Almighty God, grant us, with all who have died in the hope of the resurrection, the fullness of life in your eternal and ever-lasting glory, and, with all your saints, to receive the crown of life promised to all who share in the victory of your Son Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
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A modern concluding prayer for burial, composed for the 1979 American Episcopal prayer book. It gathers three streams of resurrection hope – the Cranmerian "eternal and everlasting glory," the Jacobine "crown of life," and the Pauline victory of Christ – into a single petition offered at the close of the burial Prayers of the People.