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FOR THE DEAD.
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A PRAYER FOR THE DEAD.

O ALMIGHTY and eternal God, Who hast dominion over the living and the dead, and art merciful to all whom Thou foreknowest shall be Thine by faith and good works; we humbly beseech Thee, that they for whom we have determined to offer up our prayers, whether this present world still detain them in the flesh, or the world to come hath already received them out of their bodies, may, by the clemency of Thy goodness (all Thy saints interceding for them), obtain pardon and full remission of their sins; through our Lord Jesus Christ, thy Son, Who, with Thee and the Holy Ghost, liveth and reigneth one God, world without end. Amen.


O GOD, the Creator and Redeemer of all the faithful, grant unto the souls of thy servants departed the remission of all their sins; that,