Precatio

Another prayer of the same. Let us beseech the Lord. You who rebuked all unclean spirits and drove out the legion by the power of your word, appear now also through your only-begotten Son upon the creature which you made in your own image, and deliver it from the oppression of the adversary, that it may be pitied and purified and enrolled in your holy flock, and be preserved as a living temple of the Holy Spirit and of the divine and immaculate sanctifications, by the grace, mercy, and loving-kindness of your only-begotten Son, with whom you are blessed, together with your all-holy, good, and life-giving Spirit, now and always, and unto the ages of ages. Amen. Another prayer of the same. Let us beseech the Lord. We invoke you, Lord God Almighty, Most High, Infinite, Peaceful King; we invoke you who made heaven and earth. For from you sprang forth both the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end, giving to men the four-footed and irrational animals to obey, because you subdued them, Lord. Stretch out your mighty hand and your high and holy arm, and overseeing, oversee this creature of yours. Send down to it a peaceful angel, a mighty angel, a guardian of soul and body, who will rebuke and drive away from it every evil and unclean demon. For you alone are Lord, Most High, Almighty, Blessed, unto the ages of ages. Amen.

Another prayer of the same. Let us beseech the Lord. We make the divine and holy and great and fearful and unendurable naming and invocation for your expulsion, Apostate, and likewise for a rebuke for your utter destruction, Devil. The holy God, the beginningless, the fearful, the invisible in essence, the incomparable in power, and incomprehensible in divinity, the King of glory and almighty Master, will rebuke you, Devil, he who from non-being brought all things into being well by his word, he who walks upon the wings of the winds. He rebukes you, Devil, who summons the water of the sea and pours it upon the face of the whole earth, the Lord of the powers is his name. The Lord rebukes you, Devil, who is served and hymned in fear by the countless fiery heavenly orders, and worshipped with trembling and glorified by the multitude of angelic and archangelic choirs. The Lord rebukes you, Devil, who is honored by the surrounding powers and the most terrifying six-winged and many-eyed Cherubim and Seraphim, who cover their faces with two wings on account of his unseeable and inscrutable divinity, and cover their feet with two wings so as not to be burned by his ineffable glory and incomprehensible majesty, and fly with two wings and fill the heaven with their cry, "Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord Sabaoth; heaven and earth are full of his glory.

The Lord rebukes you, Devil, the God Word who descended from the paternal bosom from heaven, and through the holy, venerable, ineffable, and immaculate incarnation from the Virgin was ineffably manifested in the world to save it, and by his own authoritative power cast you down from heaven, and showed you utterly vanquished to all. The Lord rebukes you, Devil, who said to the sea, "Be still, be silent," and at the command it immediately calmed. The Lord rebukes you, Devil, who with immaculate spittle made clay, and fashioned the missing limb for the man blind from birth, and granted him light. The Lord rebukes you, Devil, who brought the daughter of the archisynagogos to life by a word, and snatched the widow's son from the mouth of death, and granted him whole and healthy to his own mother. The Lord rebukes you, Devil, who presented Lazarus from the dead after four days, incorrupt as if he had not died, and spotless, to the astonishment of the many. The Lord rebukes you, Devil, who through the slap annulled the curse, and through the lance of his immaculate side restrained the fiery sword guarding paradise. The Lord rebukes you, Devil, who through the spittle on his venerable image wiped every tear from every face. The Lord rebukes you, Devil, who fixed the cross as one support and salvation of the world, but for your fall and that of all your angels. The Lord rebukes you, Devil, who gave a voice on his cross, and the veil of the temple was rent, and the rocks were shattered, and the tombs were opened, and those dead from eternity arose.

The Lord rebukes you, Devil, who by death caused death to die, and granted life to men through his resurrection. May the Lord rebuke you, Devil, who descended into Hades, and shook its tombs, and freed all the prisoners held there, and summoned them to himself; whom the gatekeepers saw, shuddered, and, hidden in the agony of Hades, vanished. May the Lord rebuke you, Devil, Christ our God who rose from the dead and granted his resurrection to all. May the Lord rebuke you, Devil, who was taken up into the heavens in glory to his Father, and sits at the right hand of the majesty on a throne of glory. May the Lord rebuke you, Devil, who comes again with glory on the clouds of heaven, with his holy angels, to judge the living and the dead. May the Lord rebuke you, Devil, who has prepared for you the unquenchable fire, the sleepless worm, and the outer darkness for eternal punishment. May the Lord rebuke you, Devil, whom all things shudder and tremble before the face of his power, for the wrath of his threat against you is unbearable.

The Lord himself rebukes you, Devil, through his fearful name: tremble, quake, be afraid, withdraw, be destroyed, be put to flight, you who fell from heaven, and with you all the evil spirits, every evil spirit, spirit of licentiousness, spirit of wickedness, spirit of night and day, of noon and evening, spirit of midnight, spirit of phantoms, spirit of encounters, whether on land or in water, whether in groves or in reeds or in ravines, or at crossroads and three-way paths, in marshes and in rivers, in houses, in courtyards, and in baths, running about and harming and altering the mind of man. Withdraw at once from the creation of the craftsman Christ our God, and depart from this servant of God, from his mind, from his soul, from his heart, from his kidneys, from his senses, from all his limbs, so that he may be healthy and whole and free, recognizing his own Master and craftsman, the God of all, who gathers together those who have gone astray and gives them the seal of salvation through the birth and renewal of holy baptism, that he may be deemed worthy of the pure

and of his heavenly and fearful mysteries, and to be united with his true flock, encamping in a place of pasture, and being nurtured upon a water of rest, and being guided pastorally and safely by the staff of the cross, for the remission of sins and for eternal life. For to him is due all glory, honor, and worship, and majesty, together with his beginningless Father, and his all-holy, good, and life-giving Spirit; now and always, and unto the ages of ages. Amen.