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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 Knowing and Loving God

O God, the light of the minds that know you, the life of the souls that love you, and the strength of the wills that serve you: Help us so to know you that we may truly love you, and so to love you that we may fully serve you, whom to serve is perfect freedom; through Jesus Christ our Lord.  Amen.

BCP 2019, p. 668

Provenance

Lesser Feasts and Fasts, 1963

Draft — AI-assisted research under editorial review.

A prayer for the mind's illumination, the soul's love, and the will's service, drawn from the Episcopal Church's 1963 collect for Augustine of Hippo and carried, the saint's name quietly dropped, into the ACNA Book of Common Prayer (2019).