Prayer

For Watchfulness

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Prayer

For Watchfulness

Thou, who with thine own mouth hast told us that at midnight the bridegroom shall come: Grant that the cry, “The bridegroom cometh!” may sound evermore in our ears, that so we be never unprepared to meet him, or forgetful of the souls for whom he died, for whom we watch and pray. And save us, O Lord. Amen.

BCP 2019, p. 678

Provenance

Andrewes c.1620; ACNA 2019

Draft — AI-assisted research under editorial review.

A watchfulness prayer new to the 2019 Anglican prayer book, but drawn almost word for word from a private hour-by-hour devotion of the Jacobean bishop Lancelot Andrewes.

Thou, who with thine own mouth hast told us that at midnight the bridegroom shall come: Grant that the cry, “The bridegroom cometh!” may sound evermore in our ears, that so we be never unprepared to meet him, or forgetful of the souls for whom he died, for whom we watch and pray. And save us, O Lord. Amen.

BCP 2019, p. 678

Provenance

Andrewes c.1620; ACNA 2019

Draft — AI-assisted research under editorial review.

A watchfulness prayer new to the 2019 Anglican prayer book, but drawn almost word for word from a private hour-by-hour devotion of the Jacobean bishop Lancelot Andrewes.