Priest
Blessed is our
God always, both now and ever, and to the ages of
ages. . . Amen.
Trisagion
Prayers. All Holy Trinity . . Our Father. . . (see
page 32).
Priest
For Yours is
the Kingdom . . Amen.
Then the
Reader recites the Apolytikion (of the day) and the
Kontakion (of the Temple).
Let us pray to
the Lord. Lord have mercy.
Priest
O Lord our
God, Who through Your beloved Child, our Lord Jesus
Christ, did call us children of God through
adoption, and the Grace of Your All‑Holy Spirit, and
did say, "I will be to Him a Father, and He shall be
to Me a Son." Do You, the same King, Loving God,
look down from Your holy dwelling place on high,
upon these Your servants and unite their natures
which you have begotten separate from one another
according to the flesh, through Your Holy Spirit,
into parents and son (daughter). Confirm them in
Your love; bind them through Your benediction; bless
them to Your great glory; strengthen them in Your
Faith; preserve them always and renounce them not
for that which proceeds from their Ups. Be Mediator
for their promises, that their love which they have
confessed to You be not torn asunder even to the
evening of their lives; grant that they may be kept
sincerely alive in You, our only Living and True
God, and grant unto them to become heirs of Your
Kingdom, for unto You is due all Glory: to the
Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, both
now and ever, and to the ages of ages. Amen.
Peace (+) be
to all.
Choir: And to
your spirit.
Priest
Let us bow our
heads unto the Lord
Choir: To You,
O Lord.
Priest
O Master and
Lord, Who are the Maker of all creatures, and by the
first Adam did make the bonds of kinship according
to the natural flesh, and through Jesus Christ our
Lord, Your beloved Son and our God, by Grace did
show us also as Your kin, now these Your servants
bow their heads before You, Who alone know all
things before their happenings, and ask of You a
blessing, that in You they may receive that for
which they hoped: the bond inscribed in one another,
of parents and son (daughter); and that living
worthily in You in adoption to sonship (daughtership),
they may keep themselves in due constancy, that as
in all things, so in this may be glorified in and to
Your All‑Holy Name of the Father, and of the Son,
and of the Holy Spirit, both now and ever, and to
the ages of ages. Amen.
Then let
the child go up from the Sanctuary, and the parents
receive their child from the Sanctuary. And the
child shall bow before the parents, who shall place
their hands upon the child's head and say:
Today you are
our child; this day we have begotten you.
And the
parents shall take their child in their arms and
kiss one another
Then the
Priest says the Apolysis.
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