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The Commendation

Give rest, O Christ, to your servant(s) with your saints, where sorrow and pain are no more, neither sighing, but life everlasting.

You only are immortal, the creator and maker of mankind; and we are mortal, formed of the earth, and to earth shall we  return. For so did you ordain when you created me, saying, “You are dust, and to dust you shall return.” All of us go down  to the dust; yet even at the grave we make our song: Alleluia,  alleluia, alleluia.

Give rest, O Christ, to your servant(s) with your saints, where sorrow and pain are no more, neither sighing, but life everlasting.

Into your hands, O merciful Savior, we commend your servant N. Acknowledge, we humbly beseech you, a sheep of your own fold, a lamb of your own flock, a sinner of your  own redeeming. Receive him into the arms of your mercy, into the blessed rest of everlasting peace, and into the  glorious company of the saints in light. Amen.