Commontide
The Burial of the Dead — Post Communion Prayer
Almighty God, we thank you that in your great love you have fed us with the spiritual food and drink of the Body and Blood of your Son Jesus Christ, and have given us a foretaste of your heavenly banquet. Grant that this Sacrament may be to us a comfort in affliction, and a pledge of our inheritance in that kingdom where there is no death, neither sorrow nor crying, but the fullness of joy with all your saints; through Jesus Christ our Savior. Amen.
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A product of the twentieth-century liturgical revival, this burial post-communion weaves together the Johannine Eucharistic theology of John 6, the classical pledge-of-glory language rooted in Aquinas, and the eschatological vision of Revelation 21. First attested in the BCP 1979, it has been adopted by the ACNA 2019 and the Church of England's Common Worship.