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Texts from their published editions
Each text below comes from the edition named under it and was checked twice, independently, before it appeared. Neither check was a person. Where the two disagreed by even one character, the text is not shown here. That is a claim about wording only: these are not selected or endorsed for any particular situation, and nobody credentialed in the tradition has signed them. Older spelling is kept as the edition prints it. The full record, including the texts we held back because the two transcriptions disagreed, is at the verification record.
The prayer to the Holy Spirit that opens almost every Orthodox service and most private prayer. It is left out between Pascha and Pentecost, when the tradition waits for the Spirit's coming rather than invoking it.
English · Service Book of the Holy Orthodox-Catholic Apostolic (Greco-Russian) Church, 1906
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. Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Boston and New York, 1906. Published 1906, before 1929, US public domain, and the translator died in 1928. Retrieved and verified 2026-09-17. Source
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.
The thrice-holy hymn: one line addressing God as holy, mighty and immortal. It is sung in the Divine Liturgy, said three times near the start of most prayer, and chanted as a body is carried to burial.
English · Service Book of the Holy Orthodox-Catholic Apostolic (Greco-Russian) Church, 1906
O Holy God, Holy Mighty, Holy Immortal One, have mercy upon us.
Isabel Florence Hapgood. Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Boston and New York, 1906. Published 1906, before 1929, US public domain, and the translator died in 1928. Retrieved and verified 2026-09-17. Source
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.
Nothing here has been signed by a reviewer credentialed in this tradition. When that happens, reviewed prayers appear above these, and these stay where they are, as an anthology. How that works.