Choir: Amen.

The Litany of Supplication and the exclamation: For Thou art the God of mercy, mercies, and love for mankind, and to Thee we send up glory, to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, now and always, and unto the ages of ages.

Choir: Amen.

Priest: Peace be unto all.

Choir: And to your spirit.

Deacon: Let us bow our heads before the Lord.

Choir: To Thee, O Lord.

The prayer of the bowing of the head and the exclamation: For Thou hast mercy and saved us, O our God, and to Thee we send up glory, to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, now and always, and unto the ages of ages.

Choir: Amen.

Deacon: Wisdom.

Choir: Bless.

Priest: Blessed is the Eternal – Christ our God, always: now and ever, and unto the ages of ages.

Choir: Amen. Establish, O God, the holy Orthodox faith, the Orthodox Christians for ever and ever.

Priest: Most Holy Mother of God, save us.

Choir: With the honor of the highest Cherubim, / and incomparably more glorious than the Seraphim, / who gave birth to God the Word in virginity, / the true Mother of God – we magnify Thee.

Priest: Glory to Thee, O Christ God, our hope, glory to Thee.

Choir: Glory, and now: Lord, have mercy. (3) Bless.

The priest pronounces the dismissal: Christ, our true God, Risen from the dead, through the prayers of His Most-Pure Mother, the holy glorious and all-praised Apostles (the saints of the temple and the day are their names), the holy and righteous Fathers of God Joachim and Anna, and all the saints, will have mercy on us and save us, as a good and Lover of mankind.

Choir: Our great lord and father (name), His Holiness the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, and our lord His Grace (name), the Metropolitan (or: archbishop, or: bishop, – the name of the cathedra), our God-preserved country of Russia, the abbot, brethren and parishioners of this holy church (or: the abbot and the brethren of this holy monastery) and all Orthodox Christians, O Lord, preserve for many years.

And we begin the first hour.