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let us receive thanksgiving from them*. Therefore we confess to you now, lover of mankind, O good one, and to you we send up glory, and honor, and worship, unceasingly, with your unoriginate Father and your Holy Spirit, now, etc.

The deacon says. Bow your heads to the Lord. The prayer of the bowing of the heads. He who is, who was, who came into the world to enlighten

it; who was incarnate, became man, and was crucified for us, and who suffered willingly in the flesh, and remained impassible, as God; and was buried, and rose on the third day, and ascended into the heavens, and sat down at the right hand of the majesty of the glory of the Father, having sent down the divine, and holy, and consubstantial, and co-powerful, and co-glorious, and co-eternal Spirit upon your holy disciples, and apostles, and through this enlightened them, and through them the whole world, O Christ, our true God. .... and Gabriel and Raphael. And of the angels, the four-formed incorporeal living creatures; and of the angels, the twenty-four elders. Of the holy, glorious prophet, forerunner, baptist, and martyr John. Of the holy Stephen the protodeacon and protomartyr. 36.733 Of the divine, holy, glorious apostles, prize-winning prophets, and gloriously triumphant martyrs. And of our holy and blessed Father Mark the apostle and evangelist, and of all your saints. And save, and have mercy, and bless every Christian. And to you the glory and honor, and worship with your unoriginate Father and the Holy Spirit, now and ever.

In the peace of God the divine Liturgy was completed, that appointed for the one among the saints

our Father Gregory the Theologian.

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λάβωμεν ἐξ αὐτῶν εὐχαριστία*. ∆ιὸ ἐξομολογοῦμέν σοι νῦν, φιλάνθρωπε, ἀγαθὲ, καὶ σοὶ τὴν δόξαν, καὶ τὴν τιμὴν, καὶ τὴν προσκύνησιν διηνεκῶς ἀναπέμπομεν, σὺν τῷ ἀνάρχῳ σου Πατρὶ καὶ τῷ ἁγίῳ σου Πνεύματι, νῦν, κ. τ. λ.

Ὁ διάκονος λέγει. Τὰς κεφαλὰς ὑμῶν τῷ Κυρίῳ κλίνατε. Εὐχὴ τῆς κεφαλοκλισίας. Ὁ ὢν, ὁ ἦν, ὁ ἐλθὼν εἰς τὸν κόσμον τοῦ φωτίσαι

αὐτόν· ὁ σαρκωθεὶς, ἐνανθρωπήσας, καὶ σταυρωθεὶς δι' ἡμᾶς, καὶ παθὼν ἑκουσίως σαρκὶ, καὶ μείνας ἀπαθὴς, ὡς Θεός· καὶ ταφεὶς, καὶ ἀναστὰς τῇ τρίτῃ ἡμέρᾳ, καὶ ἀνελθὼν εἰς οὐρανοὺς, καὶ καθίσας ἐν δεξιᾷ τῆς μεγαλοσύνης τῆς δόξης τοῦ Πατρὸς, τό τε θεῖον, καὶ ἅγιον, καὶ ὁμοούσιον, καὶ ὁμοδύναμον, καὶ ὁμόδοξον, καὶ συναΐδιον Πνεῦμα καταπέμψας ἐπὶ τοὺς ἁγίους σου μαθητὰς, καὶ ἀποστόλους, καὶ διὰ τούτου φωτίσας μὲν αὐτοὺς, δι' αὐτῶν δὲ πᾶσαν τὴν οἰκουμένην, Χριστὲ, ὁ ἀληθινὸς Θεὸς ἡμῶν. .... καὶ Γαβριὴλ καὶ Ῥαφαήλ. Καὶ τῶν ἀγγέλων τετραμόρφων ζώων ἀσωμάτων· καὶ τῶν ἀγγέλων, εἴκοσι τεσσάρων πρεσβυτέρων. Τοῦ ἁγίου ἐνδόξου, προφήτου, προδρόμου, βαπτιστοῦ, καὶ μάρτυρος Ἰωάννου. Τοῦ ἁγίου Στεφάνου τοῦ πρωτοδιακόνου καὶ πρωτομάρτυρος. 36.733 Τῶν θείων, ἱερῶν, ἐνδόξων ἀποστόλων, ἀθλοφόρων προφητῶν, καὶ καλλινίκων μαρτύρων. Καὶ τοῦ ἁγίου καὶ μακαρίου Πατρὸς ἡμῶν Μάρκου τοῦ ἀποστόλου καὶ εὐαγγελιστοῦ, καὶ πάντων τῶν ἁγίων σου. Καὶ σῶσον, καὶ ἐλέησον, καὶ εὐλόγησον πάντα Χριστιανόν. Καὶ σοὶ τὴν δόξαν καὶ τιμὴν, καὶ προσκύνησιν σὺν τῷ ἀνάρχῳ σου Πατρὶ καὶ τῷ ἁγίῳ Πνεύματι νῦν καὶ ἀεί.

Ἐν εἰρήνῃ τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐτελειώθη ἡ θεία Λειτουργία, ἡ ὡρισμένη τῷ ἐν ἁγίοις

Πατρὶ ἡμῶν Θεολόγῳ Γρηγορίῳ.