Prayer XLVII

Help us, O Lord, the Fountain of gladness, to rejoice in the Lord always, and may our deepest blessedness be sought where it can be found, in Thyself. Look upon us here gathered; give us Thy peaceful presence and Thy strong help that our hearts may all be drawn into fellowship with Thee, and however various our characters and needs, may we receive from Thee the blessings which we most require. Help us to praise Thee, to loosen the ties which bind us to the world and the things seen and temporal. And may God, and His Christ, and His Gospel, and His Heaven be very real and very near to us all.

We ask it for our Saviour’s sake.