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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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Blessing
Prayers

The Blessing of the Ring

Holy Matrimony

Bless, O Lord, this ring to be a sign of the vows by which this man and this woman have bound themselves to each other; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Found in the Prayer Book

  • Holy Matrimony

Provenance

TEC BCP 1979

Draft — AI-assisted research under editorial review.

A short blessing that consecrates the ring as a visible sign of the promises just made. The precise wording entered Anglican use through the 1979 American revision of the prayer book and was carried forward unchanged into the ACNA's BCP 2019, belonging to a ring-blessing tradition stretching back to medieval practice.