| Additional Blessing | |||
| Solemn Blessing | |||
| The Lord bless you and keep you: | |||
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Amen. | ||
| The Lord make his face to shine upon you, | |||
| and be gracious to you: | |||
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Amen. | ||
| The Lord lift up his countenance upon you | |||
| and give you peace: | |||
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Numbers 6.24-26
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Amen. | ||
| The Lord God almighty, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, | |||
| the holy and undivided Trinity, | |||
| guard you, save you, | |||
| and bring you to that heavenly city, | |||
| where he lives and reigns for ever and ever. | |||
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Amen. | ||
| Additional Short Prefaces | |||
| Transfiguration | |||
| And now we give you thanks | |||
| because the divine glory of the incarnate Word | |||
| shone forth upon the holy mountain | |||
| before the chosen witnesses of his majesty; | |||
| and your own voice from heaven proclaimed your beloved Son. | |||
| (traditional language) | |||
| And now we give thee thanks | |||
| because the divine glory of the incarnate Word | |||
| shone forth upon the holy mount | |||
| before the chosen witnesses of his majesty; | |||
| and thine own voice from heaven proclaimed thy beloved Son. | |||
| Michael and All Angels | |||
| Through him the archangels sing your praise, | |||
| the angels fulfil your commands, | |||
| the cherubim and seraphim continually proclaim your holiness; | |||
| the whole company of heaven glorifies your name | |||
| and rejoices to do your will. | |||
| Therefore we pray that our voices may be heard with theirs, | |||
| for ever praising you and saying: | |||
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Holy, holy, holy Lord … | ||
| Dedication | |||
| And now we give you thanks | |||
| for your blessing on this house of prayer, | |||
| where through your grace we offer you the sacrifice of praise | |||
| and are built by your Spirit into a temple made without hands, | |||
| even the body of your Son Jesus Christ. | |||
| (traditional language) | |||
| And now we give thee thanks | |||
| for thy blessings on this house of prayer, | |||
| where we are stirred to faithful witness | |||
| and are built up by thy Spirit into a temple made without hands, | |||
| even the body of thy Son Jesus Christ. | |||
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| Though the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee, | |||
| and thy glory is in all the world, | |||
| thou dost deign to hallow places for thy worship, | |||
| and in them dost pour forth gifts of grace upon thy faithful people. | |||