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Prayer-Book (Euchologion)
St Sarapion of Thmuis, tr. Wordsworth, 1899
Chapter 10
10. After the acceptance (ἀνάληψιν)1—a prayer.
O loving benefactor, saviour of all those who have turned to thee for succour, be gracious (ἵλεως) to this thy servant. Guide him to the regeneration with thy right hand: let thy only-begotten Word guide him to the washing (λουτρόν): let his regeneration be honoured, let it not be empty of thy grace: let thy holy Word accompany him, let thy holy Spirit be with him scaring away and driving off every temptation, because through thy only-begotten Jesus Christ (is) the glory and the strength both now and to all the ages of the ages. Amen.
Notes
- This word may either mean “acceptance,” “acknowledgement,” i. e. acceptance of the candidate by God, as a child is acknowledged by its father, or by the Bishop who has heard him say the Creed; or, as Dr. Wobbermin suggests (p. 36), “restoration,” “recovery,” i. e. restoration of the person to his lost relation to God. In either case it is the word here answering to the συνταγή or “adhesion” (σύνταξις, Cyril, Cat. Myst. i. 8) to Christ. This was generally made by the recitation of a creed, to which, however, there is no distinct reference here.