ALMIGHTY AND EVERLASTING GOD, WE OFFER YOU MOST HEARTY THANKS

         PRAYER FOR THE FAMILY, FRIENDS AND THE CHURCH

Almighty and everlasting God, we offer You most hearty thanks for the grace and virtue made manifest in all Your saints, who have been chosen vessels of Your favour and lights of the world in their several generations.  And we most humbly beseech You to give us grace so to follow their good examples; that with them we may be partakers of their heavenly kingdom through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Father of spirits, we have joy at this time in all who have faithfully lived, and in all who have peacefully died.  We thank You for all their memories and all lively hopes for the sacred ties that bind us to the unseen world, for the dear and holy dead who compass us as a cloud of witness, and make the distant heaven a home to our hearts. May we be followers of those who now inherit these promises, through Jesus Christ our Lord.  Amen.

THE LORD’S PRAYER

Our Father in heaven, hallowed be Your name; Your kingdom come, Your will be done, on earth as in heaven.  Give us today our daily bread. Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us.  Do not bring us to the time of trial but deliver us from evil.  For the kingdom, the power and the glory are Yours now and forever.  Amen

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16.       BENEDICTION

May the God of peace, who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus Christ, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant, equip you with everything good that you may do his will, working in you that which is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever.  Amen