Commontide
O Sovereign Lord Christ, deliver your servant, N., from all evil, and set him free from every bond; that he may rest with all your saints in the eternal habitations; where with the Father and the Holy Spirit you live and reign, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
This prayer appears in more than one place in the 2019 Book of Common Prayer.
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A commendation for the reception of the body, rendered into modern English by the Episcopal Church's Standing Liturgical Commission for the 1979 prayer book. It carries forward the ancient Western prayer that the dead be set free "from every bond" and given rest among the saints.