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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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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

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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.