. And receive us, who are called to your service by your grace, though unworthy.

The people say: Lord, have mercy. The priest says: Remember, Lord, also this city of ours, and those dwelling in it in orthodox faith, and every city and country together with their whole world. And deliver us from famine and plague, earthquake and flood, fire, and from captivity by barbarians, and from foreign swords, and from insurrection of enemies and heretics. The people say: Lord, have mercy. The priest says: Remember, Lord, our holy orthodox bishops who have gone before, and all who from eternity have pleased you, holy fathers, patriarchs, apostles, prophets, heralds, evangelists, martyrs, confessors, and every righteous spirit perfected in the faith of Christ. He says aloud: Especially of our all-holy, most glorious, immaculate, most blessed Lady the Theotokos and ever-virgin Mary. Of the holy, glorious prophet, forerunner, baptist, and martyr John. Of the holy Stephen the protodeacon and protomartyr. And of our holy and blessed father Mark, the apostle and evangelist. And of our father among the saints

Gregory. And those whose commemoration we make on this day, and the whole chorus of your saints, by whose prayers and intercessions have mercy also on us, and save us through your holy name, which has been invoked upon us. The deacon says the Diptychs. The priest says to himself: Remember, Lord, our fathers and brothers who have fallen asleep in the orthodox faith, and give rest to their souls among the holy, among the righteous. Nourish, unite them to a place of grass, by water of repose, in a paradise of delight, and with those whose names we have mentioned. Then he commemorates the living and the dead, and after the diptychs the priest says: Remember, Lord, those whom we have remembered and those whom we have not remembered, faithful and orthodox, with whom also grant to us together with them as a good and philanthropic God. The people say: Remit, forgive, pardon. The priest says: For you are our God, merciful, who does not desire the death of the sinner, but that he should turn and live. O God, visit us with your salvation; act with us according to your clemency, you who do beyond what we ask or conceive; so that your all-holy and honorable and blessed name may be glorified and exalted and hymned and blessed and sanctified in this as in everything, together with your immaculate Father and the Holy Spirit. The people say: As it was, and is, and shall be. The deacon says: Descend, deacons. The priest says: Peace to all.

The people say: And with your spirit. Preface to the breaking. The priest says: Jesus Christ, the saving name, who established these divine, immaculate, and heavenly mysteries; who set the priests in order as ministers; and through your invisible power transformed them. You who appear to those pure in heart, and to those who approach sincerely, providing through yourself. You who blessed then, bless now. You who sanctified then, sanctify now. You who broke then, nourish now. You who distributed then to your own disciples and apostles, now, Master, distribute to us and to all your people, O philanthropist, Pantocrator, Lord our God. The deacon says: Pray. The people say: Lord, have mercy. The priest says: Peace to all. The people say: And with your spirit. Prayer of the breaking: The one who is, who was, who came, and who comes again; who sits at the right hand of the Father; the bread that descended from heaven and gives life to the world; the great high priest, the author of our salvation; the true light before all ages. Who, being the radiance of the glory and the character of the hypostasis of your own Father; who deigned and deemed it worthy to descend from the heights of heaven, from the bosom of the inaccessible, true, and invisible only Father. And having been incarnate from the Holy Spirit and from our all-glorious, immaculate, holy Lady Theotokos and ever-virgin Mary, and having fully become man; and after the transformation, having altered humanity.

having united to yourself hypostatically, ineffably and inconceivably, without change and without confusion, a soul possessing reason and intellect, you thus came forth from her, having become theandric: consubstantial with the Father according to divinity, and consubstantial with us according to humanity. There are not, therefore, two persons, nor two forms, nor are you known in two natures, but you are one God, one Lord, one essence, one kingdom, one dominion, one energy, one hypostasis, one will, one nature of God the Word incarnate and worshipped. Having been crucified by Pontius Pilate, and having made the good confession, having suffered and been buried and risen on the third day, and having ascended into the heavens, and having sat at the right hand of the majesty of the Father, having trampled death, and having plundered Hades, having shattered bronze gates and crushed iron bars, and having called back the captive Adam from corruption, and having freed us from the slavery of the devil. On account of this we beseech and entreat you, O philanthropic and good one, deem us worthy with a pure heart to dare fearlessly to invoke the heavenly God, the master of all, the holy Father, and to say, etc.

Another prayer of the breaking. For you are the Word of the Father, the pre-eternal God, the great High Priest, who for the salvation of the human race became flesh and was incarnate, and called to yourself from all nations an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for possession. Therefore we beseech and implore you, O philanthropic and good Lord, that this sacrifice not become for reproach and disgrace, nor for judgment, nor for condemnation of our sins; for we have offered it on account of our weaknesses. But just as you have deemed these your all-holy precious gifts worthy to be filled with all holiness through the visitation of your all-holy Spirit upon them, so also deign to sanctify the souls, bodies, spirits, and consciences of us, your sinful servants, so that with an enlightened soul, a face without shame, a pure heart, an unhypocritical conscience, sanctified lips, perfect love, and secure hope, we may dare with boldness, without fear, to say the holy prayer which you imparted to your own holy disciples and sacred apostles: "When you pray, pray thus: Our Father," etc.

The people say: Let it be sanctified. Another prayer of the breaking. Blessed are you, Christ the God, the Almighty, the Redeemer of his own Church; O Word, whom they foresee, and Man, whom they behold beforehand. You who through your incomprehensible incarnation prepared for us heavenly bread, this your body, which you placed as a mystery and all-holy among all. You mixed for us a cup from the vine of truth, from your divine and immaculate side. You who, even after having given up the spirit, pour forth from it blood and water, with which sanctification comes to the whole world. Acquire us, good Lord, your unworthy servants; make us a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation. Sanctify also us, O God, as you sanctified these set-forth and holy gifts, and made them invisible from the visible, mysteries which they foresee, these to you, Lord God, our Savior Jesus Christ. You therefore, Lord, through your great compassion deemed us worthy through baptism to become sons and heirs. You taught us the form of prayer which is mystical, to pray in it to your immaculate Father. You therefore now also, Lord Master, deem us worthy with sanctified conscience and good intention, which it befits with longing and good confidence to dare to invoke the holy God in the heavens, your Father, and to say. The people say: Our Father.

And after the Our Father the priest says: Yea, Lord, Lord, who has given us the power to tread upon serpents and scorpions, and upon every power of the enemy, crush and subdue the heads of our enemies beneath our feet speedily, and scatter all their malicious design against us, for you are king of us all, Christ the God; and to you we send up glory and thanksgiving and adoration each day, together with your beginningless Father and the Holy Spirit, now, etc. The deacon says: Your heads. Prayer of the bowing of the head. You who bent the heavens and came down to earth for the salvation of the human race, you who have spread forth all abundance of your grace; you who do everything beyond what we ask or conceive; O lover of mankind, O good one, stretch out your invisible hand, your blessed hand, full of mercy and compassion, and blessing, bless your servants, and cleanse them from every defilement of flesh and spirit; and make us partakers and of one body with your grace, so that in holiness and righteousness we may offer supplication to you, and to you belongs all glory, majesty, might and power, together with your undefiled Father and the Holy Spirit, now, etc. Another prayer likewise. Give heed, Lord Jesus Christ our God, from your holy dwelling and from the throne of your kingdom, and come to sanctify us who bow down to you. You who sit above with the Father, and here are invisibly present with us.

and deem it worthy, with your mighty hand, to impart to us your undefiled body, and through us to all the people. For you are the one who breaks and is broken, yet unbroken; and we send up glory to you, together with the Father and the Holy Spirit, now, etc. The deacon says: Let us attend to God with fear. Prayer of freedom: Peace to all. The Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world; having poured out his spotless blood upon the life of the world, and as ransom and exchange for all, you gave yourself, having redeemed from death in which we were held, sold under sin. He who does the will of those who fear him, and hears their supplication, and saves them. He who heard the righteous Job, rising in the morning and offering sacrifice for the love of children, saying, lest my sons have conceived evil in their heart against God. And I, your pitiable and sinful and worthless servant, beseech you on behalf of your servants, my fathers and brothers, and for my own wretchedness. With a gracious face and serene eye, look upon us at this hour; and grant us forgiveness for every transgression, and every violation, and disobedience of the law and of your commandments; and also every conscience, and every thought, and in all deeds, and in all motions that have occurred within us, by day and by night, to bind and hold fast against the soul. And acquit them from every conscience of evil, and every fruitless deed, and every inflamed thought that is profane contrary to the purity of the soul.

Grant them recognition of their sins, and to abstain completely from them. Bestow upon them purity of repentance, and their return to you; for you, Lord Master, voluntarily became poor in your incarnation, for the salvation of our race; and you tore up the indictment against us, through the stretching out of your divine palms on the cross. Spare all, Master, lover of souls, for all things are your servants, and from you come our pardons, and nothing of the pursuits of our hands; for this we glorify your kingdom and hymn you, Christ our God, which things... in... all days until heretics and gentiles. Fill us with your fear, and direct us to your good will; for you are our God, and to you are due glory, honor, and adoration. The priest says: Body and blood. The deacon says: With fear of God let us attend. The priest raises the Lord’s [host] and proclaims: The holy things for the holy. The people say: Lord, have mercy. One Father holy, one Son holy, one Spirit holy. Amen.

The priest says: The Lord be with all of you. The people say: And with your spirit. The priest says: Blessed is the Lord unto the ages. Amen. The people say: Amen. The priest says: Peace to all. The people say: And to your spirit. The priest says: Holy body and precious blood, true, of Jesus Christ Son of God. Amen. The people say: Amen. The priest says: Holy body and precious blood, true, of Jesus Christ Son of God. Amen. The people say: Amen. The priest says: Body and blood of Emmanuel our God, this is truly. Amen. The people say: Amen. I believe, I believe, I believe and confess until my last breath, that this is the life-giving flesh which you, Christ our God, took from our holy Lady Mother of God and ever-virgin Mary; and you made it one with your divinity, not by mixture, nor by blending, nor by alteration; and you witnessed before Pontius Pilate the good confession, and you delivered it for all of us... on the wood of the holy cross, by your will. I truly believe that your divinity was never separated from your humanity, not for an instant, not even in the blink of an eye. You imparted it for redemption, and for remission of sins, and for eternal life, to those who partake of it. I believe that this is truly. Amen.

The people say: Amen. The deacon says: In peace and love. The priest will exclaim: Incomprehensible God, illimitable Word, eternal, receive from us sinners, from unworthy lips, a hymn, together with the higher powers; for to you is due all glory, honor, and worship, together with your beginningless Father and your life-giving Spirit, unto all the ages of ages. Amen. The people say Psalm 150. The deacon says: Gather and enter, deacons, with reverence. Prayer of thanksgiving after the reception of the holy mysteries. The deacon says: Stand for prayer. The priest says: Peace to all. The people say: And to your spirit. The deacon says: Pray for a worthy reception. The people say: Lord, have mercy. The priest says this prayer: We thank you, true Word of God, who are from the essence of the beginningless Father, because you so loved us and gave yourself for us, you were sacrificed. You have granted us, through your pure body and your precious blood, redemption, as you have now deemed us worthy, O lover of mankind, that

Let us receive from them the Eucharist. Therefore we now confess to You, O Lover of Mankind, O Good One, and we send up to You glory and honor and worship continually, together with Your beginningless Father and Your Holy Spirit, now, etc. The deacon says: Bow your heads to the Lord. Prayer of the bowing of the head. O Christ, our true God, who are, who was, who came into the world to enlighten it; who became flesh, was incarnate, and was crucified for us, and suffered voluntarily in the flesh, yet remained impassible as God; and was buried, and arose on the third day, and ascended into the heavens, and sat down at the right hand of the majesty of the glory of the Father, and sent down the divine, holy, consubstantial, co-equal in power, co-glorious, and coeternal Spirit upon Your holy disciples and apostles, and through this enlightened them, and through them the whole world. And Gabriel and Raphael. And of the angels, the four-formed living beings without bodies; and of the angels, the twenty-four elders. Of the holy, glorious prophet, forerunner, baptist, and martyr John. Of the holy Stephen, the protodeacon and protomartyr. Of the divine, sacred, glorious apostles, athlete-bearing prophets, and victorious martyrs. And of our holy and blessed Father Mark, the apostle and evangelist, and of all Your saints. And save, and have mercy, and bless every Christian. And to You glory and honor and worship, together with Your beginningless Father and the Holy Spirit, now and always.

The divine Liturgy, appointed for our Father among the Saints, Gregory the Theologian, was completed in the peace of God.