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Additional Prayers for the Sick
O God, the strength of the weak and the comfort of sufferers: Mercifully accept our prayers, and grant to your servant N. the help of your power, that his sickness may be turned into health, and our sorrow into joy; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
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A prayer for the sick asking God to turn sickness into health and sorrow into joy, first appearing in the 1928 American Prayer Book's compassionate rewrite of the Visitation of the Sick.