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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 the Renewal of Life

Monday — Morning Prayer

O God, the King eternal, whose light divides the day from the night and turns the shadow of death into the morning: Drive far from us all wrong desires, incline our hearts to keep your law, and guide our feet into the way of peace; that, having done your will with cheerfulness during the day, we may, when night comes, rejoice to give you thanks; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Provenance

Huntington, c.1890; US BCP 1928

Draft — AI-assisted research under editorial review.

A morning collect attributed to William Reed Huntington, the great architect of American Episcopal liturgical reform, who proposed it for the 1892 prayer book revision but did not live to see it adopted in 1928. It weaves the language of Amos and the Benedictus into a theology of dawn as resurrection.