The Lord's Day (Feast of St Nicholas, Second Sunday in Advent)

Remembering our host and all those blighted by seasonal maladies and inconveniences (the writer of this post possessing a throat rather below par)...

HEAR us, Almighty and most merciful God and Saviour; extend thy accustomed goodness to this thy servant who is grieved with sickness: Sanctify, we beseech thee, this thy fatherly correction to him, that the sense of his weakness may add strength to his faith, and seriousness to his repentance: that, if it shall be thy good pleasure to restore him to his former health, he may lead the residue of his life in thy fear, and to thy glory: [...] through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen."

—from The Order for The Visitation of the Sick, the Book of Common Prayer (1662)