Commontide
Almighty God, whose kingdom is everlasting and whose power is infinite: We commend our nation to your merciful care, that being guided by your Providence, we may dwell secure in your peace. Grant to our President/Sovereign/Prime Minister, and to all in authority, wisdom and strength to know and to do your will. Fill them with the love of truth and righteousness; and make them ever mindful of their calling to serve this people in your fear; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
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This Good Friday prayer for the nation's leaders opens with a line Thomas Cranmer wrote for the very first English Prayer Book in 1549, but the rest of the prayer was newly composed for the American Anglican Church's 2019 Prayer Book, which grafted that four-hundred-year-old opening onto a fresh petition for civil rulers.