Continued 👇🏾
✍🏾 At the time of Holy Communion, the order is as follows:
👉🏾 Archbishops receive first
👉🏾Bishops
👉🏾Monks monasteries living in
👉🏾 Priests
👉🏾 Deacons
👉🏾 Newly baptized men (after forty days)
👉🏾 Newly baptized women (after eighty days)
👉🏾 Infants baptized at eighty days
These receive first among the people, for they are newly sanctified and resemble the angels in purity.
👉🏾 After these, children (from forty days up to six or seven years), the youngest first according to age
👉🏾 Next, virgins who have lived in purity and those in monastic life who are not priests
👉🏾 Next, young virgins around twenty to twenty-two years of age
👉🏾 Next, those who serve in the church because of their office: deacons, students, and zemariyan
👉🏾 Next, penitents, each in his or her own level .
Order on the Women’s Side
✍🏾 On the women’s side, the order is as follows:
👉🏾 Children from eighty days to six or seven years, according to age
👉🏾 Virgins from twelve to fifteen years of age
👉🏾 Wives of priests
👉🏾 Mothers of monks who have remained faithful to the rule
👉🏾 Wives of deacons
👉🏾 Monks and nuns who have returned to the monastery with repentance.
👉🏾 Wives of nfke deacons, church students , and mezemran
👉🏾 Mothers who have respect the rule of God
👉🏾 wives of repentant
After this, the priest blesses the people with the hand that has touched the holy Eucharist .
The priests then join hands and bless one another.
✍🏾 When the priest blesses another priest, he says:
“The authority of Peter is in you.”
✍🏾 The priest who receives the blessing responds, saying:
“If the Kingdom of Heaven has appointed you as an heir, may it not reject you.”
✍🏾 When the priest blesses the deacons, he says:
“May the Most High God glorify you and bless you, enlighten your eyes and your heart to teach, and reveal His mysteries to you.”
✍🏾When the priest blesses the faithful, he says:
“May the Most High God glorify you, bless you, and reveal His grace to you.”
✍🏾 When the priest blesses the women, he says:
“May the Most High God bless you, glorify you, and reveal His grace to you.”
May the name of the Holy God be praised forever and ever in every tongue that He has created, today and always.
May the blessings of God's mother, the virgin, and the cross be upon us.
Amen.
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