Commontide
O God, you led your ancient people by a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night: Grant that we, who serve you now on earth, may come to the joy of that heavenly Jerusalem, where all tears are wiped away and where your saints for ever sing your praise; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
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This collect follows the reading "God's Presence in a Renewed Israel" (Isaiah 4:2-6) at the Great Vigil of Easter. It first appears in the 1979 Book of Common Prayer, part of the 20th-century restoration of the ancient all-night Vigil, and is carried unchanged into the ACNA's BCP 2019.