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Kontakion for the Departed

By Orthodox TraditionSource: Orthodox Tradition - Eastern Orthodox Funeral Liturgy - Public Domain84 words

Give rest, O Christ, to Thy servants with Thy saints, where sorrow and pain are no more, neither sighing, but life everlasting. Thou only art immortal, the Creator and Maker of man; and we are mortal, formed of the earth, and unto earth shall we return. For so Thou didst ordain when Thou createdst me, saying, Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. All we go down to the dust; and, weeping o'er the grave, we make our song: Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.

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