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Prayer-Book (Euchologion)
St Sarapion of Thmuis, tr. Wordsworth, 1899
Chapter 20
[Prayers of the Catechumens.]
20. After rising up from (ἀπο) the sermon—a prayer.1
God, the Saviour, God of the Universe, the Lord and artificer of the world (τῶν ὅλων), the begetter of the only-begotten, who hast begotten the living and true expression (of thy self, ἀληθινὸν χαρακτῆρα, cp. Heb. i. 3), who didst send him for the help of the race of men, who through him didst call and make men thy own possession, we pray thee on behalf of this people. Send holy Spirit (on them), and let the Lord Jesus visit them, let him speak in the understandings of all, and predispose their hearts to faith; may he himself draw their souls to thee, O God of compassions. Create a people even in this City, create a genuine flock through thy only-begotten Jesus Christ in holy Spirit, through whom to thee (is) the glory and the strength both now and to all the ages of the ages. Amen.
Notes
- The Sermon is generally and properly after the Gospel and just before the dismissal of penitents and others who cannot communicate.