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Prayer-Book (Euchologion)
St Sarapion of Thmuis, tr. Wordsworth, 1899
Chapter 6
[Final benediction.]
6. Laying on of hands (i e. Benediction) after the blessing of the water and the oil.
O loving (φιλάνθρωπε) God of truth, let the communion of the body and the blood go along with (συμπαραβαινέτω)1 this people. Let their bodies be living bodies, and their souls be clean souls. Grant this blessing to be a keeping of their communion, and a security to the Eucharist that has been celebrated: and make blessed all of them in common and make (them) elect through thy only-begotten Jesus Christ in holy Spirit both now and to all the ages of the ages. Amen.
[Dismissal of the Faithful.]
Notes
- This is a rare use of the word. We might almost translate “continue with.”