Farewell Service

Hymns, readings and a printed program for a Christian funeral

O God, Whose Mercies Cannot Be Numbered

Episcopal / Anglican (1928 Prayer Book) · At the grave

Reads in about 1 minuteHe and she forms

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O God, whose mercies cannot be numbered; Accept our prayers on behalf of the soul of thy servant departed, and grant him an entrance into the land of light and joy, in the fellowship of thy saints; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

For a woman

O God, whose mercies cannot be numbered; Accept our prayers on behalf of the soul of thy servant departed, and grant her an entrance into the land of light and joy, in the fellowship of thy saints; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Source: The Book of Common Prayer (1928), The Order for the Burial of the Dead. Public domain. The form for a woman changes only the words that refer to the person who died.