Commontide

For the Care of Children

Almighty God, heavenly Father, you have blessed us with the joy and care of children: Give us calm strength and patient wisdom so to train them, that they may love all that is true, and pure, and lovely, and of good report, following the example of their Savior Jesus Christ. Amen.

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Commontide

Collect for Proper 15 · Book of Common Prayer · Commontide

Collect

Prayers

Week Starting August 14-20

Proper 15

Keep your Church, O Lord, by your perpetual mercy; and because without you the frailty of our nature causes us to fall, keep us from all things hurtful, and lead us to all things profitable for our salvation; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Custodi, Domine, quaesumus, Ecclesiam tuam propitiatione perpetua: et quia sine te labitur humana mortalitas; tuis semper auxiliis et abstrahatur a noxiis, et ad salutaria dirigatur.

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Original-language source · public domain

BCP 2019, p. 619

Provenance

Gelasian, c.650

Draft — AI-assisted research under editorial review.

A prayer of fourteen centuries' standing asking God to hold his Church back from harm and guide her toward salvation – carried from the Gelasian Sacramentary into every major Anglican prayer book by Archbishop Cranmer in 1549.