Commontide
Almighty God, we entrust all who are dear to us to your never failing care and love, for this life and the life to come, knowing that you are doing for them better things than we can desire or pray for; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
BCP 2019, p. 662
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This prayer entrusting the people we love to God's care first appeared in the Episcopal Church's 1979 prayer book. The Anglican Church in North America carried it into the 2019 Book of Common Prayer with only light modernizing, and that 2019 wording, brackets and all, is the exact text Commontide uses.