This ordinance is for those who wish to celebrate their love for their siblings and honor those relationships through a Sealing. Friends and loved ones who are not biologically related may also be sealed to one another as siblings.
Those wishing to be sealed sit before an altar and the person they have chosen to serve as the Priesthood Officiant. The Officiant holds a small bowl of water. Those being sealed sit and grasp each other’s right hand.
The Priesthood Officiant asks:
“Do you, (person’s name), take (others’ names) by the hand and receive (her/him/them) as your sibling for time and all eternity according to the New and Everlasting Covenant; and do you do this in the presence of God, angels and these witnesses of your own free will and choice?”
The response to this question is: “I do.”
The question is then repeated to the other.
Upon receiving these responses, the Officiant reads or recites the following:
“Then repeat after me the words of the New and Everlasting Covenant, which will bind you eternally to one another:
“I, (say name), With a determination that is fixed, Immovable and unchanging,
will love this one as my own in the bonds of sibling love and thanksgiving forever,
through all generations of time And throughout all eternity –
Worlds without end, Amen”
The Officiant then says the following as they sprinkle water on the siblings:
“I seal you, (both names), as siblings for time and all eternity
according to the New and Everlasting Covenant.“