[sionnsar]

[Click through and read the first comment at the original. I'm so very glad my Book of Common Prayer (1928) is not at this convention... --sionnsar]

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[RonF]

The comment about a prayer for Space Exploration makes me think of the Sunday that immediately followed the Columbia disaster. It was my turn to read the intercession that Sunday. I've followed our space program avidly ever since I watched Alan B. Shepard's launch on TV in my 3rd grade classroom. I went to our pastor that Sunday morning and told him that I wanted to add a prayer for them, but I didn't know which one. He had been thinking about it as well, and suggested adding this, from pages 488-489 of the 1979 BCP:

Almighty God, our heavenly Father, in whose hands are the living and the dead: We give thee thanks for all thy servants who have laid down their lives in the service of our country. Here I said "Especially ..." and I added their names. Grant to them thy mercy and the light of thy presence; and give us such a lively sense of thy righteous will, that the work which thou hast begun in them may be perfected; through Jesus Christ thy Son our Lord. Amen.

It was Scout Sunday, so I was in full uniform, with people there from our Pack and Troop who were not parishioners and would not normally be there. I had to stop and compose myself after reading the names before proceeding.

[Gingersnap]

My 1928 BCP is safe and sound. Despite not having a specific prayer for my driver's license or getting out of jail, I think I'll keep it.