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

iv. After the Thanksgiving Prayer, the priest proceeds
towards the vessel prepared for placing the incense for
Diptych of the departed, and places some of this incense in it
saying, "Glory and honour, honour and glory to the Holy
Trinity, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, repose
and comfort for Your servants who have departed in the
Orthodox faith since the beginning. Graciously O Lord
repose all their souls in the embrace of our holy fathers
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the paradise of joy, in the
heavenly Jerusalem. And give them, with us, a share and
inheritance with all Your saints."
v. This procedure is repeated again after the Prayer of
Thanksgiving in the second Prostration, so the priest places
the rest of the incense beads which were counted according
to the souls of the departed while saying the above prayer.
vi. About distributing incense beads to the congregation so
each may take a few beads in remembrance of the departed
whom they would like to mention, the book of Laqan
mentions, "Everyone gives incense for their departed."
Those O Lord...
Whether the priest prays the Diptych audibly or not, he must
pray the Diptych of the Liturgy of St. Basil as follows:
" Those O Lord whose souls You have taken, repose them
in the paradise of joy, in the land of eternal living, in the
heavenly Jerusalem. And we also, the foreigners in this
place, preserve us in Your faith and grant us Your peace
until the end."
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