A Graduation Benediction

Today was Baccalaureate chapel. I was asked to say the benediction near the end of the service, and this is the prayer I came up with. These prayers are all taken and edited from the Oxford Book of Prayer, with the loving assistance of my professor, Julia Young.
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Please stand for the benediction.

This is to be a charge for us, so you need not bow your heads, close your eyes, or fold your hands, but in your listening, I hope you may focus on these words, compiled from the prayers of past people of faith. May these words take root in your hearts today.

After the benediction, please remain standing for the doxology and the recessional.

Now receive the benediction.

Almighty God, bestow upon us the meaning of words, the light of understanding, the nobility of diction and the faith of the true nature.
And grant that what we believe we may also speak.

O Thou who through the light of nature has aroused in us a longing for
The light of grace, to Thee, I give thanks, Creator and Lord.
For from God, through God, and in God, all is, which is perceptible as well as spiritual;
That which we know and that which we do not know, for there is still much to learn.

Eternal Light, then, shine in our hearts,
Eternal Goodness, deliver us from evil.
Eternal Power, be our support,
Eternal Pity, have mercy on us.

God, who art three in One,
Grant us love’s eternal three –
Friendship, rapture, constancy;
Lord, till our lives be done,
Grant us love unending.
Bless us, God of loving.

You are wisdom, uncreated and eternal,
The supreme first cause, above all being,
Sovereign Godhead, sovereign goodness,
Watching unseen the God-inspired wisdom of Christian people.
Raise us, we pray, that we may understand
The supreme, unknown, ultimate, and splendid height
Of your words, mysterious and inspired.
There, all God’s secret matters lie covered and hidden
Under the darkness both profound and brilliant, silent and wise.
You make what is ultimate and beyond brightness
Secretly to shine in all that is most dark.
In your way, ever unseen and intangible,
You fill to the full with most beautiful splendor
Those souls who close their eyes that they may see.
And I, please, with love that goes on beyond mind
To all that is beyond mind,
Seek to gain such for myself through this prayer.

Though Jesus Christ our Lord, to whom with Thee and the Holy Spirit, be all honour and glory,
World without end, Amen.