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Additional Prayers for the Sick
Heavenly Father, giver of life and health: Comfort and relieve your sick servant N., and give your power of healing to those who minister to his needs, that he may be strengthened in his weakness and have confidence in your loving care; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
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A short prayer for someone who is ill, asking God to comfort the sick person and to strengthen the doctors, nurses, and others tending them. It first appeared in the American Book of Common Prayer of 1979 and passed essentially unchanged into the ACNA's 2019 book.