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For the Acceptance of Prayer

O Lord our God, accept the fervent prayers of your people; in the multitude of your mercies, look with compassion upon us and all who turn to you for help; for you are gracious, O lover of souls, and to you we give glory, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, now and for ever. Amen.

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The Burial of the Dead — The Prayers of the People

Almighty God, grant us, with all who have died in the hope of the resurrection, the fullness of life in your eternal and ever-lasting glory, and, with all your saints, to receive the crown of life promised to all who share in the victory of your Son Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

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  • Burial Of The DeadThe Burial of the Dead

Provenance

TEC 1979, revised ACNA 2019

Draft — AI-assisted research under editorial review.

A modern concluding prayer for burial, composed for the 1979 American Episcopal prayer book. It gathers three streams of resurrection hope – the Cranmerian "eternal and everlasting glory," the Jacobine "crown of life," and the Pauline victory of Christ – into a single petition offered at the close of the burial Prayers of the People.