With the UK being battered by incessant storms, the following prayer serves well as an urgent petition at this time of national distress. It has a powerful message for our stubbornly-secular, sexually-deviant, multi-faith and materialistic society. May we all be on our knees before worse calamities befall us.
O MOST powerful and glorious Lord God, at Whose command the winds blow, and lift up the waves of the sea, and Who stillest the rage thereof; we thy creatures, but miserable sinners, do in this our great distress cry unto Thee for help: Save, Lord, or else we perish. We confess, when we have been safe, and seen all things quiet about us, we have forgot Thee our God, and refused to hearken to the still voice of Thy Word, and to obey Thy commandments: But now we see, how terrible Thou art in all Thy works of wonder; the great God to be feared above all: And therefore we adore Thy Divine Majesty, acknowledging Thy power, and imploring Thy goodness. Help, Lord, and save us for Thy mercy's sake in Jesus Christ Thy Son, our Lord. Amen.
THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER(1662)
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