Grant, O Lord, that as we are baptised into the death of thy blessed Son, our Saviour Jesus Christ, so by continual mortifying our corrupt affections we may be buried with him; and that through the grave, and gate of death, we may pass to our joyful resurrection; for his merits, who died, and was buried, and rose again for us, the same thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
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Le Christ mort couché sur son linceul (The Dead Christ Lying on his Shroud), by Philippe de Champaigne (1602–1674). From Wikimedia.