Commontide
Almighty God, you have not dealt with us according to our sins, nor rewarded us according to our iniquities; grant that we, who for our evil deeds deserve to be punished, by the might of your grace may mercifully be relieved; through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
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Original-language source · public domain
BCP 2019, p. 669
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This prayer takes a line from Psalm 103 (God does not deal with us as our sins deserve) and joins it to one of the oldest prayers still said in English: the historic collect for the Fourth Sunday in Lent, which goes back through Cranmer's prayer book to a Latin prayer said in Rome well over a thousand years ago.