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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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Before the Reading of Scripture

Blessed Lord, who caused all Holy Scriptures to be written for our learning: Grant us so to hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them, that by patience and the comfort of your Holy Word we may embrace and ever hold fast the blessed hope of everlasting life, which you have given us in our Savior Jesus Christ; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.  Amen.

BCP 2019, p. 676

Provenance

Cranmer 1549

Draft — AI-assisted research under editorial review.

This much-loved prayer for opening one's ears and heart to Scripture was written by Thomas Cranmer for the very first English Prayer Book in 1549. It has been prayed by English-speaking Christians before hearing God's Word for nearly five hundred years.