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Midday Prayer
Almighty Savior, who at mid-day called your servant Saint Paul to be an apostle to the Gentiles: We pray you to illumine the world with the radiance of your glory, that all nations may come and worship you; for you live and reign with the Father and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
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A prayer for the noon hour, linking the midday light to the blinding brilliance of Paul's Damascus road encounter. It first appeared in the 1979 American Book of Common Prayer, the first Anglican prayer book in English-speaking history to include a formal noonday office.