rowful: Mercifully
assist our prayers that we make before thee in all our troubles
and adversities, whensoever they oppress us; and graciously hear
us, that those evils, which the craft and subtilty of the devil
or man worketh against us, be brought to nought, and by the
providence of thy goodness they may be dispersed; that we thy
servants, being hurt by no persecutions, may evermore give thanks
unto thee in thy holy Church; through Jesus Christ our Lord.

_Lord, arise, help us, and deliver us for thy Name's sake_.

O God, we have heard with our ears, and our fathers have declared
unto us, the noble works that thou didst in their days, and in
the old time before them.

_Lord, arise, help us, and deliver us for thine honour_.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son: and to the Holy Ghost;

_Answer_. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be:
world without end. Amen.

From our enemies defend us, O Christ.

_Graciously look upon our afflictions_.

Pitifully behold the sorrows of our hearts.

_Mercifully forgive the sins of thy people_.

Favourably with mercy hear our prayers.

_O Son of David, have mercy upon us_.

Both now and ever vouchsafe to hear us, O Christ.

_Graciously hear us, Christ; graciously hear us, Lord Christ_.

_Priest_. O Lord, let thy mercy be shewed upon us;

_Answer_. As we do put our trust in thee.

Let us pray.

We humbly beseech thee, O Father, mercifully to look upon our
infirmities; and for the glory of thy Name turn from us all
those evils that we most righteously have deserved; and grant
that in all our troubles we may put our whole trust and confidence
in thy mercy, and evermore serve thee in holiness and pureness of
living, to thy honour and glory; through our only Mediator and
Advocate, Jesus Christ our Lord. _Amen_.

_A Prayer of Saint Chrysostom_.

Almighty God, who hast given us grace at this time with one
accord to make our common supplications unto thee; and dost
promise that when two or three are gathered together in thy
Name thou wilt grant their requests: Fulfil now, O Lord, the
desires and petitions of thy servants, as may be most expedient
for them; granting us in this world knowledge of thy truth, and
in the world to come life everlasting. _Amen_.

2 _Corinthians xiii_.

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the
fellowship of the Holy Ghost, be with us all evermore. _Amen_.

_Here endeth the Litany_.

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