Anglicanized Anaphora of St. Basil the Great

The Lord with with you.
And with thy spirit.

Lift up your hearts.
We lift them up unto the Lord.

Let us give thanks unto the Lord our God.
It is meet and right so to do.

Almighty Father, Lord God and Master of all, it is very meet, right, and our bounden duty, at all times and in every place, with humble and contrite hearts to praise thee, bless thee, worship thee, and give thanks to thee, for thou hast given us to know thy Truth, O thou who art the only true God.  Who is worthy to praise thy deeds of might?  Or meet to make known all thy praises?  Or to tell of thine every work of mystery and awe, from before the foundations of the earth?

Creator and Master divine of heaven and earth, and of all creatures visible and invisible, thou art seated upon a throne of glory, and beholdest the heights and the depths.  Thou art without beginning, unchanging, invisible, beyond all words or mortal comprehension.

O God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, thy living Word, Wisdom eternal, who verily is the great God and Saviour of our hope, the icon of thy goodness, the revelation of thyself in him: in him wast the Holy Spirit made manifest and did remain, a gift of his Sonship unto us, a Comforter, a source of sanctification and life in thee, a troth of our eternal inheritance and life everlasting.

But in thy Son are we justified, and through him only art every rational and spiritual creature able to offer thee praise and glory, for without thee are we able to do nothing.  Thou art praised by angels, archangels, thrones, dominions, powers, and principalities.  Round about thee stand the many-eyed cherubim; and the seraphim also, who with two wings cover they their faces, two their feet, and with two they fly, crying to thee and one another with unceasing voice and ever-resounding praise, forever singing this victory hymn:

Holy, holy, holy Lord God of power and might.
Heaven and earth are full of thy glory.
Hosannah in the highest.
Blessed is he that cometh in the Name of the Lord.
Hosannah in the highest.

Together with these blessed powers, loving Master we sinners also cry aloud, saying, verily art thou most holy, God of all power and might, and there are no bounds possible upon thy divine Majesty.  Holy are all thy works, and in all righteousness and true judgment hast thou ordered all things for us.  For having made man of the dust, O Lord, and breathing thine image upon him, thou placedest us in a garden of delight, wanting and dying never.  But we disobeyed thee, and were led astray by the cunning of a serpent, and became subject to death by our own trepass.  In thy righteousness were we turned from paradise, and returned to the earth whence we were taken.

Yet in thy love, and in the fulness of time, thou provided for us salvation in the Person of thy Christ.  Thou didst not forever hold apart from the creatures of thy making, O good and holy One, nor forget the work of thy hands; for in thy compassion thou didst send forth prophets, and performed mighty works in every generation by the saints of thy pleasing.  Thy prophets announced the salvation which was to come; thou gavest the law to be an help for us; thou appointed angels as guardians.  And when the fulness of time had come, thou spakest to us by thy Son, by whom thou createdest all things, taking on the flesh of thy Creation.

Being also God before all ages, upholding all things by the Word of his power, he thought it not robbery to stand equal to thee, O God and Father, but appeared unto us and lived among men.  By the Virgin Mary was he made man, emptying himself, eschewing not the lowly flesh, but clothing himself as a servant, that he might clothe us in the image of himself.  For though by a man came sin and death, it pleased thee to give thine only begotten Son, born of a woman under the Law, to condem sin in his flesh, that those who died in Adam may be born again to life in him, who is thy Christ.  Though he lived as one of us, he sinned not, and shewed us the path of salvation.  He loosed us of our idolatries, and didst guide us in the sure knowledge of thee, O God and Father of all.

To himself he didst gather us a chosen people, a royal priesthood and holy nation.  Having cleased us by water and the Holy Spirit, he ransomed himself to the death by which we were held captive and sold under sin.  Descending to hell by the Cross, he broke the gates of hell and loosed the bonds of death.  He arose again on the third day, having laid a path for all flesh to be resurrected again from the grave, for the Author of life could not be bound by corruption.  He became the first fruits of they who have slept, the first born of the dead, being the Principal of all things.  He ascended to heaven and is seated at the right hand of thy Majesty in high, and will come again to render unto each according to his works.

As an eternal memorial of his saving Passion, he ordained these gifts which we set before thee according to his will.  For before he was to go to his willing, ever-memorable and life-giving death, our Lord Jesus Christ, on the night he was to be delivered up for the sins of the world, did take bread in his holy, pure, and sinless hands, presented it to thee, gave thanks, blessed and hallowed it, broke it, and gave it unto his disciples, saying,  Take ye and eat: This is my Body which is given for you. Do this for the remembrance of me.

Likewise after supper he took the cup of the fruit of the vine, and having mingled it, he again gave thanks, blessed and hallowed it, and gave it unto them, saying, Drink all of ye this: This is my Blood of the new Testament, which is shed for you and for many for the forgiveness of sin. As oft as ye drink of it, do this for the remembrance of me.  For as oft as ye eat this Bread and drink this Cup, ye proclaim my death, and confess my Resurrection. 

Remembering therefore this our Saviour's command, and all that which came to pass for our sake: his Cross and burial, his Resurrection and Ascension, his enthronement at thy right hand, and his second, glorious coming, we offer unto thee these gifts from thy gifts, in all and for all.

We praise thee, we bless thee,
we give thanks unto thee,
and we pray to thee, O Lord our God.

Therefore, most holy Lord, we thy sinful and unworthy servants, whom thou hast made worthy to serve thee at thy holy altar, and not because of our own righteousness, which lacketh completely, but on account of thy supreme mercy and compassion which thou so richly hast poured out upon us, do we dare approach thy holy table, and bring forth species of the holy Body and Blood of thy Son, Jesus Christ.  We pray thee and call upon thee, O Holy of Holies, that by thine unfailing favour thy Spirit come upon us and sanctify us, and upon these thy gifts here presented, to bless and sanctify these species, and make them the precious Body and Blood of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ.

Unite us to the one Bread and the Cup, in the Communion of thy Holy Spirit, and grant, O merciful Lord, that none of us may partake of the holy Body and Blood of thy Christ to judgment or condemnation, but, that we may find mercy, grace and health with all the saints who throughout the ages hath pleased thee.  We beseech thee, merciful Lord, to remember those which repose in the faith [especially N.], for the patriarchs of old, for prophets, for apostles and martyrs, preachers and evangelists, and for every righteous spirit made perfect in thy faith; but especially our Lady the holy, pure, and ever-virgin Mary, which art more honourable than the cherubim and more glorious than the seraphim, who didst without corruption give birth to the Word our God, whose womb was made a throne, and more spacious than all the heavens.

Verily do we magnify her, together with St. John the Baptist and Forerunner, the holy Apostles, [holy (blessed) N.] and all thy saints, whose supplications thou hearest forever.  Bless above all, O God, our bishops N. and N., and all bishops, priests, deacons, and other servants of thy Church.  Preserve them in faith, we beseesch thee, and in safety and good health, that they may continue in teaching thine unchanging, unending, and everlasting truth.  Save us from every heresy and schism, and pacify the ragings of the heathen.

Bless and preserve thy holy catholic and apostolic Church, from this end of the earth to the other, and all we who do aspire to live in purity and holiness, sparing us the temptations of the flesh and delivering us from evil.  Keep our community and country in safety, and those public servants which guard our interests, that together we may live lives of pure and quiet holiness.  Save us from the sword, the scourge of war and strife of civil unrest.

Remember, O Lord, thy people, and those whom each of us calls to mind.  Remember the strangers, the sick, the poor and suffering, and those held prisoner, and those which minister to them, and send thy boundless mercy upon them all.  Forget not the virgins, the holy solitaries, those who undertake the married life; guard the infants in health, and train the youth and orphan in thy ways.  Strengthen the aged, and support the weak of heart.  Spare us fire and calamity, and send seasonable weather, that the labors of our hands may prosper, to thy great glory.

Give blessing, we beseech thee, upon those which bring before thee these gifts here presented, and those for whose intention they were offered.  For their earthly gifts, we beg, heavenly gifts; for the temporal, the eternal; for the corruptible, the incorruptible, a reward everlasting.

Grant that with one voice and one heart we may ever praise and glorify thy holy Name, unbounded in Majesty; thou whom with thy Son and Holy Spirit art together one God, in glory everlasting, unto the very ages of ages, world without end.  Amen.

And now as our Saviour hath taught us, we are bold to say, &c.