Commontide
Monday — Evening Prayer
O God, the source of all holy desires, all good counsels, and all just works: Give to your servants that peace which the world cannot give, that our hearts may be set to obey your commandments, and that we, being defended from the fear of our enemies, may pass our time in rest and quietness; through the merits of Jesus Christ our Savior. Amen.
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One of the oldest prayers in the Anglican evening office, this collect has been said at Vespers and Evening Prayer for well over a thousand years. Its Latin original sits in the Gelasian Sacramentary, compiled around 750 CE from earlier Roman prayer material; Cranmer translated it for the very first English prayer book in 1549, and it has remained in every major prayer book since.