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 * Send them into the world in witness to your love.
 * Lord, hear our prayer.
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 * Lord, hear our prayer.
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Grant, O Lord, that all who are baptized into the death of Jesus Christ your Son may live in the power of his  resurrection and look for him to come again in glory; who  lives and reigns now and for ever. Amen.

Thanksgiving over the Water

We thank you, Almighty God, for the gift of water. Over it the Holy Spirit moved in the beginning of creation. Through it you led the children of Israel out of their bondage in Egypt into the land of promise. In it your Son Jesus received the baptism of John and was anointed by the Holy  Spirit as the Messiah, the Christ, to lead us, through his death  and resurrection, from the bondage of sin into everlasting life.

We thank you, Father, for the water of Baptism. In it we are buried with Christ in his death. By it we share in his resurrection. Through it we are reborn by the Holy Spirit. Therefore in joyful obedience to your Son, we bring into his