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O Lord our God, grant us grace to desire you with our whole heart: that desiring you, we may seek you; and that seeking you, we may find you; and that finding you, we may love you; and that loving you, we may hate those sins from which you have delivered us; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
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A short, climbing prayer: desire leads to seeking, seeking to finding, finding to loving, and loving to hating the sins we've been freed from. Anglican devotion has long carried it under the name of St. Anselm of Canterbury (1033-1109); it entered an actual prayer book for the first time in the ACNA's 2019 Book of Common Prayer, as the concluding collect of Ash Wednesday.