We give thanks to You, O Lord our God, for all Your servants and witnesses of time past: for Abraham, the father of believers, and Sarah his wife; for Moses, the lawgiver, and Aaron, the priest; for Miriam and Joshua, Deborah and Gideon, and Samuel with Hannah his mother; for Isaiah and all the prophets; for Mary, the mother of our Lord; for Peter and Paul and all the apostles; for Mary and Martha, and Mary Magdalene; for Stephen, the first martyr, and all the martyrs and saints in every age and in every land. In Your mercy, O Lord our God, give us, as You gave to them, the hope of salvation and the promise of eternal life; this we ask in the Name of Jesus, the first-born of many from the dead.

Amen.