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The Ordination of a Deacon
In your great goodness, O Lord, make these your servants Deacons in your Church; give them grace to be modest, humble, and constant in their ministry; give them a ready will to observe all spiritual discipline; and with the testimony of a good conscience always before them, may they continue stable and strong in the service of your Son Jesus Christ, to whom be glory and honor, world without end. Amen.
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The bishop's prayer over a newly ordained deacon immediately after the laying on of hands, essentially unchanged from Thomas Cranmer's 1550 Ordinal until the 1979 American church briefly set it aside.