Vespers · Raising of Incense
The Litany of the Assemblies
Priest
Again, let us ask God the Pantocrator, the Father of our Lord, God, and Savior Jesus Christ.
We ask and entreat Your goodness, O Lover of Mankind, remember, O Lord, our assemblies.
Bless them.
Deacon
Pray for this holy church and for our assemblies.
Congregation
Lord have mercy.
Priest
Grant that they may be to us without obstacle or hindrance, that we may hold them according to Your holy and blessed will: houses of prayer, houses of purity, houses of blessing. Grant them to us, O Lord, and to Your servants who will come after us, forever.
The worship of idols, utterly uproot from the world.
Satan and all his evil powers, trample and humiliate them under our feet speedily.
The offences and their instigators, abolish. Let the dissensions of corrupt heresies cease.
The enemies of Your holy Church, O Lord, as at all times, now also humiliate.
Strip their vanity, show them their weakness speedily.
Bring to naught their envies, their intrigues, their madness, their wickedness, and their slanders, which they commit against us.
O Lord, bring them all to no avail. Disperse their counsel, O God, who dispersed the counsel of Ahithophel.
Congregation
Lord have mercy.
Priest
Arise, O Lord God, let all Your enemies be scattered, and let all who hate Your holy name flee before Your face.
But let Your people be in blessing, thousands of thousands and ten thousand times ten thousand, doing Your will.