Priest. For a merciful....
And the customary dismissal is made.
A PRAYER FOR HOLY BAPTISM, THAT IS, HOW BRIEFLY TO BAPTIZE A CHILD BECAUSE OF FEAR OF DEATH.
The priest saith, Blessed be the kingdom.... Then, Trisagion. O most holy Trinity.... Our Father.... For thine is....
Let us pray to the Lord.
Lord God Almighty, the author of all creation, visible and invisible, who didst make heaven and earth, and the sea, and all that in them is, who didst gather the waters unto one gathering together, who didst shut up the depth and seal it by thy terrible and glorious name, who didst raise up the waters to be above the firmament: thou hast founded the earth upon the waters, thou hast stablished the sea by thy power, thou hast crushed the heads of the dragons in the waters: terrible art thou, and who shall oppose thee? Do thou, O Lord, regard this thy creature, and this water, and give it the grace of redemption, the blessing of Jordan: make it a fount of incorruption, a gift of sanctification, a loosing of sins, a healing of sicknesses, a destruction of demons, an inaccessibility to hostile powers, a fulness of angelic strength, that they may flee from it that plot against thy creature; for I have called upon thy name, O Lord, which is wonderful and glorious, and terrible to adversaries.
And straightway he poureth oil upon the water. Then he baptizeth, saying,