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Let us pray.

Heavenly Father, we thank you that by water and the Holy Spirit you have bestowed upon these your servants the  forgiveness of sin, and have raised them to the new life of  grace. Sustain them, O Lord, in your Holy Spirit. Give them an inquiring and discerning heart, the courage to will and to  persevere, a spirit to know and to love you, and the gift of joy  and wonder in all your works. Amen.

N., you are sealed by the Holy Spirit in Baptism and marked as Christ’s own for ever. Amen.

Let us welcome the newly baptized.

We receive you into the household of God. Confess the faith of Christ crucified, proclaim his resurrection, and share with  us in his eternal priesthood.