All-embracing as the Greek Service Books are, curiously enough, strictly speaking, they contain no Thanksgiving services. It has been left for the Russian Church to make them for the Greeks to imitate.
The models of the Ectene and Litanies are found in the Euchologion, at vespers, but adaptations of their petitions to every eventuality in human life, are the work of Russians, whose names, however, have not been preserved. Here is an example from the Thanksgiving service for the New Year.
I
Lord, let us feel that Thou art near,
And while we pray, in mercy hear;
Crown with Thy love the opening year;—
Have mercy, Lord.
II
Of Thy benignity, we pray,
Thy gracious Spirit grant alway,