Commontide
O God of unchangeable power and eternal light: Look favorably on your whole Church, that wonderful and sacred mystery; by the effectual working of your providence, carry out in tranquility the plan of salvation; let the whole world see and know that things which were cast down are being raised up, and things which had grown old are being made new, and that all things are being brought to their perfection by him through whom all things were made, your Son Jesus Christ our Lord; who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
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BCP 2019, p. 646
This prayer appears in more than one place in the 2019 Book of Common Prayer.
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One of the oldest prayers in Western Christianity, this oration for the whole Church traces to at least the 8th-century Gelasian Sacramentary and possibly to late 7th-century Roman liturgical use. It has served at Good Friday, Easter Vigil, and ordination rites across both Roman and Anglican traditions.