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The Consecration and Dedication of a Place of Worship
Almighty and everlasting Father, in your great mercy you saved Noah and his family in the Ark from the destruction of the flood, prefiguring the Sacrament of Holy Baptism. We thank you that by faith and through the waters of Baptism we die to sin and are reborn in Christ. Grant through your Spirit that those baptized here may enjoy the liberty and splendor of the children of God.
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A font-dedication collect whose familiar middle lines were written for the 1979 Episcopal prayer book, and whose Noah's Ark opening was added forty years later for BCP 2019.