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Preparation for Personal Prayer

Holy Spirit, breath of God and fire of love, I cannot pray without your aid: Kindle in me the fire of your love, and illumine me with your light; that with a steadfast will and holy thoughts I may approach the Father in spirit and in truth; through Jesus Christ my Lord, who reigns with you and the Father in eternal union. Amen.

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Holy Baptism — Additional Directions

Receive this white garment as a token of the righteousness given you by God’s grace in this Sacrament of Baptism, and as a sign that you should always give yourself to holy living for the glory of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Found in the Prayer Book

  • Holy Baptism

Provenance

ACNA 2019

Draft — AI-assisted research under editorial review.

The church has placed a white garment on the newly baptized since at least the fourth century. This prayer, new in the ACNA BCP 2019, names what the white cloth signifies: a righteousness that is given by grace, not earned, and a call to live in keeping with it.