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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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Those in Need

For Those in Bondage to Addiction

O blessed Lord, you ministered to all who came to you: Look with compassion upon those who through addiction have lost their health and freedom. Restore to them the assurance of your unfailing mercy; remove from them the fears that beset them; strengthen them in the work of their recovery; and to those who minister to them, give patient understanding and persevering love; through Jesus Christ our Lord.  Amen.

BCP 2019, p. 665

Provenance

ACNA 2019 (rev. of BCP 1979)

Draft — AI-assisted research under editorial review.

This prayer entered Anglican worship in the Episcopal Church's 1979 Book of Common Prayer and reached its present wording in the Anglican Church in North America's 2019 revision. A modern composition with no ancient original behind it, it asks Christ's own compassion for the sick to rest on those bound by addiction and on those who care for them.