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with fatherly compassion because of repentance, you yourself now also receive the repentance of your supplicants, for there is no one who will not sin against you; for if you should mark iniquities, O Lord, O Lord, who shall stand? For with you there is forgiveness. And restore them to your holy Church in their former worthiness and honor through Christ, our God and savior, through whom to you be glory and worship in the Holy Spirit for ever and ever; amen. And let the deacon say: Depart, you who are in repentance. And let him add: Let none of those who are not able come forward. As many as are faithful, let us kneel; let us pray to God through his Christ, let us all earnestly beseech God through his Christ. For the peace and stability of the world and of the holy Churches, let us pray, that the God of all may grant us his own eternal and inalienable peace, that he may keep us continuing in the fullness of virtue that is according to godliness. For the holy catholic and apostolic Church of God from one end of the inhabited world to the other, let us pray, that the Lord may guard and keep her unshaken and untroubled until the consummation of the age, founded upon the rock. And for the holy parish here, let us pray, that the Lord of all may deem us worthy to pursue unceasingly his heavenly hope and to render to him without interruption the debt of prayer. For every episcopate under heaven of those who rightly divide the word of your truth, let us pray. And for our bishop James and his parishes, let us pray, for our bishop Clement and his parishes, let us pray, for our bishop Euodius and his parishes, let us pray, for our bishop Annianus and his parishes, let us pray, that the merciful God may grant them to his holy Churches safe, honored, long-lived, and may grant them an honorable old age in godliness and righteousness. And for our presbyters, let us pray, that the Lord may deliver them from every absurd and wicked thing and grant them a safe and honored presbyterate.

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πατρικοῖς σπλάγχνοις διὰ τὴν μετάνοιαν, αὐτὸς καὶ νῦν πρόσδεξαι τῶν ἱκετῶν σου τὴν μετάγνωσιν, ὅτι οὐκ ἔστιν, ὃς οὐχ ἁμαρτήσεταί σοι· ἐὰν γὰρ ἀνομίας παρατηρήσῃ, Κύριε, Κύριε, τίς ὑποστήσεται; Ὅτι παρὰ σοὶ ὁ ἱλασμός ἐστιν. Καὶ ἀποκατάστησον αὐτοὺς τῇ ἁγίᾳ σου Ἐκκλησίᾳ ἐν τῇ προτέρᾳ ἀξίᾳ καὶ τιμῇ διὰ τοῦ Χριστοῦ, τοῦ Θεοῦ καὶ σωτῆρος ἡμῶν, δι' οὗ σοι δόξα καὶ προσκύνησις ἐν τῷ ἁγίῳ πνεύματι εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας· ἀμήν. Καὶ ὁ διάκονος λεγέτω· Ἀπολύεσθε, οἱ ἐν μετανοίᾳ. Καὶ προστιθέτω· Μήτις τῶν μὴ δυναμένων προσελθέτω. Ὅσοι πιστοί, κλίνωμεν γόνυ· δεηθῶμεν τοῦ Θεοῦ διὰ τοῦ Χριστοῦ αὐτοῦ, πάντες συντόνως τὸν Θεὸν διὰ τοῦ Χριστοῦ αὐτοῦ παρακα λέσωμεν. Ὑπὲρ τῆς εἰρήνης καὶ τῆς εὐσταθείας τοῦ κόσμου καὶ τῶν ἁγίων Ἐκκλησιῶν δεηθῶμεν, ὅπως ὁ τῶν ὅλων Θεὸς ἀΐδιον καὶ ἀναφαίρετον τὴν ἑαυτοῦ εἰρήνην ἡμῖν παράσχοιτο, ἵνα ἐν πληροφορίᾳ τῆς κατ' εὐσέβειαν ἀρετῆς διατελοῦντας ἡμᾶς συντηρήσῃ. Ὑπὲρ τῆς ἁγίας καθολικῆς καὶ ἀποστολικῆς τοῦ Θεοῦ Ἐκκλησίας τῆς ἀπὸ περάτων ἕως περάτων τῆς οἰκουμένης δεηθῶμεν, ὅπως ὁ Κύριος ἄσειστον αὐτὴν καὶ ἀκλυδώνιστον διαφυλάξῃ καὶ διατηρήσῃ μέχρι τῆς συντελείας τοῦ αἰῶνος τεθεμελιωμένην ἐπὶ τὴν πέτραν. Καὶ ὑπὲρ τῆς ἐνθάδε ἁγίας παροικίας δεηθῶμεν, ὅπως καταξιώσῃ ἡμᾶς ὁ τῶν ὅλων Κύριος ἀνενδότως τὴν ἐπουρά νιον αὐτοῦ ἐλπίδα μεταδιώκειν καὶ ἀδιάλειπτον αὐτῷ τῆς δεήσεως ἀποδιδόναι τὴν ὀφειλήν. Ὑπὲρ πάσης ἐπισκοπῆς τῆς ὑπὸ τὸν οὐρανὸν τῶν ὀρθοτομούντων τὸν λόγον τῆς σῆς ἀληθείας δεηθῶμεν. Καὶ ὑπὲρ τοῦ ἐπισκόπου ἡμῶν Ἰακώβου καὶ τῶν παροικιῶν αὐτοῦ δεηθῶμεν, ὑπὲρ τοῦ ἐπισκόπου ἡμῶν Κλήμεντος καὶ τῶν παροικιῶν αὐτοῦ δεηθῶμεν, ὑπὲρ τοῦ ἐπισκόπου ἡμῶν Eὐοδίου καὶ τῶν παροικιῶν αὐτοῦ δεηθῶ μεν, ὑπὲρ τοῦ ἐπισκόπου ἡμῶν Ἀννιανοῦ καὶ τῶν παροικιῶν αὐτοῦ δεηθῶμεν, ὅπως ὁ οἰκτίρμων Θεὸς χαρίσηται αὐτοὺς ταῖς ἁγίαις αὐτοῦ Ἐκκλησίαις σώους, ἐντίμους, μακροημε ρεύοντας, καὶ τίμιον αὐτοῖς τὸ γῆρας παράσχηται ἐν εὐσεβείᾳ καὶ δικαιοσύνῃ. Καὶ ὑπὲρ τῶν πρεσβυτέρων ἡμῶν δεηθῶμεν, ὅπως ὁ Κύριος ·ύσηται αὐτοὺς ἀπὸ παντὸς ἀτόπου καὶ πονηροῦ πράγματος καὶ σῶον καὶ ἔντιμον τὸ πρεσβυτέριον αὐτοῖς παράσχοι.