Commontide

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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Marriage

The Prayers — Concluding Collect

Holy Matrimony

Grant these our prayers, O Father, who with your Son and the Holy Spirit live and reign in perfect unity, now and for ever. Amen.

Found in the Prayer Book

  • Holy Matrimony

Provenance

ACNA 2019 (from 1979 US)

Draft — AI-assisted research under editorial review.

A short, graceful closing prayer that gathers up all the petitions offered at a wedding and hands them to the Father with a Trinitarian flourish. It is a modern Anglican composition, drawn from the 1979 American prayer book and lightly condensed for the ACNA 2019 rite.