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Prayer-Book (Euchologion)

St Sarapion of Thmuis, tr. Wordsworth, 1899

Chapter 8

8. Prayer on behalf of those being baptized.

We beseech thee, O God of truth, on behalf of this thy servant and pray that thou wouldst count him worthy of the divine mystery and of thy ineffable regeneration. For to thee, O loving (God), is he now offered; to thee we devote (ἀνατίθεμεν) him: grant him to communicate in this divine regeneration, to the end that he may no longer be led by any bad and evil one, but worship (λατρεύειν) thee continually and observe thy ordinances as thy only-begotten Word doth guide him: for through him to thee (is) the glory and the strength in the holy Spirit both now and to all the ages of the ages. Amen.