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Seek your servant, for I did not forget your commandments. Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit. Now and always and unto the ages of ages. Amen.

[RUBRIC:] And after [this] is said the *šarakan* (hymn) in the Third Tone:

[Tone] GD (Third Mode). From you we ask, Father of mercies and God of comforts, in this approaching sad hour of night, comfort us from the sorrows of sin, and grant joy through works of righteousness; through the intercessions of the Holy Mother of God (*Astuacacin*) and of all the righteous. According to your most sweet divine command [and] calling, Son of God, we have come before you this evening, weary and heavy laden; lighten our souls from the weights of sins, and strengthen [us] to take up willingly the sweet yoke of your commandments; through the intercessions of the Holy Mother of God and of all the righteous.