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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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Defend, O Lord

Confirmation — said by the Bishop laying hands on each Confirmand

Defend, O Lord, this your servant N. with your heavenly grace, that he may continue yours for ever, and daily increase in your Holy Spirit more and more until he comes into the fullness of your everlasting kingdom. Amen.

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  • Confirmation

Provenance

Cranmer 1549

Draft — AI-assisted research under editorial review.

The oldest verbal formula in the Anglican confirmation rite, spoken by the bishop over each candidate since 1549. Thomas Cranmer composed it for the first Book of Common Prayer, and it has passed through every English-language prayer book since.