A Prayer for the Captive People
Your people of faith; even though we are unworthy of your philanthropy, yet we are sheep of your Church, gathered together as one. This entreaty we offer to you on behalf of a multitude of captive people: in your three-day resurrection, priests and peoples, youths and virgins, elders with the younger, and infants with their mothers approach you—every soul of those who believe in you. Redeem them all from every looming threat, and make them worthy of your kingdom through the grace and philanthropy of your only-begotten Son and Lord God and Savior, Jesus Christ, with his all-holy and life-giving Spirit; now and always and unto the ages of ages. Amen.
Greek
πίστεώς σου λαός· εἰ καὶ ἀνάξιοι φιλανθρωπίας, ἀλλ' ὅμως πρόβατα τῆς σῆς Ἐκκλησίας ἐσμὲν ἐν ἑνὶ συνηθροισμένοι. Ταύτην σοι τὴν ἱκεσίαν οἱ πτωχοὶ ὑπὲρ πλήθους λαοῦ αἰχμαλωσίας, ἐν τῇ σῇ τριημέρῳ ἀναστάσει προσάγομεν ἱερεῖς καὶ λαοὶ, νεανίσκοι καὶ παρθένοι, πρεσβῦται μετὰ νεωτέρων, νήπια μετὰ μητέρων, πᾶσα ψυχὴ τῶν πιστευόντων εἰς σέ· οὓς λύτρωσαι πάντας πάσης τῆς ἐπικειμένης ἀπειλῆς, καὶ τῆς σῆς βασιλείας ἀξίους ποίησον, χάριτι καὶ φιλανθρωπίᾳ τοῦ μονογενοῦς σου Υἱοῦ καὶ ∆εσπότου Θεοῦ καὶ Σωτῆρος ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ, σὺν τῷ παναγίῳ καὶ ζωοποιῷ αὐτοῦ Πνεύματι· νῦν καὶ ἀεὶ καὶ εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας τῶν αἰώνων. Ἀμήν.
About this text
A vibrant sermon celebrating Christ's resurrection and its transformative power for believers.
Catalogue & scope
Khazarzar scan
Witnesses
- Copy-text PG 41–43 (Khazarzar) (Greek)
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