Commontide
Go before us, O Lord, in all our doings with your most gracious favor, and further us with your continual help; that in all our works begun, continued, and ended in you, we may glorify your holy Name, and finally, through your mercy, obtain everlasting life; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
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BCP 2019, p. 669
This prayer appears in more than one place in the 2019 Book of Common Prayer.
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A short prayer asking God to go ahead of us into whatever we're about to do, and to see it through with us, so that everything we undertake, however it turns out, ends up glorifying him.