Commontide
Merciful God, creator of all the peoples of the earth and lover of souls: Have compassion on all who do not know you as you are revealed in your Son Jesus Christ; let your Gospel be preached with grace and power to those who have not heard it; turn the hearts of those who resist it; and bring home to your fold those who have gone astray; that there may be one flock under one Shepherd, Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
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A Good Friday prayer for those who do not yet know Christ, carrying a twentieth-century American wording into an intercessory pattern that stretches back to the ancient Roman rite.