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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 Person in Trouble or Bereavement

O merciful Father, you have taught us in your holy Word that you do not willingly afflict or grieve the children of men: Look with pity on the sorrows of your servants in trouble. Remember him, O Lord, in mercy; nourish his soul with patience; comfort him with a sense of your goodness; lift up your countenance upon him; and give him peace; through Jesus Christ our Lord.  Amen.

BCP 2019, p. 663

Provenance

BCP 1928

Draft — AI-assisted research under editorial review.

A prayer for someone facing grief or hardship, first printed in the American prayer book of 1928 under the heading "For a Person under Affliction." Its opening line draws on the prophet Jeremiah's Lamentations, and it reached its present title and wording through the 1979 and 2019 American prayer books.