A memorial card with O Heavenly King

A name, dates and, if you add one, a photo on the front. On the back, O Heavenly King exactly as its edition printed it, with the edition named under it. Free, and made in your browser: nothing you type or add here is sent anywhere.

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About this text. Hapgood's is one English rendering among several, and most parishes today use a later one; hers is printed here because it is the one that is out of copyright. She is also not consistent with herself. The same prayer appears with different punctuation in different services of the same 1906 volume, so this is the text as printed in the Third Hour, and makes no claim to be the only form.

What to printSix cards on a letter sheetFor a home printer. Fronts print on page 1 and backs on page 2. Print both sides, flipping on the long edge, or print page 1, put the sheet back in, and print page 2. Cut on the marks.One card for a print shopChoose Save as PDF in the print dialog. The file is two pages, front and back, each 2.75 by 4.5 inches with a 0.125 inch bleed, which a shop trims to 2.5 by 4.25.Program insert, two to a sheetA half-letter page, 5.5 by 8.5 inches, for a funeral or memorial program. Two copies print side by side on one landscape letter sheet; cut down the middle mark.

In the print dialog, keep the scale at 100 percent (actual size) so the card prints at its true size.

In loving memory of

Their name

Front

O Heavenly King

O heavenly King, the Comforter, Spirit of Truth, who art in all places and fillest all things; Treasury of good things and Giver of life: Come and take up thine abode in us, and cleanse us from every stain; and save our souls, O Good One.

Isabel Florence Hapgood, Service Book of the Holy Orthodox-Catholic Apostolic (Greco-Russian) Church, 1906, page 43. Wording checked against a second scanned copy.
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Back

In loving memory of

Their name

O Heavenly King

In loving memory of

O Heavenly King

In loving memory of

Their name

In loving memory of

Their name

In loving memory of

Their name

In loving memory of

Their name

In loving memory of

Their name

In loving memory of

Their name

O Heavenly King

What the back of the card promises

The words are the edition’s words, letter for letter, which is why they cannot be edited here. Under them the card names the edition and its year, says how the wording was checked, and prints this text’s address and version. A correction to the text, if one is ever made, is listed with its date at makeaprayer.com/corrections, so anyone holding a card years from now can check it.

Nobody credentialed in the tradition has chosen this prayer for a funeral or signed this card. It is a faithful copy of a text, not advice about which text to use. The family’s parish, temple or minister can say what their tradition expects.

What stays on this device

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