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O All-Holy and most merciful Master, we sing and praise Thee Who art God
without sin, Who didst accept the Passion for our sakes and
willingly suffer in the flesh. For when the florious Disciples were
enlightened by the washing at Supper, then the impious Judas, ailing
with
greed, was darkened, taking thirty pieces of silver, the price of Him that
was valued, and betrayed the Just Judge to the most unjust chief priests
and scribes. For though he was filled with many good gifts and had become a
disciple, yet he plotted to betray Thee, the immortal King and Lord of
Glory, to the unrighteous wolves. He laid hands on the halter, who had
dipped his hand into the bowl; he said to the lawless chief priests, Him
Whom I shall greet with a false embrace, He it is, seize ye Him. For the
ways of greed, O lawless Judas, brought thee the halter, whereby thou didst
suffer God's righteous judgment. But we the faithful, if in love we are
communicants of the most pure and lifegiving Body and Blood, worship the
Saviour, in His sufferings on the Cross, the Entombment and Resurrection of
our Lord, God and Saviour Jesus Christ.
For Thine is the Kingdom, and the power, and the glory, of the Father, and
of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, now and ever, and unto
ages of ages.
Amen.
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