Commontide
Teach me to seek you, and as I seek you, show yourself to me; for I cannot seek you unless you show me how, and I will never find you unless you show yourself to me. Let me seek you by desiring you, and desire you by seeking you; let me find you by loving you, and love you in finding you. Amen.
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BCP 2019, p. 672
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A short, tender prayer asking God for the grace to seek him, drawn from the opening chapter of St. Anselm of Canterbury's Proslogion, written at Bec in the 1070s. The familiar English wording is Sr. Benedicta Ward's 1973 translation; it first appears in an Anglican prayer book in the ACNA's 2019 Book of Common Prayer, among the "Occasional Prayers."