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Proper 13
Almighty and merciful God, it is only by your grace that your faithful people offer you true and laudable service: Grant that we may run without stumbling to obtain your heavenly promises; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
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BCP 2019, p. 618
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One of the oldest surviving Western collects, this prayer traces a straight line from an anonymous Roman liturgist through the Sarum Missal, every Book of Common Prayer since 1549, and into the ACNA 2019. One word changed from 1979 to 2019: "gift" became "grace." But the plea to run without stumbling toward God's promises has been on Christian lips for fifteen centuries.