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The Consecration and Dedication of a Place of Worship
Father, your people worship you with many voices and sounds, in times of joy and sorrow. Move us to express the wonder, the power, and the glory of your creation and your salvation in the music we make and in the songs we sing.
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A twentieth-century Anglican prayer for setting apart musical instruments and bells for worship, first appearing in the 1979 Book of Common Prayer and carried forward with light revision into the ACNA 2019 Prayer Book.