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PRAYER FOR THOSE WHO HAVE FALLEN ASLEEP

O God of spirits and all flesh, Who hast trampled down
death, overthrown the devil, and given life to Thy world:

Give rest, O Lord, to the souls of Thy servants who have
fallen asleep, Patriarchs, Metropolitans, Archbishops,
Bishops, Priests and Deacons, Monks and Nuns, and all
who have served Thee in Thy Church;

the founders of all Churches and Monasteries, and all
Orthodox forefathers, fathers, brothers and sisters who lie
here and everywhere;

officers and men of the armies and navies who have laid
down their lives for their Faith and country,

all the faithful killed in civil wars,

all who were drowned, burned, frozen to death, torn by wild
beasts,

all who died suddenly without repentance and had no time to
be reconciled with the Church and with their enemies;

all who took their own lives in a moment of mental
unbalance;

all who have asked us to pray for them,

and those who have no one to pray for them,

and all who died without a Christian burial,