Adelaide dedicatory prayer excerpts: 'Rejoicing on both sides of the veil'
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'Rejoicing on both sides of the veil'
Following are excerpts from the dedicatory prayer for the Adelaide Australia Temple given by President Gordon B. Hinckley on June 15, 2000. Full text of the dedicatory prayer can be found on the Church News Web site:
Beloved and Eternal Father, we Thy covenant children bow before Thee in reverent prayer on this historic day. We feel so profoundly blessed in having this sacred temple in our midst so that we might more fully serve Thee. . . .
We are grateful for this nation of Australia, where there is freedom of worship, freedom of assembly, and freedom to take upon ourselves the name of our Divine Redeemer, and to keep sacred the covenants which we make with Him.
We express our profound thanks for the Prophet Joseph Smith to whom Thou didst reveal Thy will and Thine authority. Based on these revelations, there will be carried forward in this house a great work of redemption in behalf of the dead, many of whom have waited long for these saving ordinances. May this be a day of rejoicing on both sides of the veil, and may all who have the privilege of working here feel the obligation and responsibility of this great vicarious service. . . .
