Burial Rites for Adults Together with a Rite for the Burial of a Child

These newly authorized rites are intended to be a supplement to the burial services in the Book of Common Prayer, adding a rich variety of new material from many sources, including prayers for one who has died in military service, for one of unknown faith, for an unbeliever, and for a member of an inter-faith family. All of the major pastoral issues of the Prayer Book rites are addressedfrom the reception of the body to the consecration of the grave and the intermentbut with a freshness of language in new texts that the speak to contemporary sensibilities.