Commontide
May God the Father, who through Baptism has adopted you as his children, grant you his grace. Amen. May God the Son, who sanctified a home at Nazareth, fill you with his love. Amen. May God the Holy Spirit, who makes the Church one family, keep you in his peace. Amen.
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A modern Anglican composition, prepared for the Episcopal Church in the early 1970s when the old "Churching of Women" rite was replaced by a new service welcoming the whole family after a birth or adoption. It circulated in the Episcopal trial-use books before its first confirmed printing in the 1979 Book of Common Prayer; the ACNA prayerbook of 2019 lightly revised the wording to make the blessing a more direct address to the family present.