Wednesday — Evening Prayer
O God, the life of all who live, the light of the faithful, the strength of those who labor, and the repose of the dead: We thank you for the blessings of the day that is past, and humbly ask for your protection through the coming night. Bring us in safety to the morning hours; through him who died and rose again for us, your Son our Savior Jesus Christ. Amen.
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An evening collect whose distinctive fourfold opening — God as life, light, strength, and repose — descends from the ancient liturgy of Visigothic Spain, substantially adapted for Anglican use in the 1928 American prayer book and given its present prominence in 1979.