Commontide
Almighty God, look on this your servant, lying in great weakness, and comfort him with the promise of life everlasting, given in the resurrection of your Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
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The officiant's opening prayer at a deathbed, earliest found in the 1979 American Book of Common Prayer and carried into the ACNA's 2019 rite for "Ministry to the Dying."