And the customary dismissal is made.
Then the prayer of absolution.
The Lord Jesus Christ our God.... Vide page [163].
And we go forth to the grave, bearing the body of him that hath fallen asleep to the burial. And the priests with all the clerks, preceding the remains, sing,
Christ is risen....
And they bury them with thanksgiving and joy, doing and saying all that is written at page [157] for the burial of a lay person.
And singing the troparion.
O earth that yawnest, take thou that that out of thee was made.
End of the order of the burial of them that fall asleep in the days of the bright week.