Commontide
Heavenly Father, we thank you that by water and the Holy Spirit you have bestowed upon these your servants the forgiveness of sin, received them as your own children by adoption, made them members of your holy Church, and raised them to the new life of grace. Sustain them, O Lord, in your Holy Spirit, that they may enjoy everlasting salvation through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
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This thanksgiving, spoken over the newly baptized, traces its threefold structure – adoption as God's children, reception into the Church, and new life by grace – to Thomas Cranmer's first Book of Common Prayer of 1549. The ACNA 2019 text recovers the classical Cranmerian language about adoption and membership that the 1979 Episcopal revision had set aside.