Commontide
We give thanks to you, O Lord our God, for all your servants and witnesses of time past: for Abraham, the father of believers, and Sarah his wife; for Moses, the lawgiver, and Aaron, the priest; for Miriam and Joshua, Deborah and Gideon, and Samuel with Hannah his mother; for David, King over Israel; for Isaiah and all the prophets; for Mary, the mother of our Lord; for Peter and Paul and all the apostles; for Mary and Martha, and Mary Magdalene; for Stephen, the first martyr, and all the martyrs and saints in every age and in every land. In your mercy, O Lord our God, give us, as you gave to them, the hope of salvation and the promise of eternal life; through Jesus Christ our Lord, the first born of many from the dead. Amen.
BCP 2019, p. 683
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A litany-style thanksgiving that names the great company of Scripture's faithful, patriarchs, prophets, and apostles, by name, asking that we be given the same hope they were given. It first appears in the American Prayer Book of 1979, and the version prayed in most ACNA congregations today adds one more name, King David, when it was revised for the 2019 Prayer Book.