fitable servant, to offer unto Thee these gifts. For it is Thou who offerest and art offered; who receivest and art distributed, Christ our God, and to Thee we ascribe the glory, with Thine ever lasting Father, and Thine all-holy, good, and life-giving Spirit, now, and ever, and to ages of ages.
When this Prayer is finished, the Priest and Deacon themselves say the Cherubic Hymn three times, bowing each time.
Hymn of the Cherubim.
We, who mystically represent the Cherubim, and offer unto the life-giving Trinity the thrice-holy hymn, banish all worldly care, as we are about to receive the King of all.
Here the holy doors are opened; the Deacon taking the Censer, and putting on incense, goeth to the Priest, and having received his blessing, incenses the sanctuary all round and the holy table, and the Priest; both say the 50th Psalm, and any other penitential verses they wish. And
