Divine Liturgy of St John Chrysostom
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The Hymn to the Theotokos
People: It is truly meet to bless thee, the Theotokos, ever blessed and most blameless, and
mother of our God. More honorable than the Cherubim, and beyond compare more
glorious than the Seraphim, who without corruption gavest birth to God the Word, the
Very Theotokos: thee do we magnify.
All make a prostration, if it be a weekday, but not it be Great Feast of
the Lord or the Theotokos.
And the priest prayeth:
Priest:
For the holy Prophet, Forerunner, and
Baptist John; the holy and all-praised apostles; of
Saint(s) N. (N.) whose memory we also celebrate;
and for all Thy saints: through whose intercessions
do Thou visit us, O God; and remember all that
have departed in the hope of the resurrection unto
life everlasting, and grant them rest where the light
of Thy countenance shall visit them.
Then the deacon censeth the Holy Table round about, and
remembereth whomsoever he will, both of the living and of the dead.
Priest:
Again we pray Thee; Remember, O Lord, all
the Orthodox episcopate that rightly divide the word
of Thy truth, all the priesthood, the diaconate in
Christ, and every sacred rank. Again we offer unto
Thee this rational service for the whole world; for
the Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church; for them
that abide in purity and an honorable life; for the