The Prayer of Peace
STRENGTHEN us, O Lord, that we may offer unto Thee this spiritual and
bloodless sacrifice on account of the sins and iniquities of Thy flock,
and blot out and forgive our unlawfulness, for unto
† Thee do we offer
praise and thanksgiving and to Thine Only-begotten Son and Thy Living
Holy Spirit, in both worlds unto the Aeon of aeons.
Amen. Barekhmar!
THE LOVE of
† God the Father,
the grace of
† the
Only-begotten Son, and the communion of
† the Holy Spirit, be with you all.
Amen. And with thy spirit.
LIFT up your hearts.
We lift them up to the Lord.
LET us give thanks to the Lord.
It is meet and right.
The Prayer of the Qadisha
UNTO THEE, O King of kings,
†
God the Father, God the Son and God the
Holy Spirit, all thanksgiving is due. All the orders of the bodiless
powers and the companies of the heavenly hosts: angels, archangels,
principalities, powers, thrones, dominions, virtues and cherubim and
seraphim, invisible and innumerable, unceasingly praise and glorify
Thee and with untiring mouths and unutterable voices they sing the hymn
of victory, crying out and saying holy!
The Qadisha
Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Tzevaoth,
heaven and earth are full of Thy
glory. Hosanna in the highest. †
Blessed is He that comes in the Name
of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest.
The Prayer of the Anamnesis
† THOU art holy in truth, O God
the Father
† that with Thy
Holy Spirit
art continually hallowed
†
with Thy Holy Son, our Lord Jesus Christ.
The Anamnesis
WHEN HE, the sinless one, prepared to accept death for us sinners, He
took bread into His holy hands and when He had given thanks, He
†
blessed
† and consecrated
† and broke it, giving it to His
holy
apostles, saying:
Sabu, akolu, hanau paghri.
Take, eat, this is My Body; which is broken for you and for the many,
given for the remission of sins and for everlasting life.
Amen.
LIKEWISE He also took the cup and when He had given thanks, He
†
blessed
† consecrated
† and gave it to His holy apostles,
saying:
Sabu, eshthu meneh kolkhon, hanau demi.
Take, drink it all of you, this is My Blood; which is shed for you and
for the many, given for the remission of sins and for everlasting life.
Amen.
The Prayer of Commemoration
THOU didst speak and command us, O Lord, saying: Whenever you celebrate
this holy Mystery, make remembrance of My death and My resurrection
until My coming. So do we, Thy weak and sinful servants, commemorate
all of Thy redemptive work as well as Thy dread and glorious second
coming at which we tremble and fear, and we offer Thee this prayer and
supplication that through Thee we might entreat Thy Father, saying:
Kyrie eleison!
The Prayer of Thanks for All Things
MOREOVER do Thy weak and sinful servants, having received Thy grace,
give Thee thanks and praise for all things and by reason of all things,
O Lord.
We praise Thee,
We bless Thee,
We worship Thee
And we give Thee thanks,
O Lord, our God.
The Prayer of the Epiclesis
SEND down Thy Holy Spirit from Thy dwelling place, O Lord, and may She
descend and rest upon this bread and this cup here set forth before
Thee that She may both sanctify them and make us, Thy people, pure and
spotless.
Amen. Barekhmar!
The Epiclesis
HEAR me, O Lord! Hear me, O Lord! Hear me, O Lord, and have mercy!
Kyrie eleison, Kyrie eleison, Kyrie
eleison!
MAY the Holy Spirit abiding here make this bread the life-giving Body
†
the redeeming Body
† the true
Body
† of our God and Savior
Jesus Christ.
Amen.
AND perfect this chalice into the Blood
† of the new covenant, the
redeeming Blood
† the true
Blood
† of our God and Savior
Jesus Christ.
Amen.
The Prayer for the Communicants
MAY EACH partaking of them may become an inheritor in the kingdom of
heaven and enjoy new life with the saints, for to
† Thee do we offer
praise and thanksgiving and to Thine Only-begotten Son and Thy Living
Holy Spirit, One God, in both worlds unto the Aeon of aeons.
Amen.
The Diptychs
Barekhmar! For the holy churches of God, for our Metropolitan, Mar
_____, (for our Bishop, Mar _____,) for all the Orthodox Catholic
bishops and for all the clergy and all the faithful, that their prayers
may be a stronghold for us, let us pray to the Lord!
Kyrie eleison!
WE OFFER unto Thee this bloodless
sacrifice, O Lord, first on behalf of
the holy Zion, the mother of all the churches, and on behalf of Thy
holy Church throughout the whole world, that Thou mayest grant to her
the gift of Thy Holy Spirit. Remember, O Lord, our Metropolitan, Mar
___, (the Archbishop(s) Mar ___ (and Mar ___), (our bishop Mar ___) and
the priests, the deacons and all the orders of Thy Church along with my
own feeble self. Remember not the sins of my youth, but make me to live
according to Thy mercy. Remember also our kindred: the prisoners, the
sick, the infirm, the afflicted, and those who are tormented by evil
spirits. Bless the air and the crown of the year, filling all the
living with good will.
For the founders of this holy house, for those who pray with us here
and for those absent from us, let us pray to the Lord!
Kyrie eleison!
REMEMBER, O Lord, them that stand and pray with
us, and do Thou remember also them that have departed from among us and
them that wished to offer this sacrifice but could not, and to every
one grant what is good. Remember, O Lord, all them we have mentioned
and them we have not mentioned and receive their sacrifices into the
breadth of Thy heavens. Bestow upon them the joy of Thy salvation and
make them worthy of Thy help. Strengthen them with Thy power and arm
them with Thy might.
For pious rulers and for our civil authorities, let us pray to the Lord!
Kyrie eleison!
REMEMBER, O Lord, every pious ruler and governor.
Aid them with the spiritual armor and subdue all their enemies that we
may lead a peaceful life.
That He will remember our holy Fathers and Mothers, the Prophets and
the Apostles, Saint John the Forerunner and Saint Stephen the martyr
and all the righteous with Mary the Virgin Mother of God, let us pray
to the Lord!
Kyrie eleison!
O THOU that hast authority over life and
death, remember our holy fathers and mothers, the prophets, apostles,
and martyrs; Mary the Virgin Mother of God, St John the Forerunner, and
St Stephen the martyr together with all the righteous. Unite us with
the multitudes of the firstborn whose names are written in the heavenly
Jerusalem.
That He will remember all the true teachers who have confirmed us in
the true faith, from Saint James of Jerusalem even until this day, let
us pray to the Lord!
Kyrie eleison!
CONFIRM in our souls the doctrines of the enlightened and
the doctors who carried Thy holy Name before the nations and before the
kings and the children of Israel. Bring to an end the heresies that
trouble us, and make us worthy of a blameless stand before Thy dreadful
judgment seat.
That He will remember all the faithful departed, let us pray to the
Lord!
Kyrie eleison!
O LORD of spirits and all flesh, remember all them that
have departed from us in the true faith. Give rest to their bodies,
their souls and their spirits. Deliver them from endless condemnation
and make them to rejoice in the place where the light of Thy
countenance shines, blotting out their offenses and entering not into
judgment with them, for there is none innocent before Thee save Thine
Only-begotten Son, through whom we also hope to find mercy and
forgiveness of sins for His sake, both for us and for them.
Having commemorated all the saints, let us commend ourselves and one
another and our whole life unto Christ our God!
To thee, O Lord.
KEEP us, O
Lord, without sin until our end and gather us at the feet of Thine
elect. Let our end come when and where and as Thou wilt, but leave us
not in shame for our offenses so that Thine honored and blessed Name
may be glorified and praised, in this as in all things, together with
the
† Name of our Lord Jesus
Christ and that of Thine all good and Living Holy Spirit, one in
essence with Thee, in both worlds unto the Aeon of aeons.
Amen.
† PEACE be with you all.
And with thy spirit.
The Dogmatikon
AMEN, this is the holy, precious Body
of Immanuel our God.
Amen, I believe.
AMEN, this is the true and holy Blood of Immanuel our God.
Amen, I believe.
AMEN, Amen, Amen, I believe and confess to my dying day that this is
the life-giving flesh which Thine Only-begotten Son took from our Lady,
the holy Mother of God, the Ever-Virgin Mary, which He united with His
divinity without confusion or alteration; that having made a good
confession before Pontius Pilate, He gave up His body on the Cross
†
voluntarily and for us all; that His divinity was never sundered from
His humanity after their indissoluble union; that this Flesh is of His
flesh and this Blood is of His blood.
Amen, Amen, Amen, I believe.
The Preface of the Lord's Prayer
O GREAT and mighty God, who through Thy love toward our kind hast
called us and brought us near to this divine Gift through which we
glorify Thee, we offer the prayer of Thine Only-begotten Son with
clarity of heart, purity of mind, simplicity of tongue, cleanliness of
body and a soul full of confidence, daring to call upon Thee, O
heavenly, almighty, and holy God, saying:
The Lord's Prayer
OUR Father,
Who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy
Name. Thy kingdom come, Thy will be
done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and
forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil, for †
Thine
is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen.
† PEACE be with you all.
And with thy spirit.
The Bidding of the Inclination
Before partaking of these divine and holy Mysteries offered here, let
us again bow down our heads to the Lord!
To Thee, O Lord.
The Prayer of Inclination
O GREAT and almighty King, under whose scepter of sovereignty the whole
creation bends down, send Thy blessing upon Thy holy Church which is
bent down now before Thee,
†
for to Thee do we send up glory and thanks
and to Thine Only-begotten Son and to Thy Living Holy Spirit, One God,
in both worlds unto the Aeon of aeons.
Amen.
The Great Blessing
THE GRACE and mercy of the Holy Trinity;
† glorious, uncreated,
self-existent,
† eternal,
adorable and one in essence
†
be with you
all, my kindred, unto the Aeon of aeons.
Amen.
The Second Censing
The Elevation
Barekhmar! With reverence and fear, behold!
Kyrie eleison!
THE HOLY Mysteries are for the Holy.
One Holy Father,
One Holy Son,
One Holy Spirit,
Who are One. Amen.
The Blessing of Bourktha
† MAY the grace of the Holy
Trinity come down upon this bread, its
givers, receivers and servers, and may the mercy of God be upon all its
partakers in the past and those to come, in both worlds unto the Aeon
of aeons.
The Communion
THE purifying fire of the Body and Blood of Christ is given to the
servant of God, ___, for the remission of sins in both worlds and for
everlasting life.
Amen.
The Repose of the Mysteries
Glory be to Thee! Glory be to Thee!
Glory be to Thee, our Lord and God,
forever!
LET NOT our participation in the Mysteries of Thy holy Body and Blood
be unto us for judgement or condemnation, but for life and redemption
to us all.
Amen. May the Name of the Lord be
blessed unto the Aeon of aeons.
The Post-Communion Prayer
WE GIVE thanks unto Thee, Lord Jesus Christ our God,
† that of Thine
own will and that of Thy Father and of Thy Holy Spirit, wast sacrificed
on our behalf, giving us Thy holy Body to eat and Thy purifying Blood
to drink. Confirm us in Thy love, fill us with Thy fear, establish in
us Thy faith, adorn us with blameless conduct and forgive our sins and
those of the faithful departed so we may glorify Thee at all times
†
and Thy Father who begat Thee and Thy Living Holy Spirit, one in
essence with Thee, in both worlds unto the Aeon of aeons.
Amen. May this offering, O Lord, be
pleasing to Thy will. Let the
angels rejoice with us and bring us unto Thee.
The Dismissal
† O LORD, save Thy people and
bless Thine inheritance. Through the
prayers of Mary, the Ever-Virgin Mother of God, the archangels, angels
and all the heavenly host, the patriarchs and prophets, the apostles
and martyrs, the righteous and just and all the Orthodox fathers and
mothers of the faith, the angel of this holy Qurbana and the angel of
this Sabbath (or Feast or High Holy Day), have mercy and compassion on
us and bring us to everlasting life,
†
Father, Son and Holy Spirit, One
God, in both worlds unto the Aeon of aeons.
Amen.
MAY the almighty and merciful God,
†
Father, Son and Holy Spirit, bless
you (through the intercession of St ___). Depart now in peace.
Amen.