Editing Absolution (section)

====== Rutheninan non-sacramental absolutions ======
In the Ruthenian ''Office of Christian Burial'' there is a non-sacramental "prayer of absolution" of the dead at the cemetery as follows:
:May our Lord and God, Jesus Christ, Who has given His divine authority to His holy Disciples and Apostles to bind and loose the sins of the fallen, and from whom, in turn, we have received the obligation to do likewise, forgive you, spiritual child, N., whatever you have committed in your life deliberately or through human frailty, now and forever. Amen.<ref>''Office of Christian Burial with Divine Liturgy'' (Pittsburgh: Byzantine Seminary Press, 1977), 17.</ref>