{"id":4708,"date":"2026-11-08T19:05:25","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T00:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orthodox.faith\/prayers\/evening-commendation\/"},"modified":"2026-11-08T19:05:25","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T00:05:25","slug":"evening-commendation","status":"publish","type":"prayer","link":"https:\/\/orthodox.faith\/hi\/prayers\/evening-commendation\/","title":{"rendered":"Into Thy Hands: Prayer at Bedtime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Into <span class=\"pr-t\">Thy<\/span><span class=\"pr-y\">Your<\/span> hands, O Lord Jesus Christ my God, I commend my spirit. Bless me, have mercy on me, and grant me eternal life. Amen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"pr-rubric\">We then make the sign of the cross over our bed and over ourselves, saying:<\/p>\n<p>Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered, and let those who hate him flee from before his face. As smoke vanishes, so let them vanish; as wax melts before the fire, so let the demons perish before those who love God and sign themselves with the sign of the cross.<\/p>\n<p>O most precious and life-giving Cross of the Lord, help me, together with the holy Lady Theotokos and all the saints, unto the ages. Amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last words before sleep, after the example of Christ on the cross.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","liturgical_season":[],"topic":[],"class_list":["post-4708","prayer","type-prayer","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodox.faith\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/prayer\/4708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodox.faith\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/prayer"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodox.faith\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/prayer"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/orthodox.faith\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/prayer\/4708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodox.faith\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"liturgical_season","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodox.faith\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/liturgical_season?post=4708"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodox.faith\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=4708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}