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[The] Senior Side

[Mode] Gk: Bowing down from the unoriginate bosom of the Father, You, the Word, became incarnate of the Virgin for our salvation; we beseech You: our [brethren] who have fallen asleep in You with orthodox faith, remember, O Lord, when You come in Your kingdom. With unresentful sweetness, O Son of God, You were pleased to take away the sins of the world by Your crucifixion; we beseech [You]... By Your voluntary death You loosed the pangs of death, and by Your expiatory blood made [us] worthy of the remission of transgressions; we beseech [You]... You Who, in the place of sinners, undertook to die, descending into hell, You redeemed the captives from the sin-cherishing prison; we beseech [You]... We praise Your immeasurable love for humankind, Who, having risen on the third day, bestowed life upon the world; we beseech [You]... Pure and spotless Virgin after childbirth, who in the flesh gave birth to the Looser of the bonds of death, be an intercessor for our souls, to be saved from the threats of Gehenna.