Commontide
O gracious Father, you open your hand and fill all living things with plenteousness: Bless the lands and waters, and multiply the harvests of the world; send forth your breath, and renew the face of the earth; show your loving-kindness, that our land may yield its increase; and save us from selfish use of what you provide, that the poor and needy may give thanks to your Name; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
BCP 2019, p. 653
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A harvest prayer of the American "For Fruitful Seasons" tradition, attested word for word in the 1928 prayer book and woven almost entirely from the Psalms. The opening clause quotes the Coverdale psalter verbatim; the central petition borrows the Pentecost psalm's image of God's breath renewing the earth.