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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 the Coming of God’s Kingdom

Hasten, O Father, the coming of your kingdom; and grant that we your servants, who now live by faith, may with joy behold your Son at his coming in glorious majesty; even Jesus Christ, our only Mediator and Advocate.  Amen.

BCP 2019, p. 679

Provenance

TEC 1979

Draft — AI-assisted research under editorial review.

This prayer asks God to hasten the day when Christ returns "in glorious majesty," and it comes from the Episcopal Church's 1979 prayer book, where it closes the Prayers of the People. The Anglican Church in North America carried it into its own 2019 prayer book, modernizing the old "thy" and "thou" into "your" and "you," and placed it among prayers about death and the world to come.