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OF S. CHRYSOSTOM.
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We offer to Thee incense, O Christ our God, for a savour of spiritual perfume. Receive it unto Thine heavenly altar, and send down in its stead the grace of Thy most Holy Spirit.
The Deacon. Let us pray of the Lord.
And the Priest censeth the Asterisk, and putteth it over the holy Bread, saying,
And the star came, and stood over where the Child was.
The Deacon. Let us pray of the Lord.
The Priest, censing the first Veil, covereth the holy Bread, together with the Diskos, saying,
The Lord hath reigned, He hath put on beauty, the Lord hath put on strength and hath girded Himself.
The Deacon. Let us pray of the Lord. Master, cover up.
And the Priest, censing the second Veil, covereth the holy Cup, saying,
Thy power, O Christ, hath covered
