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The Great Blessing of Waters
On the feast of Theophany the Church blesses the waters, remembering the Lord's baptism in the Jordan. The great prayer at its heart begins “Great art thou, O Lord, and marvellous are thy works.”
This is the holy water people take home and drink through the year.
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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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