O Lord, support us all the day long through this trouble-filled life, until the shadows lengthen, and the evening comes, and the busy world is hushed, and the fever of life is over, and our work is done. Then in your mercy grant us a safe lodging, and a holy rest, and peace at the last. Amen.
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A beloved evening prayer built from the closing words of a John Henry Newman sermon, carried from an Oxford pulpit into the daily prayers of an entire tradition.