The Typika Service As served by a deacon St. George Church Flint, Michigan (All stand) Deacon: For the peace from above Deacon: Through the prayers of our and the salvation of our souls, let us holy fathers, Lord Jesus Christ our pray to the Lord. God, have mercy on us, and save us. People: Lord, have mercy. People: Amen. Deacon: For the peace of the whole Trisagion Prayers world, the good estate of the holy (Said by all) churches of God, and the union of all People: Holy God, Holy Mighty, Holy men, let us pray to the Lord. Immortal: have mercy on us. (3x) People: Lord, have mercy. Glory to the Father and to the Son and Deacon: For this holy house and to the Holy Spirit; now and ever, and those who with faith, reverence and unto the ages of ages. Amen. fear of God enter therein, let us pray All-holy Trinity, have mercy on us. to the Lord. Lord, cleanse us from our sins. People: Lord, have mercy. Master, pardon our iniquities. Holy God, visit and heal our infirmities for Deacon: For our father and Thy name's sake. Metropolitan name, our Bishop name, the honorable presbytery, the Lord, have mercy (3x) diaconate in Christ, all the clergy and Glory to the Father and to the Son and the people, let us pray to the Lord. to the Holy Spirit; now and ever and Lord, have mercy. unto the ages of ages. Amen. People: Our Father, who art in heaven, Deacon: For the President, civil hallowed be thy name; Thy kingdom authorities, and armed forces, let us come; Thy will be done on earth, as it pray to the Lord. is in heaven. Give us this day our daily People: Lord, have mercy. bread. And forgive us our trespasses, Deacon: For Metropolitan Boulos and as we forgive those who trespass Archbishop Yohanna and their quick against us. And lead us not into release from captivity and safe return, temptation, but deliver us from evil. let us pray to the Lord. Deacon: Through the prayers of our Lord, have mercy. holy fathers, Lord Jesus Christ our People: God, have mercy on us and save us. Deacon: For this city and every city People: Amen. and countryside and the faithful who dwell therein, let us pray to the Lord. The Great Litany People: Lord, have mercy. (The faithful may now sit) Deacon: For healthful seasons, Deacon: In peace let us pray to the abundance of the fruits of the earth, Lord. and peaceful times, let us pray to the People: Lord, have mercy. Lord. People: Lord, have mercy. Deacon: For travelers by sea, by land, The First Antiphon - Psalm 102 and by air, the sick, the suffering, the (The Faithfull stand and read) captive, and for their salvation, let us People (right): Bless the Lord, O my soul; pray to the Lord. blessed art Thou, O Lord. Bless the People: Lord, have mercy. Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me bless His holy name. Bless the Lord, O Deacon: For our deliverance from all my soul, and forget not all that He has tribulation, wrath, danger, and done for you. necessity, let us pray to the Lord. People (left): Who is gracious unto all your Lord, have mercy. People: iniquities, Who heals all your infirmities. Deacon: Help us, save us, have Who redeems your life from corruption, mercy on us, and keep us, O God, by Who crowns you with mercy and Thy grace. compassion. Who fulfills your desire with good things; your youth shall be People: Lord, have mercy. renewed as the eagle's. Deacon: Again we pray for mercy, life, People (right): The Lord performs deeds of peace, health, salvation and visitation, mercy, and executes judgment for all and pardon and remission of sins for (the servants of God ........ and) all who are oppressed. He has made His ways known unto Moses, unto the sons Orthodox Christians of true worship, of Israel the things that He has willed. who live and dwell in this community. Compassionate and merciful is the Lord, People: Lord, have mercy. long-suffering and plenteous in mercy. Deacon: Again we pray for the People (left): Not unto the end will He be blessed and ever-memorable angered, neither unto eternity will He be founders of this holy church (for the wroth. Not according to our iniquities servants of God ........) and for all our has He dealt with us, neither according fathers and brethren, the Orthodox to our sins has He rewarded us. For departed this life before us, who here according to the height of heaven from and in all the world lie asleep in the the earth, the Lord has made His mercy Lord. to prevail over those that fear Him. People: Lord, have mercy. People (right): As far as the east is from the Deacon: Calling to remembrance our west, so far has He removed our all-holy, immaculate, most blessed, iniquities from us. Like as a father has and glorious Lady the Theotokos and compassion upon his sons, so has the Ever-virgin Mary with all the Saints, let Lord had compassion upon those that us commend ourselves and each fear Him; for He knows how we are other, and all our life unto Christ our made, He has remembered that we are God. dust. People: To Thee, O Lord People (left): As for man, his days are as the grass; as a flower of the field, so shall Deacon: Through the prayers of our he blossom forth. For when the wind is holy fathers, Lord Jesus Christ our passed over it, then it shall be gone, and God, have mercy on us and save us. no longer will it know the place thereof. People: Amen. People (right): But the mercy of the Lord is People (right): He shall adopt for His own from eternity, even unto eternity, upon the orphan and widow, and the way of those that fear Him. And His sinners shall He destroy. The Lord shall righteousness is upon sons of sons, be king unto eternity; your God, O Zion, upon those that keep His testament and unto generation and generation. remember His commandments to do People (all): Now and ever, and unto the them. ages of ages. Amen. O only-begotten People (left): The Lord in heaven has Son and Word of God, Who art immortal, prepared His throne, and His kingdom yet didst deign for our salvation to be rules over all. Bless the Lord, all His incarnate of the Holy Theotokos and angels, mighty in strength, that perform Ever-Virgin Mary, and without change His word, to hear the voice of His words. didst become man, and was crucified, O Christ God, trampling down death by People (right): Bless the Lord, all His hosts, death. Thou Who art one of the Holy His ministers that do His will. Bless the Trinity, glorified with the Father and the Lord, all His works, in every place of His Holy Spirit, save us. dominion, bless the Lord O my soul. People (all): Glory to the Father, and to The Beatitudes the Son, and to the Holy Spirit; now and (To be sung by chanters) ever, and unto the ages of ages. Amen. People: In Thy kingdom remember us, O The Second Antiphon - Psalm 145 Lord, when Thou comest in Thy kingdom. People (right): Praise the Lord, O my soul. I will praise the Lord in my life, I will chant Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is unto my God for as long as I have my the kingdom of heaven. being. Blessed are those that mourn, for they People (left): Trust not in princes, in the shall be comforted. sons of men, in whom there is no Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit salvation. His spirit shall go forth, and he the earth. shall return unto his earth. In that day all his thoughts shall perish. Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be People (right): Blessed is he of whom the filled. God of Jacob is his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God, Who has made Blessed are the merciful, for they shall heaven and the earth, the sea and all obtain mercy. that is therein. Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall People (left): Who keeps truth unto see God. eternity, Who executes judgment for the Blessed are the peacemakers, for they wronged, Who gives food to the hungry. shall be called the sons of God. The Lord looses the fettered; the Lord makes wise the blind; the Lord sets Blessed are those who are persecuted for aright the fallen; the Lord loves the righteousness' sake, for theirs is the righteous; the Lord preserves the kingdom of heaven. proselytes. Blessed are you, when men shall revile And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, you, and persecute you, and shall say all the Only-begotten, begotten of the Father manner of evil against you falsely, for My before all worlds; Light of Light, Very God of sake. Very God; begotten, not made; of one essence with the Father, by Whom all things Rejoice and be exceeding glad, for great is were made; your reward in heaven. Who for us men and for our salvation came (The following is to be chanted by two readers) down from heaven, and was incarnate of the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary, and was Reader (right): Glory to the Father, and to made man; the Son, and to the Holy Spirit; now and And was crucified also for us under Pontius ever, and unto the ages of ages.