BLESS, O God, all the members of this family (especially those who are absent from us) ; preserve them waking; guard them sleeping; that while they wake they may watch with Christ, and when they sleep they may rest in peace; through Jesus Christ, Thy Son, our Lord, who livest and reignest with the Father and the Holy Ghost, ever one God, world without end. Amen. (Oremus, 1925, p.79).