Blessed art thou, O Lord....
O rest thy servant, God, and O in paradise appoint his place, where choirs of saints and righteous ones, O Lord, are luminous as stars: O to thy sleeping servant give thou rest, and pass all his offences by.
Glory.
The tri-illuminating of the Godhead one let us with reverence sing, exclaiming, Thou, O Father unbeginning, holy art, and thou, co-unbeginning Son, and thou, O Spirit Divine: enlighten us who serve thee faithfully, and save us from eternal fire.
Both now.
Hail, pure one, who didst bring forth God in flesh for all men’s saving, through whom the human race hath found salvation! through thee may we find paradise, God-bearing one, who pure and blessed art. Alleluia, thrice.
Then the deacon, Again and again.... Vide page [142].
And, after the exclamation, we sing the present troparia, tone v.
Our Saviour, rest thy servant with the just, and place him in thy courts, as it is written, as being good, despising his iniquities, both willing ones and those unwilling, and all those done in knowledge and in ignorance, O lover of mankind.