Festal Dismissals
On the Nativity of Christ:
At the All-night Vigil:May He who was born in a cave, and lay in a manger for our salvation, Christ our true God, through the intercessions of His all-immaculate Mother, of our Venerable and God-bearing Fathers, and of all the Saints, have mercy on us and save us, for He is good and loveth mankind.
At the Liturgy:
May He who was born in a cavern, and lay in a manger for our salvation, Christ our true God, through the intercessions of His all-immaculate Mother, of the holy, glorious and all-laudable Apostles, of our Father among the Saints, (name of the Saint whose Liturgy is celebrated), of our Venerable and God-bearing Fathers and of all the Saints, have mercy on us and save us, for He is good and loveth man.
On the Circumcision:
May He who on the eighth day did deign to be circumcised in the flesh for our salvation, Christ our true God...
On Theophany:
May He who in Jordan did deign to be baptized of John for our salvation, Christ our true God . . .
On the Meeting of the Lord
May He who did deign to be held in the arms of the righteous Simeon for our salvation, Christ our true God
On Transfiguration:
May He who on Mount Tabor was transfigured in glory before His holy Disciples and Apostles, Christ our true God . . . On Palm Sunday:
May He who did deign to sit upon an ass's colt, for our salvation, Christ our true God . . .
The Same Sunday, at Vespers:
May the Lord who came to His voluntary passion for our salvation, Christ our true God . . .
On Great Thursday:
May He who through His surpassing goodness did show the most excellent way of humility, when He washed the Disciples' feet and did condescend even to the Cross and burial for us, Christ our true God . . .
At the Dismissal of the Holy Passion Service:
May He who endured spitting, scourging, slapping, the Cross and death for the salvation of the world, Christ our true God . . .
On Holy and Great Friday:
May He who for us men and for our salvation did condescend to the dread passion and the life-creating Cross, and voluntary burial in the flesh, Christ our true God . . .
On the Sunday of Pascha and throughout Bright Week:
May Christ, who is risen from the dead, trampling down death by death, and on those in the tombs bestowing life, our true God . . .
On Ascension:
May He who in glory did ascend from us into heaven and sitteth at the right hand of God the Father, Christ our true God . . .
On the Sunday of Pentecost:
May He who in the shape of fiery tongues from heaven did send down the All-holy Spirit upon His holy Disciples and Apostles, Christ our true God . . .
On the Same Sunday, at Vespers:
May He who did empty Himself from the Paternal Divine Bosom, and came down from heaven upon the earth, and took upon Himself all our nature, and made it divine, and after these things, again ascended into heaven and sitteth at the right hand of God the Father, and did send down the divine and holy Spirit, one in essence, equal in power, and equal in glory, and ever-existing with Him, upon His holy Disciples and Apostles, and through Him did enlighten them, and through them the whole world, Christ our true God, through the intercessions of His all immaculate and all-blameless holy Mother, of the holy, glorious, all-laudable Preachers of God, the Spirit-bearing Apostles, and of all the Saints, have mercy on us and save us, for He is good and loveth man.