Also called The prayer of the Panikhida.
The Priest, secretly.
O God of spirits, and of all flesh, who hast trampled down death, and overthrown the Devil, and given life unto thy world: Do thou, the same Lord, give rest to the souls of thy departed servants, NN., in a place of brightness, a place of verdure, a place of repose, whence all sickness, sorrow and sighing have fled away. Pardon every transgression which they have committed, whether by word, or deed, or thought. For thou art a good God, and lovest mankind; because there is no man who liveth and sinneth not; for thou only art without sin, and thy righteousness is to all eternity, and thy word is true.
Exclamation.
For thou art the Resurrection, and the Life, and the Repose of thy departed servants, NN., O Christ our God, and unto thee we ascribe glory, together with thy Father, who is from everlasting, and thine all-holy, and good, and life-giving Spirit, now, and ever, and unto ages of ages. Amen.
From Isabel Florence Hapgood, Service Book of the Holy Orthodox-Catholic Apostolic Church, Houghton Mifflin, 1906, in the Liturgy, p. 91, and in the memorial services. The book itself — public domain.
NN. is where the names go. This is the prayer Orthodox Christians hear at every memorial, and the phrase people remember from it — a place of brightness, a place of verdure, a place of repose — is the one worth knowing.
On the text. The scan ran “thou art a good God” together as “thou artagood God”; separated.
Where these come from. Every prayer here is transcribed from a printed book that is out of copyright, and each one says which book and where in it. That is not fussiness. An English translation of an Orthodox prayer is a copyrighted work in its own right, separately from the Greek or Slavonic behind it, and in 2012 a monastery took a bishop to federal court for putting its translations on a website — and won. So these come from Hapgood's Service Book of 1906 and Shann's Euchology of 1891 and Book of Needs of 1894, which anyone may reprint. More on the sources and what is missing.