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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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The Prayers — Concluding Collect

Holy Matrimony

Grant these our prayers, O Father, who with your Son and the Holy Spirit live and reign in perfect unity, now and for ever. Amen.

Found in the Prayer Book

  • Holy Matrimony

Provenance

ACNA 2019 (from 1979 US)

Draft — AI-assisted research under editorial review.

A short, graceful closing prayer that gathers up all the petitions offered at a wedding and hands them to the Father with a Trinitarian flourish. It is a modern Anglican composition, drawn from the 1979 American prayer book and lightly condensed for the ACNA 2019 rite.