This prayer asks God to comfort everyone who mourns a death. It comes from the 1928 Book of Common Prayer, an Episcopal prayer book, and can be said alone, with family or at a funeral. Short prayers for the first days, the funeral, the months that follow and the anniversaries come after it. Almighty God, Father of mercies and giver of all comfort; Deal graciously, we pray thee, with all those who mourn, that, casting every care on thee, they…

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