Holy Matrimony
God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit, bless, preserve, and keep you; the Lord mercifully with his favor look upon you, and fill you with all spiritual benediction and grace; that you may faithfully live together in this life, and in the age to come have life everlasting. Amen.
Benedicat vos Deus Pater, custodiat vos Iesus Christus, illuminet vos Spiritus Sanctus. Ostendat Dominus faciem suam in vobis et misereatur vestri. Convertat Dominus vultum suum ad vos et det vobis pacem, impleatque vos omni benedictione spirituali in remissionem omnium peccatorum vestrorum, ut habeatis vitam aeternam, et vivatis in saecula saeculorum.
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The closing blessing of the marriage rite is one of the oldest continuous formulas in Anglican worship. Cranmer carried it nearly verbatim from the medieval Sarum Manual into the first English prayer book in 1549, and it has stood in every prayer book since.