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Summary
- Paul’s one-sentence prayer for hope is Romans 15:13, “Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing”; the father in Mark 9:24 prayed, “Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.”
- Short prayers cover emptiness, feeling forgotten by God, sleepless worry, exhaustion, waiting, a broken heart, a new start and the return of joy.
- Prayers for faith cover doubt, asking for stronger faith (Luke 17:5) and praying for someone who has lost faith.
- Traditional prayers are the Act of Faith and Act of Hope from the 1888 Catholic Manual of Prayers and the 1928 Book of Common Prayer’s collect for “the increase of faith, hope, and charity.”
- Scripture calls hope “an anchor of the soul” (Hebrews 6:19) and speaks it in ruin (Lamentations 3:21–23) and hardship (Romans 5:3–5).
- Anyone whose hopelessness has turned to thoughts of suicide can call or text 988 in the US or call Samaritans on 116 123 in the UK and Ireland.
Bibliography (Click to show)
- Scripture quotations are from the King James Version (1611), text of Project Gutenberg eBook no. 10 (Psalm 4:8; 13:1; 27:14; 30:5; 34:18; 42:5; Isaiah 40:29; 49:15; Lamentations 3:21–23; Mark 9:24; Luke 17:5; Romans 5:3–5; 8:24–25; 15:13; 1 Corinthians 13:13; Hebrews 6:19; 11:1; 1 Peter 1:3). https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10
- A Manual of Prayers for the Use of the Catholic Laity, prepared and published by order of the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore. New York: Catholic Publication Society, 1888. Morning Prayers, “An Act of Faith” and “An Act of Hope,” p. 53. https://archive.org/details/AManualOfPrayers1888
- The Book of Common Prayer (Protestant Episcopal Church in the U.S.A.), Standard Book of 1928. Collect for the Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity, p. 209. PDF facsimile: https://www.artisticdailyprayers.org/uploads/3/0/1/6/30164961/bcp1928std.pdf
- 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. https://988lifeline.org/
- Samaritans. “Contact Samaritans.” https://www.samaritans.org/how-we-can-help/contact-samaritan/
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