Chapter, Paragraph
1 1,1| Orthodox Christians glorify God and His Saints, express
2 1,1| which they receive from God mercies and the grace of
3 1,2| public worship, instituted by God Himself, with temple, priests
4 1,3| gestures express devotion to God, humility, repentance, supplication
5 1,3| descent to earth of the Son of God, and in His having assumed
6 1,3| our belief that the Triune God hath sanctified our thoughts,
7 2,1| name of Temple or House of God to a building specially
8 2,1| specially consecrated to God, or to a separate part of
9 2,1| assemble to offer up to God their common prayers, and
10 2,1| church is consecrated to God and sanctified in the name
11 2,1| entitled “a temple or church of God.” But apart from this general
12 2,1| the Most Holy Mother of God,” “of St. Andrew the First-called,” “
13 2,1| to offer their prayers to God in woods, in mountain gorges
14 2,1| i.e., “Jesus Christ, Son of God, Saviour.” Still more frequently
15 2,4| the Saints, being near to God, intercede for us with their
16 2,4| Christ as the One “Sent of God,” possessed of almighty
17 2,4| of Christ as the Son of God; hence he is associated
18 2,5| of Christ, the Mother of God and the Saints; also for
19 2,5| in honor of the Mother of God; it is stamped with an effigy
20 2,5| us that Cherubim worship God with us before His altar.~ ~
21 2,7| far away from heaven, from God. During solemn, joyous services,
22 2,7| angels — the messengers of God, who minister unto Him in
23 2,7| an icon of the Mother of God. In the same tier, if there
24 2,7| of them is the Mother of God with the Divine Infant.
25 2,8| themselves farther away from God by their sins and become
26 2,9| souls burn with the love of God and are penetrated with
27 2,9| heart are acceptable to God.~Of the candlesticks and
28 2,9| us that there is but one God, Who is the Light Eternal;
29 3,2| strength, but in the help of God. The belt is worn only by
30 3,2| serves to remind them that God strengthens them with His
31 3,2| spiritual sword — the Word of God, with which they must smite
32 3,2| Saviour or the Mother of God, not large, but richly decorated,
33 4,3| especially to the Mother of God, and to the memory of all
34 4,5| of Our Lord, in honor of God Himself, — of the Mother
35 4,5| Himself, — of the Mother of God, — and Saints’ Feasts, in
36 4,6| others of the Mother of God. The former are: The Nativity
37 4,6| Dormition of the Mother of God (Assumption), 15th of August.*
38 4,6| do honor to the Mother of God; the day after the Epiphany
39 4,6| Righteousness, Christ our God, annulling the curse and
40 4,6| Today is the prelude of the God’s good will, and the heralding
41 4,6| mankind. In the temple of God, the Virgin is presented
42 4,6| Righteousness, Christ our God, enlightening those in darkness.
43 4,8| with the glorification of God, the Creator of the world
44 4,8| in honor of the Mother of God, and the prayer of the Blessed
45 4,8| first we give thanks to God for the day, and express
46 4,8| prayers, in the verse: “God is with us. Understand,
47 4,8| and submit yourselves, for God is with us.” — The second
48 4,8| in the Psalm “Praise ye God in His Saints,” with the
49 4,8| Psalm “Have mercy on me, O God...”~The Midnight Office
50 4,9| the Nativity: “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth
51 4,9| Incarnation of Christ: “God is the Lord and hath appeared
52 4,9| in honor of the Mother of God), the Lord’s Prayer, the
53 5,1| congregation to worship Christ, our God and King. In answer to this
54 5,1| of David, which glorifies God the Creator and His Providence: “
55 5,1| Lord, O my soul! O Lord, my God, Thou hast been magnified
56 5,1| that time separate men from God, while the light of the
57 5,2| of the holy churches of God and the union of all” (i.e.,
58 5,2| reverence and the fear of God enter herein.” Then follow
59 5,2| mercy on us, and keep us, O God, by Thy grace.” The ectenia
60 5,2| ourselves to the will of God: “Calling to remembrance
61 5,2| our life unto Christ our God.”~In response to these words,
62 5,2| because to Thee, the Triune God, we owe glory, honor and
63 5,2| sin has removed us from God and has closed against us
64 5,3| words “Glory to Thee, O God”; whence the stases are
65 5,3| Arise, O Lord, save me, O my God” (Alleluia!) “Salvation
66 5,3| mercy on us, and keep us, O God, by Thy grace,” and ends
67 5,3| with the commendation to God’s will and the doxology.
68 5,4| glorifies the Mother of God and contains the dogma of
69 5,5| Incarnation of the Son of God hath opened to them the
70 5,5| Incarnation of the Son of God, and seeing in the priest’
71 5,5| praise to Christ, as being God. While this hymn is being
72 5,5| Son and the Holy Spirit: God. Meet it is for Thee at
73 5,5| reverent voices, O Son of God, Giver of life. Wherefore,
74 5,6| After glorifying Christ as God, we offer up our petitions
75 5,6| sins for the servants of God, the brethren of this holy
76 5,6| that we hope to obtain from God what we ask, because he
77 5,6| merciful and a man-loving God.”~The Ectenia of Supplication
78 5,6| that we hope to obtain from God what we ask because He is “
79 5,7| with hope in the Son of God, Who, having become incarnate
80 5,7| in Him the right to call God their Father, we can retire
81 5,7| praise of the Mother of God, and ask God’s blessing,
82 5,7| the Mother of God, and ask God’s blessing, exclaiming: “
83 5,8| enter into the House of God. The Litia consists chiefly
84 6,1| before dawn: “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth
85 6,1| and hope in the mercy of God and salvation (3, 62 and
86 6,2| God is the Lord,” and the Kathismata.~
87 6,2| Six Psalms, we offer up to God our petitions for the granting
88 6,2| sing a hymn of praise to God, Who hath descended to earth
89 6,2| continuation of the Angelic Hymn: “God is the Lord and hath appeared
90 6,2| incarnation of the Son of God. While the hymn, “God is
91 6,2| of God. While the hymn, “God is the Lord,” and the troparion
92 6,2| our unworthiness before God. In ancient times the lesson
93 6,2| His coming and prayed to God for mercy, listening in
94 6,4| in honor of the Mother of God (Theotokion).~ ~“The assembly
95 6,4| living among the dead? For as God He is risen from the tomb.~“
96 6,4| Who of Thee was incarnate, God and Man.”~ ~
97 6,6| faithful first to praise God, in the words “Let every
98 6,6| sing, “Glory to Thee, our God, glory to Thee!” Just before
99 6,6| glorify. For Thou art our God, and we know none other
100 6,6| token that the mercy of God is vouchsafed to them, and
101 6,6| Apostles and of the Mother of God. The deacon asks for the
102 6,7| which she gave thanks to God for having taken from her
103 6,7| good works, and glorifies God in Hannah’s words.~ The
104 6,7| his hope to be saved by God. In the eirmos of the sixth
105 6,7| songs they first besought God to forgive their transgressions,
106 6,7| spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour.” This ode is
107 6,7| corruption gavest birth to God the Word, the very Theotokos,
108 6,7| celebrates the Mother of God and the Incarnation of Christ.~
109 6,7| priest. The first celebrates God as the Creator and Divine
110 6,7| Providence: — “For Thou art our God”; the second — as the Saviour: “
111 6,8| and 150, which invite all God’s creatures to praise the
112 6,8| sung: “Holy is the Lord our God,” as an invitation to begin
113 6,8| Blessed art Thou, O Christ God, Who hast been thus well-pleased,
114 6,8| the faithful to glorify God for having given us the
115 6,8| the faithful to glorify God for the gift not of the
116 6,8| the Angelic Song “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth
117 6,8| with the Trisagion: “Holy God, Holy Mighty, Holy Immortal,
118 6,8| Great Doxology:~ ~“Glory to God in the highest, and on earth
119 6,8| O Lord, Heavenly King, God the Father Almighty; O Lord,
120 6,8| and O Holy Spirit. O Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the
121 6,8| Spirit. O Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father, that
122 6,8| Christ, to the glory of God the Father. Amen.~“Every
123 6,8| Blessed art Thou, O Lord, the God of our fathers, and praised
124 6,8| Thy will, for Thou art my God; for in Thee is the fountain
125 6,8| them that know Thee.~“Holy God, Holy Mighty, Holy Immortal,
126 6,8| have mercy on us.~“Holy God, Holy Mighty, Holy Immortal,
127 6,9| celebrated the glory of God, we offer up petitions for
128 6,9| intercession of the Mother of God, save the Church authorities,
129 6,9| 50, “Have mercy on me, O God!,” which is followed by
130 7,1| service gifts are offered to God which have been contributed
131 7,1| memory of our Lord, and God, and Saviour, Jesus Christ”;
132 7,1| memory of the Mother of God and lays it on the paten
133 7,1| is called “the Mother of God’s.” — Out of the third loaf
134 7,1| readings from the Word of God.~ It begins with a glorification
135 7,1| Incarnation of the Son of God. These hymns are sung alternately
136 7,1| of the incarnate Son of God: “O Only-begotten Son and
137 7,1| Only-begotten Son and Word of God, Who art immortal, yet didst
138 7,1| man without ceasing to be God), “and wast crucified, O
139 7,1| wast crucified, O Christ God, trampling down death by
140 7,1| typical of the mercy of God to man.~ Verses from Psalm
141 7,1| life, I will chant unto my God for as long I have my being...”~
142 7,1| indicates that the Word of God is light to our spirit,
143 7,1| spirit, that the Law of God consecrates the path of
144 7,1| before Christ; O Son of God, Who didst rise from the
145 7,1| For holy art Thou, our God, and unto Thee do we send
146 7,1| singing the Trisagion: “Holy God, Holy Mighty, Holy Immortal
147 7,1| For holy art Thou, our God,” turns round and faces
148 7,1| the “Alleluia:” “Arise, O God, judge the earth, for Thou
149 7,1| allusion to the grace of God vouchsafed through His Word.
150 7,1| chanting, “Glory to Thee, our God, glory to Thee.” The priest
151 7,1| which “Glory to Thee, our God, glory to Thee,” is sung
152 7,1| minister at the Throne of God on earth even as the Cherubim
153 7,1| offer may be acceptable to God: spiritual peace, mutual
154 7,1| Faith.” — “I believe in one God, the Father Almighty...”
155 7,1| Jesus Christ and the love of God the Father and the Communion
156 7,1| who surround the Throne Of God in heaven, and that with
157 7,1| Having rendered thanks to God for all His mercies by worship.
158 7,1| the greatest monument of God’s supreme love for men: “
159 7,1| and we pray unto Thee, our God.” While this hymn is being
160 7,1| instant, by the might of God, the bread and the wine
161 7,1| especially for the Mother of God — and that we beseech Him,
162 7,1| commemorates aloud the Mother of God, “Especially for our most
163 7,1| in honor of the Mother of God “It is truly meet to bless
164 7,1| the mercies of our great God and of our Saviour Jesus
165 7,1| upon Thee, the Heavenly God as Father, and to say “Our
166 7,1| Christ, to the glory of God the Father. Amen.”~ ~The
167 7,1| distributed is the Lamb of God: broken, yet not divided;
168 7,1| calls out: “With the fear of God, and with faith draw near!”
169 7,1| in the name of the Lord; God is the Lord, and hath appeared
170 7,1| Christ, the Son of the living God; Who didst come into the
171 7,1| Mystical Supper, O Son of God, receive me today as a communicant;
172 7,1| servant (or handmaid) of God, N., partaketh of the precious
173 7,1| and Blood of our Lord and God and Saviour, Jesus Christ,
174 7,1| Christ, he is now a child of God, and the prostration is
175 7,1| speaking this prayer: “Save, O God, Thy people, and bless Thine
176 7,1| forth with the blessing of God: “Blessed be the name of
177 7,1| intercession of the Mother of God, and of His Saints, and
178 8,1| grief, and they entreated God that He would take away
179 8,1| are called “Ancestors of God,” since their daughter Mary
180 8,1| Righteousness, Christ our God, annulling the curse and
181 8,1| had vowed to dedicate to God the child whom He would
182 8,1| entry, and the angels of God marveled as well. Christians
183 8,1| reconciliation of man to God through the power of Christ.~
184 8,1| Today is the prelude of God’s goodwill and the heralding
185 8,1| mankind. In the temple of God, the Virgin is presented
186 8,1| betrothed to Mary the Mother of God; and of the holy Prophets,
187 8,1| Thy Nativity, O Christ our God, hath shined upon the world
188 8,1| born, Who is pre-eternal God.”~ The All-night Vigil before
189 8,1| the Most Holy Mother of God is celebrated, as the person
190 8,1| Incarnation of the Son of God. On the Sunday following
191 8,1| and manifested: the Son of God received baptism in the
192 8,1| baptism in the River Jordan; God the Father testified to
193 8,1| confirmed the words of God the Father. In ancient times
194 8,1| of the word. O Christ our God, Who hast appeared, and
195 8,1| into his hands, thanked God, and called Jesus “a light
196 8,1| approached Mary, glorified God, and spoke about Christ
197 8,1| Righteousness, Christ our God, enlightening those in darkness.
198 8,1| from eternity. The Son of God becometh the Virgin’s Son,
199 8,1| the mountain, O Christ our God, showing to Thy disciples
200 8,1| All-merciful Saviour, Christ God and the Holy Virgin Mary,
201 8,2| Thee: Have mercy on me, O God, according to Thy great
202 8,2| that we, in trusting to God’s mercy, may not forget
203 8,2| can obtain the mercy of God only through the prayers
204 8,2| Alleluia” is sung instead of “God is the Lord and hath appeared
205 8,2| voice, O my King and my God.” — Of the Third Hour: — “
206 8,2| handwriting of our sins, O Christ God, and save us.” — Of the
207 8,2| our carnal mind, O Christ God, and save us.”~ ~The Liturgy
208 8,2| Christ, to the glory of God the Father, Amen.” then
209 8,2| prayer, “Have mercy on me, God, have mercy on me.” On the
210 8,2| trusting in the help of God. This Compline office is
211 8,2| Saviour and of the Mother of God, and having placed them
212 8,2| hymn, “We praise Thee, O God,” is sung, during which
213 8,2| common Resurrection, O Christ God, Thou didst raise up Lazarus
214 8,2| the Alleluia, instead of “God is the Lord” is sung the
215 8,2| Holy, Holy art Thou, O God; through the Theotokos,
216 8,2| Receive me this day, O Son of God, as a partaker of Thy Mystical
217 8,2| sings “Glory to Thee, our God, glory to Thee”; then the
218 8,2| gain the strength to please God.” Then the bishop enters
219 8,2| mercies of the Lord, our God and Saviour, Jesus Christ,
220 8,2| On Holy Saturday, after “God is the Lord” and the troparia,
221 8,2| the prokimenon “Arise, O God, judge the earth, for Thou
222 8,3| verses, and the hymn, “Let God arise,” with sticheræ. When
223 8,3| His pre-eternal birth from God the Father and of His Divinity,
224 8,4| ascended in glory, O Christ our God, having gladdened Thy disciples
225 8,4| that Thou art the Son of God, the Redeemer of the world.”~ ~
226 8,4| the flowers are offered to God as the first-fruits of summer,
227 8,4| Blessed art Thou, O Christ our God, Who hast shown forth the
228 9,1| the words: “The servant of God N. is baptized in the name
229 9,1| some Saint, and prays to God “that the light of His countenance
230 9,1| the only-begotten Son of God in its heart and understanding;
231 9,1| of the Enemy and may keep God’s commandments, and that
232 9,1| commandments, and that the name of God may remain on it forever
233 9,1| or she asks the help of God and the Saint towards leading
234 9,1| Jesus Christ, and prays that God may expel the impure spirit
235 9,1| believe in Him as King and God” — and forthwith recites
236 9,1| resurrection of Christ our God...” The priest then offers
237 9,1| place through the mercy of God.~ Having thus prepared the
238 9,1| servant (or handmaid) of God N. is baptized in the name
239 9,1| a garment, O Christ our God, plenteous in mercy.”~ As
240 9,1| As special help from God is needed to follow after
241 9,1| servant (or handmaid) of God N. is baptized in the name
242 9,1| compassions. O Master, Lord our God, Who through the font bestowest
243 9,1| and of the Spirit of our God”; after which he wipes with
244 9,1| entire self-consecration to God. This ancient custom passed
245 9,1| citizens of the Kingdom of God on earth, and have consecrated
246 9,1| themselves to the service of God, before Whom they have promised
247 9,1| Holy Trinity, praying that God may help the neophyte to
248 9,1| servant (or handmaid) of God N. is admitted to join the
249 9,2| Enter into the Church of God and cast away all wrongs
250 9,2| faith, with the help of God, whole and intact, to his
251 9,3| church becomes a House of God, for the dispensing within
252 9,3| thereof unto the glory of God.” After this prayer he takes
253 9,3| hath founded this church; God is in the midst of her,
254 9,3| she shall not be shaken; God shall help her right early
255 9,3| building is consecrated to God forever.~ ~Note.— If the
256 9,4| priest, through the grace of God, has the power to remit
257 9,4| absolution: “Our Lord and God, Jesus Christ, by His grace
258 9,4| that he, by the grace of God, goes from the presence
259 9,4| by hope in the mercy of God. This means that the better
260 9,5| in token of reverence for God, after each circumambulation
261 9,5| Glory to Thee, Christ God, the Apostles’ boast and
262 9,5| bringeth forth a son, Emmanuel; God and man, the Orient is his
263 9,5| token of consecration to God of all his faculties. Then
264 9,5| minister at the Altar of God with the same reverence
265 9,5| holy angels minister to God Himself. At the same Liturgy
266 9,5| dread coming of our Lord God and Saviour, Jesus Christ.” —
267 9,5| Incarnation of the Son of God, then pledges himself to
268 9,5| conscience and the fear of God. Having taken the oath,
269 9,5| prayer, in which he asks God to help him to perform his
270 9,5| mutual engagement before God and the Church; the rings
271 9,5| words : “The servant of God N. is betrothed to the handmaid
272 9,5| betrothed to the handmaid of God N. in the name of the Father,
273 9,5| depicted the blessings which God sends to pious consorts: “
274 9,5| verse: “Glory to Thee, our God, glory to Thee.” The betrothed
275 9,5| the words: “The servant of God N. is crowned for the handmaid
276 9,5| crowned for the handmaid of God N. in the name of the Father
277 9,5| thrice, saying, “O Lord, our God, with glory and honor crown
278 9,5| keeping the commandments of God in righteousness.” To the
279 9,5| it is well-pleasing unto God.” The couple, after the
280 9,5| the priest, who prayed to God to preserve their union
281 9,6| healing by the grace of God, and the red wine, mixed
282 9,6| indicate that the grace of God is given us for Christ’s
283 10 | the Lord, to the Mother of God and the Saints, on occasion
284 10 | moleben. Then are sung: “God is the Lord...,” troparia
285 10 | Psalm “Have mercy on me, O God...,” and at last the canon
286 10 | Most Holy Trinity, our God, glory to Thee”; in a canon
287 10 | is “Most-holy Mother of God, save us”; in a canon to
288 10 | Bishop Nicholas, pray to God for us.”~ After the third
289 10 | same manner until the hymn “God is the Lord.” After that
290 10,1| Whether he gives himself to God of his own free will? Whether
291 10,1| Father, with the help of God,” the abbot explains to
292 10,1| perfect self-consecration to God.~ The recipient of the Schema
293 10,1| with the full panoply of God — and from the Gospel, how
294 10,1| Gospel, how that the love of God must be greater than the
295 10,1| with the commandments of God. Bishops, who at the present
296 10,1| instruction in the Word of God.~ ~
297 10,2| intercession of the Mother of God and in the mercy of Christ.
298 10,2| must render an account to God of the manner in which he
299 10,2| under the shelter of the God of Heaven.”~ Then follows
300 10,2| for him are pleasing to God. This service bears the
301 10,2| eternal light, which is God. The coffin is placed in
302 10,2| endowed with, the likeness of God, he returns to earth for
303 10,2| of the ineffable glory of God, and dares to beseech the
304 10,2| beauty, fashioned according God’s image, lying in the graves,
305 10,2| written, by the command of God, Who giveth repose unto
306 10,2| Church have weight with God and that what is remitted
307 10,2| extinguished on earth, but, is, by God’s mercy, to be resurrected
308 10,2| departed to stand the ordeal of God’s judgment without being
309 10,3| the Lord, of the Mother of God and of the more honored
310 11 | Then are sung the hymn, “God is the Lord...” and the
311 11 | hymn, “We praise Thee, O God.” After this hymn the Liturgy
312 11 | the icon of the Mother of God.~ After the rite of anointing
313 11 | Eucharist, as to the Anointed of God and the supreme protector
314 11 | Who founded the Kingdom of God. on earth, and in episcopal
315 11 | weekdays, we sing “O Son of God, Who art wondrous in the
316 11 | the Theotokos, “O Son of God, through the prayers of
317 11 | bread and wine as they do God.~ * In ancient times
318 11 | should sing the glory of God jointly with those higher
319 11 | who surround the throne of God — those angels whom the
320 11 | Hebrew word which means “God save” or “help.” “Hosanna
321 11 | For holy art Thou, O our God”; then the Choir sings the
322 11 | the talents given them by God. The hymns of the Wednesday
323 11 | Incarnation of the Son of God from a virgin, which was
324 11 | and praises the Mother of God. In the second the crowned
325 11 | disease, if it so please God. The grain, when laid in
326 11 | do in heaven, glorifying God night and day and striving
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