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For the Acceptance of Prayer

O Lord our God, accept the fervent prayers of your people; in the multitude of your mercies, look with compassion upon us and all who turn to you for help; for you are gracious, O lover of souls, and to you we give glory, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, now and for ever. Amen.

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Thanksgivings

The Post Communion Prayer (Renewed Ancient Text)

The Holy Eucharist — Renewed Ancient Text

Heavenly Father, We thank you for feeding us with the spiritual food of the most precious Body and Blood of your Son our Savior Jesus Christ; and for assuring us in these holy mysteries that we are living members of the body of your Son, and heirs of your eternal kingdom. And now, Father, send us out to do the work you have given us to do, to love and serve you as faithful witnesses of Christ our Lord. To him, to you, and to the Holy Spirit, be honor and glory, now and for ever. Amen.

Found in the Prayer Book

  • Holy Eucharist Renewed Ancient TextThe Holy Eucharist

Provenance

Cranmer 1549 / TEC 1979 / ACNA 2019

Draft — AI-assisted research under editorial review.

A eucharistic thanksgiving whose roots are in Thomas Cranmer's 1549 prayer book, but whose present wording comes from the 1979 American revision, which modernized the older prayer and added its closing "send us out" commission and Trinitarian doxology. The Renewed Ancient Text reproduces that 1979 form, changing only the opening address to "Heavenly Father."