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...to ask for the remission of our sins, lest [remaining] unrepentant we perish with eternal perdition. But while time is at hand, let us do good works in this life, having as a model for our conduct all the saints and the victorious martyrs, who once and for all from the beginning were pleasing to the Lord and Savior of all. By whose prayers and intercession may God, the lover of mankind, grant us always to ponder and to do what is pleasing to Him and profitable for us, and to be found partakers of the ineffable gifts which the true God, JESUS CHRIST our Lord, promised to His beloved. Save [us] and have mercy. [That we may] pass the [present] hour and the day before us in peace... [let us ask from the Lord in faith.] [For] an angel of peace, a guardian [for our souls...] [For] the expiation and remission of [our] transgressions... [For] the great and mighty power of the Holy Cross [to help our souls...] And again in unity for [our] true and holy [faith, let us beseech the Lord.] Ourselves [and one another unto the Lord God Almighty let us commit.] Have mercy on us, [O Lord our God, according to Thy great mercy...]

RUBRIC: Prayer

Lord of hosts, who by your voluntary death at this hour gave us life from the deadness of our sins, and nailed the seal of our condemnation to the cross, and granted freedom to the race [of humankind]