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For Guidance

O God, by whom the meek are guided in judgment, and light rises up in darkness for the godly: Grant us, in all our doubts and uncertainties, the grace to ask what you would have us do, that the Spirit of wisdom may save us from all false choices; that in your light we may see light, and in your straight path we may not stumble; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

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Thanksgivings

Holy Baptism

Heavenly Father, we thank you that by water and the Holy Spirit you have bestowed upon these your servants the forgiveness of sin, received them as your own children by adoption, made them members of your holy Church, and raised them to the new life of grace. Sustain them, O Lord, in your Holy Spirit, that they may enjoy everlasting salvation through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

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  • Holy Baptism

Provenance

Cranmer 1549 / ACNA 2019

Draft — AI-assisted research under editorial review.

This thanksgiving, spoken over the newly baptized, traces its threefold structure – adoption as God's children, reception into the Church, and new life by grace – to Thomas Cranmer's first Book of Common Prayer of 1549. The ACNA 2019 text recovers the classical Cranmerian language about adoption and membership that the 1979 Episcopal revision had set aside.