[p. 529]

... altar of sacrifice [or: weapon-place/trophy], for through you we were delivered from the biting and bodiless beast; and upon you, the poured-out drops of the incorruptible blood wiped away the sins of the rib-born [Adam/mankind]. You do the children of the holy Church bless.

RUBRIC: [ON] MONDAY

*BŠ* [Monday]: Heavenly ones, chosen flock, which the Good Shepherd left behind in heaven and came in search of us, the strayed; whereby, completing the number of your hundred, He made joy in heaven for you heavenly beings: we beseech you, intercede before the Lord for the remission of our sins. Beholders of the Unseen, initiates into the deep things of God, who descended with the Only-Begotten to minister to the Incarnation [*tnōrēnutʿiwn*]; at the Nativity, bringers of good tidings to the shepherds, and to the Myrrh-bearing women, heralds of the Life of the Living One: we beseech you, intercede before the Lord for the remission of our sins.