Commontide
Morning & Evening Prayer
Almighty God, you have given us grace at this time, with one accord to make our common supplications to you; and you have promised through your well-beloved Son that when two or three are gathered together in his Name you will grant their requests: Fulfill now, O Lord, our desires and petitions as may be best for us; granting us in this world knowledge of your truth, and in the age to come life everlasting. Amen.
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One of the oldest prayers in the Anglican Office, this collect comes from the Byzantine Divine Liturgy named for St. John Chrysostom, the fourth-century Archbishop of Constantinople – though the prayer itself appears only in the later medieval manuscripts of that liturgy, not its earliest layers. Archbishop Cranmer translated it in 1544 for the first authorized vernacular liturgy in England, five years before the first Prayer Book.