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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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Blessing
Prayers

The Blessing of the Ring

Holy Matrimony

Bless, O Lord, this ring to be a sign of the vows by which this man and this woman have bound themselves to each other; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Found in the Prayer Book

  • Holy Matrimony

Provenance

TEC BCP 1979

Draft — AI-assisted research under editorial review.

A short blessing that consecrates the ring as a visible sign of the promises just made. The precise wording entered Anglican use through the 1979 American revision of the prayer book and was carried forward unchanged into the ACNA's BCP 2019, belonging to a ring-blessing tradition stretching back to medieval practice.