O Lord,
mercifully receive the prayers of your people who call upon you, and
grant that they may know and understand what things they ought to do,
and also may have grace and power faithfully to accomplish them; through
Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy
Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
O God,
you have taught us to keep all your commandments by loving you and our
neighbor: Grant us the grace of your Holy Spirit, that we may be devoted
to you with our whole heart, and united to one another with pure
affection; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you
and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
I only pray when I am in trouble. But I am in trouble all the time, and so I pray all the time.
—Isaac Bashevis Singer
