_The priest saith this prayer,_ O God of spirits and of every flesh, who didst tread down death, and overcome the devil, and bestow life upon thy world; do thou thyself, O Lord, rest the soul of thy servant, _name_, who hath fallen asleep, in a place of light, in a place of refreshment, in a place of rest, whence pain, and grief, and sighing are driven away; and every iniquity wrought by him, in word, or deed, or in intention, as the good man-loving God, do thou remit; for there is no man that shall live and shall not sin; for thou alone art without sin, thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy word the truth. _Exclamation._ For thou art the resurrection and the life, and the repose of thy servant, _name_, who hath fallen asleep, O Christ our God, and to thee we ascribe glory, with thine unbeginning Father, and with thy most holy, and good, and life-creating Spirit, now and ever, and to ages of ages. Amen. _Deacon._ Wisdom. _Choir._ The more honourable than the Cherubim.... _And the rest._ _And straightway the dismissal is made by the priest on this wise,_ He that hath dominion over quick and dead, Christ our true God, through the prayers of his most pure Mother, of our venerable and god-bearing fathers, and of all his Saints, place the soul of his servant, _name_, departed from us, in holy tabernacles, and number it with the just, and have mercy upon us, as being good and the lover of mankind. _And then if all things be ready for the departure, the priest again maketh the beginning,_ Blessed be our God.... _And we begin to sing_, Holy God.... _with fear, and with every compunction_. _And taking up the remains of him that hath fallen asleep, we go forth to the temple; preceded by the priests with tapers, and the deacon with the censer._ _And when they come unto the temple, then the remains are placed in the porch, (or in the temple, as is here in great Russia the custom.)_ _And they begin,_ Whoso dwelleth under the defence of the Most High....[29] _And after this they sing with a loud voice,_ Blessed art thou, O Lord: O teach me thy statutes. The undefiled in the way. Alleluia. _And the first stasis of the undefiled[30] is sung to tone vi, and at the end of every verse we sing,_ Alleluia. Blessed are the undefiled in the way, that walk in the law of the Lord. Alleluia. Blessed are they that, searching out his testimonies, seek him with the whole heart. Alleluia. _And the rest of the psalm. Glory._ Alleluia. _Both now._ Alleluia. _Deacon._ Again and again in peace let us pray to the Lord. Furthermore let us pray for the repose of the soul of the servant of God, _name_, who hath fallen asleep, and that to him may be remitted every transgression, voluntary and involuntary. That the Lord God may place his soul where the righteous rest.