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In Time of Great Sickness and Mortality

A prayer for a time of epidemic, asking deliverance, and strength and skill for all who care for the sick. It is among the Prayers and Thanksgivings of the 1928 American Book of Common Prayer, which names no particular speaker for them.

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In Time of Great Sickness and Mortality (Prayer Book 1928)

A prayer for a time of epidemic, asking deliverance, and strength and skill for all who care for the sick. It is among the Prayers and Thanksgivings of the 1928 American Book of Common Prayer, which names no particular speaker for them.

English · The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the Use of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America, 1929Checked against a second scanned copy

O MOST mighty and merciful God, in this time of grievous sickness, we flee unto thee for succour. Deliver us, we beseech thee, from our peril; give strength and skill to all those who minister to the sick; prosper the means made use of for their cure; and grant that, perceiving how frail and uncertain our life is, we may apply our hearts unto that heavenly wisdom which leadeth to eternal life; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

The Church Pension Fund, New York, 1929. Printed 1929 from the Standard Book adopted in 1928; published before 1930, US public domain. Retrieved and verified 2026-10-20. Source

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