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For the Absent (Prayer Book 1928)

English

O GOD, whose fatherly care reacheth to the uttermost parts of the earth; We humbly beseech thee graciously to behold and bless those whom we love, now absent from us. Defend them from all dangers of soul and body; and grant that both they and we, drawing nearer to thee, may be bound together by thy love in the communion of thy Holy Spirit, and in the fellowship of thy saints; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

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, James Pott and Company, New York (Cambridge Edition), 1929. Checked against a second scanned copy. Out of copyright in the United States on the basis stated here, and free to reuse there. Please keep the citation with it.

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