2012 years - Merry Christmas

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This beautiful icon was given to me by my dear mother, on my birthday this year.

"O God of spirits and of all flesh, Who has trampled down Death and overthrown the devil, and given life unto Your world, give, we beseech You, eternal rest to the soul of Your departed servant, in a place of brightness, in a place of verdure, in a place of repose, from whence all pain, sorrow, and sighing, have fled away.

Pardon, we beseech You, every transgression which may have been committed, whether by word or deed or thought. For there is no man who lives and does not commit a sin. You only are without sin, Your righteousness is everlasting, and Your word is the Truth.

For You are the Resurrection, and the Life, and the repose of Your departed servant, O Christ our God, and unto You we ascribe glory, together with eternal the Father, and Your Most Holy, and Good, and Life-giving Spirit, now and forever, and for ages to come." Amen

Trisagion Memorial Prayer for the Departed - for my father, Peter Dixon Woolley, happy birthday.

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