Commontide
Most loving Father, you will us to give thanks for all things, to dread nothing but the loss of you, and to cast all our care on the One who cares for us. Preserve us from faithless fears and worldly anxieties, and grant that no clouds of this mortal life may hide from us the light of that love which is immortal, and which you have manifested unto us in your Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
BCP 2019, p. 670
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This gentle prayer for anxious days comes from the American prayer book of 1979, where it was the Sunday collect for a week that did not exist in older prayer books. The 2019 Anglican prayer book kept its words nearly untouched and moved it into the everyday "occasional prayers," reachable on any hard day rather than one particular Sunday.