Commontide
Dear Lord and Savior Jesus Christ: I hold up all my weakness to your strength, my failure to your faithfulness, my sinfulness to your perfection, my loneliness to your compassion, my little pains to your great agony on the Cross. I pray that you will cleanse me, strengthen me, guide me, so that in all ways my life may be lived as you would have it lived, without cowardice and for you alone. Show me how to live in true humility, true contrition, and true love. Amen.
BCP 2019, p. 674
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This heartfelt prayer of surrender in sickness or hardship first appears in the Anglican Church in North America's 2019 Book of Common Prayer. We don't know who first wrote it: unlike its neighbors in the prayer book (attributed to Francis of Assisi, Anselm, Aquinas and others), this one is printed with no name attached, so it comes to us as a modern devotion, offered anonymously and received with gratitude.