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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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Concluding Prayer after the Laying on of Hands

Confirmation

Almighty and everliving God, let your fatherly hand ever be upon these your servants; let your Holy Spirit ever be with them; and so lead them in the knowledge and obedience of your Holy Word, that they may faithfully serve you in this life, and joyfully dwell with you in the life to come; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

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  • Confirmation

Provenance

Cranmer 1549

Draft — AI-assisted research under editorial review.

A closing prayer for the newly confirmed, carried from Cranmer's first Book of Common Prayer (1549) through every revision of the Anglican tradition. Its language of God's "fatherly hand," the Holy Spirit's abiding presence, and faithful obedience to God's Word has remained essentially unchanged for nearly five centuries.