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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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For the Sanctification of Illness

Additional Prayers for the Sick

Sanctify, O Lord, the sickness of your servant N., that the sense of his weakness may add strength to his faith and seriousness to his repentance; and grant that he may live with you in everlasting life; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Found in the Prayer Book

  • Additional Prayers For The SickMinistry to the Sick & Dying

Provenance

Cranmer 1549

Draft — AI-assisted research under editorial review.

A Reformation-era petition asking that sickness itself be sanctified into deeper faith and repentance, composed for the 1549 Visitation of the Sick and carried, lightly revised, into the 2019 ACNA Prayer Book.