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grass to the grass-eaters, and to some meat, to others seeds, and to us grain for suitable and fitting nourishment and other various things, some for use, others for health, and others for enjoyment. For all these things, therefore, you are to be praised for your beneficence to all through Christ, through whom to you be glory, honor, and reverence in the Holy Spirit for ever and ever. Amen. And for those who have fallen asleep in Christ, after saying the words of the first prayer, that we may not repeat them, the deacon shall add these also: And for our brethren who have fallen asleep in Christ, let us pray, for the repose of this man or this woman let us pray, so that the philanthropic God, receiving his soul, may overlook in him every sin, voluntary and involuntary, and becoming merciful and gracious may place him in the region of the pious at rest, in the bosom of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, with all those who from eternity have pleased him and done his will, whence have fled pain and grief and groaning. Let us arise; let us commend ourselves and one another to the eternal God through the Word who was in the beginning. And let the bishop say: O you who are by nature immortal and without end, from whom every immortal and mortal thing has come into being, who made the rational creature, man, the citizen of the world, mortal by constitution, and promised a resurrection, who did not allow Enoch and Elijah to experience death; the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob, you are not the God of the dead, but of the living; for all the souls live with you and the spirits of the righteous are in your hand, whom torment will not touch; for all the sanctified are under your hands; look now yourself upon this your servant, whom you have chosen and received to another lot, and forgive him, if he has sinned in any way, unwillingly or willingly, and set gracious angels beside him; and place him in the bosom of the patriarchs and the prophets and the apostles, and of all those who from eternity have pleased you, where there is no grief and pain and groaning, but a place of the pious at rest and a land of the upright dedicated to you and of those in it who see the glory of your Christ, through whom to you be glory, honor, and reverence, thanksgiving and adoration in the Holy Spirit for ever and ever. Amen. And let the deacon say: Bow down and be blessed. And let the bishop give thanks for them, saying these things:

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ποηφάγοις χλόην, καὶ τοῖς μὲν κρέα, τοῖς δὲ σπέρματα, ἡμῖν δὲ σῖτον πρὸς τροφὴν πρόσφορον καὶ κατάλληλον καὶ ἕτερα διάφορα, τὰ μὲν πρὸς χρῆσιν, τὰ δὲ πρὸς ὑγείαν, τὰ δὲ πρὸς τέρψιν. Ἐπὶ τούτοις οὖν ἅπασιν ὑμνητὸς ὑπάρχεις τῆς εἰς πάντας εὐεργεσίας διὰ Χριστοῦ, δι' οὗ σοὶ δόξα, τιμὴ καὶ σέβας ἐν ἁγίῳ Πνεύματι εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας· ἀμήν. Ἐπὶ δὲ τῶν ἐν Χριστῷ ἀναπαυσαμένων μετὰ τὸ προσφωνῆσαι τὰ τῆς πρώτης εὐχῆς, ἵνα μὴ πάλιν λέγωμεν, ὁ διάκονος προσθήσει καὶ ταῦτα· Καὶ ὑπὲρ τῶν ἀναπαυσαμένων ἐν Χριστῷ ἀδελφῶν ἡμῶν δεηθῶμεν, ὑπὲρ τῆς κοιμήσεως τοῦδε ἢ τῆσδε δεηθῶ μεν, ὅπως ὁ φιλάνθρωπος Θεὸς προσδεξάμενος αὐτοῦ τὴν ψυχὴν παρίδῃ αὐτῷ πᾶν ἁμάρτημα ἑκούσιον καὶ ἀκούσιον, καὶ ἵλεως καὶ εὐμενὴς γενόμενος κατατάξῃ εἰς χώραν εὐσεβῶν ἀνειμένων εἰς κόλπους Ἀβραὰμ καὶ Ἰσαὰκ καὶ Ἰακὼβ μετὰ πάντων τῶν ἀπ' αἰῶνος εὐαρεστησάντων καὶ ποιησάντων τὸ θέλημα αὐτοῦ, ἔνθα ἀπέδρα ὀδύνη καὶ λύπη καὶ στεναγ μός. Ἐγειρώμεθα· ἑαυτοὺς καὶ ἀλλήλους τῷ ἀϊδίῳ Θεῷ διὰ τοῦ ἐν ἀρχῇ Λόγου παραθώμεθα. Καὶ ὁ ἐπίσκοπος λεγέτω· Ὁ τῇ φύσει ἀθάνατος καὶ ἀτελεύτητος, παρ' οὗ πᾶν ἀθάνατον καὶ θνητὸν γέγονεν, ὁ τὸ λογικὸν ζῷον τὸν ἄνθρωπον τὸν κοσμοπολίτην θνητὸν ἐκ κατασκευῆς ποιήσας καὶ ἀνά στασιν ἐπαγγειλάμενος, ὁ τὸν Ἐνὼχ καὶ τὸν Ἠλίαν θανάτου πεῖραν μὴ ἐάσας λαβεῖν· ὁ Θεὸς Ἀβραὰμ καὶ ὁ Θεὸς Ἰσαὰκ καὶ ὁ Θεὸς Ἰακὼβ οὐχ ὡς νεκρῶν ἀλλ' ὡς ζώντων Θεὸς εἶ· ὅτι πάντων αἱ ψυχαὶ παρὰ σοὶ ζῶσιν καὶ τῶν δικαίων τὰ πνεύματα ἐν τῇ χειρί σού εἰσιν, ὧν οὐ μὴ ἅψηται βάσανος· πάντες γὰρ οἱ ἡγιασμένοι ὑπὸ τὰς χεῖράς σού εἰσιν· αὐτὸς καὶ νῦν ἔπιδε ἐπὶ τὸν δοῦλόν σου τόνδε, ὃν ἐξελέξω καὶ προσελάβου εἰς ἑτέραν λῆξιν, καὶ συγχώρησον αὐτῷ, εἴ τι ἄκων ἢ ἑκὼν ἐξήμαρτεν, καὶ ἀγγέλους εὐμενεῖς παρά στησον αὐτῷ· καὶ κατάταξον αὐτὸν ἐν τῷ κόλπῳ τῶν πατριαρχῶν καὶ τῶν προφητῶν καὶ τῶν ἀποστόλων καὶ πάντων τῶν ἀπ' αἰῶνός σοι εὐαρεστησάντων, ὅπου οὐκ ἔνι λύπη καὶ ὀδύνη καὶ στεναγμός, ἀλλὰ χῶρος εὐσεβῶν ἀνει μένος καὶ γῆ εὐθέων σοὶ ἀνακειμένη καὶ τῶν ἐν αὐτῇ ὁρώντων τὴν δόξαν τοῦ Χριστοῦ σου, δι' οὗ σοὶ δόξα, τιμὴ καὶ σέβας, εὐχαριστία καὶ προσκύνησις ἐν ἁγίῳ Πνεύματι εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας· ἀμήν. Καὶ ὁ διάκονος λεγέτω· Κλίνατε καὶ εὐλογεῖσθε. Καὶ ὁ ἐπίσκοπος εὐχαριστείτω ὑπὲρ αὐτῶν λέγων τάδε·