Receive this white garment as a token of the righteousness given you by God’s grace in this Sacrament of Baptism, and as a sign that you should always give yourself to holy living for the glory of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
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The church has placed a white garment on the newly baptized since at least the fourth century. This prayer, new in the ACNA BCP 2019, names what the white cloth signifies: a righteousness that is given by grace, not earned, and a call to live in keeping with it.