also our brethren in captivity, prison, chains,
and bitter bondage ;

supplying return to the wandering,

health to the sick,

deliverance to the captives.

Remember religious and faithful kings, whom Thou hast given to rule upon the earth; and especially remember, LORD,

our divinely-guarded king;
strengthen his kingdom,

subdue to him all adversaries,
speak good things to his heart,

for Thy Church, and all Thy people. Vouchsafe to him deep and undisturbed peace, that in his serenity

we may lead a quiet and peaceable life

with all godliness and honesty.
Remember, LORD, all power

and authority,

our brethren in the court,

those who are chief in council and judgment,
and all by land and sea

waging Thy wars for us.

Moreover, LORD, remember graciously
our holy Fathers,

the honourable Presbytery, and all the clergy,
rightly dividing the Word of Truth,
and rightly walking in it.

Remember, LORD, our brethren around us,
and praying with us in this holy hour,
for their zeal and earnestness-sake.

Remember also those who on fair reasons are away, and pity them and us

in the multitude of Thy pity.

Fill our garners with all manner of store, preserve our marriages in peace and concord, nourish our infants,

lead forward our youth,

sustain our aged,

comfort the weak-hearted,

gather together the scattered,

restore the wanderers,

and knit them to Thy Holy Catholic Apostolic Church. Set free the troubled

with unclean spirits, voyage with the voyagers, travel with the travellers, stand forth for the widow, shield the orphan,

rescue the captive,

heal the sick.

Those who are on trial, in mines, in exile, in galleys, in whatever affliction, necessity, and emergence, remember, O God;

and all who need Thy great mercy;
and those who love us,

and those who hate;

and those who have desired us unworthy to make mention of them in our prayers; and all Thy people remember, O LORD, our GOD, and upon all pour out Thy rich pity,

to all performing their requests for salvation; and those of whom we have not made mention, through ignorance, forgetfulness, or number of names, do Thou Thyself remember, O God,

who knowest the stature and appellation of each, who knowest every one from his mother's womb. For thou art, O LORD, the Succour of the succourless, the Hope of the hopeless,

the Saviour of the tempest-tost,
the Harbour of the voyager,

the Physician of the sick,

do Thou Thyself become all things to all men.

O Thou who knowest each man and his petition, each house, and its need,

deliver, O LORD, this city,

and all the country in which we sojourn,
from plague, famine, earthquake, flood,
fire, sword, hostile invasion,
and civil war.

End the schisms of the Churches,
quench the haughty cries of the nations,
and receive us all into Thy kingdom,
acknowledging us as sons of light;
and Thy peace and love

vouchsafe to us, O LORD, our God.
Remember O LORD, our GOD,

all spirits and all flesh

which we have remembered, and which we have not. And the close of our life,

LORD, LORD, direct in peace,

Christianly, acceptably, and, should it please Thee, painlessly,

gathering us together under the feet of Thine elect, when Thou wilt and how Thou wilt,

only without shame and sins.

The brightness of the LORD our God be upon us, prosper Thou the work of our hands upon us, O prosper Thou our handy work.

Be, LORD,

within me to strengthen me,

without me to guard me,

over me to shelter me, beneath me to stablish me,

before me to guide me,

after me to forward me,

round about me to secure me.

(5) Praise. Blessed art Thou, LORD, GOD of Israel,

our FATHER,

from everlasting to everlasting.
Thine, O LORD,

is the greatness and the power,
the triumph and the victory,
the praise and the strength,
for Thou rulest over all

in heaven and on earth.

At Thy face every king is troubled,
and every nation.

Thine, O LORD, is the kingdom

and the supremacy over all,

and over all rule.

With Thee is wealth, and glory is from Thy countenance; Thou rulest over all, O LORD,

the Ruler of all rule;

and in Thine hand is strength and power,
and in Thine hand to give to all things
greatness and strength.

And now, LORD, we confess to Thee,

and we praise Thy glorious Name.

Introduction.

THE FIFTH DAY.

We are satisfied with Thy mercy, O LORD,

in the morning.

Blessed art Thou, O LORD,

who broughtest forth from the water

creeping things of life,

and whales,

and winged fowl.

Be Thou exalted, O GOD, above the heavens,
and Thy glory above all the earth.
By Thy Ascension, O LORD,

(1) Confession.

draw us too after Thee,

that we savour of what is above,
not of things on the earth.

By the marvellous mystery
of the Holy Body and precious Blood,
on the evening of this day,

LORD, have mercy.

Thou who hast said,

"As I live, saith the LORD,

I will not the death of a sinner,

but that the ungodly return from his way