Prayer for the Day

During the month of July I have added some prayers from the BCP to my recitation of the Daily Offices.

The prayers are for our nation and for our people with the intent of asking for God's help in restoring our national character of faith, industry, charity, of manners and self-sufficiency, to free us from the grip of sin that tightens about us and the lust for worldly possessions that drives us in this age.

Lord Have Mercy.

For a Blessing on the Families of the Land.

ALMIGHTY God, our heavenly Father, who settest the solitary in families; We commend to thy continual care the homes in which thy people dwell. Put far from them, we beseech thee, every root of bitterness, the desire of vain-glory, and the pride of life. Fill them with faith, virtue, knowledge, temperance, patience, godliness. Knit together in constant affection those who, in holy wedlock, have been made one flesh; turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to the fathers; and so enkindle fervent charity among us all, that we be evermore kindly affectioned with brotherly love; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.