Commontide
Lord Jesus Christ, you said to your apostles, “Peace I give to you; my own peace I leave with you”: Regard not our sins, but the faith of your Church, and give to us the peace and unity of that heavenly city, where with the Father and the Holy Spirit you live and reign, now and for ever. Amen.
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BCP 2019, p. 646
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This collect draws on one of the most ancient prayers still in active liturgical use in the Western church: an eleventh-century Latin prayer from the Roman Mass, spoken by the priest just before Communion. The Episcopal Church adapted it for congregational use in 1979, opening the singular priestly confession outward to the whole assembly; the ACNA carries it forward as a collect for church unity.