_And straightway the priests take the remains, and carry them into the
porch of the temple, and lay the holy gospel over him, as aforesaid, and
candlesticks crosswise with tapers, and the singer beginneth,_
The undefiled in the way, alleluia.
_In tone vi._
_Then_, Blessed are the undefiled.... _Page 141._
_After the first stasis, deacon_, Again and again.... _Page 142._
_After this we begin the second stasis in tone v, in which at the end of
a verse we say,_
Have mercy upon thy servant.
_The choir beginneth_, Thy commandments....
Have mercy upon thy servant.
_And again the same choir_, Thy hands have made me....
_After the iind stasis, deacon_, Again and again.... _Page 142._
_And again they begin the third stasis in tone iii._
Thy name, alleluia.
_And again the same choir singeth,_
Look upon me, and have mercy upon me....
_After the iiird stasis, and after the troparia of the undefiled,
deacon_, Again and again.... _Page 142._
_Then 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. Both now._
Christ God, who from the Virgin, shinest to the world, who hast through
her made manifest the sons of light, have mercy thou on us.
_Then graduals, tone vi._
Unto heaven have I lifted up mine eyes, unto thee, O Word; have
compassion upon me, that I may live to thee.
Have mercy upon us who have been set at nought, appointing us, O Word, to
be vessels acceptable unto thee.
_Glory._
To the Holy Ghost belongs every all-saving cause: on whomsoever he,
through worthiness, doth breathe, he quickly taketh him from earthly
things, gives wings, exalteth and appoints his place on high.
_Both now, the same._
_Then prokimenon, tone vi._
Blessed is the way wherein thou goest to-day, O soul, because a place of
rest hath been prepared for thee.
_Verse._ Return O my soul, unto thy rest, for the Lord hath wrought a
good thing for thee.
_The message of the holy apostle Paul to the Thessalonians, section
cclxx._
Brethren, I would not have you to be ignorant.... _ending_, be ever with
the Lord.[35]
_Priest._ Peace to thee.
_Reader._ And to thy spirit.
_Reader. A psalm of David. Alleluia, tone viii._
Blessed is he whom thou hast chosen and received, O Lord.
_Deacon._ Wisdom, standing, let us hear the holy gospel.
_Priest. The reading of the holy gospel from John, section xvi._
The Lord said unto the Jews that came unto him, Verily, verily, I say....
_ending_, the Father which hath sent me.[36]
_Then the deacon._ Let us pray to the Lord.
_Choir._ Lord, have mercy.
_And the priest the prayer._
Master, Lord our God, who only hast immortality, who dwellest in
unapproachable light, who killest and makest alive, who wentest down into
hades and didst arise therefrom; thou didst in wisdom create man, and
didst turn him again to earth, exacting payment of his spiritual debt.
Thee we beseech, Accept the soul of thy servant, and rest him in the
bosom of Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob; and give unto him the crown of
thy righteousness, the portion of the saved, in the glory of thine elect;
that in whatsoever he hath laboured in this world for thy name’s sake, he
may receive a plenteous reward in the habitations of thy saints; through
the grace, and compassions, and love to man of thine only-begotten Son,
our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
_Kathisma, tone ii._
To-day I from my kinsfolk sever’d am, and unto thee betake myself, thou
only sinless one: O rest me in the tabernacles of the just with thine
elect.
_Then we say psalm xxii._
The Lord tendeth me, and there is nothing lacking to me.
_Alleluia, thrice, repeating alleluia to every verse of the rest of the
psalm._
_Then the present troparion, tone ii._
Since to the same abiding-place we all are urg’d, and under the same
stone shall come, and in a little time in self same dust shall be, let
us ask Christ for rest for him removed hence. For such our life is,
brethren, this on earth, a toy: that which is not it abides, and that
that doth abide it perisheth. We are a dream that stayeth not, a breath
that is not held, a flight of passing birds, a ship upon a trackless sea.
Then let us cry to the immortal King, O Lord, vouchsafe to him thine
endless blessedness.
_Prokimenon, tone vi._
Blessed is he whom thou hast chosen and received, O Lord.
_Verse._ To thee is due a song, O God, in Sion.
_The epistle to the Romans, section lxxxix._