good, and life-creating Spirit, now and ever, and to ages of ages. Amen. _And after the prayer the fifth priest straightway taketh a fifth twig, and, dipping it in the holy oil, anointeth the sick person, saying the prayer,_ Holy Father, physician of souls and bodies.... _Vide page 101._ _Deacon._ Let us attend. _And the sixth priest._ Peace to all. _Prokimenon, tone vi._ Have mercy upon me, O God, according to great mercy. _Verse._ Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. _The epistle to the Galatians, section ccxiii._ Brethren, the fruit of the spirit.... _ending_, so fulfil the law of Christ.[25] _The sixth priest._ Peace to thee. _Deacon._ Wisdom, let us attend. _Alleluia, tone vi._ _Verse._ Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord, in his commandments he rejoiceth exceedingly. _Deacon._ Wisdom, standing, let us hear the holy gospel. _The gospel from Matthew, section lxii._ At that time, Jesus went.... _ending_, from that very hour.[26] _And the deacon._ Have mercy upon us, O God.... Furthermore let us pray for mercy, life.... That to him may be remitted.... _Exclamation._ For a merciful... _Deacon._ Let us pray to the Lord. _The priest, this prayer._ We give thanks unto thee, O Lord our God, thou good lover of mankind, and physician of our souls and bodies, who painlessly bearest our sicknesses, and by whose stripes we have all been healed; thou good shepherd, who camest to seek the wandering sheep; who givest consolation unto the faint-hearted, and life unto them that are broken down; who didst heal the source of the issue of blood that had lasted twelve years; who didst deliver the daughter of the Chananitish woman from the ruthless demon; who didst forgive the debt unto the two debtors, and give remission unto the sinful woman; who didst bestow healing upon the paralytic, with the remission of his sins; who didst justify the publican by a word, and didst accept the thief in his last confession; who takest away the sins of the world, and wast nailed on the cross; to thee we pray, and thee we beseech, Do thou thyself, O God, in thy goodness, loosen, forgive, and pardon the transgressions and sins of thy servant, _name_, and his voluntary and involuntary iniquities, those in knowledge and in ignorance, those by trespass and disobedience, those by night and by day; or if he be under the curse of a priest, or of a father or a mother; or if by the glance of the eye, or a movement of the eyelid; or by the contact of adultery, or the tasting of prodigality, or in any excitement of flesh and spirit he have estranged himself from thy will, and from thy holiness. And if he have sinned, and in like manner we also, as the good God that rememberest not evil and the lover of mankind,