How to Benefit from the Holy Liturgy - Pope Kirillos Scientific Family

Take this valuable chance and these blessed promises and ask
God for all your needs according to His good will, seek Him
with lowliness and humbleness, so He gives you whatever
you need and responds to your will.
The deacon then says, "Let the readers recite the names of
our holy fathers, the patriarchs who have departed, O
Lord repose their souls and forgive us our sins."
In the past, names of the patriarchs who departed were
written on many tablets and upon hearing this call every
reader took out a tablet and read the names, asked for their
mercy and repose as a reward for their services in the church
and shepherding the people of God. We do not know when
this tradition stopped but we can still pray to God for the
departed patriarchs on hearing this call in the church. May
God reward them for their spiritual strife and struggle in the
church.
THE DIPTYCH
The times in which the Diptych must not be recited in the
known fasting tune, are on Sundays, and during the fifty days
after Easter. After the priest completes the Synaxis, and
during the previous response of the deacon, the priest says
the following diptych inaudibly: "Remember also O Lord,
all those who departed and reposed from amongst the
priesthood, and from all the orders of the laity. Graciously
O Lord, repose all their souls in the embrace of our holy
fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Sustain them in green
pastures, by the waters, comfort in the paradise of joy, the
place where grief, sorrow and sighing have fled, in the
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