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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 Schools, Colleges, and Universities

Almighty God, by your gift alone we come to wisdom and true understanding: Look with favor, we pray, on our universities, colleges, and schools, that knowledge may be increased among us, and wholesome learning flourish and abound. Bless those who teach and those who learn; and grant that in humility of heart they may ever look to you, the fountain of all wisdom; through Jesus Christ our Lord.  Amen.

BCP 2019, p. 661

Provenance

ACNA 2019

Draft — AI-assisted research under editorial review.

A prayer for schools, colleges, and universities, first published in the Anglican Church in North America's 2019 Book of Common Prayer. No earlier prayer book carries this wording, and the prayer book itself does not credit it to any historic author, so it appears to be a fresh twenty-first-century composition rather than an inherited text.