A memorial card with For the Absent

A name, dates and, if you add one, a photo on the front. On the back, For the Absent exactly as its edition printed it, with the edition named under it. Free, and made in your browser: nothing you type or add here is sent anywhere.

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About this text. Printed as it stands on page 585 of the James Pott and Company printing.

What to printSix cards on a letter sheetFor a home printer. Fronts print on page 1 and backs on page 2. Print both sides, flipping on the long edge, or print page 1, put the sheet back in, and print page 2. Cut on the marks.One card for a print shopChoose Save as PDF in the print dialog. The file is two pages, front and back, each 2.75 by 4.5 inches with a 0.125 inch bleed, which a shop trims to 2.5 by 4.25.Program insert, two to a sheetA half-letter page, 5.5 by 8.5 inches, for a funeral or memorial program. Two copies print side by side on one landscape letter sheet; cut down the middle mark.

In the print dialog, keep the scale at 100 percent (actual size) so the card prints at its true size.

In loving memory of

Their name

Front

For the Absent

O GOD, whose fatherly care reacheth to the uttermost parts of the earth; We humbly beseech thee graciously to behold and bless those whom we love, now absent from us. Defend them from all dangers of soul and body; and grant that both they and we, drawing nearer to thee, may be bound together by thy love in the communion of thy Holy Spirit, and in the fellowship of thy saints; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the Use of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America, 1929, page 585. Wording checked against a second scanned copy.
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In loving memory of

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For the Absent

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For the Absent

What the back of the card promises

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