Ode 6. Watching life’s sea.

And after the Ekphonesis, Kontakion. Tone 8.

Deacon: Again and again, in peace let us pray to the Lord.

Good One, nailed to the Cross you gathered to yourself the Martyrs who imitate your passion; and so we beg you, give rest now to him/her who has passed over to you.

Reader: Lord, have mercy. Lord, have mercy. Lord, have mercy.

ow be well pleased, O Redeemer, when you come terribly on the clouds in your ineffable glory to judge the whole world, for your faithful servant whom you have taken from the earth to meet you with shining radiance.

Deacon: Again we pray for the repose of the soul of the servant of God, N., who has fallen asleep, and that he/she may be pardoned every offence, both voluntary and involuntary.

uiding out by your divine manhood those who were bound, you are the source of life, O Master; establish in the delight of Paradise your servant who has departed to you in faith.

Deacon: That the Lord our God may establish his/her soul where the righteous rest.

o earth we were returned, having transgressed God’s divine command; but through you, O Virgin, we have been raised from earth to heaven, having shaken off the corruption of death.

Reader: Lord, have mercy.

Watching life’s sea rising with a tempest of temptations, fleeing to your calm haven, I cry out to you: Bring my life up from corruption, O Most merciful.

Deacon: The mercies of God, the kingdom of heaven and the forgiveness of his/her sins, let us ask of Christ, our immortal King and God.

O God of spirits and all flesh, who trampled down death and crushed the devil, giving life to your world; do you, Lord, give rest to the soul of your servant N., who has fallen asleep, in a place of light, a place of green pasture, a place of refreshment, whence pain, grief and sighing have fled away. Pardon, O God, as you are good and love mankind, every sin committed by him/her in word or deed or thought, because there is none who will live and not sin, for you alone are without sin; your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and your word is truth.

Reader: Grant this, O Lord.

For you are the resurrection, the life and the repose of your servant N., who has fallen asleep, Christ our God, and to you we give glory, together with your Father who is without beginning, and your all-holy, good and life-giving Spirit, now and for ever, and to the ages of ages.

Deacon: Let us pray to the Lord.

With the Saints give rest, O Christ, to the soul of your servant, where there is no toil, nor grief, nor sighing, but everlasting life.

Reader: Lord, have mercy.

You alone are immortal, who made and fashioned mankind; we mortals then were formed from earth and to that same earth we shall go, as You who formed me commanded saying: You are earth, and you will go back to earth; to which all we mortals will go making our funeral lament a song: Alleluia.

Reader: Amen.