_And the deacon._
Have mercy upon us, O God....
Furthermore let us pray for mercy, life....
That to him may be remitted....
_Exclamation._ For a merciful...
_Deacon._ Let us pray to the Lord.
_The priest, this prayer._
We give thanks unto thee, O Lord our God, thou good lover of mankind, and
physician of our souls and bodies, who painlessly bearest our sicknesses,
and by whose stripes we have all been healed; thou good shepherd, who
camest to seek the wandering sheep; who givest consolation unto the
faint-hearted, and life unto them that are broken down; who didst heal
the source of the issue of blood that had lasted twelve years; who didst
deliver the daughter of the Chananitish woman from the ruthless demon;
who didst forgive the debt unto the two debtors, and give remission
unto the sinful woman; who didst bestow healing upon the paralytic,
with the remission of his sins; who didst justify the publican by a
word, and didst accept the thief in his last confession; who takest away
the sins of the world, and wast nailed on the cross; to thee we pray,
and thee we beseech, Do thou thyself, O God, in thy goodness, loosen,
forgive, and pardon the transgressions and sins of thy servant, _name_,
and his voluntary and involuntary iniquities, those in knowledge and
in ignorance, those by trespass and disobedience, those by night and
by day; or if he be under the curse of a priest, or of a father or a
mother; or if by the glance of the eye, or a movement of the eyelid; or
by the contact of adultery, or the tasting of prodigality, or in any
excitement of flesh and spirit he have estranged himself from thy will,
and from thy holiness. And if he have sinned, and in like manner we also,
as the good God that rememberest not evil and the lover of mankind,
do thou pardon, not leaving him and us to fall into a dissolute life,
neither to walk in ways of destruction. Yea, O Master Lord, hear me, a
sinner, at this hour on behalf of thy servant, _name_, and overlook,
as the God that rememberest not evil, all his iniquities; deliver him
from eternal torment; fill his mouth with thy praise; open his lips to
the glorification of thy name; extend his hands to the doing of thy
commandments; direct his feet in the path of thy gospel, confirming all
his members and his intention by thy grace. For thou art our God, who, by
thy holy apostles, hast commanded us, saying, Whatsoever ye shall bind on
earth, shall be bound in the heavens, and whatsoever ye shall loose on
earth shall be loosed in the heavens; and again, Unto whomsoever ye remit
sins, they are remitted unto them, and, If ye bind them, they are bound.
And, as thou didst hearken unto Ezekias in the affliction of his soul
in the hour of his death, and didst not despise his prayer, so hearken
unto me, thine humble, and sinful, and unworthy servant at this hour. For
thou, O Lord Jesus Christ, art he that, in thy goodness and love to man,
biddeth to forgive until seventy times seven them that fall into sins;
and thou repentest thee concerning our evils, and rejoicest over the
return of the wanderer. For, as is thy greatness, so also is thy mercy,
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. Amen.
_And after the prayer the sixth priest straightway taketh a sixth twig,
and, dipping it in the holy oil, anointeth the sick person, saying the
prayer,_
Holy Father, physician of souls and bodies....
_Vide page 101._
_Deacon._ Let us attend.
_And the seventh priest._ Peace to all.
_Prokimenon, tone vii._
O Lord, rebuke me not in thy fury, neither chasten me in thine anger.
_Verse._ Have mercy upon me, O Lord, for I am weak.
_The epistle to the Thessalonians, section cclxxiii._
Brethren, we exhort you.... _ending_, the coming of our Lord Jesus
Christ.[27]
_And the seventh priest._ Peace to thee.
_Deacon._ Wisdom.
_Alleluia, tone vii._
_Verse._ The Lord hear thee in the day of trouble, the name of the God of
Jacob defend thee.
_The gospel from Matthew, section xxx._