[The Form of Prayer for the Ordination of a Deaconess.]
XX. O Eternal God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Creator of man and of woman, who didst replenish with the Spirit Miriam, and Deborah, and Anna, and Huldah; 138 Ex. xv. 20; Judg. iv. 4; Luke ii. 36; 2 Kings xxii. 14. who didst not disdain that Thy only begotten Son should be born of a woman; who also in the tabernacle of the testimony, and in the temple, didst ordain women to be keepers of Thy holy gates,—do Thou now also look down upon this Thy servant, who is to be ordained to the office of a deaconess, and grant her Thy Holy Spirit, and “cleanse her from all filthiness of flesh and spirit,” 139 2 Cor. vii. 1. that she may worthily discharge the work which is committed to her to Thy glory, and the praise of Thy Christ, with whom glory and adoration be to Thee and the Holy Spirit for ever. Amen.
[20] Ὁ Θεὸς ὁ αἰώνιος, ὁ Πατὴρ τοῦ Κυρίου ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ, ὁ ἀνδρὸς καὶ γυναικὸς δημιουργός, ὁ πληρώσας Πνεύματος Μαριὰμ καὶ Δεββῶραν καὶ Ἄνναν καὶ Ὀλδάν, ὁ μὴ ἀπαξιώσας τὸν μονογενῆ σου Υἱὸν γεννηθῆναι ἐκ γυναικός, ὁ καὶ ἐν τῇ σκηνῇ τοῦ μαρτυρίου καὶ ἐν τῷ ναῷ προχειρισάμενος τὰς φρουρὰς τῶν ἁγίων σου πυλῶν: αὐτὸς καὶ νῦν ἔπιδε ἐπὶ τὴν δούλην σου τήνδε τὴν προχειριζομένην εἰς διακονίαν, καὶ δὸς αὐτῇ Πνεῦμα ἅγιον καὶ καθάρισον αὐτὴν ἀπὸ παντὸς μολυσμοῦ σαρκὸς καὶ πνεύματος πρὸς τὸ ἐπαξίως ἐπιτελεῖν αὐτὴν τὸ ἐγχειρισθὲν αὐτῇ ἔργον εἰς δόξαν σὴν καὶ ἔπαινον τοῦ Χριστοῦ σου, δι' οὗ σοὶ δόξα καὶ προσκύνησις ἐν ἁγίῳ Πνεύματι εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας: ἀμήν.