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TREBNIK.
MOSCOW.
At the Synodal Press.
MDCCCLXXXII.
Be it known that on the eighth day after birth the babe is brought
by the nurse to the temple, and she standeth before the doors of the
temple.
And the priest maketh,
Blessed be our God... Trisagion. O most holy Trinity... And after
Our Father... For thine is the kingdom...
Then the troparion of the day, or of the holy habitation. And the
priest signeth its forehead, mouth, and breast, and saith the prayer.
Let us pray to the Lord.
O Lord our God, to thee we pray, and on thee we call, Let the light of
thy countenance be signed on this thy servant (or, on this thine
handmaid), name, and be he signed with the cross of thine only-
begotten Son in his heart and understanding, that he may flee the
vanity of the world and every evil device of the enemy, and may keep
thy commandments; and grant, O Lord, that thy holy name may
remain upon him unrenounced, when at the fitting time he shall be
conjoined with thy holy church, and be perfected with the terrible
mysteries of thy Christ, that, living according to thy commandments
and preserving the seal unbroken, he may attain unto the
blessedness of thine elect in thy kingdom, through the grace and
love to man of thine only-begotten Son, with whom thou art blessed,
together with thy most holy, and good, and life-creating Spirit, now
and ever, and to ages of ages. Amen.
Then, taking the child in his hands, he standeth before the doors
of the temple, or before the image of the most holy God-bearing one,
and maketh the sign of the cross, saying,
Hail, grace-accorded God-bearing Virgin! for out of thee the sun of
righteousness, Christ our God, hath shined, enlightening them that
are in darkness. And thou, O righteous elder, be thou glad, receiving
in thine arms the deliverer of our souls, even him that granteth
resurrection unto us.
And the dismissal is made.
It is necessary to know that, if the newly born babe, being
exceedingly weak, do not suck, but appear likely to die, it behoveth
not to wait six or eight days, and then to baptize it, as some wickedly
say; but at the very hour of its birth to wash it only, and immediately
to baptize it, that it die not unilluminated. Since they that are five
months pregnant are, by the laws and canons, responsible for
murder, if it happen that by any shock they abort the babe, so much
the more is it necessary to avoid the condemnation of them that are
brought forth, that they die not unilluminated.
Chapter III.
PRAYERS FOR A PARTURIENT WOMAN AFTER
FORTY DAYS.