Prayer from Scripture
O LORD, God of our ancestors, are you not God in heaven? Do you not rule over all the kingdoms of the nations? In your hand are power and might, so that no one is able to withstand you. Did you not, O our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel and give it forever to the descendants of your friend Abraham? They have lived in it and in it have built you a sanctuary for your name, saying, ‘If disaster comes upon us, the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we will stand before this house and before you, for your name is in this house, and cry to you in our distress, and you will hear and save.’
- 2 Chronicles 20:5-12
Prayer from History
God, through the grace of your Holy Spirit you pour the gift of love into the hearts of your faithful people. Give us health of mind and body, that we may love you with all our strength, and do what is pleasing to you with all satisfaction; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
- Sarum Breviary, 1085