A Memorial Service — The Communion of Saints (3)
Grant, we beseech thee, Almighty God, that being compassed about by so great a cloud of witnesses, we may run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; so that, this life ended, we may be gathered with those whom we have loved into the kingdom of thy glory, where there shall be no more death, neither sorrow nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain, for the former things have passed away; through him who maketh all things new, even the same Jesus Christ our Lord.
