He that by his presence in Cana of Galilee declared marriage to be honourable, Christ our true God, through the prayers of his most pure Mother; of the holy, glorious, and all-praised apostles; of the holy god-crowned sovereigns and equals of the apostles, Constantine and Helen; of the holy great-martyr Procopius, and of all the Saints, have mercy upon us and save us, as being good and the lover of mankind. [Illustration] [Illustration] _Chapter XIII._ THE ORDER OF HOLY UNCTION SUNG BY SEVEN PRIESTS ASSEMBLED IN A CHURCH OR IN A HOUSE. _A table is prepared, and on this they place the holy gospel and a dish of wheat, and on the wheat an empty oil cruet, and round it in the wheat seven twigs wrapped with cotton wool for the anointing; and they give tapers to all the priests. And, all standing round the table vested in phelonia, the first of the priests taketh the censer with incense, and censeth the table upon which the oil is round about, and all the church, or the house, and the people; and, standing before the table, looking towards the east, he beginneth,_ Blessed be our God.... _And_ Trisagion. O most holy Trinity.... Our Father.... For thine is the kingdom.... Lord, have mercy, _xii_. O come, let us worship.... _thrice_. _And psalm cxlii._ O Lord hear my prayer.... Glory. Both now. Alleluia, _thrice_. _And the deacon, the ectenia._ Again and again in peace let us pray to the Lord. Help us, save us, have mercy.... Commemorating our most holy, most pure, most blessed.... _Priest._ For to thee is due.... _Choir._ Amen. _And straightway they sing Alleluia in tone vi._ _Verse i._ O Lord, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy fury. _Verse ii._ Have mercy upon me, O Lord, for I am weak. _Then troparia._ Have mercy upon us, O Lord, have mercy upon us; for, destitute of all defence, we sinners offer unto thee, as Master, this prayer, Have mercy upon us. _Glory._ O Lord, have mercy upon us; for we have put our trust in thee. Be not exceedingly wroth against us, neither remember our transgressions; but, as being loving-kind, look now upon us, and deliver us from our enemies: for thou art our God, and we are thy people, we are all the work of thy hand, and we call upon thy name. _Both now._ Open unto us the gates of loving-kindness, O blessed God-bearing one, that we perish not who put our trust in thee, but through thee may we be delivered from calamities; for thou art the salvation of the christian race. _After this_, Have mercy upon me, O God.... _And the canon, whereof the acrostic is,_ A song of prayer oil by Arsenius. _Ode i. Irmos. Tone iv._ Through the red sea’s depth....