Commontide
O blessed Lord, you ministered to all who came to you: Look with compassion upon those who through addiction have lost their health and freedom. Restore to them the assurance of your unfailing mercy; remove from them the fears that beset them; strengthen them in the work of their recovery; and to those who minister to them, give patient understanding and persevering love; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
BCP 2019, p. 665
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This prayer entered Anglican worship in the Episcopal Church's 1979 Book of Common Prayer and reached its present wording in the Anglican Church in North America's 2019 revision. A modern composition with no ancient original behind it, it asks Christ's own compassion for the sick to rest on those bound by addiction and on those who care for them.