Commontide
Tuesday — Morning Prayer
O God, the author of peace and lover of concord, to know you is eternal life and to serve you is perfect freedom: Defend us, your humble servants, in all assaults of our enemies; that we, surely trusting in your defense, may not fear the power of any adversaries, through the might of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
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One of the oldest collects in daily Anglican use, this prayer descends from a seventh-century Roman Mass for Peace and has opened Morning Prayer in every Anglican Prayer Book since Cranmer's 1549 translation.