_And we go forth to the grave, bearing the body of him that hath fallen asleep to the burial. And the priests with all the clerks, preceding the remains, sing,_ Christ is risen.... _And they bury them with thanksgiving and joy, doing and saying all that is written at page 157 for the burial of a lay person._ _And singing the troparion._ O earth that yawnest, take thou that that out of thee was made. _End of the order of the burial of them that fall asleep in the days of the bright week._ [Illustration] _Chapter XVIII._ THE MORTUARY ORDER OVER A DEPARTED PRIEST. When one of the secular priests departeth to the Lord, three priests come and lift him from the bed, and lay him on the floor upon a mat. And since it behoveth not that he be washed, being naked, by the priests, they sponge him with pure oil. Then they clothe him in his customary garments, and after that with all the priestly vestments, and cover his face with the aër, and lay the holy gospel upon him. Then the priests come vested in the priestly vestments. _And the president maketh_, Blessed be our God.... _And they that are standing by begin,_ Holy God.... O most holy Trinity.... and Our Father.... For thine is the kingdom.... _And straightway they sing these troparia, tone iv._ With the spirits of the righteous.... _Page 138._ _The deacon saith,_ Have mercy upon us, O God.... _Vide page 139._ _And straightway the priests take the remains, and carry them into the porch of the temple, and lay the holy gospel over him, as aforesaid, and candlesticks crosswise with tapers, and the singer beginneth,_ The undefiled in the way, alleluia. _In tone vi._ _Then_, Blessed are the undefiled.... _Page 141._ _After the first stasis, deacon_, Again and again.... _Page 142._ _After this we begin the second stasis in tone v, in which at the end of a verse we say,_ Have mercy upon thy servant. _The choir beginneth_, Thy commandments.... Have mercy upon thy servant. _And again the same choir_, Thy hands have made me.... _After the iind stasis, deacon_, Again and again.... _Page 142._ _And again they begin the third stasis in tone iii._ Thy name, alleluia. _And again the same choir singeth,_ Look upon me, and have mercy upon me.... _After the iiird stasis, and after the troparia of the undefiled, deacon_, Again and again.... _Page 142._ _Then troparia, tone v._ Our Saviour rest thy servant with the just, and place him in thy courts, as it is written, as being good, despising his iniquities, both willing ones and those unwilling, and all those done in knowledge and in ignorance, O lover of mankind. _Glory. Both now._ Christ God, who from the Virgin, shinest to the world, who hast through her made manifest the sons of light, have mercy thou on us.