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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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Week Starting July 31-August 6

Proper 13

Almighty and merciful God, it is only by your grace that your faithful people offer you true and laudable service: Grant that we may run without stumbling to obtain your heavenly promises; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.  Amen.

Omnipotens et misericors Deus, de cuius munere venit, ut tibi a fidelibus tuis digne et laudabiliter serviatur: tribue, quaesumus, nobis; ut ad promissiones tuas sine offensione curramus.

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Original-language source · public domain

BCP 2019, p. 618

Provenance

Leonine / Verona, c. 500–700

Draft — AI-assisted research under editorial review.

One of the oldest surviving Western collects, this prayer traces a straight line from an anonymous Roman liturgist through the Sarum Missal, every Book of Common Prayer since 1549, and into the ACNA 2019. One word changed from 1979 to 2019: "gift" became "grace." But the plea to run without stumbling toward God's promises has been on Christian lips for fifteen centuries.