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Look Upon Us

O God of unutterable and unseen Mysteries, with Whom are hidden treasures of wisdom and knowledge, You have revealed the service of this liturgy to us. You have set us sinners, through Your great love of mankind, to offer to You gifts and sacrifices for our sins and for the ignorance of the people. O invisible King, You do things great and inscrutable, glorious and marvelous, which cannot be numbered. Look upon us, Your unworthy servants who stand at this holy altar as the Cherubic throne, upon which rests Your only begotten Son and our God, in the dread Mysteries that are set forth. Having freed us all and all Your faithful people from uncleanness, sanctify all our souls and bodies with the sanctification which cannot be taken away, that partaking with a clean conscience, with faces unashamed, with hearts illumined, of these divine, sanctified Things, and by them being given life, we may be united to Your Christ Himself, our true God, Who has said, “Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him,” that by Your Word, O Lord, dwelling within us and sojourning among us, we may become a temple of Your all-holy and adorable Spirit, redeemed from every diabolical wile, wrought either by deed or word or thought, and may obtain the good things promised to us with all Your saints who have been well-pleasing unto You.

~ Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts