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Preparation for Personal Prayer

Holy Spirit, breath of God and fire of love, I cannot pray without your aid: Kindle in me the fire of your love, and illumine me with your light; that with a steadfast will and holy thoughts I may approach the Father in spirit and in truth; through Jesus Christ my Lord, who reigns with you and the Father in eternal union. Amen.

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To Please God Rather Than Men

Our God, in whom we trust: Strengthen us not to regard overmuch who is for us or who is against us, but to see to it that we be with you in everything we do.  Amen.

BCP 2019, p. 669

Provenance

à Kempis attrib., ACNA 2019

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A brief plea, credited to Thomas à Kempis, to seek God's approval rather than the shifting verdicts of others, printed among the Occasional Prayers of the 2019 Anglican Church in North America Book of Common Prayer.