Then the deacon. Let us pray to the Lord.
Choir. Lord, have mercy.
And the priest the prayer.
Master, Lord our God, who only hast immortality, who dwellest in unapproachable light, who killest and makest alive, who wentest down into hades and didst arise therefrom; thou didst in wisdom create man, and didst turn him again to earth, exacting payment of his spiritual debt. Thee we beseech, Accept the soul of thy servant, and rest him in the bosom of Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob; and give unto him the crown of thy righteousness, the portion of the saved, in the glory of thine elect; that in whatsoever he hath laboured in this world for thy name’s sake, he may receive a plenteous reward in the habitations of thy saints; through the grace, and compassions, and love to man of thine only-begotten Son, our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
Kathisma, tone ii.
To-day I from my kinsfolk sever’d am, and unto thee betake myself, thou only sinless one: O rest me in the tabernacles of the just with thine elect.
Then we say psalm xxii.
The Lord tendeth me, and there is nothing lacking to me.