The Prayers of Bishop Sarapion
Prayer
for consecrating the host
O God of truth, let thy holy Word come upon this
bread that the bread may become body of the Word, and upon this cup that the cup
may become blood of the Truth; and make all who communicate to receive a
medicine of life for the healing of every sickness and for the strengthening of
all advancement and virtue, not for condemnation, O God of truth, and not for censure and reproach.
For we have invoked thee, the uncreated, through the only-begotten in holy
Spirit.
Prayer
for consecrating Baptismal waters
King
and Lord of all things and Artificer of the world, who gavest salvation freely
to all created nature by the descent of thy only- begotten Jesus Christ, thou
who didst redeem the creation that thou didst create by the coming of thy
ineffable Word: see now from heaven and look upon these waters and fill them with
holy Spirit. Let thine ineffable Word come to be in them and transform their energy and cause them to be generative (as)
being filled with thy grace, in order that the mystery which
is now being celebrated may
not be found in vain in those that are being regenerated, but may fill all
those that descend (into them) and are baptized (herein) with the divine grace.
O loving benefactor spare thy own handiwork, save the creature that has been the toil of thy
right hand. Form all that are being regenerated (after) thy divine and
ineffable form, in order that having been formed and regenerated they may be
able to be saved and counted worthy of thy kingdom. And as thy only-begotten
Word coming down upon the waters of the Jordan rendered them holy, so now also
may he descend on these and make them holy and spiritual, to the end that those
who are being baptized may be no longer flesh and blood, but spiritual and able
to worship thee the uncreated father through Jesus Christ in holy Spirit,
through whom to thee (is) the glory and the strength both now and to all the
ages of the ages. Amen.
Prayer
in regard to oil of the sick or for bread or for water
We
invoke thee who hast all authority and power, the Saviour of all men, father of
our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and pray thee to send healing power of the
only-begotten from heaven upon this oil, that it may become to those who are
being anointed, or are partaking of these thy creatures, for a throwing off of
every sickness and every infirmity (Matt iv. 23),
for a charm against every demon, for a separation of every unclean spirit, for
an expulsion of every evil spirit, for a driving out of all fever and ague and
every infirmity, for good grace and remission of sins, for a medicine of life
and salvation, for health and soundness of soul, body, spirit, for perfect
strengthening. O Master, let
every Satanic energy, every demon, every device of the adversary, every plague,
every scourge, every pain, every labour or stroke or shaking or evil shadowing,
fear thy holy name which we have now invoked and the name of the only-begotten
; and let them depart from the inward [and] the outward parts of these thy
servants, that his name may be glorified who for us was crucified and rose again,
who took up our sicknesses and our infirmities, (even) Jesus Christ (cp.
Matt. viii. 17), and
who is coming to judge quick and dead. Because through him to thee (is) the
glory and the strength in holy Spirit both now and to all the ages of the ages.
Amen.
Prayer
for fruitfulness
Artificer
of heaven and earth, thou who hast crowned the heaven through the choir of the
stars, and made it brilliant through the Luminaries, who hast honoured earth
with its fruits for the profit of men, thou f who hast freely given to the race
that has been created by thyself, + from above to enjoy the ray and the light
of the Luminaries, and from below to be nourished from off the fruits of the
earth. We pray thee grant (us) the rains most full and most fertilizing.- Cause
the earth also to bear fruit and to produce in great abundance on account of
thy loving-kindness and goodness. Remember those who invoke thee: honour thy
holy and only catholic Church and hear our supplications and prayers, and bless
all the earth, through thy only-begotten Jesus Christ, through whom to thee
(is) the glory and the strength in holy Spirit both now and to all the ages of
the ages. Amen.
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