Commontide
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.
BCP 2019, p. 675
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This short prayer, asking God to receive our prayers even when we don't know quite how to word them, entered the American Prayer Book in 1979 as one of eight collects offered after the Prayers of the People. The ACNA's 2019 Prayer Book carries it forward unchanged among its occasional prayers "for times of prayer and worship."