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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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Baptism & Confirmation

Confirmation

Go forth into the world in peace, be of good courage, and fight the good fight of faith, that you may finish your course with joy; and the blessing of God Almighty, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, be among you, and remain with you always. Amen.

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  • Confirmation

Provenance

ACNA 2019

Draft — AI-assisted research under editorial review.

A dismissal blessing in two joined movements: a Pauline charge to press on in faith and a Trinitarian benediction. A longer parent form circulated in early-twentieth-century Anglican Confirmation use; the ACNA BCP 2019 condensed it, replacing a chain of exhortations drawn from 1 Thessalonians with two crisp Pauline metaphors of fighting and finishing.