: : Prayers
These prayers are from the 1979 Book of Common Prayer of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the USA. More can be found at : http://justus.anglican.org/resources/bcp/index.html

| For our Enemies
| In Times of Conflict
| For Sound Government
| Lord


For our Enemies
O God, the Father of all, whose Son commanded us to love our enemies:
Lead them and us from prejudice to truth:
deliver them and us from hatred, cruelty, and revenge;
and in your good time enable us all to stand reconciled before you,
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.
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In Times of Conflict
O God, you have bound us together in a common life.
Help us, in the midst of our struggles for justice and truth, to confront
one another without hatred or bitterness, and to work
together with mutual forbearance and respect;
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.
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For Sound Government
For Sound Government
O Lord our Governor,
bless the leaders of our land,
that we may be a people at peace among ourselves
and a blessing to other nations of the earth.
Lord, keep this nation under your care.
Amen
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Lord
Make me an instrument of thy peace
where there is hatred, let me bring love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
where there is sadness, joy;
and all for thy mercy¡¯s sake.
O divine master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive.
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
Amen

Attributed to Francis of Assisi

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