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Merciful God, creator of all the peoples of the earth and lover of souls: Have compassion on all who do not know you  as you are revealed in your Son Jesus Christ; let your Gospel  be preached with grace and power to those who have not  heard it; turn the hearts of those who resist it; and bring  home to your fold those who have gone astray; that there  may be one flock under one shepherd, Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Let us commit ourselves to our God, and pray for the grace of a holy life, that, with all who have departed this world and  have died in the peace of Christ, and those whose faith is  known to God alone, we may be accounted worthy to enter  into the fullness of the joy of our Lord, and receive the crown  of life in the day of resurrection.

O God of unchangeable power and eternal light: Look favorably on your whole Church, that wonderful and sacred  mystery; by the effectual working of your providence, carry  out in tranquillity the plan of salvation; let the whole world  see and know that things which were cast down are being  raised up, and things which had grown old are being made  new, and that all things are being brought to their perfection  by him through whom all things were made, your Son Jesus  Christ our Lord; who lives and reigns with you, in the unity  of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.