Evlogetaria for the Dead: Blessed Are You, O Lord, Teach Me Your Statutes

Blessed are You, O Lord, teach me Your statutes

The choir of the saints has found the fountain of life and the door of Paradise

May I also find the way through repentance

I am the sheep that was lost

Call me up to You, O Savior, and save me

Blessed are You, O Lord, teach me Your statutes

You who did fashion me of old out of nothingness

And with Your Image Divine did honor me

But because of the transgressions of Your Commandments

Did return me again to the earth from whence I was Taken

Lead me back to be refashioned into that ancient beauty of Your Likeness

Blessed are You, O Lord, teach me Your statutes

I am the image of Your unutterable glory

Though I bear the scars of my stumblings

Have compassion upon me, the works of Your hands O sovereign Lord

And cleanse me through Your loving-kindness

And the homeland of my heart's desire bestow on me

By making me a Citizen of Paradise

Blessed are You, O Lord, teach me Your statutes

Give rest, O God, to the souls of Your servants

And appoint for them a Place in Paradise

Where the choirs of the saints, O Lord, and the just will shine forth like stars

To Your servants that are sleeping now give Rest, overlooking all their offenses

Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit

The triune radiance of the one Godhead with reverent songs acclaiming

Let us cry; Holy are You, O eternal Father, and Son also Eternal, and Spirit Divine

Shine with Your light on us who with faith adore You

And from the fire eternal rescue us

Now and ever and unto the ages of ages. Amen

Hail, O gracious Lady, who in the flesh bears God for the salvation of All

And through whom the human race has found salvation

Through You may we find Paradise

Theotokos, our Lady pure and blessed

Halleluja, Halleluja, Halleluja; Glory to You, our God

Halleluja, Halleluja, Halleluja; Glory to You, our God

Halleluja, Halleluja, Halleluja

Glory to You, our God