Almighty God, who have knit together your elect in one communion and
fellowship, in the mystical body of your Son Christ our Lord: Grant to your
whole Church in paradise and on earth, your light and your peace.
Grant that all those
who have been baptized into Christ's death and resurrection may die to sin and
rise to newness of life, and that through the grave and gate of death we may
pass with him to our joyful resurrection.
Grant to us who are
still in our pilgrimage, and who walk as yet by faith, that your Holy Spirit
may lead us in holiness and righteousness all our days.
Grant to your
faithful people pardon and peace, that we may be cleansed from all our sins,
and serve you with a quiet mind.
Grant to all who mourn a sure confidence in
your fatherly care, that, casting all their grief upon you, they may know the
consolation of your love.
Give courage and faith to those who are
bereaved, that they may have strength to meet the days ahead in the comfort of
a reasonable and holy hope, in the joyful expectation of eternal life with
those they love.
Help us, in the midst of things we cannot
understand, to believe and trust in the communion of saints, the forgiveness of
sins, and the resurrection to life everlasting.
Grant us, with all
who have died in the hope of the resurrection, to have our consummation and
bliss in your eternal and everlasting glory, and, with all your saints, to
receive the crown of life which you promise to all who share in the victory of
your Son Jesus Christ; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one
God, for ever and ever. Amen.
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