Commontide

For Guidance

O God, by whom the meek are guided in judgment, and light rises up in darkness for the godly: Grant us, in all our doubts and uncertainties, the grace to ask what you would have us do, that the Spirit of wisdom may save us from all false choices; that in your light we may see light, and in your straight path we may not stumble; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

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Commontide

Collect of Any Commemoration · Book of Common Prayer · Commontide

Collect

Prayers

Of Any Commemoration

Almighty God, you have surrounded us with a great cloud of witnesses: Grant that we, encouraged by the good example of your servant N., may persevere in running the race that is set before us, until at last, with him, we attain to your eternal joy; through Jesus Christ, the pioneer and perfecter of our faith, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

BCP 2019, p. 640

Proper Preface

Preface of Any Commemoration

For the grace and virtue manifest in [N. and all] your saints, who have been the chosen vessels of your love, and the lights of the world in their generations.

Provenance

American Episcopal, 1928

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A twentieth-century American prayer built almost entirely from two verses of Hebrews 12, first provided in the 1928 revision of the Episcopal Church's prayer book to give congregations a general collect for commemorating any saint.