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The Great Litany — the Officiant may add other prayers, and may end the Litany, saying
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with us all evermore. Amen.
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The closing blessing of almost every Anglican service is not a composed prayer at all but a single sentence lifted verbatim from St. Paul's second letter to the Corinthians, written around AD 55. Paul's trinitarian valediction was set at the end of the Daily Offices and the Great Litany in the 1559 Book of Common Prayer and has stood there ever since.