Commontide

For Joy in God’s Creation

O heavenly Father, you have filled the world with beauty: Open our eyes to behold your gracious hand in all your works; that, rejoicing in your whole creation, we may learn to serve you with gladness; for the sake of him through whom all things were made, your Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

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Commontide

Collect for Proper 17 · Commontide

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Prayers

Week Starting August 28-September 3

Proper 17

O Lord, we pray that your grace may always precede and follow after us, that we may continually be given to good works; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

Tua nos, quaesumus, Domine, gratia semper et praeveniat et sequatur, ac bonis operibus iugiter praestet esse intentos.

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Original-language source

BCP 2019, p. 619

Provenance

Gregorian Sacramentary, c. 800

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This short prayer asking that God's grace "precede and follow" us comes from an early medieval sacramentary and has been prayed in Western Christianity for over a thousand years. Archbishop Cranmer carried it into the first Book of Common Prayer in 1549.