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Prayer-Book (Euchologion)
St Sarapion of Thmuis, tr. Wordsworth, 1899
Chapter 29
29. Laying on of hands (Benediction) of the laity.
May the living and clean hand, the hand of the only-begotten, that hath destroyed all evil things and confirmed and established all holy things, be stretched out over the heads of this people. May the people be blessed by the blessing of (the) Spirit, by the blessing of heaven, by the blessing of prophets and apostles. May the bodies of the people be blessed to temperance and cleanness. May their souls be blessed to learning and knowledge and the mysteries. May they be blessed all in common through thy only-begotten Jesus Christ through whom to thee (is) the glory and the strength in holy Spirit, both now and to all the ages of (the) ages. Amen.