Commontide
Holy Baptism — alternate form at the signing of the newly baptized
N., you are sealed by the Holy Spirit in Baptism and marked as Christ’s own for ever. Amen.
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This declaration, spoken to each newly baptized person by name, entered Anglican liturgy in 1970 through the Episcopal Church's baptismal revision work, drawing on Paul's language of being "sealed" by the Holy Spirit (Ephesians 1:13) and on the ancient Eastern church's chrismation formula. It reached its fixed form in the 1979 Book of Common Prayer and was carried unchanged into the ACNA 2019 Prayer Book.