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For the Acceptance of Prayer

O Lord our God, accept the fervent prayers of your people; in the multitude of your mercies, look with compassion upon us and all who turn to you for help; for you are gracious, O lover of souls, and to you we give glory, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, now and for ever. 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.