Eric Buck's Oblation

Eric Buck of Somerville MA made his Promise of Final Oblation and took his Benedictine patron name of "Augustine". Father Michael Brunner began the short ceremony by saying this prayer:

O holy Father Benedict, blessed by God both in grace and in name, who, while standing in prayer with your hands raised to heaven, did most happily yield your angelic spirit into the hands of your Creator;

and has promised zealously to defend against all the snares of the enemy in the last struggle of death, those who shall daily remind you of your glorious departure and your heavenly joys;

protect us we beseech you, O glorious Father,
this day and every day by your holy blessing;

that we may never be separated from our blessed Lord,
from the society of yourself, and of all the blessed.
Amen.