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Additional Prayers for the Sick
Heavenly Father, watch with us over your child N., and grant that he may be restored to that perfect health which it is yours alone to give; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
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This little prayer for a sick child is an American composition. It entered the Book of Common Prayer in the major 1928 revision, was carried into the 1979 Prayer Book in updated English, and passed unchanged into the ACNA's 2019 Texts for Common Prayer.