Christ Ward

1. Light both candles.

2. Say out loud:

"I invoke you, god of heaven and god of the earth and god of the saints through your blood, the fullness of the aeon who comes to us, who has come to the world and has broken the claw of Charon, who has come through Gabriel in the womb of the virgin Mary, who was born in Bethlehem and raised in Nazareth, who was crucified ... for this reason the curtain of the temple was torn by itself, who, after rising from the dead in the grave on the third day of his death, showed himself in Galilee, and ascended to the height of heaven, who has myriads of myriads of angels on his left as well as myriads of myriads of angels on his right calling out three times with one voice, Holy, holy is the king of the aeon, so that the heavens are full of his divinity, who goes on his way with the wings of the winds. Come, 0 mercy, god of the aeon, who has ascended to the seventh heaven, who has come from the right of the father, the blessed lamb through whose blood the souls have been freed and through whom the bronze gates have opened by themselves, who has broken the iron bars, who has loosed those bound in the darkness, who has made Charon impotent, who has bound the hostile rebel that was cast into his own places. The heavens were blessed and the earth was glad that the enemy withdrew from them and that you gave freedom to the creature who prayed to the lord Jesus, the voice that absolved of sins all of us who call upon your holy name. The sovereigns and the powers and the world-rulers of darkness, whether an unclean spirit or a demon falling at the hours of midday, or a chill, or a mild fever or a shivering fever, or ill treatment from people, powers of the adversary-may they not have power against the figure, since it was formed from the hand of your divinity, because yours, 0 mercy of the aeon, is all power, which prevails for ever."

3. Blow out the candles and go about your day.