As memorials of His saving passion, He has left us these things which we have set forth according to His commands. For when He was about to go forth to His voluntary, ever-memorable, and life-giving death, on the night in which He gave Himself up for the life of the world, He took bread in His holy, pure, and blameless hands; and when He had shown it to You, God and Father, and given thanks, blessed it, hallowed it, and broken it, He gave it to His holy disciples and apostles saying: Take, eat: this is My Body which is broken for you for the remission of sins.
Faithful: Amen.
Presbyter: Likewise, He took the cup of the fruit of the vine; and having mingled it, giving thanks, blessing it, and hallowing it, He gave it to His holy disciples and apostles saying: Drink of it all of you: this is My Blood of the New Covenant, which is shed for you and for many for the remission of sins.
Faithful: Amen.
Presbyter: Do this in remembrance of Me; for as often as you eat this Bread and drink this Cup, you proclaim My death, you confess My resurrection.
Therefore, Master, remembering His saving passion, life-giving cross, three-day burial, resurrection from the dead, ascension into heaven, sitting at Your right hand, God and Father, and His glorious and awesome second coming,
We offer to You, Yours from Your own, in behalf of all and for all.
At the same time, speaking this, the presbyter (or deacon) crosses his hands (right hand above) and, raising the holy diskos and holy chalice, reverently bows.
Faithful: We praise You, we bless You, we thank You, Lord, and we pray to You, our God.
Presbyter prays:
Therefore, Most Holy Master, we also, sinful and unworthy servants who have been allowed to serve at Your holy altar not because of our righteousness (for we have done nothing good upon the earth), but because of Your mercy and compassion which You have so richly poured out upon us, we dare to approach Your holy altar, and bring forth the symbols of the Holy Body and Blood of Your Christ. We pray to You and call upon You, Holy of Holies, that by the favor of Your goodness Your Holy Spirit may come upon us and upon the gifts now offered, to bless them, to hallow them, and to show
this bread to be the precious Body of our Lord and God and Savior Jesus Christ.
Faithful: Amen.
Presbyter, blessing, says: And this cup to be the precious Blood of our Lord and God and Savior Jesus Christ.
Faithful: Amen.
Presbyter: Shed for the life of the world and for its salvation.
Presbyter, blessing both the Gifts, says:
SHOWN BY YOUR HOLY SPIRIT.
Entire congregation of the faithful: Amen, amen, amen.
The entire church venerates the true Body and
Blood of Christ with earthly worship.
Presbyter prays: And unite us all, who partake of the one Bread and Cup, to one another in the fellowship of the One Holy Spirit, and let none of us partake of the Holy Body and Blood of Your Christ to our judgment or condemnation; but, that we may find mercy and grace with all the saints who through the ages have been pleasing to You: ancestors, fathers, patriarchs, prophets, apostles, preachers, evangelists, martyrs, confessors, educators, and with every righteous spirit made perfect in faith.
And, taking censer, the presbyter pronounces:
Especially for our Most Holy, Pure, Most Blessed, Glorious Lady, the Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary.
Faithful: The grace of rejoicing, O Full of Grace, all creation, the assembly of angels and the human race, sanctified temple and spiritual paradise, the glory of virgins. From You God was incarnate and became a child, He our God before the ages. He made your body into a throne, and your womb He made more spacious than the heavens. In you, O Full of Grace, all creation rejoices. Glory to you.
Presbyter: Of the holy Prophet, Forerunner, and Baptist John; of the holy glorious and all-laudable apostles; of Saint (name), whose memory we celebrate today, and of all Your saints, by whose prayers visit us, O God. And remember all those who have fallen asleep in the hope of resurrection to eternal life (names of the deceased the presbyter wishes to commemorate), and give them rest where the light of Your face shines.
We also pray to You, remember, Lord, Your Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church, which is from one end of the earth to the other; which You have purchased with the precious Blood of Your Christ; grant her peace and stability until the end of the world. Remember, Lord, those who bring You these gifts, and those on whose behalf and for whom they are offered. Remember, Lord, those who bear fruit and do good works in Your holy churches and remember the poor; repay them with Your rich and heavenly gifts; give them in return for earthly things, heavenly ones; for temporal, eternal; for corruptible, incorruptible. Remember, Lord, those who live in deserts, on mountains, in caves, and in the chambers of the earth. Remember, Lord, those living in chastity and godliness, in asceticism and holy purity.
Remember, Lord, our authorities, our military. Grant them peaceful times, so that we in their tranquility may lead a calm and peaceful life in all godliness and sanctity. Keep the good in Your goodness; make the evil good through Your goodness. Remember, Lord, the people present here and those who are absent for just cause, have mercy on them and on us according to the multitude of Your mercy; fill their treasuries with every good thing; preserve their marriages in peace and harmony; nurture the infants; instruct the youth; strengthen the aged; encourage the fainthearted; gather those dispersed; lead back those who have erred and join them to Your Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church. Free those who are vexed by unclean spirits; accompany those who sail; travel with those who travel; defend widows; protect orphans; deliver captives; heal the sick; those who are under trial, in mines, in exile, in bitter slavery, in all tribulations, necessities, and dangers, remember them, O God; and all those who need Your great mercy, and those who love us and those who hate, and those who have charged us, unworthy as we are, to pray for them, and all Your people remember, O Lord our God; and pour out upon all Your rich mercy, granting to all their petitions which are unto salvation. And those whom we have not remembered through ignorance, forgetfulness, or the multitude of names, You Yourself remember, O God, who know the age and name of each, who know each from his mother’s womb. For You, Lord, are the Help of the helpless, the Hope of the hopeless, the Savior of the tempest-tossed, the Haven of voyagers, the Physician of the sick; be all things to all men, O You who knows each man, his requests, his household, and his need.