Commontide
Almighty and everlasting God, you kindled the flame of your love in the heart of your servant N. to manifest your compassion and mercy to the poor and the persecuted: Grant to us, your humble servants, a like faith and power of love, that we who give thanks for his righteous zeal may profit by his example; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
BCP 2019, p. 640
Preface of a Renewer of Society
For you never turn away from us, and continually send among us those who seek justice, defend the oppressed, feed the poor, and bind up the brokenhearted.
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This collect belongs to the Anglican Church in North America's 2019 Book of Common Prayer, where it serves as the Common of Commemorations prayer for those honored as Renewers of Society. Its language closely adapts a martyr's collect from the Episcopal BCP 1979, reframing the testimony of suffering witness into the idiom of service to the poor and persecuted.