Then troparion, tone iv.
Thou that alone art quick to help, O Christ, make manifest from on high a speedy visitation to thine ailing servant: deliver him from sicknesses and bitter pains, and raise him up, that, without ceasing, he may praise and glorify thee, through the God-bearing one’s entreaties, O thou sole lover of mankind.
And after these the deacon, or the first of the
priests, saith this ectenia.
In peace let us pray to the Lord.
For the peace that is from above....
For the peace of the whole world....
For this holy temple, and for them that with faith....
That this oil may be blessed by the might, and operation, and descent of the Holy Ghost, let us pray to the Lord.
For the servant of God, name, and for his visitation by God, and for the coming upon him of the grace of the Holy Ghost, let us pray to the Lord.