Commontide
The Burial of the Dead — Opening Collect
O God, who by the glorious resurrection of your Son Jesus Christ destroyed death and brought life and immortality to light: Grant that your servant N., being raised with Christ, may know the strength of his presence and rejoice in his eternal glory; who with you and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
This prayer appears in more than one place in the 2019 Book of Common Prayer.
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A 20th-century burial prayer grounded in Paul's declaration that Christ "destroyed death and brought life and immortality to light," entering Anglican burial liturgy in 1979 and carried into the ACNA BCP 2019 with one considered textual refinement.