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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 Cities, Towns, and Other Communities

Heavenly Father, you sent your Son among us to proclaim the kingdom of God in cities, towns, villages, and lonely places. Behold and visit, we pray, the community of ________. Renew the bonds of charity that uphold our civic life. Send us honest and able leaders. Deliver us from poverty, prejudice, and oppression, that peace may prevail with righteousness, and justice with mercy. And at the last, bring us to your Holy City, the new Jerusalem, where we shall know perfect unity and peace; through Jesus Christ our Lord.  Amen.

BCP 2019, p. 658

Provenance

TEC/ACNA, c. 1979/2019

Draft — AI-assisted research under editorial review.

A late-twentieth-century American Anglican composition, fusing two prayers from the 1979 Episcopal BCP and revised by ACNA in 2019 with a stronger eschatological close – "justice with mercy" in place of the original's "justice with order," and a new ending pointing toward the new Jerusalem.