For the Most Holy Governing Synod.... For our Most Pious.... That he would assist them and subdue under Their feet.... For this city.... (_if it is a monastery_) For this holy habitation.... For healthiness of weather.... For them that voyage, that journey.... That this water may be hallowed by the might, and operation, and visitation of the Holy Ghost. That there may come down into this water the cleansing operation of the supersubstantial Trinity. That this water may be to the healing of soul and body, and to the turning aside of every opposing might. That the Lord God may send down the blessing of Jordan, and hallow this water. For all them that need help and assistance from God. That we may be illuminated with the illumination of understanding by the consubstantial Trinity. That the Lord God may declare us sons and inheritors of his kingdom, through partaking of this water, and through being sprinkled therewith. For our deliverance from every affliction.... Help us, save us, have mercy on us.... Commemorating our most holy, most pure.... _Choir._ To thee, O Lord. _Exclamation._ For to thee is due all glory.... _Then this prayer._ O Lord our God, mighty in counsel, and wonderful in works, Maker of all creation, who keepest thy covenant and thy mercy towards them that love thee and that keep thy commandments, who acceptest the piteous tears of all them that are in need; for for this cause thou didst come in the form of a servant, not terrifying us with phantoms, but vouchsafing true bodily healing, and saying, Behold, thou art made whole, sin no more: yea, thou didst with clay restore the eyes of the blind, and didst bid him wash, and by a word didst make him see, O thou that breakest the waves of adverse passions, and driest up the salt sea of this life, and quellest the billows of lusts that are hard to be endured; do thou thyself, O man-loving King, who hast given unto us to be invested with a snow-white robe by water and the Spirit, by the partaking of this water, and by being sprinkled therewith, send down upon us thy blessing, which taketh away the defilement of passions. Yea, O Blessed One, we pray thee to visit our infirmities, and to heal our spiritual and bodily weaknesses by thy mercy: through the prayers of our altogether most pure, most blessed Lady, the God-bearing ever-virgin Mary; through the might of the honourable and life-effecting cross; through the intercessions of the honourable heavenly bodiless hosts; of the honourable glorious prophet, forerunner, and baptist, John; of the holy glorious and all-praised apostles; of our venerable and god-bearing fathers; of our fathers in the saints, the great hierarchs and ecumenical doctors, Basil the great, Gregory the theologian, and John Chrysostom; of our fathers in the saints, Athanasius and Cyril, patriarchs of Alexandria; of our father in