Commontide
Saturday — Evening Prayer
O God, the source of eternal light: Shed forth your unending day upon us who watch for you, that our lips may praise you, our lives may bless you, and our worship on the morrow give you glory; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
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This Saturday evening collect asks God, "the source of eternal light," to shed his unending day upon those who watch and wait for him, looking forward to Sunday worship. Carried into Anglican prayer books through a 1960 Lutheran compilation but attested in English print by 1913 and attributed there to the ancient Latin collect tradition, it breathes the biblical vision of a city where God himself replaces the sun.