Have mercy upon thy servant.
_Deacon._ Again and again.... _Vide page 142._
_And again they begin the third stasis in the third tone._
Thy name. Alleluia.
_Again the same choir singeth,_
Look upon me, and have mercy upon me, according to the judgment of them
that love thy name. Alleluia.
Direct my steps according to thy word, and let not every transgression
have dominion over me. Alleluia.
_And the rest. And, after the ending, straightway,_
_Blessed art thou, O Lord: O teach me thy statutes._
The choir of saints have found life’s spring, and paradise’s door; and
may I also find the way through penitence. I am a wandering sheep: O
Saviour, me recall, and save thou me.
_Blessed art thou, O Lord...._
Ye saints, that preach’d the Lamb of God, and sacrificed were as lambs,
and unto life that grows not old and aye endures translated are; this
ceaselessly, ye martyrs, pray, that unto us vouchsaf’d may be remission
of our trespasses.
_Blessed art thou, O Lord...._
O ye that walk’d the narrow way, that ever-suffering is; all ye that
during life accepted have as yoke the cross, and follow’d me in faith;
come, and enjoy those things prepar’d for you, rewards and crowns
celestial.
_Blessed art thou, O Lord...._
Of thy narrateless glory I an image am, and, though I bear offences’
scars, compassionate thy creature, Lord, and cleanse me in thy
tenderness, and the desired fatherland give thou to me, a citizen of
paradise me making once again.
_Blessed art thou, O Lord...._
Thou who of old didst form me out of nothingness, and with thy godlike
image didst adorn, but, for transgressing the commands, didst turn again
to earth, whereout I taken was, to that which sembleth thee do thou me
call once more, shaping again the erewhile comeliness.
_Blessed art thou, O Lord...._
O rest thy servant, God, and O in paradise appoint his place, where
choirs of saints and righteous ones, O Lord, are luminous as stars: O to
thy sleeping servant give thou rest, and pass all his offences by.
_Glory._
The tri-illuminating of the Godhead one let us with reverence
sing, exclaiming, Thou, O Father unbeginning, holy art, and thou,
co-unbeginning Son, and thou, O Spirit Divine: enlighten us who serve
thee faithfully, and save us from eternal fire.
_Both now._
Hail, pure one, who didst bring forth God in flesh for all men’s saving,
through whom the human race hath found salvation! through thee may we
find paradise, God-bearing one, who pure and blessed art. Alleluia,
_thrice_.
_Then the deacon_, Again and again.... _Vide page 142._
_And, after the exclamation, we sing the present troparia, tone v._
Our Saviour, rest thy servant with the just, and place him in thy
courts, as it is written, as being good, despising his iniquities, both
willing ones and those unwilling, and all those done in knowledge and in
ignorance, O lover of mankind.
_Glory. Conclusion._
And all those done in knowledge and in ignorance, O lover of mankind.
_Both now. Theotokion._
Christ God, who from the Virgin shinedst to the world, who hast through
her made manifest the sons of light, have mercy thou on us.
_Then psalm l, and the canon, whereof the acrostic is,_