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Preparation for Personal Prayer

Holy Spirit, breath of God and fire of love, I cannot pray without your aid: Kindle in me the fire of your love, and illumine me with your light; that with a steadfast will and holy thoughts I may approach the Father in spirit and in truth; through Jesus Christ my Lord, who reigns with you and the Father in eternal union. Amen.

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For Holy Thought

O God, without whose beauty and goodness our souls are unfed, without whose truth our reason withers: Consecrate our lives to your will, giving us such purity of heart, such depth of faith, and such steadfastness of purpose, that in time we may come to think your own thoughts after you; through Jesus Christ our Savior. Amen.

BCP 2019, p. 668

Provenance

ACNA 2019

Draft — AI-assisted research under editorial review.

A short prayer asking God to purify our hearts and deepen our faith until, in time, our thinking comes to be shaped by his own. It first appears in print in the Anglican Church in North America's 2019 prayer book, printed there with no author's name.