Chapter XV.
PRAYERFUL CANON TO OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, AND TO THE MOST HOLY GOD-BEARING MOTHER OF THE LORD AT THE PARTING OF THE SOUL FROM THE BODY OF EVERY RIGHT-BELIEVER.
The abbot cometh, but to a layman his spiritual father, and asketh if through forgetfulness or shame he have any word or deed, or any malice against a brother, unconfessed, or unforgiven: it is obligatory to examine and interrogate the dying concerning all things one by one.
After this he beginneth, Blessed be our God.... Trisagion. After Our Father.... Lord, have mercy, xii. O come, let us worship.... thrice. Psalm l. Have mercy upon me O God....
A prayerful canon to the Most Holy God-bearing one, with the irmi to vi, from the person of a man who is being parted from his soul, and who is not able to speak.
Tone vi. Ode i. Irmos.
Passing as on dry land....
Refrain. God-bearing one most holy, save thou us.