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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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For Desiring God

O God, grant that we may desire you, and desiring you seek you, and seeking you find you, and finding you be satisfied in you for ever.  Amen.

BCP 2019, p. 668

Provenance

ACNA 2019 (attrib. Xavier)

Draft — AI-assisted research under editorial review.

A brief, cascading prayer, desire, seek, find, rest, printed for the first time in the 2019 Book of Common Prayer under the name of the sixteenth-century Jesuit missionary Francis Xavier.