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Holy Matrimony
Bless, O Lord, this ring to be a sign of the vows by which this man and this woman have bound themselves to each other; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
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A short blessing that consecrates the ring as a visible sign of the promises just made. The precise wording entered Anglican use through the 1979 American revision of the prayer book and was carried forward unchanged into the ACNA's BCP 2019, belonging to a ring-blessing tradition stretching back to medieval practice.