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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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For Those Who Travel

O God, our heavenly Father, whose glory fills the whole creation, and whose presence we find wherever we go: Preserve those who travel; surround them with your loving care; protect them from every danger; and bring them in safety to their journey’s end; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

BCP 2019, p. 662

Provenance

ACNA 2019

Draft — AI-assisted research under editorial review.

A prayer for anyone setting out on a journey, first printed in the Episcopal Church's 1979 prayer book and carried into the 2019 Anglican prayer book almost word for word. It isn't ancient: it's a 20th-century composition that gathers up older biblical language about God's glory and nearness into a simple, portable blessing for travelers.