Commontide

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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Confession
Worship & the Office

The Confession (Compline)

Compline

Almighty God and Father, we confess to you, to one another, and to the whole company of heaven, that we have sinned, through our own fault, in thought, and word, and deed, and in what we have left undone. For the sake of your Son our Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy upon us, forgive us our sins, and by the power of your Holy Spirit raise us up to serve you in newness of life, to the glory of your Name. Amen.

Provenance

ACNA 2019

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A modern Anglican confession that weaves together two ancient threads: the medieval Confiteor's triple address (to God, to one another, before the company of heaven), and the classic "thought, word, and deed" formula descended from the Latin Mass. Its specific wording took shape in the 1979 Episcopal Compline and was enriched for the ACNA BCP 2019.