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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 Those in the Armed Forces

Almighty God, we commend to your gracious care and keeping all the men and women of our armed forces at home and abroad. Defend them day by day with your heavenly grace; strengthen them in their trials and temptations; give them courage to face the perils which beset them; and grant them a sense of your abiding presence wherever they may be; through Jesus Christ our Lord.  Amen.

BCP 2019, p. 655

Provenance

Episcopal 1979

Draft — AI-assisted research under editorial review.

A unified prayer for all branches of military service, whose earliest confirmed home is the 1979 American Book of Common Prayer. It gathers into one petition what older Anglican use had split into separate prayers for the Army and the Navy, covering all the armed forces at home and abroad.