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The 1979 Book of Common Prayer is the current and official Book of Common Prayer for the Episcopal Church. This book contained significant revisions, including the use of contemporary language, that many found controversial. Many Anglican parishes still use the 1928 Book of Common Prayer, still other churches welcomed the revisions, feeling they were needed in order to respond to changing social...

25. For those in the Armed Forces of our Country Almighty God, we commend to your gracious care and keeping all the men and women of our armed forces at home and abroad. Defend them day by day with your heavenly grace; strengthen them in their trials and temptations; give them courage to face the perils which beset them; and grant them a sense of your abiding presence wherever they may be; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. 26. For those who suffer for the sake of Conscience O God our Father, whose
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