Praise to you, almighty God and Father,
for you have created water to cleanse and to give life.

Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ, the Father’s only Son, for you offered yourself on the cross,
that in the blood and water flowing from your side
and through your death and resurrection the Church might be born.

Praise, to you, God the Holy Spirit,
for you anointed Christ at his baptism
in the waters of the Jordan,
that we might all be baptized in you.

Come to us, Lord, Father of all,
and make holy this water which you have created,
so that all who are baptized in it may be washed clean
of sin and be born again to live as your children.

Make this water holy, Lord, so that all who are baptized
into Christ’s death and resurrection by this water
may become more perfectly like your Son.

Lord, make holy this water which you have created,
so that all those whom you have chosen
may be born again by the power of the Holy Spirit
and may take their place among your holy people.
(Baptism p.53)