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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 We Love

Almighty God, we entrust all who are dear to us to your never failing care and love, for this life and the life to come, knowing that you are doing for them better things than we can desire or pray for; through Jesus Christ our Lord.  Amen.

BCP 2019, p. 662

Provenance

ACNA 2019

Draft — AI-assisted research under editorial review.

This prayer entrusting the people we love to God's care first appeared in the Episcopal Church's 1979 prayer book. The Anglican Church in North America carried it into the 2019 Book of Common Prayer with only light modernizing, and that 2019 wording, brackets and all, is the exact text Commontide uses.