Additional Prayers for the Sick
Sanctify, O Lord, the sickness of your servant N., that the sense of his weakness may add strength to his faith and seriousness to his repentance; and grant that he may live with you in everlasting life; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
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A Reformation-era petition asking that sickness itself be sanctified into deeper faith and repentance, composed for the 1549 Visitation of the Sick and carried, lightly revised, into the 2019 ACNA Prayer Book.