O Lord our God, who wast pleased to come down from heaven and to be born of the holy God-bearing and ever-virgin Mary for the salvation of us sinners, who knowest the feebleness of human nature; be gracious, according to the greatness of thy compassions, unto thine handmaid, name, who to-day hath borne a child. For thou hast said, O Lord, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it. Therefore we, thy servants, beseech thee, and, trusting in thy forbearing love to man, with fear invoke the holy name of thy kingdom, Look down from heaven and behold the feebleness of us condemned ones, and be gracious unto thine handmaid, name, and to all the house in which the child hath been born, and to all who are connected with her; and to all that here assemble be thou gracious, as the good and man-loving God. For thou alone hast power to forgive sins, through the prayers of the most holy God-bearing one, and of all thy Saints. Amen.
Chapter II.
PRAYER AT THE SIGNING OF A CHILD WHEN IT RECEIVETH A NAME ON THE EIGHTH DAY AFTER ITS BIRTH.
Be it known that on the eighth day after birth the babe is brought by the nurse to the temple, and she standeth before the doors of the temple.
And the priest maketh,
Blessed be our God... Trisagion. O most holy Trinity... And after Our Father... For thine is the kingdom...
Then the troparion of the day, or of the holy habitation. And the priest signeth its forehead, mouth, and breast, and saith the prayer.