NOTE II.EXPLANATORY OF ABBREVIATIONS.
The abbreviations found in the text, and not explained inNote i, are,
I. Blessed be our God....
II. Blessed be the kingdom....
III. Trisagion. O most holy Trinity.... Our Father.... For thine is the kingdom....
IV.Glory. Both now.
V. The more honourable than the cherubim....
VI. Now dismiss thy servant, O Master.... Pages11and126.
VII. O come, let us worship....thrice. Pages46,83,123, and128.
VIII. It is very meet.... Pages51,92, and136.
IX. Alleluia,thrice. Pages83and145.
X. Have mercy upon me, O God.... Page85.
XI. Holy God.... Pages138,141,164,169,220, and224.
XII. Having seen the resurrection of Christ, we adore.... Pages166and167.
XIII. Blessed art thou, O Lord: O teach me thy statutes. The angelic counsel was amazed.... Page167.
XIV. Glory to God in the highest.... Vouchsafe, O Lord.... Page198.
XV. It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord.... Page207.
XVI.The irmi of the great canon, A help and protection.... Page208.
XVII. Thou who man-lovingly in depth of wisdom.... We have thee as a fortress and a haven.... Page209.
XVIII. God is the Lord, and hath manifested himself unto us.... Page225.
XIX. Hear us, O God our Saviour, thou hope of all the ends of the earth.... Page238.
XX. Blessed be the name of the Lord.... Page253.
XXI. Forgive, remit.... Page11Appendix.
XXII. And may the mercies.... Pages11and12Appendix.
These written at length are as follows, the first five being of frequent occurrence,
I and II. The priest’s initial blessing, Blessed be our God, always, now and ever, and to ages of ages.Response.Amen. And, Blessed be the kingdom of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, now and ever, and to ages of ages.Response.Amen.
III. Holy God, holy mighty one, holy immortal one, have mercy upon us,three times. Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost, both now and ever, and to ages of ages. Amen. O most holy Trinity, have mercy upon us: O Lord, cleanse our sins: O Master, forgive our transgressions: visit us.O Holy One, and heal our infirmities, for thy name’s sake. Lord, have mercy,three times.Again, Glory to the Father ... ages of ages. Amen.The Lord’s prayer, ending, deliver us from evil.Priest.For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, now and ever, and to ages of ages.Response.Amen.
IV. Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.
Both now and ever, and to ages of ages. Amen.
V. The more honourable than the cherubim, and incomparably more glorious than the seraphim, who didst bear without corruption God the Word, thee, verily the God-bearing one, we magnify.
VI.Nunc Dimittis.
VII. O come, let us worship God our King.
O come, let us worship, and fall down before Christ God, our King.
O come, let us worship, and fall down before Christ himself, our King and God.
VIII. It is very meet to bless thee, the God-bearing one, the ever blessed, the entirely spotless, and the Mother of our God. The more honourable than the cherubim, and incomparably more glorious than the seraphim, who didst bear without corruption God the Word, thee, verily the God-bearing one, we magnify.
IX. Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia, glory to thee, our God.Three times.
X. Psalm 50.
XI. See Trisagion.Note i.
XII. Having seen the resurrection of Christ, we adore the holy Lord Jesus, who alone is without sin. Thy cross, O Christ, we worship, and sing and glorify thy holy resurrection; for thou art our God, we know none other beside thee, we call upon thy name. O come, all ye faithful, let us adore Christ’s holy resurrection; for by the cross great joy is come into all the world. Ever blessing the Lord, we sing his resurrection; for, enduring crucifixion, death by death he overthrew.
XIII. Blessed art thou, O Lord: O teach me thy statutes.
The angelic counsel was amaz’d, seeing thee number’d with the dead, thee, Saviour, who hast overthrown the might of death, hast raised Adam with thyself, and freed all from hades.
Blessed art thou, O Lord....
Why, O disciples, do ye mix the myrrh with pitying tears? exclaim’d the angel standing nigh the grave to them that bore the myrrh. See ye the grave, and understand; for risen from the grave the Saviour is.
Blessed art thou, O Lord....
They that bore myrrh made haste at early morn lamenting to thy grave, but an angel stoodbefore them, and he said, The time for lamentation is gone by, weep not, but tell the resurrection the apostles.
Blessed art thou, O Lord....
The ointment-bearing women as they came with myrrh unto thy grave, O Saviour, wail’d; but an angel spake with them, and said, Why reckon ye the living with the dead? for he is risen from the grave as God.
Glory to the Father....
Let us adore the Father, and his Son, also the Holy Ghost, the Holy Trinity in substance one, exclaiming with the seraphim, Thou holy, holy, holy art, O Lord.
Both now and ever....
Thou, Virgin, who didst bear the Giver of life, hast Adam ransomed from sin, and Eve hast given joy instead of grief; for he that was made flesh of thee, the God and man, hath them that fell from life restored thereunto.[4]
XIV. Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, goodwill to men. We hymn thee, we bless thee, we worship thee, we glorify thee, we give thanks to thee for thy great glory, O Lord, the heavenly King, O God, the Father almighty, O Lord, the only-begotten Son, Jesus Christ, and O Holy Ghost. O Lord God, OLamb of God, O Son of the Father, thou that takest away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us; thou that takest away the sins of the world, accept our prayer. Thou that sittest on the right hand of the Father, have mercy upon us. For thou alone art holy, thou alone art Lord, O Jesus Christ, to the glory of God the Father. Amen. Every day will I bless thee, and I will praise thy name to ages, and to ages of ages. Lord, thou hast been our refuge in generation and generation. I have said, O Lord, have mercy upon me, heal my soul, for I have sinned against thee. Lord, I have fled unto thee, teach me to do thy will, for thou art my God; for with thee is the fountain of life, in thy light shall we see light: O continue forth thy mercy to them that know thee.
Vouchsafe, O Lord, to keep us this day without sin. Blessed art thou, O Lord, O God of our fathers, and praised and glorified is thy name to ages. Amen. O Lord, may thy mercy be upon us, like as we have put our trust in thee. Blessed art thou, O Lord, O teach me by thy statutes. Blessed art thou, O Master, give me understanding by thy statutes. Blessed art thou, O Holy One, enlighten me in thy statutes. O Lord, thy mercy endureth for ever, despise not the work of thy hand. To thee is due praise, to thee is due a song, to thee is due glory, to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost,now and ever, and to ages of ages. Amen.[5]
XV. It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord, and to sing unto thy name, O Most High, to proclaim thy mercy in the morning, and thy truth every night.
XVI.The irmi of the great canon.
1. A help and protection hath he become unto me unto salvation, he is my God, and I will glorify him, my father’s God, and I will exalt him; for he is glorified in glorious wise.
2. Give ear, O heaven, and I will speak, and I will sing Christ who hath come in flesh from the Virgin.
See ye, see ye, that I am God, who of old rained manna, and caused water to spring from the rock in the wilderness for my people, by my sole right hand and by my strength.
3. On thy commandments’ unmov’d rock, stablish thy church, O Christ.
Stablish my fainting heart, O Lord, on thy commandments’ rock; for thou alone art holy and the Lord.
4. The prophet heard of thine approach, O Lord, and fear’d; for thou didst purpose of the Virgin to be born, and to appear ’mongst men;and he exclaim’d, I heard the report of thee, and feared: glory to thy power, O Lord.
5. Rising from the night betimes, O lover of mankind, I pray, Enlighten me, and lead me in thine ordinances, and teach me, Saviour, to perform thy will.
6. I cried with my whole heart to the merciful God, and he heard me from the lowest hades, and brought back my life from corruption.
7. We have sinned, we have transgressed, we have been unrighteous before thee, we have neither loved nor wrought that which thou hast commanded us; still, cast us not away at the last, O God of our fathers.
8. Him that heaven’s hosts glorify, and at whose presence quake the cherubim and seraphim, let every spirit and creature sing, bless, and set up for evermore.
9. From conception seedless unspeakable’s the birth, of Mother husbandless corruptless is the fruit; for God’s nativity hath nature form’d anew. Then we, all generations, right-believingly thee magnify as Mother who was divinely wed.
XVII. Thou who man-lovingly in depth of wisdom orderest all, and unto all dost grant that which of service is, O Maker sole; rest thou thy servants’ souls, O Lord, for they have plac’d their trust in thee,
Our Maker, and our Author, and our God.
We have thee as a fortress and a haven, and am accepted mediatress with God, whom thou didst bear, God-bearing one unwed, salvation thou of them that faithful be.[6]
XVIII. God is the Lord, and hath manifested himself unto us: blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.[7]
XIX. Hear us, O God our Saviour, thou hope of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are far away upon the sea; and be merciful, be merciful, O Master, concerning our sins, and have mercy upon us. For a merciful and man-loving God thou art, and to thee we ascribe glory, to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost, now and ever, and to ages of ages.
XX. Blessed be the name of the Lord, from henceforth, and to all ages.
XXI. Forgive, remit, concede, O God, our sins, voluntary and involuntary, those in word and in deed, those in knowledge and in ignorance, those in the day and in the night, those in thought and in intention; concede them all to us,as being good and lover of mankind.
XXII. And may the mercies of the great God and of our Saviour Jesus Christ be with all of you.[8]