Proemion and Sedro
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 tore in pieces the register of our sins and made us ascend with him to heaven and made us sit at the right hand of his Father; to whom belongs glory and honor and worship at this time of third hour and at all times and seasons and hours and moments of the days of our life for ever, Amin.
Christ our God, who, when you were hung upon the wood, saved and delivered us in our guilt, we will honor your cross, while we say, that it was God who was crucified upon it; and we will worship the cross as the great sign and token of victory, which shall go before him at the time of his manifestation from heaven; therefore we will all worship the cross and in the cross we will trust; we will praise the cross and exalt embrace the cross; in it shall be our boast and we will glorify Christ and receive his passion and his death in our flesh, that with him we may live and likewise with him we may reign in his heavenly kingdom; and we will offer praise and thanksgiving to him and to his worshipful Father and to his Holy Spirit, now and always and forever, Amin.
Qolo
At the third hour and at all times we worship the living cross, and we sign ourselves with it on our foreheads; it is our hope and our protection, it delivers us from the evil one and his powers by day and by night.
At the third hour Adam ate the fruit of death in Eden from the tree, and at the sixth hour the Lord of the worlds ascended the cross for the sake of his servant who had sinned; at the ninth hour he wrote the deed of his deliverance on the cross and restored him to Eden his inheritance.
Glory be to the Father...
Moses with his staff divided the sea before the host and Israel passed over; our Lord Jesus by the cross of light opened Sheol and raised the dead; blesses is Christ, who trod for us the way of life from the grave to Paradise.
From ages to ages...
The cross is light and clothes its worshipers in light and in a garment of glory; from the depths to the heights it lifts up him who looks upon it and takes refuge in it at all times; by it, Lord, give peace to those above and those below and keep your Church and her children.
Boutho of Mar Jacob
Son, who by your cross delivered the church from error, grant her your peace and keep her children by the cross of light.
May the peace, which reconciled those in heaven with those on earth, bring peace to your church and keep her children by the cross of light.
O cross, which revealed wondrous powers to the sons of men; by you may the horn of the Church be exalted now and always; the cross is light and it clothes its worshipers in light; grant light to the eyes of my mind that I may see your light.
Son of god, in whose cross the creation rejoiced, let my mind rejoice in the cross of light on which you were hung; as you have made me worthy, Lord, to speak of the cross of light, make worthy of the marriage-supper of life your Church, which was saved by it.
Great Savior, who saved your Church from error, save me in my weakness on the day when the just judgment is given; on this festival we are assembled before your cross; on that eternal festival may I see your compassion and praise your name.
Glory to the Father, who represented the cross by prophecy; worship to the Son, who gave it as an armor to his apostles; thanksgiving to the Spirit, who by it perfects sacrifices; beneath its arms protect us, Lord from all harm.
By the mercy, which showed compassion to the thief on the right hand, have compassion on us, Son of God, and have mercy upon us.