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with a holy kiss. And after the reading of the Law and the Prophets, and of our Epistles and the Acts and the Gospels, let the one who has been ordained greet the church, saying: The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and Father and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all. And let all answer: And with your spirit. And after the greeting, let him speak to the people words of exhortation. And when he has completed the word of teaching, I Andrew, the brother of Peter, say: When all have stood up, let the deacon, having gone up to some high place, proclaim: Let none of the hearers, let none of the unbelievers. And when there is silence, let him say: Pray, you catechumens. And let all the faithful pray for them in their mind, saying: Lord, have mercy. And let the deacon minister on their behalf, saying: For the catechumens, let us all earnestly entreat God, that the good one who loves mankind may favorably hearken to their petitions and their supplications, and receiving their entreaty, may help them and give them the requests of their hearts for their benefit, may reveal to them the gospel of His Christ, may enlighten them and give them understanding, may instruct them in the knowledge of God, may teach them His commandments and His ordinances, may implant in them His pure and saving fear, may open the ears of their hearts to be occupied in His law day and night, may establish them in piety, may unite and number them with His holy flock, counting them worthy of the laver of regeneration, the garment of incorruption, the true life; may He deliver them from all impiety and give no place to the adversary against them, may He cleanse them from all defilement of flesh and spirit, and may He dwell and walk in them through His Christ, may He bless their comings in and their goings out, and direct for them the things that lie before them for their benefit. Let us supplicate yet more earnestly for them, that, obtaining the remission of their trespasses through initiation, they may be deemed worthy of the holy mysteries and of continuance with the saints.

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Κυρίῳ φιλήματι. Καὶ μετὰ τὴν ἀνάγνωσιν τοῦ Νόμου καὶ τῶν Προφητῶν, τῶν τε Ἐπιστολῶν ἡμῶν καὶ τῶν Πράξεων καὶ τῶν Eὐαγγελίων, ἀσπασάσθω ὁ χειροτονηθεὶς τὴν ἐκκλησίαν, λέγων· Ἡ χάρις τοῦ Κυρίου ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ καὶ ἡ ἀγάπη τοῦ Θεοῦ καὶ Πατρὸς καὶ ἡ κοινωνία τοῦ ἁγίου Πνεύματος μετὰ πάντων ὑμῶν. Καὶ πάντες ἀποκρινέσθωσαν· Καὶ μετὰ τοῦ πνεύματός σου. Καὶ μετὰ τὴν πρόσρησιν προσλαλησάτω τῷ λαῷ λόγους παρακλήσεως. Καὶ πληρώσαντος αὐτοῦ τὸν τῆς διδασκαλίας λόγον φημὶ ἐγὼ Ἀνδρέας ὁ ἀδελφὸς Πέτρου· Ἀναστάντων ἁπάντων ὁ διάκονος ἐφ' ὑψηλοῦ τινος ἀνελθὼν κηρυττέτω· Μήτις τῶν ἀκροωμένων, μήτις τῶν ἀπίστων. Καὶ ἡσυχίας γενομένης λεγέτω· Eὔξασθε, οἱ κατηχούμενοι. Καὶ πάντες οἱ πιστοὶ κατὰ διάνοιαν ὑπὲρ αὐτῶν προ σευχέσθωσαν λέγοντες· Κύριε ἐλέησον. ∆ιακονείτω δὲ ὑπὲρ αὐτῶν λέγων· Ὑπὲρ τῶν κατηχουμένων πάντες ἐκτενῶς τὸν Θεὸν παρακαλέσωμεν, ἵνα ὁ ἀγαθὸς καὶ φιλάνθρωπος εὐμενῶς εἰσακούσῃ τῶν δεήσεων αὐτῶν καὶ τῶν παρακλήσεων, καὶ προσδεξάμενος αὐτῶν τὴν ἱκεσίαν ἀντιλάβηται αὐτῶν καὶ δῷ αὐτοῖς τὰ αἰτήματα τῶν καρδιῶν αὐτῶν πρὸς τὸ συμφέρον, ἀποκαλύψῃ αὐτοῖς τὸ εὐαγγέλιον τοῦ Χριστοῦ αὐτοῦ, φωτίσῃ αὐτοὺς καὶ συνετίσῃ, παιδεύσῃ αὐτοὺς τὴν θεογνωσίαν, διδάξῃ αὐτοὺς τὰ προστάγματα αὐτοῦ καὶ τὰ δικαιώματα, ἐγκαταφυτεύσῃ ἐν αὐτοῖς τὸν ἁγνὸν αὐτοῦ καὶ σωτήριον φόβον, διανοίξῃ τὰ ὦτα τῶν καρδιῶν αὐτῶν πρὸς τὸ ἐν τῷ νόμῳ αὐτοῦ καταγίνεσθαι ἡμέρας καὶ νυκτός, βεβαιώσῃ δὲ αὐτοὺς ἐν τῇ εὐσεβείᾳ, ἑνώσῃ καὶ ἐγκατα ριθμήσῃ αὐτοὺς τῷ ἁγίῳ αὐτοῦ ποιμνίῳ, καταξιώσας αὐτοὺς τοῦ λουτροῦ τῆς παλιγγενεσίας, τοῦ ἐνδύματος τῆς ἀφθαρ σίας, τῆς ὄντως ζωῆς· ·ύσηται δὲ αὐτοὺς ἀπὸ πάσης ἀσεβείας καὶ μὴ δῷ τόπον τῷ ἀλλοτρίῳ κατ' αὐτῶν, καθαρίσῃ δὲ αὐτοὺς ἀπὸ παντὸς μολυσμοῦ σαρκὸς καὶ πνεύματος, ἐνοικήσῃ τε ἐν αὐτοῖς καὶ ἐμπεριπατήσῃ διὰ τοῦ Χριστοῦ αὐτοῦ, εὐλογήσῃ τὰς εἰσόδους αὐτῶν καὶ τὰς ἐξόδους καὶ κατευθύνῃ αὐτοῖς τὰ προκείμενα εἰς τὸ συμφέρον. Ἔτι ἐκτενέστερον ὑπὲρ αὐτῶν ἱκετεύσωμεν, ἵνα ἀφέσεως τυχόντες τῶν πλημμελημάτων διὰ τῆς μυήσεως ἀξιωθῶσιν τῶν ἁγίων μυστηρίων καὶ τῆς μετὰ τῶν ἁγίων διαμονῆς.