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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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Go before us, O Lord, in all our doings with your most gracious favor, and further us with your continual help; that in all our works begun, continued, and ended in you, we may glorify your holy Name, and finally, through your mercy, obtain everlasting life; through Jesus Christ our Lord.  Amen.

Actiones nostras, quaesumus Domine, et aspirando praeveni, et adiuvando prosequere: ut cuncta nostra operatio et a te semper incipiat, et per te coepta finiatur. Per Dominum.

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Original-language source · public domain

BCP 2019, p. 669

Found in the Prayer Book

This prayer appears in more than one place in the 2019 Book of Common Prayer.

  • Occasional Prayers
  • Ordination Of A Deacon · as “Post Communion Collect”Ordination & Institution

Provenance

Gregorian, c.750

Draft — AI-assisted research under editorial review.

A short prayer asking God to go ahead of us into whatever we're about to do, and to see it through with us, so that everything we undertake, however it turns out, ends up glorifying him.