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also, Master, me the unworthy presbyter (deacon) – name, as the Hierarch takes out a particle for each one of them.
The deacon then approaches the Hierarch with the censer and says: Bless, Master, the censer. The Hierarch in return gives the blessing with the prayer: We offer you incense, O Christ our God, for an odor of spiritual fragrance, which do You receive on Your most Heavenly Altar, sending down to us in return the grace of Your all­Holy Spirit, and then covers the gifts and com­ pletes the proskomidia in same fashion as described in the eu­ chologion. After the offertory prayer, the deacon goes to the Hierarch and says: Take, Master. The Hierarch places the aer upon the deacon’s shoulders, saying the usual prayer. Then the first priest approaches the Hierarch, accepting the chalice from his hands.19
All the celebrants then begin to process in rank in the great Entrance, led by lamp bearers and with the youngest deacons holding the trikiri and dikiri. The lesser priests hold in their hands the omophorion, spear and spoon, asterix, and so on. The deacon announces: All you devout and Christ­loving people... (or: May the Lord God remember you all). Having arrived in front of the Hierarch the deacon says to him: May the Lord God remember your Archpriesthood... The Hierarch, first censing the diskos, accepts it from the hands of the deacon and com­ memorates the Patriarch. Then the first priest stands in front of the Hierarch and says: May the Lord God remember your Arch­ priesthood... while the Hierarch, after censing the chalice, re­ ceives the chalice from the priest’s hands and commemorates everyone according to the order. After this, the priests all enter into the altar quietly saying: May the Lord God remember your Archpriesthood... the Hierarch then removes the covers from the diskos and chalice and covers them both with the aer, then censing them he says the prayers found in the euchologion.
19 As he hands the chalice to the presbyter he says: God has gone up with a shout; the Lord with the sound of trumpets (Contemporary Greek Archieratikon, p. 285).
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