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Those in heaven sing praise and those on earth offer worship to the one eternal being, God the creator of the whole world.
Proemion and Sedro (common)
Let us all pray and beg for mercy and compassion.
Merciful Lord, have mercy on us and help us.
Praise, thanksgiving, glory, honor and exaltation, continually and without ceasing at all times, may we be worthy to offer to him, who is high and who descended to us in his love for mankind and tasted death in the flesh on behalf of Adam his servant and his sinful sons, who transgressed his commandment; to whom belongs glory and honor and worship at this time of Evening and at all times and seasons and hours and moments of the days of our life for ever, Amin.
We beg you, Lord God, and we beseech you by the supplication of the assemblies and the orders of your angels, and by the intercession of your mother, the holy virgin Mary, with the prophets, apostles, martyrs and confessors; by their prayers, Lord be reconciled with us, and establish us in their hope, adorn us by their example and strengthen us that we may tread in their footsteps; support us that we may imitate their endurance and grant that we may please you like them; make us ready to take our pleasure with them and prepare us to praise you with them, that with them we may rejoice in you and honor you and worship your majesty; make a good memory of our faithful departed, that we may offer praise and thanksgiving to you and your Father and your Holy Spirit, now and always and forever. Amen.
Qolo
I called upon the Lord with my voice; with my voice I besought the Lord.
With the voice of praise I make satisfaction to you; because of my offenses and sins I beseech you while I cry: my Lord and my God, do not cast me from your presence; I lay before you my penitence and compunction of heart; because of the multitude of my faults, Christ the King, have mercy on me.
I have laid my supplication before him.
I confess the sins and offenses of my being before you, and I do not hide the multitude of my faults, O lover of men; I said: I will not hide my evil deeds; I will confess my iniquity to the Lord, in his mercy he will heal me; physician of our souls, I bed you have mercy upon me.
Glory to the Father...
Pardon my offenses by your grace and forgive my fault. You are a God of mercy, do not leave me to the enemy, that I may not be entangled in his snare and those who know me mock at me and I become a laughing stock; Christ my God, at your door have I knocked, have mercy on me.
From ages of ages...
In times of sorrow we beseech you, come, Lord, to the help of your servants and quickly let your mercy come upon us; for all kinds of sorrows without limit surround us; Lord do not rebuke us in your anger, as David sang, and do not punish us in your wrath; Christ the king, have mercy upon us.
Of the Mother of God
From the palace of heaven a watcher was sent to Nazareth , a town in Galilee, to the blessed daughter of David; he brought a message of peace with him and announced to her: the Lord is with you and shall come forth from you, the first-born of the Father; Christ God, who came forth from her, have mercy upon us.
The virgin saw the angel clothed in flames, and stood in great fear and began to speak humbly: if you do not give me an explanation, how this may be, that there should be a conception without man, it is hard for me to believe, for I know not a man and I am not acquainted with marriage.
All the mouths and tongues of fire and spirit which are in the hidden heights above cry, blessed is the blessed one; and likewise all the generations on earth, as she said; by her prayers, Lord of all, bestow in your compassion forgiveness of offenses and sins upon the assembly which honors the day of her memory.
Peace be with you, daughter of David, cried the creation; virgin mother of God, full of beauty of holiness, offer for us prayer to her Son, who came forth from you, that by your prayers the Lord of all may send down in his compassion pardon of offenses and sins upon the assembly, which honors the day of your memory.
Of the saints
Peace be with the prophets, apostles and martyrs , builders of the faith and pillars of the holy Church, who endured all torments for the sake of our Lord, and their souls followed after him, as David sang; Christ God, by their prayers, have mercy upon us.
By the memory of your friends, we beseech you, Jesus, God the Word, who came in your love and became man, and trod for us the way of life to the kingdom; the blessed martyrs saw and confessed and believed in you; Christ God, by their prayers, have mercy upon us.
Who is able to declare the praises of the martyrs, who loved Christ with all the strength of their soul, and hated the honor of this world which passed and loved the fear of God with all their hearts? Christ God, by the prayer of your martyrs, have mercy upon us.
The martyrs saw Christ hanging on the cross and his side opened by the spear, and blood and water flowing from it; and they hastened to encourage one another and said: come, let us die for the sake of our Lord, as he died for us. Christ God, by the prayers of your martyrs, have mercy upon us.
Of repentance
Open to us, Lord the door of your mercy, as you did to the thief and accept our repentance, as you did that of the publican and the sinful woman, and as you pardoned Simon after he had denied you, pardon our offenses and sins, Lord full of mercy, because you are he who is pleased with penitents, when they come to you in penitence.
Merciful Lord, have compassion on me as on the thief; not that I am worthy but because of your grace, by which you descended to the race of men, that you might save it from its oppressors, death and sin. Physician of our souls, I beg you, have mercy on us.
The Ninevites trembled at the voice of Jonah, the son of Mathai, and took refuge in repentance by watching and fasting and prayer; and by tears and groans the sentence of judgment was annulled which Jonah had pronounced concerning the destruction of Nineveh; blessed be the Compassionate one who turned them from evil to good.
Let us offer prayer and beg with supplication from the Lord who is merciful; let us not grow weary in beseeching him, because the door of God is open at all times, and he answers to him who knock at it and does not keep back his mercy from sinners who call upon him, because he is good and merciful.
Of the departed.
Make, Lord, a good memory of the faithful departed, who ate your holy body and drank you propitiatory blood; and when you come in glory with your angels, let them stand, Lord, at your right hand with faces unveiled, Christ God, and let them offer praise to your godhead.
Christ, sea of help, abundant in mercy, who descended to the house of the departed and proclaimed life to mortal men and were raised up in glory, and cast fear and great trembling among the guards; on the day of your judgment let your servants be raised by your body and your blood and let them enter the bridal chamber of joy.
King of kings, wearer of crowns, who received the crown of thorns and surrendered yourself to the cross and placed your soul in the hands of the Father; make memory, Lord, of your servants who confessed your name, and let them stand at your right hand, on the day when you appear, and let them rejoice in the kingdom when you give reward to the diligent.
Do not grieve, you dead, who have passed from this world; Christ, who became son of man, on the great day of his coming will make you take your pleasure in his marriage chamber and you will mingle with the angels and the spirits and with them you shall take your pleasure in the kingdom of heaven and you shall cry to him in thanksgiving.
Etro (form the common)
Accept, Lord in your compassion the incense of your servants and be appeased by the smoke offered by your priests and be pleased with the service of your worshippers make there by a good memory of your mother and your saints; give rest to all th faithful departed. Christ the Son, who are worshipped and glorified with your Father and your Holy Spirit, now and always and for ever. Amen.
Qolo
God, who had pity on Nineveh, have pity on us and do not turn your face from our generation which has sinned; if you close your door in our faces; compassionate one, at what door shall we go to knock, if not at your door.
Jonah went forth from Nineveh and was grieved; the Ninevites went out to accompany him and thus they say: Go in peace preacher of truth, who turned us from error to the way of life.
Raise the dead, who received your body, O our Savior, and drank the cup of salvation, of your precious blood, raise them from the grave without corruption and clothe them in glory, those who wait for you.
Abel offered a sacrifice for Adam and in his prayer and supplication thus he said: God who created Adam from the dust, do not remember against him his faults in Paradise.
Give, Lord, rest and life and gladness to the departed who ate your flesh and drank your blood; may they behold your compassion at the seat of judgment, when you come, and may they stand at the right hand of your godhead.
As the flowers of the field are clothed in garments not woven by hands of men, so shall the just be clothed in the resurrection in garments which the Holy Spirit has woven for the sons of Adam.
Quqlion
Lord, hear my prayer, halleluiah, and let my cry come before you.
Do not turn your face from me in the day of affliction, halleluia, but incline your ear to me on the day when I call you and answer me quickly.
Because my days are consumed in smoke, halleluiah, and my bones are white as if they were burned.
My heart is dried up and withered like the grass, halleluia, because I have forgotten to eat my bread.
Receive, Lord, our service and our prayers like those of Moses and Elijah and like those of Aaron the glorious priest, and to you belongs the praise of God. Stomen Kalos, Kurielaison.
Proemion and Sedro (Of Repentance)
Let us all pray and beg for mercy and compassion.
Merciful Lord, have mercy on us and help us.
Praise, thanksgiving, glory, honor and exaltation, continually and without ceasing at all times, may we be worthy to offer to the glorious one who is praised by the legions of flame and honored by the assemblies of all the holy angels; ; to whom belongs glory and honor and worship at this time of Evening and at all times and seasons and hours and moments of the days of our life for ever, Amin.
We beg of you, good and gentle Lord, that your grace may not depart from your Church, which you redeemed by your high arm and your strong hand, and where you showed your wrath, show now your compassion; remove from the fruits of the earth heat and hail and blight and all the scourges of wrath; keep from us hard times and and afflictions and command that there may come to us times of refreshment from the presence of your face; hear me, Lord, hear me, Lord , hear me, Lord quickly and do not delay; look upon the affliction of your people and have pity on the souls of all of us; behold the want of the poor and the needy, of the orphans and the widows, who cry to you and lift up their eyes to your, that you may give them relief in their afflictions, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, now and always and forever, Amen.
Qolo
How good and lovely
The light of day is ending, bring to completion your grace in us; remove from us the evil one who at every hour lays snares for us; may Your cross be our guard and protection by night and by day.
May he bless us and make his face to shine on us.
Blessed is your evening which has gathered us together and your cross which guards us; blessed is your right hand, Lord, which wove crowns for the martyrs and strengthened them in the conflict and placed the crowns it had woven on their heads.
Glory be to the Father..
Behold the Watchers on high give ear to the voice of the service of those on earth, and they say: how sweet is the voice of the children of the earthly Adam, who sing praise with harps of the spirit and offer thanksgiving.
From ages to ages..
Job cried to you from the dunghill and Daniel from within the den, the three young men called to you in the furnace and you saved them from the fire; and we poor sinners, call upon you, have mercy on us.
Moriyo rahem melain oo aa darein
We call upon you, Lord our Lord, come to our help; hear our petition and have mercy on our souls.
Lord our Lord, Lord of the watchers and the angels, hear our petition and have mercy on our souls.
Lord, have pity on me and I will live by the mercy from your right hand, and let me not be tormented like the rich man in Gehenna; grant me to pass on a ship of water through the sea of fire, and let not the grievous place of fire harm me.
May baptism preserve me there from burning and spread its wings over the flames while I pass; may this fountain of living water accompany me, and let me not suffer want there, Lord, among those who thirst.
Let me not, Lord, beg water there from Abraham, where it is known that he who asks does not have it given him; if the path of fire is my lot on account of the guilt of my hands, let me see you there like Hananiah as a fourth amid the flames.
My tongue shall praise you with Hananiah and his companions, and my mouth shall confess you with Daniel from within the den; from the torments of the rich man deliver me, Lord and with Lazarus the poor man I will sing your priase.
Christ who have authority over the kingdom and over Gehenna, deliver us Lord, from Gehenna, and have mercy upon us.