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Anaphora Prayers of St. Basil - Part Four 

Priest:

And unite all of us to one another who become partakers of the one Bread and Cup in the communion of the Holy Spirit. Grant that none of us may partake of the holy Body and Blood of Your Christ unto judgment or condemnation. 

Instead, may we find mercy and grace with all the saints who through the ages have been well-pleasing to You: ancestors, fathers, patriarchs, prophets, apostles, preachers, evangelists, martyrs, confessors, teachers, and every righteous spirit made perfect in faith, especially with our most holy, pure, most blessed and glorious Lady, the Theotokos and ever-virgin Mary…

People:

All of creation rejoices in you, O Full of Grace, the assembly of angels and the race of men. O Sanctified Temple and Spiritual Paradise, the Glory of Virgins, from whom God was incarnate and became a child, our God before the ages. He made your body into a throne, and your womb He made more spacious than the heavens. All of creation rejoices in you, O Full of Grace. Glory to you!

Priest:

… with the holy Prophet, Forerunner, and Baptist John; the holy, glorious, and all-laudable apostles; with Saint ____, whom we commemorate today; and with all Your saints; through their prayers, visit us, O God. Remember all those who have fallen asleep before us in the hope of the resurrection to eternal life, especially ____. Grant them rest, where the light of Your countenance shines on them.

Furthermore, we implore You: remember, O Lord, Your holy, catholic, and apostolic Church which is from end to end of the universe. Give peace to your Church whom You have obtained with the precious Blood of Your Christ. Also preserve this holy house until the end of the world.

Remember, O Lord, those who offered You these gifts, and those for whom and through whom they offered them, and their intentions.

Remember, O Lord, those who are in the deserts, mountains, caverns, and pits of the earth.

Remember, O Lord, those who live in chastity and godliness, in asceticism and holiness of life.

Remember, O Lord, this country and all civil authorities. Grant them a secure and lasting peace. Speak good things into their hearts concerning Your Church and all Your people, that we, in their tranquility, may lead a calm and peaceful life in all godliness and sanctity. Protect in Your goodness those who are good, and in Your kindness make good those who are evil.

Remember, O Lord, the people here present, and also those who are absent for honorable reasons. Have mercy on them and on us according to the multitude of Your mercies.

Fill their treasuries with every good thing. Preserve their marriages in peace and harmony. Nurture the infants. Guide the young. Support the aged. Give courage to the faint-hearted. Reunite the separated; bring back those who are in error and unite them to Your holy, catholic, and apostolic Church. Free those who are held captive by unclean spirits.

Sail with those who sail; travel with those who travel by land and by air. Defend the widows; protect the orphans; deliver the captives; heal the sick.

Remember, O God, those who are in courts, in mines, in exile, in harsh labor, and those in every affliction, distress, or crisis.

Remember, O Lord our God, all those who entreat Your great compassion, those who love us and those who hate us; those who have asked us to pray for them, unworthy though we are.

And remember all Your people, O Lord, our God. Pour out Your rich mercy on them all. Grant them all the petitions which are for their salvation.

And may You, Yourself, O God, remember all those whom we have not remembered through ignorance, forgetfulness, or the multitude of names; since You know the name and age of each, even from his mother’s womb. For You, O Lord, are the Helper of the helpless, the Hope of the hopeless, the Savior of the bestormed, the Haven of the voyager, the Physician of the sick. Be all things to all men, O Lord Who knows each man and his request, his home and his need.

Deliver this city and countryside, O Lord, and every city and countryside from famine, plague, earthquake, flood, fire, sword, invasion by enemies, and civil war.

Among the first, remember, O Lord, His Beatitude, our Metropolitan ____; His Grace, our bishop ____. Grant them for Your holy churches in peace, safety, honor, health, and length of days, rightly to define the word of Your truth.

People: And all mankind.