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RUBRIC: PSALM

Lord, do not deliver us up completely for the sake of Your holy name; do not break Your covenant, and do not remove Your mercy from us. For the sake of Abraham, Your beloved, Isaac, Your servant, and Israel, Your holy one. Lord, do not deliver us up completely for the sake of Your holy name; do not break Your covenant, and do not remove Your mercy from us.

[RUBRIC: CANTICLE OF THE LORD NERSĒS]

Through the intercession of the patriarch Abraham, receive [our] supplications, O Lord. And through the petitions of Thy servant Isaac, have compassion upon us. Through the love of the holy visionary Israel, spare us. O Thrice-Holy [Lord], by the three of these, Sanctify [our] soul, [our] mind, and [our] body.

RUBRIC: [A] PROCLAMATION [litany, *kʿaroz*]:

Let us beseech Christ our life-giving Savior, who by His voluntary crucifixion...