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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 Spiritual Communion

Dear Jesus, I believe that you are truly present in the Holy Sacrament. I love you above all things, and I desire to possess you within my soul. And since I cannot now receive you sacramentally, I beseech you to come spiritually into my heart. I unite myself to you, together with all your faithful people, and I embrace you with all the affections of my soul. Never permit me to be separated from you.  Amen.

BCP 2019, p. 677

Provenance

ACNA 2019

Draft — AI-assisted research under editorial review.

A prayer for uniting oneself to Christ when unable to receive Communion in person, its devotional root traditionally credited to St. Alphonsus Liguori and its bracketed clause echoing Anglo-Catholic usage.