Commontide
Everlasting God, you have ordained and constituted in a wonderful order the ministries of angels and mortals: Mercifully grant that, as your holy angels always serve and worship you in heaven, so by your appointment they may help and defend us here on earth; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
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BCP 2019, p. 632
Preface of Trinity Sunday
Who, with your co-eternal Son and Holy Spirit, are one God, one Lord, in Trinity of Persons and in Unity of Substance. For that which we believe of your glory, O Father, we believe the same of your Son, and of the Holy Spirit, without any difference or inequality.
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One of the oldest collects in continuous Anglican use, this prayer traces to the early medieval Roman liturgy – likely the 7th or 8th century – and entered English worship through Cranmer's 1549 Book of Common Prayer. It asks that the angels who serve God in heaven might by his appointment guard us on earth.