Choir. To thee, O Lord.
And the priest secretly the prayer.
Incline thine ear, O Lord, and hearken unto us, thou who didst vouchsafe to be baptized in Jordan, and didst hallow the waters; and do thou bless us all, who through the bending of our necks indicate the representation of service; and count us worthy to be filled with thy sanctification through the partaking of this water; and may it be unto us, O Lord, for the healing of soul and body.
Exclamation. For thou art our sanctification, and to thee we ascribe glory, and thanksgiving, and worship, with thine unbeginning Father, and with thine all-holy, and good, and life-creating Spirit, now and ever, and to ages of ages.
Choir. Amen.
Then, taking the honourable cross, he blesseth the water thrice, dipping it and raising it perpendicularly in the form of a cross, and singing the present troparion in tone i thrice.
O Lord, save thy people, and bless thine inheritance, granting victory to our Right-believing EMPEROR, name, over enemies, and preserving thine estate by thy cross.
And after this they sing this troparion, tone ii.