Commontide
Confirmation
Almighty and everliving God, let your fatherly hand ever be upon these your servants; let your Holy Spirit ever be with them; and so lead them in the knowledge and obedience of your Holy Word, that they may faithfully serve you in this life, and joyfully dwell with you in the life to come; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
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A closing prayer for the newly confirmed, carried from Cranmer's first Book of Common Prayer (1549) through every revision of the Anglican tradition. Its language of God's "fatherly hand," the Holy Spirit's abiding presence, and faithful obedience to God's Word has remained essentially unchanged for nearly five centuries.