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For Guidance

O God, by whom the meek are guided in judgment, and light rises up in darkness for the godly: Grant us, in all our doubts and uncertainties, the grace to ask what you would have us do, that the Spirit of wisdom may save us from all false choices; that in your light we may see light, and in your straight path we may not stumble; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

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For Those in the Armed Forces

Almighty God, we commend to your gracious care and keeping all the men and women of our armed forces at home and abroad. Defend them day by day with your heavenly grace; strengthen them in their trials and temptations; give them courage to face the perils which beset them; and grant them a sense of your abiding presence wherever they may be; through Jesus Christ our Lord.  Amen.

BCP 2019, p. 655

Provenance

Episcopal 1979

Draft — AI-assisted research under editorial review.

A unified prayer for all branches of military service, whose earliest confirmed home is the 1979 American Book of Common Prayer. It gathers into one petition what older Anglican use had split into separate prayers for the Army and the Navy, covering all the armed forces at home and abroad.