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Summary
- Russian Orthodox prayer books print a prayer of trust as the daily prayer of Metropolitan Philaret of Moscow, beginning “Lord, I do not know what to ask of you.”
- The Azbuka Very prayer book notes that Philaret sent the prayer in 1849 for the mother of the seven-year-old Grand Duchess Alexandra after the child’s death, and that it translates a meditation by Fénelon on Luke 11:1.
- Short prayers cover not seeing a way forward, fear, strength, exhaustion, unanswered prayer, doubt, loss, lost work, loneliness, letting go of control, thanks in a hard season and a friend in trouble.
- The 1928 Book of Common Prayer’s “In Time of Calamity” and the collect for the Fourth Sunday after Trinity are traditional prayers of trust, along with Psalm 46.
- Job, Joseph and Paul are examples in Scripture of trust in hardship: “Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him” (Job 13:15).
Bibliography (Click to show)
- Scripture quotations are from the King James Version (1611), text of Project Gutenberg eBook no. 10 (Genesis 50:20; Job 13:15; Psalm 13:1; 34:18; 46:1–3; 56:3; 62:8; Proverbs 3:5–6; Isaiah 40:29; Lamentations 3:22–23; Habakkuk 3:17–18; Matthew 11:28; Mark 9:24; Luke 11:1; Romans 8:28; 2 Corinthians 4:8–9; Hebrews 13:5; 1 Peter 5:7). https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10
- “Молитва ежедневная святителя Филарета (Дроздова)” (Daily prayer of St. Philaret (Drozdov)), with editorial note. Azbuka Very prayer book. https://azbyka.ru/molitvoslov/molitva-ezhednevnaya-svyatitelya-filareta-drozdova.html
- The Book of Common Prayer (Protestant Episcopal Church in the U.S.A.), Standard Book of 1928. Prayers, “In Time of Calamity,” p. 41; The Fourth Sunday after Trinity, the Collect, p. 194. 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/
- Фонд поддержки детей, находящихся в трудной жизненной ситуации (Fund for Support of Children in Difficult Life Situations). “Детский телефон доверия” (Children’s helpline), 8 800 2000 122. https://fond-detyam.ru/detskiy-telefon-doveriya/
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