For thou art the resurrection, the life, and the repose of all thy servants, and of thy servant, the babe, name, now removed from us, O Christ our God, and to thee we ascribe glory, with thine unbeginning Father, and with thy most holy, and good, and life-creating Spirit, now and ever, and to ages of ages.
Choir. Amen.
Then troparion.
Verily everything is vain, and life a shadow is, a dream; for vainly every earth-born one disquieteth himself, as saith the scripture. When we have gain’d the world, then dwell we in the grave, where kings and beggars, elders and babes together are. Therefore, Christ God, as lover of mankind, rest the departed babe.
Ode iv. Irmos.
I have heard, O Lord, the mystery of thy dispensation....
Refrain. Rest thou the babe, O Lord.
We wail not for the babes, but rather for ourselves do we lament, we, who have always sinn’d, that we may be delivered from gehenna.
Thou, Master, hast depriv’d the babe of the delights of earth: do thou, as righteous judge, vouchsafe him heavenly blessings.