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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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Thanksgiving for the Birth or Adoption of a Child — Prayer for the Child

O eternal God, you have promised to be a father to a thousand generations of those who love and fear you: Bless this child and preserve his life; receive him and enable him to receive you, that through your grace and the Sacrament of Baptism he may become the child of God; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Found in the Prayer Book

  • Thanksgiving Birth AdoptionThanksgiving for the Birth or Adoption of a Child

Provenance

ECUSA 1979

Draft — AI-assisted research under editorial review.

A new prayer composed for the 1979 Episcopal prayer book, this collect opens the gift of a child onto the breadth of God's covenant promise in Deuteronomy, and closes by naming Baptism as the moment that promise is sealed for this particular child.