Commontide

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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At the Burial of an Adult

The Burial of the Dead — Opening Collect

O God, who by the glorious resurrection of your Son Jesus Christ destroyed death and brought life and immortality to light: Grant that your servant N., being raised with Christ, may know the strength of his presence and rejoice in his eternal glory; who with you and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Found in the Prayer Book

This prayer appears in more than one place in the 2019 Book of Common Prayer.

  • Prayers For A VigilMinistry to the Sick & Dying
  • Burial Of The Dead · as “At the Burial of an Adult”The Burial of the Dead

Provenance

Colquhoun, c.1967-79

Draft — AI-assisted research under editorial review.

A 20th-century burial prayer grounded in Paul's declaration that Christ "destroyed death and brought life and immortality to light," entering Anglican burial liturgy in 1979 and carried into the ACNA BCP 2019 with one considered textual refinement.