Peace be with all. And with your spirit. To you, O Lord. Stregthen her on the completion of the forty days, so that, having been found worthy to enter your holy church, she may glorify with us your all- holy name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, now and ever, and to the ages of ages. If the child has already been baptized or has died, the priest says the dismissal.
Peace be with all.
And with your spirit. To you, O Lord. O God, the Father Almighty, through the clear proclamation of your Prophet Isaiah you foretold to us the incarnation from a Virgin of your only-begotten Son and our God. In the last times by your own choice and with the cooperation of the Holy Spirit, in your endless compassion, you consented to become an infant from her, for the salvation of us mortals. In accordance with the custom of your holy law, after the completion of the days of purification, you consented, being yourself the true law-giver, to be brought to the Temple, and you submitted to be held in the arms of the righteous Symeon.