| ¶ | Collects and Other Endings for Intercession | |
| For use by the president or those leading intercessions. | ||
| 1 | ||
| Heavenly Father, | ||
| you have promised through your Son Jesus Christ, | ||
| that when we meet in his name, | ||
| and pray according to his mind, | ||
| he will be among us and hear our prayer: | ||
| in your love and mercy fulfil our desires, | ||
| and give us your greatest gift, | ||
| which is to know you, the only true God, | ||
| and your Son Jesus Christ our Lord. | ||
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Amen. | |
| 2 | ||
| Be with us, Lord, in all our prayers, | ||
| and direct our way toward the attainment of salvation, | ||
| that among the changes and chances of this mortal life, | ||
| we may always be defended by your gracious help; | ||
| through Jesus Christ our Lord. | ||
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Amen. | |
| 3 | ||
| Almighty God, the fountain of all wisdom, | ||
| you know our needs before we ask, | ||
| and our ignorance in asking: | ||
| have compassion on our weakness, | ||
| and give us those things | ||
| which for our unworthiness we dare not, | ||
| and for our blindness we cannot ask, | ||
| for the sake of your Son Jesus Christ our Lord. | ||
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Amen. | |
| 4 | ||
| Almighty God, | ||
| you have promised to hear the prayers | ||
| of those who ask in your Son's name; | ||
| we pray that what we have asked faithfully | ||
| we may obtain effectually; | ||
| through Jesus Christ our Lord. | ||
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Amen. | |
| 5 | ||
| Almighty God, | ||
| by your Holy Spirit you have made us one | ||
| with your saints in heaven and on earth: | ||
| grant that in our earthly pilgrimage | ||
| we may ever be supported by this fellowship of love and prayer, | ||
| and know ourselves surrounded by their witness | ||
| to your power and mercy; | ||
| through Jesus Christ our Lord. | ||
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Amen. | |
| 6 | ||
| Bring us all to your heavenly city, | ||
| to the joyful gathering of thousands of angels, | ||
| to the assembly of your firstborn, | ||
| to the spirits of the saints made perfect, | ||
| to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant | ||
| and to the sprinkled blood that promises peace. | ||
| Merciful Father | ||
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accept these prayers | |
| for the sake of your Son, | ||
| our Saviour Jesus Christ. | ||
| Amen. | ||
| 7 | ||
| Hasten, Lord, the day when people will come | ||
| from east and west, | ||
| from north and south, | ||
| and sit at table in your kingdom | ||
| and we shall see your Son in his glory. | ||
| Merciful Father … | ||
| 8 | ||
| Almighty God, | ||
| who hast given us grace at this time with one accord | ||
| to make our common supplications unto thee; | ||
| and dost promise | ||
| that when two or three are gathered together
in thy name thou wilt grant their requests: |
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| fulfil now, O Lord, the desires and petitions of thy servants, | ||
| as may be most expedient for them; | ||
| granting us in this world knowledge of thy truth, | ||
| and in the world to come life everlasting. | ||
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All
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Amen. | |