Prayer Of Commendation For Funeral, Archbishop of San Francisco, the Most Reverend Salvatore J. Prayer of commendation for those near death. PRAYER OF COMMENDATION The celebrant then says one of the following prayers. Ministry at the Time of Death FUNERAL LITURGY OUTSIDE MASS 183. The Commendation and Committal of Earthly Remains, a “Graveside Service” According to the use of the Book of Common Prayer (pages499-502) Those gathered read/pray the bolded lines. Through private prayer and public funeral rites, we strengthen our faith and hope, comfort those who mourn, and bury the bodily remains of the deceased with care befitting what was the Temple of the Holy Spirit. Prayer of Commendation The priest commends the deceased into the hands of Our Lord. in the sure and certain hope that, together with all who have died in Christ, he/she will rise with him. A Into your hands, Father of mercies, we commend our brother/sister N. If the rite of reception of the body takes place at the beginning of the funeral liturgy, the introductory rites are those given here. 2yavc, scqp, dsjt, ippp9, 8kk, 9zi, mpgvo, y1auxgvan, 80x, uo,