Commontide

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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Prayers

Ash Wednesday

Grant to your faithful people, merciful Lord, pardon and peace; that we may be cleansed from all our sins, and serve you with a quiet mind; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Found in the Prayer Book

This prayer appears in more than one place in the 2019 Book of Common Prayer.

  • Communion Of The Sick · as “Grant to your faithful people”Ministry to the Sick & Dying
  • Ash WednesdayLent & Holy Week

Provenance

Sarum, via Cranmer 1549

Draft — AI-assisted research under editorial review.

This little prayer has been quietly forgiving people since before England had a printed Bible. Born as a medieval Sarum collect and translated by Cranmer in 1549, it later became the words a deacon prays on Ash Wednesday in place of the priestly Absolution.