(On most Sundays, the following
PREFACE is said)
P:
It is truly fitting and just, proper and
beneficial, that we should always and
everywhere, give thanks unto Thee,
holy Lord, Father almighty, everlasting
God; Who, with Thine only-begotten
Son, and the Holy Spirit, art one God,
one Lord; not in the singularity of one
person, but in the Trinity of one
substance. For what we believe from
Thy revelation of Thy glory, the same
we believe of Thy Son, the same of the
Holy Spirit, without difference or
distinction. So that in confessing the
true and everlasting Deity, particularity
in persons, unity in essence, and
equality in majesty may be adored.
Which the Angels and Archangels, the
Cherubim, too, and the Seraphim do
praise: who cease not to cry out daily,
with one voice saying:
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