Prayer for the Fruits of the Field

DEAR LORD GOD, Graciously preserve the precious fruits of the field, purify the air, grant quickening rains and good weather, that our crops may mature, and we and our stock may not, by eating them, take pestilence, fever and other ills; for such plagues come when evil spirits poison the air and thereupon the fruits, wine and grain, so that we by Thy visitation eat and drink sickness and death with our own products. Therefore, O Lord, bless unto us these Thy gifts, that they may advance our health and well-being, and grant that we do not misuse them to the injury of our soul and the multiplying of sins, such as intemperance and idleness, from which unchastity, adultery, cursing, swearing, murder, war, and all manner of ills come; but grant us grace that we may use Thy gifts to our soul’s salvation and the improvement of our lives and that the fruits of the land may be a means of sustaining and improving the health of our body and soul. Amen.