_Psalm 119:49_
Re-
member
your
word
to
your
servant,
for
you
have
given
me
hope.
(“golden tongued’)
349- 407,
Patriarch of
Constantinople.
Patriarch of
Constantinople.
Almighty God, you have given us grace at this time with one accord to make a common supplication to you; and you have promised through your well-beloved Son that when two or three are gathered together in his Name, you will be in the midst of them: fulfill now, O Lord, our desires and petitions as may be best for us; granting us in this world knowledge of your truth, and in the age
to come life everlasting. Amen - “A Prayer of Saint Chrysostom” The title first appeared in the 1662, Book of Common Prayer, and it comes at the end of both Morning and Evening Prayer.
I grew up with the 1928 Prayer Book when Morning Prayer rather than Eucharist was common fare 3 of the 4 Sundays out of the month, and and so I hear Fr Carey read this prayer a lot. But at the time it read: “when two or three are gathered together in his Name, thou wilt grant their requests” which is way different. It was a conflation of two sayings in Matthew 18:19-20. The present BCP conforms to Matt 18:20.
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