The Dismissal
The Dismissal
Priest: Let us depart in peace.
Deacon: Let us pray to the Lord.
People: Lord have mercy.
Priest: Lord, bless those who praise You and sanctify those who trust in You. Save Your people and bless Your inheritance. Protect the whole body of Your Church. Sanctify those who love the beauty of Your house. Glorify them in return by Your divine power, and do not forsake us who hope in You. Grant peace to Your world, to Your churches, to the clergy, to those in public service, to the armed forces, and to all Your people. For every good and perfect gift is from above, coming from You, the Father of lights. To You we give glory, thanksgiving, and worship, to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and forever and to the ages of ages.
People: Amen.
Blessed is the name of the Lord, both now and to the ages (3).
Priest (The priest proceeds to the Prothesis and prays in a low voice): Christ our God, You are the fulfillment of the Law and the prophets. You have fulfilled all the dispensation of the Father. Fill our hearts with joy and gladness always, now and forever and to the ages of ages. Amen.
Deacon: Let us pray to the Lord.
People: Lord, have mercy (3.) Father, give the blessing.
Priest: May the blessing of the Lord and His mercy come upon you through His divine grace and love always, now and forever and to the ages of ages.
People: Amen.
Priest: Glory to You, O God, our hope, glory to You. May Christ our true God (who rose from the dead), as a good, loving, and merciful God, have mercy upon us and save us, through the intercessions of His most pure and holy Mother; the power of the precious and life-giving Cross; the protection of the honorable, bodiless powers of heaven; the supplications of the honorable, glorious, prophet, and forerunner John the Baptist; the holy, glorious, and praiseworthy apostles; the holy, glorious, and triumphant martyrs; our holy and God-bearing Fathers (name of the church); the holy and righteous ancestors Joachim and Anna; Saint (of the day) whose memory we commemorate today, and all the saints.
People: Amen. Lord, grant long life to him who blesses and sanctifies us.
Priest: Through the prayers of our holy fathers, Lord Jesus Christ, our God, have mercy on us and save us.
People: Amen.
Priest (blessing the people): May the holy Trinity protect all of you.
(Distributing the antidoron, the priest says:)
Priest: May the blessing and the mercy of the Lord be with you.