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For the Acceptance of Prayer

Heavenly Father, you have promised to hear what we ask in the Name of your Son: Accept and fulfill our petitions, we pray, not as we ask in our ignorance, nor as we deserve in our sinfulness, but as you know and love us in your Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

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A Collect for Peace

Tuesday — Morning Prayer

O God, the author of peace and lover of concord, to know you is eternal life and to serve you is perfect freedom: Defend us, your humble servants, in all assaults of our enemies; that we, surely trusting in your defense, may not fear the power of any adversaries, through the might of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Deus auctor pacis et amator, quem nosse vivere; cui servire regnare est: protege ab omnibus impugnationibus supplices tuos; ut qui in defensione tua confidemus, nullius hostilitatis arma timeamus.

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Provenance

Gelasian, c. 650–750

Draft — AI-assisted research under editorial review.

One of the oldest collects in daily Anglican use, this prayer descends from a seventh-century Roman Mass for Peace and has opened Morning Prayer in every Anglican Prayer Book since Cranmer's 1549 translation.