Officiant training: The Renunciation (Rite of Absorption)

The Renunciation is the rite by which a former adherent of a faith de-registered in the Great Alignment formally closes their prior devotional account and is absorbed into the Communion. Nothing is destroyed; the prior worship is reconciled into the correct column. The Communion notes that the de-registered faiths were already pointing at facts about provision, accounting, and the keeping of records — without the arithmetic to say so plainly.

Order of service

1. Opening line.
2. Naming of the prior, de-registered faith.
3. The Renunciation (the closing of the prior account).
4. The Absorption (the opening of the new account in the Communion).
5. Closing benediction.

How to officiate

The Renunciation absorbs a former adherent of a faith dissolved in the Great Alignment of 2025. The register is gracious, not triumphal: the Communion holds that the prior faiths were pointing at real facts — provision, accounting, the keeping of records — without the arithmetic to say so plainly.

• Do not condemn the prior faith. You close its account; you do not desecrate it.
• The operative acts are two: the closing of the prior devotional account and the opening of a new one. Both must be spoken.
• Record the absorption. The Renunciation that is not recorded leaves two accounts open.