After the Great Entrance

Deacon: Let us complete our prayers to the Lord.

Response: Lord, have mercy.

Deacon: For the precious gifts offered here, let us pray to the Lord.

Response: Lord, have mercy.

Deacon: For this holy house, and for those who with faith, reverence, and in the fear of God enter it, let us pray to the Lord.

Response: Lord, have mercy.

Deacon:That we may be delivered from all distress, wrath, tribulation and want, let us pray to the Lord.

Response: Lord, have mercy.

Deacon: Preserve, help, save and have mercy on us, O God, by Thy grace.

Response: Lord, have mercy.

Deacon: The entire day, perfect, holy, peaceful and without sin, an angel of peace, the faithful guide and guardian of our souls and bodies, let us ask from the Lord.


Response: Grant us, O Lord.

Deacon: Mercy and forgiveness of our sins and trespassess, that which is good and profitable for our souls, and peace for the world, let us aske from the Lord.

Response: Grant us, O Lord.

Deacon: That we may spend the rest of our lives in peace and in pennance, and for a Christian end to our lives, without pain, unashamed, and peaceful, and a good defense at the fearsome judgment of Christ, let us ask from the Lord.

Response: Grant us, O Lord.

Deacon: Commemorating our most holy, pure, blessed and glorious Lady, the Mother of God and ever Virgin Mary, together with all the saints, let us commend ourselves and each other, and our entire lives, to Christ our God.

Response: To Thee, O Lord.

Priest: (Quietly) Lord God Almighty, who alone art holy and receivest the sacrifice of praise from those who call upon Thee with their whole heart; receive also this prayer for us sinners, and carry it to the holy altar; make us worthy to bring Thee gifts and spiritual sacrifices for our sins anf for the ignorance of the people; make us worthy, also, to find grace before Thee, that our sacrifice may be pleasing to Thee, and that the good Spirit of Thy grace may descend upon us, and upon these gifts placed before Thee, and upon all Thy people

(Aloud) Through the mercies of Thy only-begotten Son, with whom Thou art blessed together with thy most holy, good and life-giving Spirit(+), now, and always, and forever and ever.

Response: Amen.

Priest: Peace be to all.(+)

Response: And with thy spirit.(+)

Priest: Let us love one anther, that with one accord we may confess...

Response: The Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit(+), one in essence, and undivided Trinity.

The priest makes three metanies (reverent bows)(+), saying each time

I shall love Thee, O Lord, my strength, the Lord is my might and my refuge(+)(three times)

(Again, I italicized the already bolded parts that are my favorite, and that I use for daily prayer)

Next time, the Proclamation of Faith