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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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Trinitytide

Week Starting October 30-November 5

Proper 26

Grant us, Lord, not to be anxious about earthly things, but to love things heavenly; and even now, as we live among things that are passing away, to hold fast to those that shall endure; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.  Amen.

BCP 2019, p. 622

Provenance

Leonine, c. 500-600

Draft — AI-assisted research under editorial review.

One of the oldest prayers in this collection, drawn from the Verona Sacramentary – the earliest surviving Roman liturgical book – and, on the leading reconstruction, composed amid the turmoil of fifth- or sixth-century barbarian invasions. The Verona manuscript records it for Ascension Day; it asks not for escape from ordinary life but for the freedom to live it without being enslaved to what is passing away.