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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 Restoration of Health

Almighty God and heavenly Father, we bless and praise your Name on behalf of your servants whose health has been restored, and we give you humble thanks that you have been pleased to deliver him from sickness. Grant, O gracious Father, that by your help he may live in this world according to your will, and be made a partaker of everlasting glory in the life to come; through Jesus Christ our Lord.  Amen.

BCP 2019, p. 683

Provenance

ACNA 2019

Draft — AI-assisted research under editorial review.

This thanksgiving for someone's recovery from illness has a homely, American pedigree: it began in the 1892 U.S. Prayer Book as a prayer just for a recovered child, and was only generalized into today's all-purpose "Restoration of Health" collect nearly ninety years later, in 1979.