Commontide

For the Acceptance of Prayer

Heavenly Father, you have promised to hear what we ask in the Name of your Son: Accept and fulfill our petitions, we pray, not as we ask in our ignorance, nor as we deserve in our sinfulness, but as you know and love us in your Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

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Death & the Departed

At Cremation

The Burial of the Dead — The Committal (at cremation)

In sure and certain hope of the resurrection to eternal life through our Lord Jesus Christ, we commend to Almighty God our brother N., and we commit his body to be consumed by fire; earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust. The Lord bless him and keep him, the Lord make his face to shine upon him and be gracious unto him, the Lord lift up his countenance upon him and give him peace. Amen.

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  • Burial Of The DeadThe Burial of the Dead

Provenance

1979 TEC (fused form); Cranmer 1549 (committal)

Draft — AI-assisted research under editorial review.

A centuries-old committal formula adapted for cremation: Cranmer's "earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust" joined to the ancient Aaronic Blessing from Numbers 6.