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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 Rain

O God, our heavenly Father, by your Son Jesus Christ you have promised to those who seek your kingdom and its righteousness all things necessary to sustain their life: Send us, we pray, in this time of need, such moderate rain and showers, that we may receive the fruits of the earth, to our comfort and to your honor; through Jesus Christ our Lord.  Amen.

BCP 2019, p. 653

Provenance

Cranmer 1549

Draft — AI-assisted research under editorial review.

A prayer for timely rainfall first composed for the 1549 Book of Common Prayer, most likely by Thomas Cranmer. Its opening clause casts Matthew 6:33 as God's own promise, then petitions for exactly what that promise covers: moderate rain and the fruits of the earth.