{"id":572,"date":"2008-10-02T14:45:14","date_gmt":"2008-10-02T18:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indefenseofthefaith.org\/?p=572"},"modified":"2008-10-02T11:35:02","modified_gmt":"2008-10-02T15:35:02","slug":"a-sevenfold-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/?p=572","title":{"rendered":"A Sevenfold Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pray this prayer today. It is a modified form of the sevenfold prayer of the baptismal life found in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saintgabriels.org\/bcp\/bap.html\" target=\"_blank\">the Book of Common Prayer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Deliver me, Lord, from the way of sin and death.<br \/>\nOpen my heart to your grace and truth.<br \/>\nFill me with your holy and life-giving Spirit.<br \/>\nKeep me in the faith and communion of your holy Church.<br \/>\nTeach me to love others in the power of the Spirit.<br \/>\nSend me into the world in witness to your love.<br \/>\nBring me to the fullness of your peace and glory.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here is the original with the structured liturgy of the BCP:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a name=\"305\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><em>Leader<\/em><\/span> Deliver <em>them,<\/em> O Lord, from the way of sin and death.<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><em>People<\/em><\/span> Lord, hear our prayer.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a name=\"305\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><em>Leader<\/em><\/span> Open <em>their hearts<\/em> to your grace and truth.<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><em>People<\/em><\/span> Lord, hear our prayer.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a name=\"305\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><em>Leader<\/em><\/span> Fill <em>them<\/em> with your holy and life-giving Spirit.<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><em>People<\/em><\/span> Lord, hear our prayer.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a name=\"305\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><em>Leader<\/em><\/span> Keep <em>them<\/em> in the faith and communion of your holy Church.<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><em>People<\/em><\/span> Lord, hear our prayer.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a name=\"305\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><em>Leader<\/em><\/span> Teach <em>them<\/em> to love others in the power of the Spirit.<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><em>People<\/em><\/span> Lord, hear our prayer.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a name=\"306\"> <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a name=\"306\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><em>Leader<\/em><\/span> Send <em>them<\/em> into the world in witness to your love.<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><em>People<\/em><\/span> Lord, hear our prayer.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a name=\"306\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><em>Leader<\/em><\/span> Bring <em>them<\/em> to the fullness of your peace and glory.<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><em>People<\/em><\/span> Lord, hear our prayer.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a name=\"306\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><em>The Celebrant says<\/em><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a name=\"306\">Grant, O Lord, that all who are baptized into the death of Jesus Christ your Son may live in the power of his resurrection and look for him to come again in glory; who lives and reigns now and forever. <em>Amen.<\/em><\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pray this prayer today. It is a modified form of the sevenfold prayer of the baptismal life found in the Book of Common Prayer. Deliver me, Lord, from the way of sin and death. Open my heart to your grace and truth. Fill me with your holy and life-giving Spirit. Keep me in the faith &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/?p=572\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Sevenfold Prayer<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,46,61,53,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglicanism","category-confessions","category-ecclesiology","category-prayer","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":575,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions\/575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}