Let your continual mercy, O Lord, cleanse and
defend your Church; and, because it cannot continue in safety without
your help, protect and govern it always by your goodness; through Jesus
Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one
God, for ever and ever. Amen.
O God,
the protector of all who trust in you, without whom nothing is strong,
nothing is holy: Increase and multiply upon us your mercy; that, with
you as our ruler and guide, we may so pass through things temporal, that
we lose not the things eternal; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who
lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and
ever. Amen.
Almighty God, the fountain of all wisdom, you
know our necessities before we ask and our ignorance in asking: Have
compassion on our weakness, and mercifully give us those things which
for our unworthiness we dare not, and for our blindness we cannot ask;
through the worthiness of your Son Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and
reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
