Commontide
Gracious Father, we pray for your holy Catholic Church. Fill it with all truth, in all truth with all peace. Where it is corrupt, purify it; where it is in error, direct it; where in anything it is amiss, reform it. Where it is right, strengthen it; where it is in want, provide for it; where it is divided, reunite it; for the sake of Jesus Christ your Son our Savior. Amen.
BCP 2019, p. 646
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This prayer for the whole Church comes from the private devotions of Archbishop William Laud (1573-1645), composed for his own daily use and preserved in his autograph manuscript at Oxford. It entered public Anglican worship when adopted by the American prayer book in 1928.