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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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Prayer after the Examination

The Ordination of a Deacon (shared text, identical in the Priest and Bishop rites)

Almighty God, our heavenly Father, who has given you a good will to do all these things, grant you also the strength and power to perform them, accomplishing in you the good work which he has begun, that you may be found perfect and without reproach on the last day; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Found in the Prayer Book

  • Ordination Of A DeaconOrdination & Institution

Provenance

ACNA 2019

Draft — AI-assisted research under editorial review.

The bishop's prayer just after the ordination Examination, asking that the God who gave the candidate the will to serve will also supply the strength to see it through.