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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 a Sick Person When There Is Little Hope of Recovery

Additional Prayers for the Sick

O Father of mercies and God of all comfort, our only help in time of need; We fly to you for aid on behalf of this your servant, here lying in great weakness of body. Look graciously upon him, O Lord; that as he outwardly fades away, you would strengthen him inwardly with your grace and Holy Spirit. Give him true repentance for all the errors of his life, and steadfast faith in your Son Jesus; that his sins may be done away by your mercy, and his pardon sealed in heaven; through your Son Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior. Amen.

Found in the Prayer Book

  • Additional Prayers For The SickMinistry to the Sick & Dying

Provenance

BCP 1662

Draft — AI-assisted research under editorial review.

A bedside prayer for the moment when hope of recovery has faded, first added to the Prayer Book in 1662 and restored to modern use by the ACNA 2019 revision after dropping out of 1979.