Commontide
O God, the King of saints, we praise and glorify your holy Name for all your servants who have finished their course in your faith and fear: for the blessed Virgin Mary; for the holy patriarchs, prophets, apostles, and martyrs; and for all your other righteous servants, known to us and unknown; and we pray that, encouraged by their examples, and strengthened by their fellowship, we also may be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light; through the merits of your Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
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A prayer from the burial office of the English 1928 Proposed Book of Common Prayer, later modernized in the 1979 Episcopal book and carried into the Anglican Church in North America's 2019 book with one deliberate revision. It gathers the whole company of heaven into a single act of praise and asks that the living be encouraged by the saints' examples and strengthened by their fellowship.