Commontide
O God of the living, on this day your Son our Savior descended to the place of the dead: Look with kindness on all of us who wait in hope for liberation from the corruption of sin and death, and give us a share in the glory of the children of God; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord. Amen.
BCP 2019, p. 608
This prayer appears in more than one place in the 2019 Book of Common Prayer.
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This Holy Saturday prayer takes its address from Jesus's own words to the Sadducees: God is not the God of the dead but of the living. A modern Anglican composition first appearing in the ACNA Book of Common Prayer (2019), it gives scriptural voice to the Church's quiet vigil between cross and empty tomb.