When it is said
The Russian morning prayers include a short prayer for the living. It names your parents and your brothers and sisters. Then it names your relatives, those close to your family and your friends.
For those who can, the prayer books give a longer list in its place, each line said with a bow. This is one of its lines. Say the names of the people you love where the prayer asks for them.
Where it comes from
No author known
No known author
No one knows who wrote it. It belongs to the list of petitions for the living in the Russian prayer books. G. V. Shann put it into English in his Orthodox prayer book of 1891, among his “Diptychs, or Remembrancer”, with a bow after it. The Jordanville prayer book, an English Orthodox prayer book of today, keeps it among the morning prayers.
G. V. Shann, Euchology (1891), Diptychs, or Remembrancer; Jordanville Prayer Book, Morning Prayers
The same circle, living and departed
The list does not stop at the living. Its next part turns to the departed and names the same people again, if they have died: one’s parents and all one’s kin. It asks God to forgive them all their sins and give them His kingdom.
What the words mean
Brothers and sisters
The Slavonic printed here names parents, relatives, those close to the family and friends. Shann’s English of 1891 also names brothers and sisters. So do the Jordanville prayer book and a modern Russian version, which puts the last words as “Your earthly and heavenly good things”. The plain wording keeps the brothers and sisters.
Azbyka.ru, Commemoration of the living and the departed; G. V. Shann, Euchology (1891), Diptychs, or Remembrancer
In Church Slavonic
Спаси, Господи, и помилуй родителей моих (имя), сродников (имя),
и вся ближния рода моего, и други,
и даруй им мирная Твоя и премирная благая.