Commontide
Confirmation — said by the Bishop laying hands on each Confirmand
Defend, O Lord, this your servant N. with your heavenly grace, that he may continue yours for ever, and daily increase in your Holy Spirit more and more until he comes into the fullness of your everlasting kingdom. Amen.
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The oldest verbal formula in the Anglican confirmation rite, spoken by the bishop over each candidate since 1549. Thomas Cranmer composed it for the first Book of Common Prayer, and it has passed through every English-language prayer book since.