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The Burial Service
The service the Church sings over a departed Christian: Psalm 119 with its refrains, the Beatitudes, the hymns of St. John of Damascus on the vanity of this life, and the last kiss.
It is one of the most moving services the Church has, and a comfort to anyone who has lost someone.
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About this edition
From the Service Book of the Holy Orthodox-Catholic Apostolic (Greco-Russian) Church, translated and arranged by Isabel Florence Hapgood (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1906). Our text was made from scans of the printed book and checked against three separate scans; if you spot a mistake, tell us in the server.
This translation is in the public domain. We took the text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library and left out the editors’ footnotes.
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